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episode 51: Jackson Wu, "Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes: Honor and Shame in Paul's Message and Mission" (IVP Academic, 2019)
What does it mean to “read Romans with Eastern eyes”?
episode 16: Nadia Amoroso, "Representing Landscapes: Analogue" (Routledge, 2019)
Amoroso focuses the art of hand drawings and why they are still relevant and important in our digital age...
episode 52: Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Starling invites us into the daily lives of the bōmori, the spouses of priests in the Japanese Jōdo Shinshū, or True Pure Land, tradition...
episode 7: Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: LSD Psychotherapy in America" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
episode 95: Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Cat Books, 2019)
Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory...
episode 97: Larry Holmes, "War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power: The Center, Periphery, and Kirov’s Pedagogical Institute, 1941–1952" (Lexington Books, 2012)
Holmes uses the case study of the Pedagogical Institute during the war years to explore power relationships in the institute and between local/ regional power and central power in Moscow...
episode 150: Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019)
Laury Silvers discusses her transition from writing scholarship to historical fiction...
episode 17: Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018)
This book is a tool kit for adapting and managing sea level rise and storm events for metropolitan cities and smaller communities...
episode 68: Sharra L. Vostral, "Toxic Shock: A Social History" (NYU Press, 2018)
In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...
episode 38: Jaime Alves, "Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Alves makes a powerful contribution to urban anthropology, describing the spatial contours of “Brazilian Apartheid” in Sao Paulo...