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episode 123: Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
An interview with Linda Patterson Miller
episode 98: Sandra Johnston, et al., "Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020" (Intellect, 2022)
A retrospective monograph of Alistair MacLennan’s performance art practice, its influence on the Belfast art scene, and its relationships with wider art histories. Actional Poetics-Ash She He: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2020 (Intellect, 2022) (Intellect, 2022) is the most comprehensive and complete legacy monograph about Alastair MacLennan’s extensive performance practice...
episode 7: Jim Ryan: A Deep History of the California Institute of Integral Studies
A Discussion with Jim Ryan
episode 102: Holly High, "Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
An interview with Holly High
episode 1: Will Kinney, "An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
An interview with Will Kinney
episode 1195: Simon Heffer, "High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
An interview with Simon Heffer
episode 2: Ferenc Hörcher, "The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, Through City-State, to Megalopolis?" (Lexington Book, 2021)
An interview with Ferenc Hörcher
episode 29: Thomas Piketty, "A Brief History of Equality" (Harvard UP, 2022)
An interview with Thomas Piketty
episode 605: Sarah G. Phillips, "When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland" (Cornell UP, 2020)
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing countries that are even relatively untouched by it. Sarah Phillips's When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland (Cornell UP, 2020) offers us one such example. Using evidence from Somaliland's experience of peace-building, When There Was No Aid challenges two of the most engrained presumptions about violence and poverty in the global South...