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episode 15: Maziyar Ghiabi, "Drug Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Iran has one of the planet's highest rates of addiction...
episode 303: Erin Schoneveld, "Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avant-Garde" (Brill, 2018)
Schoneveld shows how Shirakaba arose in opposition to the statist art of the young Meiji state,..
episode 660: Chet Van Duzer, "Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends" (Springer, 2019)
Van Duzer presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography...
episode 10: Matthew Hild and Keri Leigh Merritt, "Reconsidering Southern Labor History" (UP of Florida, 2018)
Hild and Merritt discuss the nexus of race, class and power in the history of labor in the South, and how a new generation of southern labor scholars are changing our understanding of labor's past, present and future in the region...
episode 615: Jason Smith, "To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire" (UNC Press, 2018)
Smith discusses the US Navy’s role in exploring and charting the ocean world...
episode 159: Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels” (Palgrave, 2019)
Chambers outlines Muslim cultural production during this period through a literary analysis of the senses, especially those beyond the visual...
episode 7: Roberto Carmack, "Kazakhstan in World War II: Mobilization and Ethnicity in the Soviet Empire" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Carmack looks at the experience of the Kazakh Republic during the Soviet Union’s Great Patriotic War...
episode 33: Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities" (Island Press, 2019)
"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...
episode 90: Dan Burns, "Grace: Stories and a Novella" (Chicago Arts Press, 2019)
In Dan Burns’ latest book unforgettable characters encounter gorgeous landscapes, nasty betrayals, shocking technology, a heartless future, and a decaying city neighborhood...
episode 205: Julia Maskivker, "The Duty to Vote" (Oxford UP, 2019)
When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...