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Book Review: What Works Now? Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice Edited by...
In What Works Now? Evidence-informed Policy and Practice, Annette Boaz, Huw Davies, Alec Fraser and Sandra Nutley offer both a synthesis and critique of the rapidly evolving field of evidence-informed...
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Book Review: The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s...
In The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change, Raewyn Connell provides a powerful and expansive critique of the current state of higher education at a...
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A Writer Has a Book Coming Out in Two Months
— Buy it on Amazon. Everything You Need to Know About Tana French Tana French has written seven novels, with an eighth due in October. There are important things they have in common. They’re superb....
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Confronting the Past and Present Reality of Black Dehumanization and...
How did we get here? Racial unrest across the country, a new virus crippling the nation’s health, an anemic economy, and extreme political divisions are shaking our democratic foundations. Elwood...
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All Things Geek Best Books 2020!
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10 Awesome LGBTQ Books You Should Actually Read
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A Man’s Field Guide to Marriage
Interview transcript provided by YouTube, edited by The Good Men Project: Timothy Wenger: Welcome, everybody. Timothy Wenger here from The Man Effect. Looking forward to introducing you to my friend...
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‘Talkin’ to You’ About Masculinity and Manhood in the 21st Century
James Baldwin, the 20th century intellectual and social critic, once observed: The American idea of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American idea of masculinity. This truism raises complex...
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Book Review: ‘Slaves for Peanuts’ Gets to the Troubling Roots of a Beloved Snack
By Malavika Vyawahare Journalist Jori Lewis’s “Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History,” tells the stories of “people that history forgets and the present...
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Tuning in to the World of Nonhuman Sound: Q&A With Author Karen Bakker
By John Cannon “The Sounds of Life” is a new book by University of British Columbia geography professor Karen Bakker that explores our understanding of nonhuman sound. Through the stories she has...
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10 Notable Books on Conservation and the Environment Published in 2022
By John Cannon The books on this year’s list center on some of the knottiest problems facing humanity, from climate change to biodiversity loss to the spillover of viruses from other species to humans....
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Comic Book Review — Blacula: Return of the King
Fans of horror comics, particularly vampire gothic horror, will find much to sink their teeth into in this full-color, original graphic novel that is based on 1972 vampire horror and...
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10 Notable Books on Conservation and the Environment Published in 2023
By John Cannon The 2023 books that made this year’s list at Mongabay center on the crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Most of the authors whose work is featured also ponder the role we...
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An Intoxicating People’s History of Australia
By Alex Salmon Knocking the top off: A people’s history of alcohol in Australia Edited by Alex Ettling and Iain McIntyre Featuring essays by: Wendy Bacon, Maggie Brady, Rowan Cahill, Bruce Carter,...
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A Graphic Journey Into Rojava’s Revolution and Resilience
By Andrew Chuter Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the war on ISIS By Janet Biehl PM Press, 2022 Their Blood Got Mixed is a graphic memoir through the heart of a remarkable experiment...
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From Prohibition to the Opioid Crisis
By Chris Slee Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge By Benjamin Yen Yi Fong London: Verso, 2023 264pp In the opening page of his 2023 book, Quick Fixes: Drugs in...
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How Australia Went From ‘Lucky Country’ to ‘Locked-up Country’ Under COVID-19
By Federico Fuentes The Locked–up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s COVID-19 Response By Tom Chodor and Shahar Hameiri University of Queensland Press, 2023 When Australians, many still...
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‘It’s Not the End of the World’ Book Assumptions & Omissions Spark Debate
By Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald The multiple crises the planet faces have solutions, says data scientist and head of research at Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie. How to implement them remains a...
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A ‘Completed Life’ Deserves a Dignified Ending
By Suzanne James A Completed Life By Dr Rodney Syme Melbourne: Dying With Dignity Victoria, 2023 When voluntary assisted dying campaigner Dr Rodney Syme passed away from a stroke in 2021 aged 86, he...
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From Protest Movements to Revolutionary Change
By Maree F Roberts If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution By Vincent Bevins Hachette, 2023 A question troubled journalist Vincent Bevins, as a resident of Brazil in the early...
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