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Louis Hyman, “Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary” (Viking, 2018)
Louis Hyman
Temp
How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream became Temporary
Viking, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Carrie Lane

It has become a truism that work has become less secure and more precarious for a widening swath of American workers. Why and how this has happened, and what workers can and should do about it, is the subject of a wide-ranging new book, Temp: How American Work, American Business,... Read More
Stephen F. Knott, “The Lost Soul of the American Presidency” (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Stephen F. Knott
The Lost Soul of the American Presidency
The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal
University Press of Kansas, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Lilly Goren

In this latest book, Stephen F. Knott continues his extensive research of the American presidency, from the Founders’ concept of the office to the current office holder. In The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal (University of Kansas Press, 2019), Knott guides... Read More
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, “The Media World of ISIS” (Indiana UP, 2019)
Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington
The Media World of ISIS

Indiana University Press, 2019

New Books in CommunicationsNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in Middle Eastern StudiesNew Books in National SecurityNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Beth Windisch

From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multi-platformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news coverage and inspired hundreds of young people around the world to abandon their... Read More
Katherine Rye Jewell, “Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Katherine Rye Jewell
Dollars for Dixie
Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American SouthNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Beth A. English

Katherine Rye Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Fitchburg State University, discusses her book, Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and the evolution of political and economic conservatism in the twentieth-century South. Organized in 1933, the Southern States Industrial... Read More
Fran Altvater, “Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts” (Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
Fran Altvater
Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

New Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Christian StudiesNew Books in European StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Michael F. Robinson

Fran Altvater talks about the Medieval Pilgrimage, a practice that became central to Christian Europe in the early Middle Ages and evolved into the military pilgrimages of the Crusades in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. Altvater is a professor of art history at the University of Hartford. Her book, Sacramental... Read More
David Spiegelhalter, “The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data” (Basic, 2019)
David Spiegelhalter
The Art of Statistics
How to Learn from Data
Basic Books, 2019

New Books in MathematicsNew Books in MedicineNew Books in ScienceNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Colin Miller and Keith Mankin

Today’s guest is distinguished researcher and statistician, Sir David Spiegelhalter. A fellow of the Royal Society, he is currently Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge. He has dedicated his career, in his words to, “improving the way that quantitative evidence is... Read More
Miriam Driessen, “Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia” (Hong Kong UP, 2019)
Miriam Driessen
Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness
Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia
Hong Kong University Press, 2019

New Books in African StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network December 13, 2019 Andrea Bernardi

I met Dr Miriam Driessen at Oxford University where she works at the China Centre. We spoke about her wonderful new book Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia (Hong Kong University Press, 2019). Through unprecedented ethnographic research among Chinese road builders in Ethiopia, Driessen finds... Read More
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