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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
51 mins; March 30, 2020
Maurice Finocchiaro, "On Trial for Reason: Science, Religion, and Culture in the Galileo Affair" (Oxford UP, 2019)
64 hours 10 mins; March 26, 2020
Áine O'Healy, "Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame" (Indiana UP, 2019)
53 mins; March 20, 2020
Karima Moyer-Nocchi, "The Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
56 mins; March 19, 2020
The Origins of World War One
67 hours 54 mins; March 12, 2020
Justin Nystrom, "Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2018)
59 mins; March 05, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
42 mins; February 25, 2020
Robin Pickering-Iazzi, "Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018" (U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2019)
55 mins; February 14, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
36 mins; January 30, 2020
Barbara Spackman, "Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands" (Liverpool UP, 2017)
48 mins; January 06, 2020
Stephanie Malia Hom, "Empire's Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy's Crisis of Migration and Detention" (Cornell UP, 2019)
40 mins; December 31, 2019
The Treaty of Versailles One Hundred Years On
39 mins; December 27, 2019
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" (Harvard UP, 2019)
70 hours 35 mins; December 18, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
57 mins; December 03, 2019
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
54 mins; November 19, 2019
Mike Duncan, "The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic" (PublicAffairs, 2017)
83 hours 32 mins; November 19, 2019
Elena Past, "Italian Ecocinema: Beyond the Human" (Indiana UP, 2019)
65 hours 4 mins; November 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
37 mins; November 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
29 mins; October 24, 2019
Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
55 mins; October 01, 2019
Jeremy Black, "A Brief History of Italy" (Robinson, 2019)
58 mins; September 23, 2019
M. David Litwa, "How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths" (Yale UP, 2019)
61 hours 31 mins; August 19, 2019
Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)
65 hours 15 mins; July 31, 2019
William Caferro, "Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
59 mins; July 03, 2019
Anthony Kaldellis, "Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium" (Harvard UP, 2019)
49 mins; June 10, 2019
Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
53 mins; May 29, 2019
Adrian Goldsworthy, "Hadrian's Wall" (Basic Books, 2018)
56 mins; May 24, 2019
Jeremy Black, "The World at War, 1914-1945" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019)
51 mins; May 22, 2019
F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth in the 21st Century: The Diverging Cases of China and Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
41 mins; May 22, 2019
Richard Hingley, "Londinium: A Biography" (Routledge, 2018)
49 mins; April 18, 2019
Federico Varese, "Mafias on the Move: How Organized Crime Conquers New Territories" (Princeton UP, 2011)
39 mins; April 12, 2019
Kaeten Mistry, "The United States, Italy, and the Origins of Cold War: Waging Political Warfare" (Cambridge UP, 2014)
98 hours 8 mins; April 04, 2019
Christian Goeschel, "Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance" (Yale UP, 2018)
65 hours 15 mins; April 02, 2019
Geraldine Heng, "The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
61 hours 1 min; February 26, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
42 mins; January 25, 2019
Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism" (Routledge, 2017)
40 mins; January 04, 2019
Lorenzo Zamponi, “Social Movements, Memory and Media: Narrative in Action in the Italian and Spanish Student Movements” (Palgrave, 2018)
34 mins; September 25, 2018
Simon Levis Sullam, “The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
65 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2018
Naomi AndrĂ©, “Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
56 mins; August 08, 2018
Shira Klein, “Italy’s Jews From Emancipation to Fascism” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
56 mins; May 21, 2018
Donatella della Porta, “Legacies and Memories in Movements: Justice and Democracy in Southern Europe” (Oxford UP, 2018)
64 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2018
Joseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018)
61 hours 37 mins; May 08, 2018
John Gennari, “Flavor and Soul: Italian America and Its African American Edge” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
63 hours 3 mins; April 25, 2018
Sam White, “A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America” (Harvard UP, 2017)
52 mins; December 15, 2017
Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
44 mins; August 06, 2017
Gregory Reichberg, “Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
75 hours 44 mins; May 30, 2017
Samuele F.S. Pardini, “In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen” (Dartmouth, 2017)
99 hours 51 mins; April 26, 2017
Anna Harwell Celenza, “Jazz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
54 mins; April 10, 2017
Meredith K. Ray, “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
61 hours 10 mins; March 13, 2017
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
60 hours 26 mins; November 29, 2016
Federica Goffi, “Time Matter(s): Invention and Reimagination in Built Conservation” (Routledge, 2013)
50 mins; November 23, 2016
Marc Raboy, “Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
65 hours 24 mins; September 21, 2016
E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
54 mins; September 21, 2016
Michael Broer, “Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny” (Pegasus, 2015)
48 mins; May 13, 2016
Meredith K. Ray, “Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy” (Harvard UP, 2015)
61 hours 38 mins; July 08, 2015
Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
72 hours 25 mins; March 16, 2015
Ann C. Pizzorusso, “Tweeting Da Vinci” (Da Vinci Press, 2014)
67 hours 11 mins; February 18, 2015
Laura Morelli, “The Gondola Maker” (Laura Morelli, 2014)
43 mins; December 15, 2014
John Dickie, “Mafia Republic: Italy’s Criminal Curse” (Sceptre, 2014)
52 mins; July 01, 2014
Steven Hill, “Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age” (University of California Press, 2010)
51 mins; May 09, 2013
John Dickie, “Mafia Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias” (Septre, 2012)
49 mins; April 09, 2013
Simon Martin, “Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport” (I.B. Tauris, 2011)
53 mins; March 29, 2013
Sean Cocco, “Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
69 hours 36 mins; March 28, 2013
Janice Neri, “The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
67 hours 58 mins; December 13, 2012
Jennifer Guglielmo, “Living in Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City” (UNC Press, 2010)
65 hours 49 mins; October 10, 2012
Minsoo Kang, “Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination” (Harvard UP, 2011)
76 hours 22 mins; October 04, 2012
Philip Gounev, “Corruption and Organized Crime in Europe” (Taylor and Francis, 2012)
49 mins; May 10, 2012
Raymond Jonas, “The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire” (Harvard UP, 2011)
34 mins; May 01, 2012
Sarah Ross, “The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England” (Harvard UP, 2009)
66 hours 25 mins; December 11, 2009
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