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Justin Grimmer et al., "Text as Data: A New Framework for Machine Learning and the Social Sciences" (Princeton UP, 2022)
56 mins; September 05, 2022
Decoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
95 hours 18 mins; September 05, 2022
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
63 hours 34 mins; September 02, 2022
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
43 mins; September 02, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
43 mins; September 01, 2022
The Heroin Clinic
51 mins; August 31, 2022
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
126 hours 21 mins; August 31, 2022
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
32 mins; August 31, 2022
Howard Yaruss, "Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
56 mins; August 31, 2022
This is Your Brain on Trial
68 hours 22 mins; August 31, 2022
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
80 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
Merlin Chowkwanyun, "All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health" (UNC Press, 2022)
69 hours 43 mins; August 30, 2022
Derailed: The Crisis of Forensic Expertise
86 hours 35 mins; August 29, 2022
MĂ©lissa Mialon, "Big Food & Co" (Thierry Souccar Editions, 2021)
51 mins; August 26, 2022
Addressing Hunger, Food Insecurity--Local Solutions to a Global Problem
43 mins; August 25, 2022
John A. List, "The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale" (Currency, 2022)
43 mins; August 25, 2022
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
67 hours 32 mins; August 24, 2022
Mathew Lawrence and Adrienne Buller, "Owning the Future: Power and Property in an Age of Crisis" (Verso, 2022)
44 mins; August 23, 2022
Postscript: How the Supreme Court Overturned a Century-Old Gun Law
and Changed American Jurisprudence
61 hours 9 mins; August 22, 2022
The Poison Paradigm: What a Toxic Chemical Tells us about the Politics of Science
58 mins; August 19, 2022
Rochelle DuFord, "Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory" (Stanford UP, 2022)
69 hours 56 mins; August 18, 2022
Samuel Evan Milner, "Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Power, Profits, and Productivity in Modern America" (Yale UP, 2021)
65 hours 36 mins; August 17, 2022
The Future of Net Zero: A Discussion with Eric Lonergan
49 mins; August 16, 2022
Plague Robbers--Nothing Spreads Like Greed: The Pandemic Profiteers Who Made the Crisis Worse
46 mins; August 16, 2022
Paris Marx, "Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation" (Verso, 2022)
98 hours 37 mins; August 16, 2022
Max Foran, "The Subjugation of Canadian Wildlife: Failures of Principle and Policy" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
47 mins; August 16, 2022
Christopher Witko, "Hijacking the Agenda: Economic Power and Political Influence" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2021)
65 hours 36 mins; August 15, 2022
Lindy S. F. Hern, "Single Payer Healthcare Reform: Grassroots Mobilization and the Turn Against Establishment Politics in the Medicare for All Movement" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
81 hours 13 mins; August 12, 2022
Roselyn Hsueh, "Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
51 mins; August 12, 2022
Eviatar Zerubavel, "Generally Speaking: An Invitation to Concept-Driven Sociology" (Oxford UP, 2020)
29 mins; August 11, 2022
Jamie Ducharme, "Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul" (Henry Holt, 2021)
36 mins; August 11, 2022
Jeffrey S. Sutton, "Who Decides?: States As Laboratories of Constitutional Experimentation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
68 hours 46 mins; August 10, 2022
Susan C. Boyd, "Heroin: An Illustrated History" (Fernwood, 2022)
46 mins; August 10, 2022
Ronald Meester and Klaas Slooten, "Probability and Forensic Evidence: Theory, Philosophy, and Applications" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
62 hours 55 mins; August 09, 2022
The Future of Political Anger: A Conversation with Mark Blyth
44 mins; August 09, 2022
Nasar Meer, "The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice" (Policy Press, 2022)
48 mins; August 08, 2022
American Chernobyl, Part 2: The Most Poisonous Place in the USA
58 mins; August 05, 2022
Nick Huntington-Klein, "The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality" (CRC Press, 2021)
52 mins; August 04, 2022
America's Chernobyl, Part 1: Living in a Poison Town
53 mins; August 04, 2022
Ethan W. Ris, "Other People's Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
67 hours 7 mins; August 03, 2022
Charlie Jeffries, "Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture Wars" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
62 hours 10 mins; August 03, 2022
Matt Stoller, "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy" (Simon & Schuster, 2020)
53 mins; August 03, 2022
Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
57 mins; August 02, 2022
Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
52 mins; August 01, 2022
Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What? Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
50 mins; August 01, 2022
Erica Gies, "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
57 mins; July 29, 2022
Paisley Currah, "Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity" (NYU Press, 2022)
32 mins; July 29, 2022
Anthony Abraham Jack, "The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students" (Harvard UP, 2019)
61 hours 52 mins; July 28, 2022
Elisabeth R. Anker, "Ugly Freedom" (Duke UP, 2022)
61 hours 9 mins; July 28, 2022
Michael S. Roth, "Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses" (Yale UP, 2021)
51 mins; July 27, 2022
The Grift of Meritocracy: All About Grifting (Inside and Outside of the Academy)
55 mins; July 26, 2022
Heejung Chung, "The Flexibility Paradox: Why Flexible Working Leads To (Self-)Exploitation" (Polity Press, 2022)
40 mins; July 26, 2022
Mark Solovey, "Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the 'Other Sciences' at the National Science Foundation" (MIT Press, 2020)
47 mins; July 25, 2022
Effective Altruism: What it is, What it Does, and How You Can Help
34 mins; July 25, 2022
Exiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex Offenders
34 mins; July 22, 2022
Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner, "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" (MIT Press, 2022)
75 hours 52 mins; July 22, 2022
Marc F. Bellemare, "Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t" (MIT Press, 2022)
46 mins; July 21, 2022
Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
63 hours 20 mins; July 21, 2022
Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, "The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
32 mins; July 19, 2022
Jonna Perrillo, "Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
58 mins; July 18, 2022
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
66 hours 55 mins; July 15, 2022
Vivian Jing Zhan, "China's Contained Resource Curse: How Minerals Shape State Capital Labor Relations" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
47 mins; July 14, 2022
Colin Copus, "In Defence of Councillors" (Manchester UP, 2021)
62 hours 20 mins; July 12, 2022
Jamie Susskind, "The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
42 mins; July 11, 2022
Scott Gehlbach, "Formal Models of Domestic Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; June 30, 2022
Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, "Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power" (MIT Press, 2022)
50 mins; June 29, 2022
Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
53 mins; June 29, 2022
Does Financial Repression Work?
65 hours 31 mins; June 28, 2022
The Future of Philanthropy: A Conversation with Emma Saunders-Hastings
46 mins; June 28, 2022
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, "Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation" (Verso, 2022)
57 mins; June 27, 2022
Alan Lane, "The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir" (Salamander Street, 2022)
42 mins; June 24, 2022
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
53 mins; June 24, 2022
Joni Schwartz and John R. Chaney, "Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience" (Lexington Books, 2022)
57 mins; June 24, 2022
Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)
33 mins; June 24, 2022
Dayna Bowen Matthew, "Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America" (NYU Press, 2022)
47 mins; June 23, 2022
Susan Hartman, "City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town" (Beacon Press, 2022)
31 mins; June 23, 2022
HouseMate: Lessons from Singapore on How to Provide Universal Cheap Homeownership
20 mins; June 23, 2022
Max Holleran, "Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing" (Princeton UP, 2022)
36 mins; June 22, 2022
Shelly Oria and Kirstin Valdez Quade, "I Know What's Best for You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom" (McSweeney’s Books, 2022)
58 mins; June 21, 2022
Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells, "Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed." (Ubiquity Press, 2022)
62 hours 21 mins; June 21, 2022
Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
60 hours 28 mins; June 20, 2022
Judah Schept, "Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia" (NYU Press, 2022)
60 hours 14 mins; June 17, 2022
Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
49 mins; June 17, 2022
David L. Sloss, "Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 30 mins; June 17, 2022
James J. Connolly et al., "Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities" (Cornell UP, 2022)
35 mins; June 17, 2022
Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
71 hours 15 mins; June 16, 2022
Rizwaan Sabir, "Shadows of Suspicion: Counterterrorism, Muslims and the British Security State" (Pluto Press, 2022)
66 hours 19 mins; June 16, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
68 hours 46 mins; June 15, 2022
Michael Munger, "The Sharing Economy: Its Pitfalls and Promises" (Duke UP, 2021)
55 mins; June 15, 2022
Nadia Y. Kim, "Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA" (Stanford UP, 2021)
71 hours 31 mins; June 14, 2022
R. John Aitken, "The Infertility Trap: Why Life Choices Impact your Fertility and Why We Must Act Now" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
62 hours 44 mins; June 13, 2022
A Discussion with Lynn Pasquerella, President of the American Association of Colleges & Universities
62 hours 24 mins; June 13, 2022
Danya Glabau, "Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
45 mins; June 10, 2022
Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins, "Who Needs the ABC?: How Digital Disruption and Political Dysfunction Threaten the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Existence" (Scribe, 2022)
53 mins; June 08, 2022
Robin Goldstein and Daniel Sumner, "Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics" (U California Press, 2022)
75 hours 10 mins; June 07, 2022
Ioana Florea et al., "Contemporary Housing Struggles: A Structural Field of Contention Approach" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
80 hours 25 mins; June 07, 2022
David B. Goldstein, "The End of Genetics: Designing Humanity's DNA" (Yale UP, 2022)
58 mins; June 06, 2022
Richard Chataway, "The Behaviour Business: How to Apply Behavioural Science for Business Success" (Harriman House, 2020)
34 mins; June 02, 2022
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
65 hours 9 mins; June 01, 2022
Stephen M. Wheeler and Christina D. Rosan, "Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities" (U California Press, 2021)
67 hours 45 mins; June 01, 2022
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