William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein, "N...
Migraine headaches can be absolutely devastating...
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Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Liter...
Victoria Brownlee is the author of an exciting new contribution to discussions of early modern religion and literature...
35 min
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Victoria Fortuna, "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Vio...
Victoria Fortuna's new book Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence and Memory in Buenos Aires (Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the different ways in which contemporary dance practices have engaged in resistance...
36 min
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Rory Cormac, "Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special ...
In the decades following the Second World War, the British government increasingly turned to covert operations as a means of achieving their foreign policy goals...
43 min
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Katherine K. Preston, "Opera for the People: En...
Katherine Preston’s new book, Opera for the People: English-Language Opera & Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2017) is the first complete overview of the repertoire, companies, performers, and managers that provided English-language opera to Americans after the Civil War...
59 min
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Harry O. Maier, "New Testament Christianity in ...
Maier’s study steps away from debates about the formation of early Christian belief to reconstruct the social world in which the new religious movement emerged and began to take shape...
37 min
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Carrie Figdor, "Pieces of Mind: The Proper Doma...
We’re all familiar with cases where one attributes certain psychological states or capacities to creatures and systems that are not human persons....
69 min
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David P. Barash, “Through a Glass Brightly: Usi...
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, as specially-created creatures who are anointed as above and beyond the natural world. Professor and noted scientist David P. Barash calls this viewpoint a persistent paradigm of our...
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Erin Stewart Mauldin, “Unredeemed Land: An Envi...
The antebellum South was on the road to agricultural ruin, and the Civil War put a brick on the gas pedal. In Unredeemed Land: An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South (Oxford University Press, 2018),
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Andrew C. A. Elliott, “Is That a Big Number?” (...
Andrew C. A. Elliott‘s Is That a Big Number? (Oxford University Press, 2018) is a book that those of us who feast on numbers will absolutely adore, but will also tease the palates of those for whom numbers have previously been somewhat distasteful.
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Joanna Davidson, “Sacred Rice: An Ethnography o...
Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa (Oxford University Press, 2015) is a book about change. The Jola, a people living in Guinea-Bissau, have long cultivated rice and formed their social identity ar...
57 min
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Lilian Calles Barger, “The World Come of Age: A...
A searching and richly textured history of the affinities and common origins of Latin American and North American liberation theologies, The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology (Oxford University Press 2018) dives into the...
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David Rondel, “Pragmatist Egalitarianism” (Oxfo...
Pragmatism is a longstanding philosophical idiom that advocates public-facing philosophy – philosophy that abandons merely academic puzzles and addresses itself to the social and political problems of the day.
65 min
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Donald H. Akenson, “Exporting the Rapture: John...
Don Akenson, who is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen’s University, Ontario, is one of the most eminent scholars of Irish history. Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelic...
34 min
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J. Obert, A. Poe, A. Sarat, eds., “The Lives of...
What if guns “are not merely carriers of action, but also actors themselves?” That’s the question that animates and unites Jonathan Obert‘s and Andrew Poe‘s, and Austin Sarat‘s unique collection of essays, The Lives of Guns (Oxford University Press,
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Connie Chiang, “Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An E...
The history of Japanese American incarceration during World War II is a well-known topic in American history and has been the subject of countess books and articles. In Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarc...
While the history of the Second World War and Jewish persecution in France has been widely studied, the return of survivors in the aftermath of deportation and genocide has not received sufficient attention. With Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution,
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Gill Bennett, “The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspir...
The Zinoviev Affair is a story of one of the most long-lasting and enduring conspiracy theories in modern British politics, an intrigue that still resonates nearly one-hundred years after it was written. Almost certainly a forgery,
51 min
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Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallma...
In The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 2018), editors Robert Fink, Melinda Latour, and Zachary Wallmark curate a wide-ranging collection of essays about the function of tone and timbre in popular music.
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Stephanie L. Derrick, “The Fame of C. S. Lewis:...
C. S. Lewis remains one of the most popular religious writers, and one of the most widely discussed children’s writers. I had the chance to catch up with Stephanie L. Derrick about her new book, The Fame of C. S.
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Elizabeth McGuire, “Red at Heart: How Chinese C...
If Sino-Russian relations today sometimes seem bluntly pragmatic, things were not always so, and as imperial dynasties in both countries crumbled one hundred years ago many interactions between these two Eurasian land empires had a decidedly romantic h...
69 min
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K. Dittmar, K. Sanbonmatsu, and S. Carroll, “A ...
Interviewing one member of Congress is a feat for most researchers. Interviewing nearly 100 and almost every women member of Congress is remarkable. Even more remarkable is what we can learn from that data collection about the perceptions of women memb...
22 min
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Candice Delmas, “A Duty to Resist: When Disobed...
According to a long tradition in political philosophy, there are certain conditions under which citizens may rightly disobey a law enacted by a legitimate political authority. That is, it is common for political philosophers to recognize the permissib...
65 min
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Samuel Helfont, “Compulsion in Religion: Saddam...
Samuel Helfont‘s Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq (Oxford University Press, 2018) makes an invaluable contribution to an understanding of Iraqi strongman’s Saddam Hussein harnessing of Islam in support...
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Tala Jarjour, “Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant ...
Religious music can be a source of comfort and release, but also a remembrance of sadness and loss. In Sense and Sadness: Syriac Chant in Aleppo (Oxford University Press, 2018), Tala Jarjour analyzes the Syriac chant sung in Aramaic used by the small C...