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Back to SearchJamal Elias, "Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies" (U California Press, 2018)
Episode 140
In his groundbreaking new book, Alef is for Allah: Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies (University of California Press, 2018)…
7 years, 3 months ago
Ellen Moore, "Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus" (Duke UP, 2017)
Episode 130
I don’t know about the colleges and universities you’re familiar with, but the U.S. military has a pretty visible presence on my campus—through the R…
7 years, 3 months ago
Janelle Adsit, "Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Episode 96
Today, we're talking to Janelle Adsit about her book, Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing (Bloomsbury, 2017). In it, Adsit takes a hard look at the …
7 years, 3 months ago
Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, "The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms" (MIT Press, 2017)
Episode 95
Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to th…
7 years, 3 months ago
James W. Loewen, "Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History" (Teachers College Press, 2018)
Episode 465
In an atmosphere filled with social media and fake news, history is more important than ever. But, what do you really know about history? In the seco…
7 years, 3 months ago
Joshua Eyler, "How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching" (West Virginia UP, 2018)
Episode 70
What is learning? There is a robust body of literature that seeks to tell us what the most effective classroom techniques and strategies are, but Jos…
7 years, 4 months ago
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Episode 14
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention. The chapters of Genera…
7 years, 4 months ago
Keisha Lindsay, "In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
According to most experts, boys have more trouble in schools than girls. Further, African-American boys have even more trouble than, say, white boys.…
7 years, 5 months ago
Jeong-Hee Kim, "Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research" (Sage Publications, 2016)
Episode 94
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Rese…
7 years, 5 months ago
Bryan Caplan, “The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Pretty much everyone knows that the American healthcare system is, well, very inefficient. We don’t, so critics say, get as much healthcare bang for …
7 years, 5 months ago