Taking a deep dive into the works of Shami Stovall’s Frith Guild Arcanist, Astra Academy Arcanist and Crown Tournament Arcanist, we will be exploring and discussing the books that take us to an amazing new world full of mystical creatures that will make you feel like you are in a world between Harry Potter and Pokemon!
…
continue reading
Frith Podcasts
Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/pranksandfirth/subscribe Weekly Podcast where Ash Frith and Justin Panks talk about their week, gigs, thoughts and oddities. Enjoy a game of “Snob or Scum” and have your brain twisted by another of Prank’s theories about life the universe and everything
…
continue reading
Everything talked about that comes along midlife and smacks me in the face. It's all up for grabs.
…
continue reading
The podcast that turns artists into mentors We speak to every day musicians, producers, promoters and anyone working in the music industry. We get an honest reality of what it's like building a career in music. No matter who you are, we hope you find a life lesson in Making A Mentor.
…
continue reading
My name is Nigel and this is the High Peak Democracy podcast! Join me each week for in-depth explorations of local politics and what it means to be a councillor in the High Peak.
…
continue reading
A special series of interviews hosted by Dr. Miranda Melcher.
…
continue reading
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
…
continue reading
The Recollecting Oxford Medicine oral history project originated when Peggy Frith, as President of Oxford Medical Alumni, recognised the potential of recorded interviews to capture stories, memories and voices from the Oxford Medical school and Oxford Hospitals. The interviewees were selected to cover, from an Oxford perspective over almost a century, the many changes in the practice of medicine and medical teaching, of both local and national importance. The material would supplement the Bo ...
…
continue reading
With over 40 Years of experience in the Medical Courier Industry, the MCC Podcast aims to give knowledge to the many couriers and courier companies across the nation!
…
continue reading
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
…
continue reading
Leaders share real stories from organizational (org) design, workforce transformation, and managing structure change. We highlight the challenges and breakthroughs seen first hand helping organizations become places people love. This is for any leader who is creating organizations of the future. Join host Amy Springer and the co-founders of Functionly, Tim Brewer and Damian Bramanis, on their quest to make work work better.
…
continue reading
Floor Focus, and our website Floor Daily, is the oldest and most trusted flooring magazine. Our market research, strategic analysis and fashion coverage of the flooring business provides retailers, designers, architects, contractors, building owners, suppliers and other industry professionals the information they need to achieve greater success.
…
continue reading
The latest Beatles news and most informative, thought-provoking talk from veteran pioneer Beatles reporter Steve Marinucci, the founder of Abbeyrd’s Beatles Page, the first true Beatles news website online in 1995. Our show focuses on topical Beatles subjects and news that fans are talking about. A frequent guest on our show is the distinguished author Candy Leonard, author of ”Beatleness: How The Beatles and their Fans Remade the World,” an acclaimed book on Beatle history and fandom. Join ...
…
continue reading
This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
…
continue reading
Leaderful explores human-centred, systems-conscious approaches to leadership and building high-functioning teams. We focus on the core problems of burnout, disconnection, conflict, misuses of power, unethical leadership and stuckness on teams and within organizations.
…
continue reading
Inclusive Heathen podcast containing a healthy dose of geekery, a fair bit of cake and a hint of queer, by Suzanne Martin, the Gytha in Jeans, and a Coffee-Powered Druid called Kate Coldwind. Welcome around the virtual campfire!
…
continue reading
Left Click is the Labour Digital podcast, hosted by Darren Jones MP.
…
continue reading
Ready to enhance your photography workflow? Welcome to Workflows, a podcast by Imagen that transforms how photographers like you manage their business, making every minute count. Each episode offers advice on optimizing your photography workflows so you spend less time at the desk and more time behind the camera. It also tells real-life stories and shares innovative tools to optimize your operations, helping you maximize efficiency and creativity in your photography business. Join host Scott ...
…
continue reading
The Official Podcast of The Asatru Community Inc.
…
continue reading
Thank you for listening to Real Estate Voice. Where you'll learn from the top real estate agents about home buying, investing and selling.
…
continue reading
A series of funny, frank chats with fellow #SickBabes who exist and resist every day with invisible physical health conditions. The series will investigate the relationship between invisible disabilities, capitalism and the awkward bits of life in between. It's produced by She Wants a Dog, and is supported by Contact Manchester and Arts Council England.
…
continue reading
Find us on Twitter - @HeathenHistory The Heathen History Podcast takes a deep dive into the modern history of Heathenry, a new religion based on the practices of the pre-Christian Germanic and Norse People. Each episode we will dive into a different person, event, or organization to tell their story and examine how this shaped modern Heathenry. Heathen History is an inclusive podcast.
…
continue reading
1
Dream Battles, Abyssal Secrets & The Kross Cotillion Chapters 36–43 Breakdown
22:58
22:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
22:58
Explore Chapters 36–43 as Grey dives deeper into dream‑magic with Helmith, uncovers the truth behind abyssal dragons, and faces Deimos’ growing influence. From the elegance of the Kross Cotillion and Grey’s stunned reaction to Ashlyn’s entrance, to the terror of the Midnight Depths Kraken and the reveal of Vivigol, Silencer of the Damned, these cha…
…
continue reading
1
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
1:17:04
1:17:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:17:04
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
…
continue reading
1
Thomas Baert and Barron Frith Discuss CFL's Innovation and Tariff Strategy
7:33
7:33
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
7:33
Thomas Baert and Barron Frith, global president and North American president, respectively, with CFL, and Kemp Harr discuss CFL’s continued evolution of where and how they make the innovative flooring products in their portfolio. CFL recently installed a Hymmen digital print line at their North American operations in Adairsville, Georgia.…
…
continue reading
1
Ryan Rogers Coby McDougal Discuss Yates Flooring Center's Business
8:17
8:17
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
8:17
Ryan Rogers and Coby McDougal, CEO and CSO, respectively, with Yates Flooring Center, and Kemp Harr discuss Yates' year end success and highlights of the Dallas regional flooring show. Listen to the interview for more details.By Floor Focus Magazine
…
continue reading
1
Danielle Alesi, "Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700" (Taylor & Francis, 2025)
45:27
45:27
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
45:27
Eating Animals in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Consuming Empire, 1492-1700 (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) by Dr. Danielle Alesi examines how the perceived edibility of animals evolved during the colonization of the Americas. Early European colonizers ate a variety of animals in the Americas, motivated by factors like curiosity, starvation, …
…
continue reading
1
Sonya Lea, "American Bloodlines: Reckoning with Lynch Culture" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)
48:52
48:52
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
48:52
Summer 1936: Rainey Bethea, a young Black man, is tried for the rape and murder of an elderly white woman. The all-white, all-male jury takes just four and a half minutes to find him guilty. Bethea is hanged near the banks of the Ohio River in Owensboro, Kentucky, with more than twenty thousand white people in attendance. The crowd turns the violen…
…
continue reading
1
Anita Gonzalez, "Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
25:21
25:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
25:21
Shipping Out: Race, Performance, and Labor at Sea (University of Michigan Press, 2025) by Dr. Anita Gonzalez provides a rare perspective on performance by staff above and below deck on Caribbean cruise ships, as viewed through the lenses of race, class, and gender. Drawing on her experiences as a destination lecturer on Caribbean cruise lines for t…
…
continue reading
1
Sarah Kunz, "Expatriate: Following a Migration Category" (Manchester UP, 2023)
1:04:06
1:04:06
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:04:06
Who are expatriates? How do they differ from other migrants? And why should we care about such distinctions? Expatriate: Following a Migration Category (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. Sarah Kunz interrogates the contested category of 'the expatriate' to explore its history and politics, its making and lived experience. Drawing on ethnogr…
…
continue reading
1
#110 - Piers Hemmingsen on the new ”The Beatles in Canada (Blue Book)” and Beatlemania in Canada
1:03:12
1:03:12
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:03:12
Canadian Beatles history authority Piers Hemmingsen and host Steve Marinucci discuss the recently published Blue Book volume of his "The Beatles In Canada" series and some of the ways that Beatlemania in Canada differed from America. We also talk about the unreleased Beatles '65 Toronto soundboard. Among the other things we discuss are the Canadian…
…
continue reading
1
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964-1979" (Ohio UP, 2024)
57:11
57:11
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:11
The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated instability, and the emergent Cold War caught up the still-fragile independent states in a global ideological struggle between superpowers. While the political story of these states has been written i…
…
continue reading
1
Cathy Buchanan Discusses Business Conditions in Michigan at Her Carpet One Store
7:42
7:42
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
7:42
Cathy Buchanan Discusses Business Conditions in Michigan at Her Carpet One Store by Floor Focus MagazineBy Floor Focus Magazine
…
continue reading
1
Rachel Midura, "Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cornell UP, 2025)
41:39
41:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
41:39
Rachel Midura joins Jana Byars to talk about Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell UP, 2025) connects and situates histories of the post and government intelligence alongside print technology and state power in the wider context of the early modern communications revolution. In the sixt…
…
continue reading
1
Jay Flynn Discusses Cali Floors' Success and Using AI for Growth
7:44
7:44
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
7:44
Jay Flynn, SVP of sales with Cali Floors, and Kemp Harr discuss Cali’s four-pronged channel approach for growth and how to use AI in the flooring business as a tool to set yourself apart.By Floor Focus Magazine
…
continue reading
1
Peter Frankopan, "The Earth Transformed: An Untold History" (Knopf, 2023)
53:45
53:45
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:45
The Earth Transformed. An Untold History (Knopf, 2023) is a captivating and informative book that reveals how climate change has been a driving force behind the development and decline of civilizations across the centuries. The author, Peter Frankopan, takes readers on a journey through history, showcasing how natural phenomena such as volcanic eru…
…
continue reading
1
Aaron Bateman. "Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative" (MIT Press, 2024)
20:48
20:48
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
20:48
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond. In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan shocked the world when he announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively known as “Star Wars,” a space-based missile defense program aimed at pro…
…
continue reading
1
Pami Bhullar Discusses Best Retail Sales Techniques in a Slow Market
8:47
8:47
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
8:47
Pami Bhullar, retail sales coach with The Dixie Group, and Kemp Harr discuss the best sales strategy RSAs should use in a soft demand market.By Floor Focus Magazine
…
continue reading
1
2026 starts with a lacklustre whimper !
1:14:58
1:14:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:14:58
Not really, the best podcast is back You love us more than you can even admit to yourself I wouldn’t admit it either
…
continue reading
1
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance" (Cornell UP, 2023)
42:56
42:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
42:56
Florentine Koppenborg’s Japan’s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance (Cornell UP, 2023) begins with the understated observation that the triple disaster of March 2011 “exposed severe deficiencies in Japan’s nuclear safety governance.” This is the starting point for the rather curious story of the regulatory reforms taken up in the…
…
continue reading
1
David Morris, "Stealing The Future: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia" (Watkins Media, 2025)
59:41
59:41
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
59:41
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider – but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime. “Effective Altruism” and relat…
…
continue reading
1
Philip J. Stern, "Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism" (Harvard UP, 2023)
54:46
54:46
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
54:46
Philip Stern places the corporation―more than the Crown―at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today. Across four centuries, from Ireland to India, the Americas to Africa and Australi…
…
continue reading
1
Pluribus Episodes 8 & 9 Analysis: It’s Over!
1:05:05
1:05:05
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:05:05
It’s The Pop Culture Professors, and we continue our analysis of Pluribus, with our thoughts on episode 8, “Charm Offensive” and episode 9, “La Chico o El Mundo.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications…
…
continue reading
1
Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, "Screening Precarity: Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
53:53
53:53
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
53:53
Screening Precarity integrates a cultural analysis of film texts and history, industry transformations, and the violence and crises of political economy infrastructures, to study post-liberalization shifts in the Hindi film industry in India. The book investigates Bollywood as a media system that has moved away from the glee and gusto of liberaliza…
…
continue reading
1
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40:22
40:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
40:22
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Magazine (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Jeff Jarvis, part of the Object Lessons series is a tribute to all that magazines were. From their origins in London and on Ben Franklin's press; throug…
…
continue reading
1
Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
40:22
40:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
40:22
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy - until they were overthrown by the voices of the public themselves online. Magazine (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Jeff Jarvis, part of the Object Lessons series is a tribute to all that magazines were. From their origins in London and on Ben Franklin's press; throug…
…
continue reading
1
The Intelligence Resources Revolution: Rethinking Org Design with AI Agents with Liz Jamieson
27:32
27:32
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
27:32
Liz Jamieson, founder of LJ People and former Head of Talent Acquisition at Amazon APAC, joins the Org Design Podcast to explore the emerging field of workforce architecture that integrates AI agents alongside human employees. Drawing on her 15 years of recruitment experience across 7,000 hires, Liz shares how organizations can strategically plan f…
…
continue reading
1
Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World" (Penguin, 2023)
44:17
44:17
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
44:17
Parking, quite literally, has a death grip on America: each year a handful of Americans are tragically killed by their fellow citizens over parking spots. But even when we don't resort to violence, we routinely do ridiculous things for parking, contorting our professional, social, and financial lives to get a spot. Indeed, in the century since the …
…
continue reading
1
Dagmar Schafer, "Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property" (MIT Press, 2023)
41:56
41:56
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
41:56
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property (MIT Press, 2023) provides a framework for knowledge ownership that challenges the mechanisms of inequality in modern society. Scholars of science, technology, medicine, and law have all tended to emphasize knowledge as the sum of human understanding, and its ownership as possession by law. Break…
…
continue reading
1
#109 - Looking back at our 2025 shows with Ringo Starr and help from many friends!
1:15:38
1:15:38
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:15:38
On this special show, we take a look back at some memorable moments from the shows we did in 2025. You'll hear from Joey Molland, Bruce Spizer, Piers Hemmingsen, Jude Southerland Kessler, Cha-Chi Loprete, Chris O'Dell, Gary Von Scyoc, Candy Leonard, Michele Wood Marotta, Al Sussman, Madeline Bocaro, Laurie Kaye, Rob Frith, Alan Weiss, Andru Reeve, …
…
continue reading
1
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
1:17:04
1:17:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:17:04
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
…
continue reading
1
Anna Zeide, "US History in 15 Foods" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
38:24
38:24
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:24
From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide. US H…
…
continue reading
1
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
1:17:04
1:17:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:17:04
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
…
continue reading
1
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
1:05:21
1:05:21
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:05:21
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradic…
…
continue reading
1
Jordan Frith, "Barcode" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
1:17:04
1:17:04
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:17:04
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
…
continue reading
1
Andy Cowan, "B-Side: A Flipsided History of Pop" (Headpress, 2023)
49:10
49:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
49:10
In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock'n'roll's national anthem ('Rock Around The Cl…
…
continue reading
1
Agata Fijalkowski, "Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial" (Routledge, 2023)
1:11:59
1:11:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:11:59
Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a fundamental part of the legitimacy of the law. Anal…
…
continue reading
1
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
1:07:39
1:07:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:39
Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. …
…
continue reading
1
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
1:07:39
1:07:39
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:39
Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. …
…
continue reading
1
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
1:07:58
1:07:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:58
Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
…
continue reading
1
Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)
38:17
38:17
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
38:17
Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battl…
…
continue reading
1
Helle Strandgaard Jensen, "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57:23
57:23
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:23
In Sesame Street: A Transnational History (Oxford UP, 2023), author Helle Strandgaard Jensen tells the story of how the American television show became a global brand. Jensen argues that because the show's domestic production was not financially viable from the beginning, Sesame Street became a commodity that its producers assertively marketed all …
…
continue reading
1
Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)
30:20
30:20
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
30:20
A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forwar…
…
continue reading
1
Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
57:29
57:29
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
57:29
How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and in…
…
continue reading
1
Kathryn Cornell Dolan, "Breakfast Cereal: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
1:07:58
1:07:58
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:07:58
Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
…
continue reading
1
Jacob Bricca, "How Documentaries Work" (Oxford UP, 2023)
1:05:43
1:05:43
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:05:43
Previous guest Jacob Bricca (Documentary Editing: Principles and Practice) is a professional film editor and director, specializing in documentaries. In his new book, he breaks down the hidden conventions of the documentary film in accessible language for film students and documentary enthusiasts alike. Chapters on Narrative and Meaning show how do…
…
continue reading
1
Abigail Bainbridge, "Conservation of Books" (Routledge, 2023)
32:10
32:10
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
32:10
Editor Abigail Bainbridge and contributing author Sonja Schwoll join this discussion of Conservation of Books (Routledge 2023), the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation. Offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject, this volume takes an international approach. Written by over 70 spe…
…
continue reading
1
Filip Kovacevic, "KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
51:57
51:57
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:57
KGB Literati: Spy Fiction and State Security in the Soviet Union (University of Toronto Press, 2025) offers a first-ever glimpse into the mysterious and long-ignored world and work of Soviet spies- and counterspies-turned-writers. Once out of active service, many former spies have turned to writing spy fiction. They drop the dagger and pick up the …
…
continue reading
1
Colin Williamson, "Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
51:40
51:40
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:40
What do technical renderings of plant cells in trees have to do with Disney’s animated opus Fantasia? Quite a bit, as it turns out: such emergent scientific models and ideas about nature were an important inspiration for Disney’s groundbreaking animated realism. In Drawn to Nature: American Animation in the Age of Science (University of Minnesota P…
…
continue reading
1
Sven Beckert, "Capitalism: A Global History" (Allen Lane, 2025)
1:00:59
1:00:59
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:00:59
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organize our politics. Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Empire of Cotton, places the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework,…
…
continue reading
1
Samuel Helfont, "The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
1:02:15
1:02:15
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
1:02:15
American wars in Iraq were a defining feature of global politics for almost thirty years. The Gulf War of 1991, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the campaign against the Islamic State beginning in 2014 each had their own logic. Each occurrence was a distinct conflict; however they must not only be considered in isolation. The United State…
…
continue reading
1
Andrea Maraschi and Francesca Tasca, "Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
51:22
51:22
Play later
Play later
Lists
Like
Liked
51:22
In Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages (Amsterdam UP, 2024) by Dr. Andrea Maraschi & Dr. Francesca Tasca, readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regio…
…
continue reading
