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Science
Social Sciences
2851
Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: Ho...
Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.
62 min
2852
Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
2853
Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State...
Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...
59 min
2854
Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...
24 min
2855
Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, "#Ident...
De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...
58 min
2856
Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and t...
Kasimis focuses on three different presentations and discussions of the metics, in Euripides’ Ion, in Plato’s Republic, and in Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides. The metic, as Kasimis explores, is a classification of individuals within Athenian democracy for those who do not have Athenian blood—they are neither insiders nor outsiders...
49 min
2857
Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange...
While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...
47 min
2858
Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate...
No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
65 min
2859
Norman Eisen, "The Last Palace: Europe's Turbul...
Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...
35 min
2860
James Miller, "Can Democracy Work?: A Short His...
James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democracy history into about 250 pages — making the case that “people power” will always need to be at the heart of any successful democracy...
41 min
2861
Mark D. White, "Batman and Ethics" (Wiley Black...
White focuses on the comic book character Batman, particularly from the early 1970s through 2011, exploring Batman’s motivations, his mission, aspects of the mission that do not always work together, and how Batman implements and executes his mission...
44 min
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Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes" (Rowman and ...
Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...
36 min
2863
Gwendoline M. Alphonso, "Polarized Families, Po...
Alphonso demonstrates how regional ideas about family in the 20th century shaped, not only Republican and Democratic policy and ideological positions concerning race and gender, but also their ideals concerning the economy and the state...
24 min
2864
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democr...
As How Democracies Die illustrates, it’s much easier to succumb to the power of an autocratic leader than it is to stand up and protect the institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy...
32 min
2865
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth...
Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?
38 min
2866
Matthew Green, "Legislative Hardball: The House...
Following the 2014 elections, a group of conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership...
19 min
2867
J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without En...
Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future?
22 min
2868
Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, "Reinhol...
Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his own theology and his practical political experience might reveal in our contemporary situation.”
56 min
2869
Aram Gousouzian, "The Men and the Moment: The E...
The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...
30 min
2870
Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, "Kissinger on...
In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...
69 min
2871
E. M. Levintova and A. K. Staudinger, "Gender i...
Ekaterina M. Levintova and Alison K. Staudinger have brought together, into this volume, a variety of fascinating and important perspectives on political science as a discipline and how it is taught, studied, pursued and understood...
48 min
2872
Gregory V. Raymond, "Thai Military Power: A Cul...
Thailand is one of the world’s last remaining military dictatorships, and the last in Asia.
43 min
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Ernest McGowen III, "African Americans in White...
Relative wealth has given suburban African Americans employment opportunities and political resources--but not necessarily neighbors, coworkers, or elected officials who share their concerns....
21 min
2874
Erin M. Kempker, "Big Sister: Feminism, Conserv...
The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.
51 min
2875
Jessica A. J. Rich, "State-Sponsored Activism: ...
Rich's book is a fascinating and important examination of civil-state relations, social movements, and bureaucracies all centering around AIDS/HIV policy as the nexus of analysis.
49 min