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Recent New Books Network Episodes
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:35:31
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:35:31
Dr. Amy Matthewson's Cartooning China: Punch, Power, & Politics in the Victorian Era (Routledge, 2022) explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satiric...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:55:38
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:55:38
Austin Ratner has an interesting background. After graduating from medical school he decided to change careers. Rather than continuing in medicine he became a fiction writer. This shift seemed to be a good deci...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:48:53
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:48:53
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Hachette, 2023), D...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:45:46
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:45:46
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work (ILR Press, 2018), James A. C...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:46:46
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:46:46
The rapid and radical transformations of the Nazi Era challenged the ways German Jews experienced space and time, two of the most fundamental characteristics of human existence.
In Space and Time Under Persecu...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:45:46
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:45:46
This revolutionary book presents a new conception of community and the struggle against capitalism. In Undoing Work, Rethinking Community: A Critique of the Social Function of Work (ILR Press, 2018), James A. C...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:48:53
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:48:53
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close (Hachette, 2023), D...
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:50:04
Publication Date | Dec 06, 2023
Duration | 00:50:04
Food Journeys: Stories from the Heart (Zubaan Books, 2023) is a powerful collection that draws on personal experiences, and the meaning of grief, rage, solidarity, and life. Feminist anthropologist Dolly Kikon ...
Publication Date | Dec 05, 2023
Duration | 00:59:18
Publication Date | Dec 05, 2023
Duration | 00:59:18
Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese.
Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Sco...
Publication Date | Dec 05, 2023
Duration | 00:37:06
Publication Date | Dec 05, 2023
Duration | 00:37:06
Emma K. Sutton's William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician (U Chicago Press, 2023) is the first book to map William James's preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadt...