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Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutuall
Old Delhi's Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge UP, 2024) looks at Old Delhi's Daryaganj Sunday Book Mar
Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday
What skills and strategies enable civil society to be effective under authoritarian rule? Dr. Runya
In All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 (Pegasus Book
In 1997, a group of white pro-life evangelical Christians in the United States created the nation’s
We recently marked the 50th Anniversary of Terry vs. Ohio, the US Supreme Court case that dramatical
In the contemporary world, political violence has been an unavoidable issue for everyone. It is ther
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in So
How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces
What is the future of classical music? In The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of '
In Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism (Routledge, 2024), Michael J.
Francesco Piraino’s Sufism in Europe: Islam, Esotericism and the New Age (University of Edinburgh Pr
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can becom
For most of recorded history, neighboring countries, tribes, and peoples everywhere in the world reg
An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places suppo
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative History (Cambridge UP, 2019) offers the first, in
What is it about Times Square that has inspired such attention for well over a century? And how is i
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and
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