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Episode 83
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent …
2 years ago
Anto Mohsin, "Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Episode 375
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politi…
2 years ago
Corey Ross, "Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 1491
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. Thes…
2 years ago
William T. Taylor, "Hoof Beats: How Horses Shaped Human History" (U California Press, 2024)
Episode 208
Which society was the first to domesticate the horse? It’s a difficult question. The archaeological record is spotty, with only very recent advanceme…
2 years ago
Alastair Bonnett, "40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World" (Ivy Press, 2024)
Episode 118
40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World (Ivy Press, 2024) by Dr. Alistair Bonnett is a meticulously curated selection of 40 maps that spans th…
2 years ago
Marietje Schaake, "The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 107
Over the past decades, under the cover of "innovation," technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power…
2 years ago
Wes Marshall, "Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System" (Island Press, 2024)
Episode 374
In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continu…
2 years ago
Risa Cromer, "Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 281
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s first embryo adoption program to “save” the thous…
2 years ago
Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor, "Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future" (The New Press, 2024)
Episode 189
A clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions …
2 years ago
John Withington, "A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day" (Reaktion, 2024)
Episode 198
A History of Fireworks from: Their Origins to the Present Day (Reaktion, 2024) by John Withington illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, fr…
2 years ago