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Why You Should Advertise on the New Books Network

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The Power of Impeachment | Keith Whittington

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“Who Is Really Sick” in Britain? | Gareth Millward

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Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? | Anneli Jefferson

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Who Should The Government Help? | Anne M. Whitesell

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The History of Foreskin | Jonathan A. Allan

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Why Can’t the US Compete with China in Infrastructure?

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In this episode, Dr. Shahar Hameiri and Dr. Lee Jones discuss the political economy and financing behind global infrastructure development, with a focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The discussion explores the driving forces behind Chinese infrastructure investment, while addressing the crucial question of why American and European initiatives such as Global Gateway and the Program for Global Infrastructure and Investment struggle to compete with the BRI. We discuss dynamics of public and private finance, the role of public-private partnerships, and the challenges private investors face. Impor...

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Why You Should Advertise on the New Books Network

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Why You Should Advertise on the New Books Network

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The Power of Impeachment | Keith Whittington

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The Power of Impeachment | Keith Whittington

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) In this week’s episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool (bookshop.org/a/12343/9780691265391) (Princeton UP, 2024), we explored the historical and constitutional dimensions of impeachm...

“Who Is Really Sick” in Britain? | Gareth Millward

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“Who Is Really Sick” in Britain? | Gareth Millward

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) Sick Note: A History of the British Welfare State (bookshop.org/a/12343/9780192865748) (Oxford UP, 2022) is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians,...

Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? | Anneli Jefferson

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Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders? | Anneli Jefferson

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While recent work in neuroscience frequently tries to identify underlying brain dysfunction in mental disorders, detractors ...

Who Should The Government Help? | Anne M. Whitesell

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Who Should The Government Help? | Anne M. Whitesell

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) Who deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up this timely debate, showing us how our welfare system, in its current state, fails the people ...

The History of Foreskin | Jonathan A. Allan

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The History of Foreskin | Jonathan A. Allan

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) The “uncut” penis is viewed by some as attractive or erotic, and by others as ugly or undesirable. Secular parents of male infants worry about whether or not the foreskin should be removed so their little boy can grow up to “look like dad” or to avoid imagined bullying in the locker room. Medical experts and pub...

The Humanity of Science and Religion | Nicholas Spencer

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The Humanity of Science and Religion | Nicholas Spencer

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific rev...

A History of Finance From Barter to Bitcoin | Dariusz Wojcik et a

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A History of Finance From Barter to Bitcoin | Dariusz Wojcik et a

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today’s interconnected landscape of high-frequency trading and cryptocurrency, the story of finance has always taken place on an international stage. Finance is one of the most globalized and networked of human activities, and one of the most important social t...

How the Rich Misrepresent the Poor | Lennard J. Davis

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How the Rich Misrepresent the Poor | Lennard J. Davis

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) For generations most of the canonical works that detail the lives of poor people have been created by rich or middle-class writers like Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck, or James Agee. This has resulted in overwhelming depictions of poor people as living abject, violent lives in filthy and degrading conditions. I...

From Medieval Faith to Modern Doubt | Peter Harrison

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From Medieval Faith to Modern Doubt | Peter Harrison

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) In his famous argument against miracles, David Hume gets to the heart of the modern problem of supernatural belief. 'We are apt', says Hume, 'to imagine ourselves transported into some new world; where the whole form of nature is disjointed, and every element performs its operation in a different manner, from wh...

Unpacking Augustine’s Views on Slavery | Toni Alimi

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Unpacking Augustine’s Views on Slavery | Toni Alimi

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) Augustine believed that slavery is permissible, but to understand why, we must situate him in his late antique Roman intellectual context. Slaves of God: Augustine and Other Romans on Religion and Politics (bookshop.org/a/12343/9780691244235) (Princeton UP, 2024) provides a major reassessment of this monumental ...

What Ancestry Tests Really Reveal | Kostas Kampourakis

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What Ancestry Tests Really Reveal | Kostas Kampourakis

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) Recent social and political psychological research indicates that increased access to ancestry testing has strengthened the notion of genetic essentialism among some groups, or the idea that our biology ties us to particular ethnic identities. This can boost a sense of cultural pride and prosocial behaviors amon...

Rock 'n' Roll Meets Hollywood | Landon Palmer

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Rock 'n' Roll Meets Hollywood | Landon Palmer

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock 'n' roll stars. Rock stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their c...

Scandal and Triumph in Soviet Football | Larry E. Holmes

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Scandal and Triumph in Soviet Football | Larry E. Holmes

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For over 25,000 interviews visit our new and improved website (newbooksnetwork.com) In Win or Else: Soviet Football in Moscow and Beyond, 1921-1985 (bookshop.org/a/12343/9780253069634) (Indiana University Press, 2024), Larry E. Holmes shows us how Soviet football culture regularly disregarded official ideological and political imperatives and skirted the boundaries between socialism and capital...