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episode 63: Hunter Vaughan, "Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective...
episode 109: Katya Cengel, "From Chernobyl with Love" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
Cengel has written an engaging memoir of a Western newspaper reporter’s youthful experiences in Latvia and Ukraine...
Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
Nielsen argues that the happy stories of breast cancer survivors are so common that any other types of narrative almost require an apology...
Richard Whatmore, "Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Whatmore tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire...
episode 105: Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Aronson gives us the life of a women’s rights activist, labor lawyer, radical pacifist, writer and co-founder of what became the Civil Liberties Union...
episode 142: Simone Knox and Kai Hanno Schwind, "Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
What does Friends mean to us now?
episode 50: A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of School Lunch in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..
episode 157: Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Moses dissects the corpus of Jefferson’s writings and examines the span of his activities...
episode 17: Vanessa Linsey, "Metta Mom: A Mindful Guide to Managing Your Mood and Your Brood" (Bowker, 2019)
Linsey takes us on an uproarious journey of spirituality, humor, and humility...
episode 241: E. Jones-Imhotep and T. Adcock, "Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History" (UBC Press, 2018)
"Made Modern" explores the complex interconnections between science, technology, and modernity in Canada...