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Predatory publishing is a complex problem that harms a broad array of stakeholders and concerns acro
In this episode, host SEAC Director John Sidel talks with Dr Qingfei Yin, SEAC Associate and Assista
An interview with Dr. Mustapha Sheikh on his co-authored paper on alcohol, Islam and the ontic. Lear
Roots of Power: The Political Ecology of Boundary Plants (Routledge, 2023) tells five stories of pla
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical reco
In The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya (SUNY Press, 2024), Steven E. Lindquist investigates the interse
The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia
How is Yosemite National Park a microcosm for our warming, fire-driven, world? Arizona State Univers
A gripping history of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR--and still p
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should the
In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain
From the time he began recording with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s until his death in 2013, L
In Ruchama Feuerman's novel In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist (Open Road Media 2024), Isaac, a lonel
Our current culture seems to be increasingly divided on countless issues, including those affecting
Collateral was made in 2004, ten years after Speed—and while both films have the same story of a goo
Today I talked to Ewa Bacon about her book Saving Lives in Auschwitz: The Prisoners’ Hospital in Bun
After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Nor
The U.S. government's decades-long "war on drugs" is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as
In the 1950s, a schoolteacher named Carleen Hutchins attempted a revolution in how concert violins a
In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave
