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Poverty, Race, and Rural Sanitation
60 hours 49 mins; January 10, 2023
Matthew Smith, "The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2022)
46 mins; January 10, 2023
Demeritocracy: Should We Still Believe in Meritocracy?
25 mins; January 10, 2023
Neoliberalism and Higher Education
66 hours 33 mins; January 08, 2023
21st Century Citizenship: What Does It Mean to be a Citizen in America?
15 mins; January 08, 2023
Bin Xu, "The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society" (Polity Press, 2022)
41 mins; January 07, 2023
Char Miller, "Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril" (Chin Music, 2022)
58 mins; January 07, 2023
Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
49 mins; January 06, 2023
(In)efficiency: Should Efficiency be a Moral Value?
17 mins; January 05, 2023
Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
39 mins; January 04, 2023
Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
28 mins; January 01, 2023
Martha C. Nussbaum, "Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
51 mins; December 31, 2022
Ethical AI
22 mins; December 31, 2022
Tommie Shelby, "The Idea of Prison Abolition" (Princeton UP, 2022)
72 hours 2 mins; December 30, 2022
Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022)
35 mins; December 29, 2022
Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi, "Making Meritocracy: Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
42 mins; December 29, 2022
Jefferson Cowie, "Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power" (Basic Books, 2022)
91 hours 43 mins; December 28, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID) in Canada
69 hours 17 mins; December 26, 2022
Sayan Dey, "Green Academia: Towards Eco-Friendly Education Systems" (Routledge, 2022)
44 mins; December 26, 2022
Hagai Boas, "The Political Economy of Organ Transplantation: Where Do Organs Come From?" (Routledge, 2022)
45 mins; December 20, 2022
Carl Griffin, "The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, 1750-1840" (Manchester UP, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; December 19, 2022
Hester Barron, "The Social World of the School: Education and Community in Interwar London" (Manchester UP, 2022)
63 hours 38 mins; December 18, 2022
Danielle Keats Citron, "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age" (Norton, 2022)
36 mins; December 17, 2022
Gregory Smithsimon, "Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism" (NYU Press, 2022)
84 hours 37 mins; December 16, 2022
Matthew Hall et al., "Digital Gender-Sexual Violations: Violence, Technologies, Motivations" (Routledge, 2022)
70 hours 54 mins; December 16, 2022
Karen Levy, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance" (Princeton UP, 2022)
34 mins; December 15, 2022
Alison L. Gash and Daniel J. Tichenor, "Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency" (Oxford UP, 2022)
63 hours 35 mins; December 15, 2022
Jacalyn Duffin, "Covid-19: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
72 hours 36 mins; December 12, 2022
Barbara Katz Rothman, "The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic" (Stanford UP, 2021)
52 mins; December 11, 2022
AJ Withers, "Fight to Win: Inside Poor People's Organizing" (Fernwood, 2021)
75 hours 33 mins; December 11, 2022
Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
35 mins; December 11, 2022
The Future of AI in Work: A Discussion with Daniel Susskind
51 mins; December 09, 2022
Safe and Sound? On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines
19 mins; December 08, 2022
Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)
25 mins; December 05, 2022
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, "Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt" (Harvard UP, 2021)
64 hours 49 mins; December 04, 2022
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
53 mins; December 03, 2022
Civil Disobedience
17 mins; December 02, 2022
Yahia Shawkat, "Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space" (American U in Cairo Press, 2020)
32 mins; December 02, 2022
Mathematical Morality: The Ideology that Justifies Billionaires
49 mins; November 30, 2022
Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz, "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
50 mins; November 30, 2022
Shana Kushner Gadarian et al., "Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID" (Princeton UP, 2022)
45 mins; November 28, 2022
Paul Watt, "Estate Regeneration and Its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London" (Policy Press, 2021)
63 hours 39 mins; November 28, 2022
Pierre Minn, "Where They Need Me: Local Clinicians and the Workings of Global Health in Haiti" (Cornell UP, 2022)
69 hours 8 mins; November 28, 2022
The Future of Multiculturalism: A Discussion with Patti Tamara Lenard and Peter Balint
52 mins; November 25, 2022
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow, "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back" (Beacon Press, 2022)
46 mins; November 23, 2022
Eric MacGilvray, "Liberal Freedom: Pluralism, Polarization, and Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 39 mins; November 23, 2022
Lyndsie Bourgon, "Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America's Woods" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
40 mins; November 22, 2022
Psyche A. Williams-Forson, "Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America" (UNC Press, 2022)
32 mins; November 21, 2022
Sarah Dauncey, "Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
69 hours 44 mins; November 18, 2022
Robert P. Crease with Peter D. Bond, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
55 mins; November 18, 2022
The Future of Data Control: A Discussion with Sarah Lamdan
49 mins; November 15, 2022
Megan Asaka, "Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City" (U Washington Press, 2022)
65 hours 0 mins; November 15, 2022
Jeffrey Bellin, "Mass Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became Addicted to Prisons and Jails and How it Can Recover" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
36 mins; November 15, 2022
Igor Shoikhedbrod, "Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
59 mins; November 14, 2022
Adam Crowley, "Representations of Poverty in Videogames" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
63 hours 32 mins; November 11, 2022
Bruce W. Dearstyne, "The Crucible of Public Policy: New York Courts in the Progressive Era" (SUNY Press, 2022)
50 mins; November 11, 2022
Todd Meyers, "All That Was Not Her" (Duke UP, 2022)
39 mins; November 09, 2022
Richard Petts, "Father Involvement and Gender Equality in the United States: Contemporary Norms and Barriers" (Routledge, 2022)
24 mins; November 09, 2022
Christopher Howard, "Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
35 mins; November 08, 2022
Dan Bouk, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them" (MCD, 2022)
50 mins; November 08, 2022
June Carolyn Erlick, "Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity" (Routledge, 2021)
59 mins; November 07, 2022
Andrew S. Rosenberg, "Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration" (Princeton UP, 2022)
48 mins; November 07, 2022
Mikkael A. Sekeres, "Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy, and the Public's Trust" (MIT Press, 2022)
58 mins; November 04, 2022
Christopher Stuart Taylor, "Flying Fish in the Great White North: The Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians" (Fernwood, 2016)
75 hours 14 mins; November 04, 2022
Richard V. Reeves, "Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
34 mins; November 03, 2022
The Future of Money Laundering: A Discussion with Oliver Bullough
62 hours 47 mins; November 01, 2022
Max H. Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022)
27 mins; November 01, 2022
Robert Gottlieb, "Care-Centered Politics: From the Home to the Planet" (MIT Press, 2022)
83 hours 8 mins; November 01, 2022
Elizabeth Drame et al., "The Resistance, Persistence and Resilience of Black Families Raising Children with Autism" (Peter Lang, 2020)
56 mins; November 01, 2022
Observations about the Hard-Won Wisdom of Old Age
41 mins; October 31, 2022
Darts Transit Commission: Silicon Valley’s Car Culture
47 mins; October 31, 2022
Nicholas Micinski, "Delegating Responsibility: International Cooperation on Migration in the European Union" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
61 hours 5 mins; October 31, 2022
Tom Haines-Doran, "Derailed: How to Fix Britain's Broken Railways" (Manchester UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 31, 2022
Matthias Bernt, "The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg" (Wiley, 2022)
57 mins; October 28, 2022
Lynn M. Hudson, "West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
62 hours 55 mins; October 26, 2022
Sustainable Agriculture in the Global South: A Religious Response to the Global Food Crisis
46 mins; October 25, 2022
Dan Immergluck, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta" (U California Press, 2022)
36 mins; October 25, 2022
Lucy Series, "Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution" (Bristol UP, 2022)
63 hours 33 mins; October 24, 2022
Elsa Sjunneson, "Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism" (Simon Element, 2021)
52 mins; October 20, 2022
Robert P. Crease, "The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory" (MIT Press, 2022)
90 hours 31 mins; October 18, 2022
Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)
75 hours 13 mins; October 14, 2022
The Fight to Save the Town
73 hours 26 mins; October 13, 2022
Sanjeev Routray, "The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poor and the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi" (Stanford UP, 2022)
46 mins; October 13, 2022
P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
64 hours 7 mins; October 12, 2022
Sami Schalk, "Black Disability Politics" (Duke UP, 2022)
42 mins; October 12, 2022
M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
55 mins; October 10, 2022
Adam Elliott-Cooper, "Black Resistance to British Policing" (Manchester UP, 2021)
58 mins; October 05, 2022
Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
57 mins; October 05, 2022
Wendy Simonds, "Hospital Land USA: Sociological Adventures in Medicalization" (Routledge, 2016)
42 mins; September 28, 2022
Abigail Perkiss, "Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore" (Cornell UP, 2022)
34 mins; September 28, 2022
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
32 mins; September 22, 2022
Glenn W. Muschert et al., "Global Agenda for Social Justice 2" (Policy Press, 2022)
53 mins; September 21, 2022
Kenneth H. Kolb, "Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate" (U California Press, 2021)
38 mins; September 20, 2022
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
45 mins; September 14, 2022
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
45 mins; September 09, 2022
Josh Chin and Liza Lin, "Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
58 mins; September 09, 2022
Eric A. Posner, "How Antitrust Failed Workers" (Oxford UP, 2021)
39 mins; September 08, 2022
Survival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
51 mins; September 07, 2022
Kate Mangino, "Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home" (St. Martin’s Press, 2022)
65 hours 39 mins; September 07, 2022
Phillip B. Levine, "A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students—and Universities" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
49 mins; September 06, 2022
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