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Back to SearchHelen Steel et al., "Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth" (Ebury, 2022)
Episode 3
In Deep Deception: The Story of the Spycop Network, by the Women Who Uncovered the Shocking Truth (Ebury, 2022), five women discuss their experiences…
4 years ago
Emily West, "Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 320
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital …
4 years ago
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Episode 157
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history …
4 years, 1 month ago
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 129
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from th…
4 years, 1 month ago
John Zerilli, "A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 319
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been crack…
4 years, 1 month ago
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Episode 135
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obsc…
4 years, 1 month ago
Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog, "Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 9
Digital connections permeate our lives-and so do data breaches. Given that we must be online for basic communication, finance, healthcare, and more, …
4 years, 1 month ago
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
Episode 317
It’s no secret that the United States has the most expansive prison system of any nation in the world. And the US carceral system overwhelmingly and …
4 years, 1 month ago
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 156
The attacks of 9/11 changed the course of the global counter-terrorism order which has entrenched a system of global governance. This institutional c…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Future of Race: A Discussion with John McWhorter
Episode 10
Race is the subject of passionate and increasingly angry debate. But amidst all the talk of unconscious bias it’s an area into which many fear to tre…
4 years, 1 month ago