New Books Network
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Discussions with Authors about their New Books
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Alon Peled, “Traversing Digital Babel: Information, E-Government, and Exchange” | Failure by government agencies to share information has had disastrous results globally. From the inability to prevent terrorist attacks, like the 9-11 attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania, to the ill-equipped and ill-fated re[...] | 11/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Joan Kee, “Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method” | Joan Kee’s new book is a gorgeous and thoughtful introduction to the history of contemporary art in Korea. Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) traces the creation, promotion, reception,[... | 11/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Edward E. Andrews, “Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World” | Often when we think of missions to Native Americans or people of African descent, we think of white missionaries. In his book Native Apostles: Black and Indian Missionaries in the British Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2013), Dr. Edward E[... | 11/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Olufemi Taiwo, “Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto” | Olufemi Taiwo’s unremittingly honest and daring book, Africa Must be Modern: A Manifesto (Indiana University Press, 2014), confronts the reluctance, if not outright hostility, of many Africans to embrace modernity. He shows how this hostility has st[... | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ethan Zuckerman, “Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection” | In the early days of the Internet, optimists saw the future as highly connected, where voices from across the globe would mingle and learn from one another as never before. However, as Ethan Zuckerman argues in Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the [...] | 11/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kirsten Weld, “Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala” | Kirsten Weld‘s book Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Duke University Press, 2014) tells the story of the 2005 discovery of a vast police archive in Guatemala. Officials had long denied that it existed, and for good re[...] | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Marisol Sandoval, “From Corporate to Social Media: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in Media and Comm | What would a truly ‘social’ social media look like? This is the core question of From Corporate to Social Media: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility in Media and Communication Industries (Routledge, 2014), the new b[...] | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn, eds., “Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future” | Before Apollo 11, there was Jules Verne’s novel From the Earth to the Moon. Before the Internet, there was Mark Twain’s short story From the ‘London Times’ of 1904. In other words, before the appearance of many spectacular technologies, [...] | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nadine Hubbs, “Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music” | Academics don’t pay enough attention to class. And when we do, too often we only magnify the tendency for working class subjects to be defined according to middle class norms; and according to those norms, they, not surprisingly, fail in one [...] | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Cook, “Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective” | Michael Cook, a widely-respected historian and scholar of Islam begins his book with a question that everyone seems to be asking these days: is Islam uniquely violent or uniquely political? Why does Islam seem to play a larger role in contemporary p[...] | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lawrence Lipking, “What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution” | Lawrence Lipking’s new book, What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2014) examines the role of imagination and creativity in the seventeenth century developments that have come to be known as the Scientific [. | 11/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |