Podcasting since 2008! - It really is all true! Quirky, bizarre, and unusual stories from the Flip Side of History.
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Better Informed Network Podcasts
A tech podcast for the gadget lovers and tech heads among us from the mind of Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD. MKBHD has made a name for himself on YouTube reviewing everything from the newest smartphones to cameras to electric cars. Pulling from over 10 years of experience covering the tech industry, MKBHD and co-hosts Andrew Manganelli and David Imel will keep you informed and entertained as they take a deep dive into the latest and greatest in tech and what deserves your hard earn ...
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What if instead of being on the brink of disaster, we’re on the cusp of a better world? No one can deny the challenges the world faces, from pandemics to climate change to authoritarianism. But pessimism and despair are too easy a response. Each week, Progress Network Founder Zachary Karabell and Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas convene a diverse panel of experts to discuss the central issues of our era, including sustainability, polarization, work, and the economy, and make the case for ...
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Interested in astrology and how it really works? Want to know the truth about astrology & your soul’s karmic evolution? Karmic Evolution seeks to inform us all—through astrological insight—how we may better our relationships, ascertain our true values, & find the courage to be who we truly came here to be...after all, isn’t that what life is really all about?
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Developer Tea exists to help driven developers connect to their ultimate purpose and excel at their work so that they can positively impact the people they influence. With over 17 million downloads to date, Developer Tea is a short podcast hosted by Jonathan Cutrell, engineering leader with over 15 years of industry experience. We hope you'll take the topics from this podcast and continue the conversation, either online or in person with your peers. Email: [email protected]
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NTSB News Talk – Aviation Accidents, Safety Investigations & Pilot Lessons
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NTSB News Talk is your go-to podcast for in-depth discussions of aircraft accidents, investigations, and the lessons pilots can’t afford to ignore. Hosted by award-winning aviation journalist Rob Mark and Max Trescott, a flight instructor who has trained as an accident investigator, this show breaks down recent NTSB reports, analyzes accident causes, and explores what every pilot, instructor, and aviation enthusiast can learn from these events. Whether you’re a student pilot, airline captain ...
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Easy Mandarin News delivers the latest global news in simplified Chinese tailored for language learners. Discover the joy of staying informed and the satisfaction of understanding Chinese — all while growing your curiosity and language skills.
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The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading ...
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Welcome to the Engaged Family Gaming Network! We publish regular podcasts about video games, board games, and all sorts of family entertainment!
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Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast is for anyone who is not ready to give up on making the world a better place. For unrivalled conversations with decision makers, visionary thinkers and a community of like-minded climate optimists, join former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, political strategist Tom Rivett-Carnac and sustainable business consultant Paul Dickinson. Each week they make sense of all the top climate news stories, go behind the scenes at crucial talks and ensure you s ...
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Casual yet insightful conversations on the latest in cybersecurity and weekly updates on vulnerabilities and solutions.
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You're better off, when you're Spouting Off! Karen, host of Spouting off, is very well-informed and opinionated, but she also believes that protecting others’ rights to free speech protects our own. Topics range from the timely to the timeless, but always include a healthy dose of debate and discussion. If you can’t stand disagreement or diversity of opinion, enter with extreme caution. But if you just love mixing it up about the hottest issues of the day, tune in. You might just have your m ...
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AeroCloud is the fastest-growing airport tech company, starting in 2019 and now serving over 60 airports. With 60 expert employees and major investors, we’ve attracted $18M in investment. I’m George, the CEO and co-founder. We saw the need for better airport tech and created AeroCloud, a cloud-first airport software company. I learn best through discussions, making podcasts ideal. Conversations with over 100 airport leaders revealed common challenges and unique solutions worth exploring. The ...
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Have a health-related question, need expert guidance or have a health-related comment? Dr. Bob and Dr. Adam are here to help! With their combined expertise, they provide clear, reliable answers to your health concerns, giving you the confidence to make informed decisions about your well-being. You Can Be Your own doctor most of the time, and we will tell you now! Dr. Bob Martin and Dr. Adam Brockman are firm believers that information and education are fundamental to achieving optimal health ...
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Your hosts, Tom Meehan, CIO and CISO at CONTROLTEK and Shaun Ferrari, Global Cash Product Director at Currency Research share the latest information on the issues affecting the world of cash today. Featuring interviews with top industry experts and thought leaders, you’ll have a close look at trends, strategies, and technology influencing the world of cash. Stay informed on topics like cash security, payments technology, risks, the cash supply chain, and learn about strategies to support bet ...
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The Government Explained Podcast provides timely, objective analysis and presents clear, non-partisan information for everyone. Each episode focuses on a single topic to ensure a thorough and straightforward discussion. The goal of this podcast is to take complex government-related topics and make them easy for anyone to understand.
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Welcome to Bleed Blue Network - where passion meets precision in coverage of University of Kentucky Athletics. We are more than just a media network; we are a community of dedicated fans committed to delivering the latest news, analysis, and insights on everything Kentucky Wildcats. At Bleed Blue Network, we believe in the power of fandom. Our mission is simple: to provide unparalleled coverage of University of Kentucky Athletics straight from the heart of the Big Blue Nation. From thrilling ...
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The ultimate must-listen for every teacher and educational leader, Teach Better Talk dives into the key questions that drive education today. Weekly interviews with experts from around the world, sharing cutting-edge science, groundbreaking research, and practical tools to help you master the art of teaching, efficiently manage a school, and reach every learner in your community. Catch the official podcast of the Teach Better Podcast Network every Tuesday through Thursday for fresh episodes ...
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Turn information into profit with insightful business development
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Helping entrepreneurs stay accountable for working on their businesses, not just for them as they grow a strong network of potential clients, referral sources and collaborators.
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ASPN is the platform for top minds in the coastal and ocean space. Whether your interest is coastal business, policy, science, engineering or advocacy, with ASPN you'll be better prepared, better informed, and better equipped to adapt and thrive. No other platform brings together so many cross-sectional coastal experts. We believe understanding the spectrum of coastal issues and interests is the key to truly thriving on the American shoreline. Hear the complete coastal conversation on the Am ...
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The "In Focus: Foreign Affairs Explained" provides timely, objective analysis and presents clear, non-partisan information for everyone. Each episode focuses on a single topic to ensure a thorough and straightforward discussion. The goal of this podcast is to take complex Foreign Affairs-related topics and make them easy for anyone to understand.
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Welcome to the Assisted Living Network, presented by RAL Academy, a podcast designed to help you discover how to successfully invest in the booming Residential Assisted Living market. If you're a real estate investor, you know how hard it is to find a profitable and fulfilling strategy in today's market. Methods of generating revenue that worked 10 years ago, don’t work today. Are you tired of low cash flow, high maintenance, and unhappy tenants? Do you wish you could make a difference in th ...
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Welcome to the Best Ever CRE Show, the world’s longest-running daily COMMERCIAL real estate podcast. Founded by Joe Fairless, a co-founder of Ashcroft Capital who went from buying $35,000 homes to controlling more than $2.7 billion in real estate assets, the Best Ever CRE Show provides commercial real estate expert insights, education, and timely information to our community of active and passive investors who want to build wealth, build a legacy, and do more good in the world. So if you wan ...
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In under 30 minutes. Do you want to understand specific cases? We are here to provide commentary on every Supreme Court case.
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Supreme Court Season episodes will include all arguments that occur from October 01st to April/May. You can listen to the sidebar version of each Supreme Court Case https://thesidebar.transistor.fm/
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An educational resource to inspire and inform the next generation of creatives and help them make better career decisions. Creative Lives is a podcast series profiling interesting creative careers – from how they identified an interest in the industry, to landing their first job.
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Speaking with young athletes and coaches all around the country, to help better educate the athletes about the process, both physically and mentally .Providing Leadership, and Guidance, with the help of our vast network of resources.
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Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy
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The Perspectives Journal Podcast complements the journal and opinions content of Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy, to bring out left-wing ideas and strategy in a new and ever-evolving format. The podcast features interviews with policy experts, to dig deeper into the progressive angles of the issues affecting working-class, ordinary Canadians. Hosted by editor-in-chief, Clement Nocos, the Perspectives Journal Podcast aims to bring forward timely anal ...
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Traditional networking is broken. Too often, it’s a lottery of business cards and empty promises. At Business Matching UK (BMUK), we believe there’s a better way, one where business development is structured, strategic, and guaranteed to create real opportunities. 'Networking, Working' is the podcast where real business stories meet meaningful connections. We share the stories, strategies, and successes behind this new era of business membership networking. Each episode brings you conversati ...
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Lagos Landlord is a phenomenal network for real estate investors and players in the real estate industry. It has been designed to keep you informed on how you can be a better investor or participant in the real estate scene in Nigeria. Each week, she will be bringing you incredible real estate investing tips, interviews with stakeholders in the industry who are actually making it happen in the real estate scene, training, and honest conversations on the property investment climate.
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360 with Katie Woolf, weekdays 9:00am to 12:00pm
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Welcome to the Dead America Podcast – Your Gateway to Empowerment and Change The Dead America Podcast is more than just a platform for conversation. It’s a beacon of hope, a call to action, and a community dedicated to fostering real and meaningful change. In a world often overshadowed by negativity and destruction, we focus on addressing some of the most challenging issues of our time. Through insightful dialogue, inspiring stories, and practical advice, we aim to uplift and empower the mos ...
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Welcome to Business To Business Synergy - The Power Partners USA Podcast – your exclusive guide to discovering the potential of B2B partnerships. Our goal is to empower you with invaluable insights, ideas, resources and real-world success stories that showcase the potential of Power Partners USA. Through compelling interviews, we explore how Power Partners effectively market their services, attract the right professionals, and nurture enduring relationships that yield repeat and referral bus ...
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The Curb Enthusiasm podcast offers unique insight on what’s new, innovative, and exciting in the world of transportation and urban planning. Created by the New York City Department of Transportation, the podcast is focused on issues at the local, national, and international level and features guests who discuss the most consequential transportation work happening all over the globe.
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Hosted by Emmy Award-winning producer and veteran New England sports broadcaster, Jimmy Young, each week “In The Weeds with Jimmy Young” talks about all the things that are driving growth in one of the hottest industries on the planet - Cannabis. Featuring current news and informed perspectives from industry leaders and disrupters in business, politics, law, investing, and medicine, mixed with compelling true stories of people whose lives were transformed by Cannabis. A medical cardholder si ...
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Each week on The Astrology Show, Kelli will give you access to the current transits that are a valuable tool which provide astrological information to help unlock the potential each of us has through our Sun sign. Understanding the current planetary influences each week can help steer us in the right direction to make better-informed choices. Sometimes, events in your life may seem completely random but there is a pattern to the order of these events – one set in motion in part by you, and i ...
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The GoodCitizen Podcast Channel The GoodCitizen Podcast Channel, part of the Audio Blogs network, provides an engaging and accessible way to explore the latest insights and developments in civic engagement, social impact, and leadership. Hosted by GoodCitizen, a trusted platform for mission-driven careers and organizations, this podcast channel transforms thought-provoking articles and expert insights into captivating audio experiences. GoodCitizen is dedicated to connecting purpose-driven p ...
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Kwik Brain is a fun, fast-paced show designed to help busy people learn and achieve anything in a fraction of the time! Your coach, Jim Kwik (his real name), is the brain & memory trainer to elite mental performers, including many of the world’s leading CEO’s and celebrities. In this easy to digest bite-sized podcast, you will discover Kwik’s favorite shortcuts to read faster, remember more, and ‘supercharge’ your greatest wealth-building asset: your brain. Whether you’re a student, senior, ...
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James Swanwick: The Hidden Habit Hijacking Your Sleep and Memory
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What if one small decision is quietly draining your focus, dulling your memory, and wrecking your sleep? In this conversation, Jim sits down with James Swanwick, former ESPN anchor turned brain health advocate and author of CLEAR, to unpack how alcohol changes your brain and what to do about it. You’ll learn why even “just one drink a night” can de…
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Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Today I talked to Elliott Rabin about his book The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility (Jewish Publication Society, 2020). Approaching the Bible in an original way—comparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literature—Rabin addresses a core biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Focusing…
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
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Though his advice has saved the lives of millions of people, the name Ignaz Semmelweis is not one commonly known today. In his book Anthony Valerio’s Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor (Zantedeschi Books, 2019). Valerio details the many struggles Semmelweis faced in winning acceptance for his advice on antiseptic procedures. The son of a Buda spice mer…
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight (UP of Mississippi, 2021) is a celebration of jazz and the men and women who created and transformed it. In the twenty-one conversations contained in this engaging and highly accessible book, we hear from the musicians themselves, in their own words, direct and unfiltered. Peter Zimmerman’s interviewing…
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
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In his new book, The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader (Yale University Press, 2018), Stephen Fritz professor of history at East Tennessee State University reexamines Hitler as a military commander and strategist. That Hitler saw World War II as the only way to retrieve Germany’s fortunes and build an expansionist Thousand-Year Reich is un…
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JF 4064: Confidence, Capital Raising and Cross-Border Investing ft. Zorya Belanger
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On this week’s episode of The Investor Mindset, Richard McGirr interviews Zorya Belanger. Zorya shares her evolution from a shy engineer to a confident speaker, mentor, and multifamily investor raising capital across borders. She explains how Toastmasters helped her develop communication skills that later became essential in syndication and asset m…
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Stevie Suan, "Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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A formal approach to anime rethinks globalization and transnationality under neoliberalism Anime has become synonymous with Japanese culture, but its global reach raises a perplexing question--what happens when anime is produced outside of Japan? Who actually makes anime, and how can this help us rethink notions of cultural production? In Anime's I…
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Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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In No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World (Oxford University Press, 2021), Deborah Gordon shows that no two oils or gases are environmentally alike. Each has a distinct, quantifiable climate impact. While all oils and gases pollute, some are much worse for the climate than others. In clear, accessible language, Gordon expla…
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Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action" (Haymarket, 2019)
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What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Political Action (2019), published as part of the Historical Materialism book series from Brill and Haymarket books. The book takes on the theories of Marx and Gramsci to develop a philosophical triad …
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Ladelle McWhorter, "Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
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How should one live? What should one do? And what do these questions have to do with being a good person? In Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demine of the Modern Moral Self (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Ladelle McWhorter reorients these questions through a genealogy of the concept of personhood. That genealogy is in the service of showing u…
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Ron Broglio, "Animal Revolution" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, Animal Revolution (U Minnesota Press, 2022) threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a …
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国际盲人节让世界更“看得见” - International Day of the Blind Makes the World More "Visible"
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Read the full transcript with translations in multiple languages: 国际盲人节让世界更“看得见” - International Day of the Blind Makes the World More "Visible"By Easy Mandarin News
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Australia’s youngest pilot, 15-year-old Jennifer Hunt, Mum Kylie, Dad Geoff tell Katie Woolf about Jennifer’s solo flight circumnavigating Australia in an amphibious plane with puppy Bella alongside her ...
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Transport Workers Union NT Branch Secretary Sam McIntosh says 85 per cent of bus drivers have indicated in a new survey they intend to leave their jobs within 12 months if a better enterprise agreement ...
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Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour says she has written to the Prime Minister and Cabinet asking for the funding committed to an art gallery in Alice Springs to be repurposed to deliver a project that ...
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香港青少年用聊天机器人寻求心理安慰 - Hong Kong Teenagers Seek Psychological Comfort from Chatbots
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Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro says the latest crime statistics show a 7.4 per cent reduction in the number of victims Territory wide, attributing it to the CLP’s law reforms and changes across police ...
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打破人文主义理想与现实之间的墙 - Breaking the Wall Between Humanist Ideals and Reality
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Read the full transcript with translations in multiple languages: 打破人文主义理想与现实之间的墙 - Breaking the Wall Between Humanist Ideals and RealityBy Easy Mandarin News
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Martyn Whittock, "Vikings in the East: From Vladimir the Great to Vladimir Putin – The Origins of a Contested Legacy in Russia and Ukraine" (Biteback, 2025)
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In Western Europe, we typically associate Vikings with the storm-tossed waters of the North Sea and the North Atlantic, the deep Scandinavian fjords and the attacks on the monasteries and settlements of north-western Europe. This popular image rarely includes the river systems of Russia and Ukraine, the wide sweep of the Eurasian steppe, the far sh…
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Ada Ferrer, "Cuba: An American History" (Scribner, 2021)
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“No country is ever just one thing.” In her new book Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021), NYU historian Ada Ferrer shows this again and again. In clear and engaging prose, Ferrer narrates five centuries of history from a decidedly different angle than previous one-volume studies; the main drivers of history in this book are not just familiar…
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JF 4063: Market Stability, Investor Sentiment and Growth Ahead ft. John Chang
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On this week’s episode of The Horizon Podcast, John Chang shares insights from his recent presentations and meetings with top investors across the country. He covers economic trends, inflation expectations, and the outlook for interest rates, noting general optimism and stability ahead. John dives into the state of key commercial real estate sector…
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Angelos Chaniotis, "Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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The world that Alexander remade in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death in 323 BCE. In Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian(Harvard University Press, 2018), Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, examines how his successors reorganized Pers…
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Danny Orbach, "Plots Against Hitler" (Mariner, 2016)
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In his new book, Plots Against Hitler (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Danny Orbach, Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers a profound and complete examination of the plots to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. A riveting narrative of the organization, conspiracy, and sacrifices made by those who led the res…
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Kalle Kananoja, "Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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In Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge UP, 2021), Kalle Kananoja tells the story of how pre-colonial communities throughout the west coast of Africa employed a wide range of medical and spiritual strategies to treat all kinds of diseases. In the sixteenth century, the arrival of European traders and colonists initiated an exchange of he…
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David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and how its current structur…
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Bradley Morgan, "U2: Until the End of the World" (Weldon Owen, 2025)
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Bradley Morgan’s U2: Until the End of the World (Gemini Books, 2025) celebrates fifty years of U2 with a career-spanning retrospective featuring more than 150 images that trace the band’s journey from Dublin pubs to sold-out arena tours. Morgan delves into the history of U2, offering an intimate look at their formation and the evolution of their un…
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, James Baldwin: Living in Fire (Pluto Press, 2019), Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African-American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture. As a lifelong anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, and feminist, Baldwin (1924-1987)…
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William Doyle, "Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized revolutionary France: war, religion, and monarchy. Doyle shows how, as First Consul of the Republic, Napo…
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Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Freedom is often considered the cornerstone of the American political project. The 1776 revolutionaries declared it an inalienable right that could neither be taken nor granted, a sacred concept upon which the nation was established. The concept and actualization of freedom are also to be defended by the state. However, when such a concept has been…
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