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Back to SearchArlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 87
Criminal responsibility is a key-organizing concept of the criminal law, but Arlie Loughnan argues that it needs re-examination. Focusing on the Aust…
6 years, 4 months ago
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Episode 20
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for …
6 years, 5 months ago
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Episode 193
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. …
6 years, 6 months ago
Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
Episode 69
Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts &…
6 years, 6 months ago
Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Episode 718
After the Second World War, an Australian diplomat was one of eight people to draft the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. And in the years that follo…
6 years, 6 months ago
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 46
Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician's purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat…
6 years, 7 months ago
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 154
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillip…
6 years, 8 months ago
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Episode 103
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howe…
6 years, 9 months ago
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Episode 42
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infogr…
6 years, 10 months ago
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Episode 302
Jeremy Yellen’s The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a challenging transna…
6 years, 11 months ago