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episode 46: Carol J. Adams, "Burger" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
In "Burger," Adams offers a history of the hamburger as a cultural object
episode 57: Joseph U. Lenti, "Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico" (U Nebraska Press, 2017)
Lenti focuses on state-labor relations in the decade directly following the massacre of peacefully protesting students in 1968...
episode 73: Jonathan G. Kline, "Keep Up Your Biblical Greek in 2 Minutes a Day" (Hendrickson, 2017)
Kline has published a series of books that provide one-sentence daily readings in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic...
episode 93: David Gaunt, "Let Them Not Return" (Berghahn Books, 2017)
The book functions in some ways like an invitation—an invitation to learn something about peoples and suffering about which we know little,..
episode 571: Margaret O’Mara, "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America" (Penguin Press, 2019)
Seventy years ago, there was no Apple Campus or Googleplex. Silicon Valley itself didn’t even exist!
episode 9: James Tharin Bradford, "Poppies, Power, and Politics: Afghanistan and the Global History of Drugs and Diplomacy" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Afghanistan and the United States have a complicated relationship. And poppies have often been at the center of the problem between the two countries...
episode 570: Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, "Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic" (NYU Press, 2019)
O'Brassill-Kulfan focuses on the control over poor migrants’ mobility and how their movement shaped ideas of class, race, and status in the United States...
episode 24: Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning" (Routledge, 2016)
The Bhagavad Gītā remains to this day a mainstay of Hinduism and Hindu Studies alike,..
episode 18: Shai Lavi, "Bioethics and Biopolitics in Israel: Socio-legal, Political and Empirical Analysis" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Lavi and his colleagues have produced a groundbreaking work that offers a novel understanding of Israeli bioethics...
episode 132: Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...