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Science
Social Sciences
1426
Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...
37 min
1427
Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Buil...
Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...
51 min
1428
Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Throu...
Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...
33 min
1429
Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and ...
Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...
38 min
1430
Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Tech...
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?
31 min
1431
Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman a...
Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...
37 min
1432
Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: America...
How did the modern, American body come into being?
47 min
1433
Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...
41 min
1434
Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.
46 min
1435
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
1436
Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
1437
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
1438
Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
48 min
1439
Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from S...
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...
74 min
1440
David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest f...
There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...
29 min
1441
Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American...
Jobs are less secure today not because the market demanded it but because, starting as early as the 1950s, executives, consultants, and policy makers decided to make them that way...
71 min
1442
Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back...
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?
24 min
1443
A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of Sc...
Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..
69 min
1444
Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
1445
Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
1446
William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
1447
Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A...
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
47 min
1448
Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student L...
American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....
27 min
1449
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1450
Sarah Marie Wiebe, "Everyday Exposure: Indigeno...
Wiebe discusses environmental reproductive justice, political ethnography, her method of “sensing policy”...
42 min