Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 025

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 021

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 026

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 020

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 004

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Partial Portraits

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Short Fiction (Unabridged)

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Collected Public Domain Works of Stanley G. Weinbaum

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

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The Art of Being Photographed (Unabridged)

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Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Volume 1

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Chris Emden - Hip Hop Archivist and Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University: This week on Point of Inquiry we welcome Chris Emden, a Columbia Professor who's helped design New York City's public school policy, a leading science education researcher, and Harvard Hip Hop Archive Fellow. Chris Emden is a favored guest of Josh...

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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013): During the 1924-25 school year, John Scopes was filling in for the regular biology teacher at Rhea County Central High School in Dayton, Tennessee. The final exam was coming up, and he assigned reading from George W.

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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013): During the 1924-25 school year, John Scopes was filling in for the regular biology teacher at Rhea County Central High School in Dayton, Tennessee. The final exam was coming up, and he assigned reading from George W.

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Adam R. Shapiro, “Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Anti-Evolution Movement in American Schools” (University of Chicago Press, 2013): During the 1924-25 school year, John Scopes was filling in for the regular biology teacher at Rhea County Central High School in Dayton, Tennessee. The final exam was coming up, and he assigned reading from George W.

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Michael D. Gordin, “The Pseudo-Science Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe” (University of Chicago Press, 2012): “No one in the history of the world has ever self-identified as a pseudoscientist.” From the very first sentence, Michael D. Gordin’s new book introduces readers to the characters, plotlines, and crises that have shaped the narratives of fringe science...

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Common Sense Philosophy: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss common sense philosophy.

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Common Sense Philosophy: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss common sense philosophy.

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Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017): In his most recent work, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), Amos Goldberg examines Jewish diary writing during the Holocaust—a subject that is familiar to many within and without the academy—fro...

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Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017): In his most recent work, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), Amos Goldberg examines Jewish diary writing during the Holocaust—a subject that is familiar to many within and without the academy—fro...

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Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017): In his most recent work, Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2017), Amos Goldberg examines Jewish diary writing during the Holocaust—a subject that is familiar to many within and without the academy—fro...

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Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022): An interview with Samuel J. Redman

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Anti-Empire Project Episode 36: Siegebreakers at York University

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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019): Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

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The Last Man To Know It All: Alexander von Humboldt might not be a name you know, but you can bet you know his ideas.

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Whose Work Most Influenced You? Part 4: A Social Science Bites Montage

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John Cheng, “Astounding Wounder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012): John Cheng‘s new book Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) uncovers the material and social circumstances that created the social phenomenon of American science fiction.

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John Cheng, “Astounding Wounder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012): John Cheng‘s new book Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) uncovers the material and social circumstances that created the social phenomenon of American science fiction.

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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017): Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of ...

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Samuel J. Redman, "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience" (NYU Press, 2022): An interview with Samuel J. Redman

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Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Eric Adler

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Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Eric Adler

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Gabriel Finkelstein, “Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany” (MIT Press, 2013): “A good wife and a healthy child are better for one’s temper than frogs.” For Gabriel Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond was “the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century.” Most famously in a series of experimental works on electr...

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David Lindsay Roberts, "Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019): Roberts anchors 20 biographical chapters to a decadal series of events, whose mathematical significance could not often have been anticipated...

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Special Report: D. Harlan Wilson on J.G. Ballard: As part of the University of Illinois's Masters of Modern Science Fiction series, D. Harlan Wilson has written a literary biography of J.G. Ballard examining the themes and progression of Ballard's fiction and (fictional) biographical work. Learn more...

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Charles Blow on His Unexpected Childhood Hero: New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow joins Khalil Muhammad, Director of NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for a conversation about Blow’s new memoir, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Through the lens of...

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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017): Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (New York University Press, 2017), uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of ...

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Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020): An interview with Eric Adler

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Tamson Pietsch, "The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2023): An interview with Tamson Pietsch

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Erin L. Thompson, "Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments" (Norton, 2022): An interview with Erin L. Thompson

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Sam Wineburg: History professor, author, truth-seeker, and Wikipedia fan: Sam Wineburg teaches us how you can tell what’s credible from what’s not on the internet. Wineburg directs Stanford’s PhD program in History Education, the only program of its kind in North America, http://sheg.stanford.edu His interdisciplinary scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: history, cognitive science, and education, and has appeared in such diverse outlets as Cognitive Science, Journal of American History, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times.