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Back to SearchKevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As …
4 months, 1 week ago
Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 63
Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists onc…
4 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Porwancher, "American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 704
A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis…
4 months, 1 week ago
Andrew W. Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain in the Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Fuji: A Mountain in the Making (Princeton UP, 2025) is A panoramic biography of Japan's iconic mountain from the Ice Age to the present
Mount Fuji is…
4 months, 1 week ago
Emanuel Deutschmann, "Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate Across Borders, and Why It Matters" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 156
Increasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life
Among the most common challenges on college campuses today is figuring out how to navigate our politically charged culture and engage productively wi…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Amid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidarities (Princeton UP, 202…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
John Tolan, "Islam: A New History from Muhammad to the Present" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Episode 369
A concise new narrative history of Islam that draws on the transformative insights of recent research to emphasize the diversity and dynamism of the …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Andrew Bernstein, "Fuji: A Mountain In The Making" (Princeton UP, 2025)
The Great Wave is perhaps the most famous piece of Japanese artwork: a roaring blue wave and three boats on the ocean. And far in the background is M…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Dan Edelstein, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by bala…
4 months, 4 weeks ago