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Back to SearchJanusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
Episode 568
How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018) is the first comprehensive collection of Korczak's works translated into Eng…
1 year, 7 months ago
Donna J. Nicol, "Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action" (U Rochester Press, 2024)
Episode 1495
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Rochester Press, 2024…
1 year, 7 months ago
Why Not Be Kind?: A Discussion with Catherine J. Denial
Episode 239
Today’s book is: A Pedagogy of Kindness (University of Oklahoma Press, 2024), by Dr. Catherine Denial, which explores why academia is not, by and lar…
1 year, 7 months ago
Celebrating University Press Week with AUPresses President, Anthony Cond
Episode 211
The Association of University Presses (AUPresses), a global organization of 161 mission-driven publishers, is proud to announce a collection of 123 b…
1 year, 7 months ago
Filippo Gianferrari, "Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 81
In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent …
1 year, 7 months ago
Kathleen McGoey and Lindsey Pointer, "Little Book of Restorative Teaching Tools for Online Learning: Games and Activities for Restorative Justice Practitioners" (Good Books, 2024)
Episode 191
Teaching, training, and gathering online has become a global norm since 2020. Restorative practitioners have risen to the challenge to shift restorat…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Episode 83
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent …
1 year, 8 months ago
Sarah M. Stitzlein, "Teaching Honesty in a Populist Era: Emphasizing Truth in the Education of Citizens" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 241
Democracy is struggling in an age of populism and post-truth. In a world swirling with competing political groups stating conflicting facts, citizens…
1 year, 8 months ago
Keith E. Whittington, "You Can't Teach That!: The Battle over University Classrooms" (Polity Press, 2024)
Episode 190
Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented eff…
1 year, 8 months ago
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
Episode 232
Today’s book is: Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action (University of Roch…
1 year, 8 months ago