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The Inside Carolina Podcast network features a wide range of current UNC sports topics, from game previews and instant postgame analysis, to recruiting breakdowns. IC’s stable of writers, insiders and analysts -- plus special guests -- comprise each program.
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Welcome to Conversations With UNC, THE WAKE AND BAKE SHOW . A weekly podcast to encourage people to always be greater than their circumstances. THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE ALL THE BULL SHIT STOPS!!!!
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Twelve30Music is dedicated to House music all year long. Deep, Electro, Progressive, Afro, Soulful; You name it, we mix it and then we master it. We are completely in the box with all the necessary software to give you the finished sound you're looking for. Established in 2019 by James(DJ UNC) Webb, a New Jersey based DJ(30+years)Twelve30Music supports House music, its creativity, originality and artistic value. Peace&madLove James(DJ UNC)Webb
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Breaking Tables | A Buffalo Bills Podcast
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A show for displaced die-hard Buffalo Bills fans created by a displaced die-hard Buffalo Bills fan. Warning, this is NOT your grandmother’s podcast! I offer jokes and sometimes false information, but my passion for the sport and team along with my unique creativity makes you forget that! Buckle up, because your eye and earholes about to be wet AF!
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Sports Focus, presented by WCHL and the UNC School of Media and Journalism, is dedicated to in-depth examinations of issues of overarching importance in the sports world. Each week we’ll discuss problems and look for solutions to problems in professional, collegiate and amateur sports hosted by UNC journalism professor Charlie Tuggle.
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J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Coast to Coast: Recruiting Deep Dive with Eric Bossi
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On a bye week edition of the Coast to Coast Podcast, the show format gets a bit of a tweak: while Sean Moran is away on assignment, Sherrell McMillan and Joey Powell are joined by 247 National Basketball Director, Eric Bossi to do a deep dive into Carolina hoops recruiting. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://…
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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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David S. Painter and Gregory Brew, "The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization challenged Great Britain's preeminence in the Middle East and threatened…
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Leadership School
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Ep. 56: College Tour: UNC-Wilmington, Dar Mayweather - Part 1
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Welcome to our college series kickoff! Have you ever wondered what is being taught about leadership at the collegiate level? That's something that this series is going to explore. Our first guest is Dar Mayweather. In our kickoff to this series we will be discussing: what leadership studies are different traits in leadership styles who takes leader…
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RUF at UNC
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Good News for our Dead Religion—Gal.1:11-2:15
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UNC Basketball: Mando gets his records- 2 more wins!
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Tar Heels take down State at home and Armando gets both of his records in that one and then travel to Syracuse and get a hard-fought win, especially for RJ, against the Orange! Next up is Pitt, then Duke! Let's talk about it all! As always, thanks for listening and Go Heels! Make sure to support the Podcast: Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: http://bit.…
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The Wolfpacker Podcast: NC State basketball vs. UNC reflections
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Matt Carter and Matt Coe discuss NC State basketball loss at North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy TheWolfpacker.com
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Valerie Tiberius, "What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money--or work for justice? To run marathons--or sing in a choir? To have children--or travel the world? The things we care about in life--family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals--often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don't always know w…
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. He traces the Qur'anic origins of the protection of Jews and oth…
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Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
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20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to speak on campus. Windows were smashed, arrests were made, the talk was cancelled. The fallout from that day defined how the school year proceeded, with heated council debates, media stunts, lawsuits, e…
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Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary sources in an approach that is both methodologically innovative and expansive in its cross-cultural and multi-religious sco…
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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In this panoramic and multifaceted book, Meir Bar-Asher examines how Jews and Judaism are depicted in the Qur'an and later Islamic literature, providing needed context to those passages critical of Jews that are most often invoked to divide Muslims and Jews or to promote Islamophobia. He traces the Qur'anic origins of the protection of Jews and oth…
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100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism
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What does it mean to be a hundred? Perhaps Fredric Nietzsche would know. He’s in part the star of the show. Along with regular guest Glenn Wallis. We look at the ideal reader, the ideal thinker, and perhaps the ideal practitioner. We discuss his work in progress, Nietzsche NOW! A book that wonders what Nietzsche would have to say about Wokeism. We …
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“Quintessence of Dust?”: Friendly Argument about God and Man
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Peter Hall is my old friend, a once-atheist who now calls himself an agnostic; we’ve known each other for fifteen years since we both taught English literature at an international school in Egypt. He and I talk through our hopes and doubts about God and man. It’s an episode that departs from the Almost Good Catholics model and it begins with me exp…
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge, and why specifically at that time? In The Origins of…
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Clare Forstie, "Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Drag shows that test the capacity of bars persist alongside wishes for stronger community among River City's LGBTQ population. In this examination of LGBTQ community in a small, Midwestern city, Clare Forstie highlights the ambivalence of LGBTQ lives in the rural Midwest. Drawing on in-depth interviews, ethnographic research, and friendship mapping…
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Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples, volunteer as English teachers, discuss Buddhism with student monks, and experiment with meditation. In her new book, Religious Tourism in Northern Thailan…
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Inventing American Telecommunications
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Historian Richard John, professor of journalism at Columbia University, talks about his book, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. Network Nation is a history of the telegraph and telephone in the United States, and one of its key findings is that, from the very beginning of these technologi…
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Meir M. Bar-Asher, "Jews and the Qur'an" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
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Discordia Revisited: The Concordia Netanyahu Riot of 2002
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20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to speak on campus. Windows were smashed, arrests were made, the talk was cancelled. The fallout from that day defined how the school year proceeded, with heated council debates, media stunts, lawsuits, e…
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New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge, and why specifically at that time? In The Origins of…
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The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit: A Conversation with Ian Morris
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How did Britain become a global superpower? Historian and classicist Ian Morris thinks geography has a lot to do with it. Prof. Morris discusses his latest book, Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000 Year History (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022) which traces the long history of Britain's complex relationship with the European conti…
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Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the practices and prohibitions legislated by the Torah: dietary laws, ritual purity, circumcision, Sabbath regulations, holidays, and more. But precisely when did this unique way of life first emerge, and why specifically at that time? In The Origins of…
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Inventing American Telecommunications
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Derrick Darby, "A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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In the United States, unjust disparities in things like income, opportunity, health, safety, and education tightly track racial categorizations of the US population. An intuitive approach to social justice calls us to look to the sites of the greatest disadvantage, and take measures aimed at relieving them. This approach favors “race specific” poli…
We live in a time of anger. Yet most of us feel guilty for getting angry, wishing we could stay calm and turn the other cheek. But though anger can never be fully morally pure, we still need it because it alerts us to injustice and catalyzes change. Guests: Agnes Callard is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago and a col…
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Robert O'Mochain and Yuki Ueno, "Sexual Abuse and Education in Japan: In the (Inter)National Shadows" (Routledge, 2022)
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Bringing together two voices, practice and theory, in a collaboration that emerges from lived experience and structured reflection upon that experience, O'Mochain and Ueno show how entrenched discursive forces exert immense influence in Japanese society and how they might be most effectively challenged. With a psychosocial framework that draws insi…
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The 10,000 Year Build-Up to Brexit: A Conversation with Ian Morris
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Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch, "How Cities Can Transform Democracy" (Polity Press, 2022)
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We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This incisive book argues that urbanization undermines est…
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Brew Talk Archives - 1310 KFKA
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January 31 – Vicious Cycle Brewing and Crooked Stave Brewing
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The table beers are a myriad of beers from Vicious Cycle Brewing and the review beer is Hazelnut Macchiato Stout from Crooked Stave Brewing.By Brew Talk Archives - 1310 KFKA
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Radio Rumi Program 60: The Harmonious Interrelation That Is Life
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I start this program with a quote from a modern Western philosopher about the interconnection of all life everywhere. Comparing his view with that of a medieval Persian Sufi, I then share with you Hafiz and Rumi's poetic expressions of the same idea: life as a harmonious interrelation.
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Tax Chats
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Tax Credit Markets: A Chat with Bryen Alperin
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Scott and Jeff chat with Bryen Alperin about tax credit markets. It is often the case that a company that might earn a tax credit can't use it because it has insufficient income. This creates an opportunity for multilateral tax planning, wherein institutions with large tax bills partner with entities that generate tax credits to take take advantage…
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Holding Court with Courtney Banghart Presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina — Jan. 31, 2023
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Join Carolina Women's Basketball Head Coach Courtney Banghart and host Matt Krause for the Jan. 31, 2023 edition of Holding Court with Courtney Banghart, presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina! On this edition of the show, the duo recaps another 2-0 week by the Tar Heels, highlighted by the debut of Kayla McPherson and a huge per…
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New Books in Environmental Studies
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J. Brent Morris, "Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp" (UNC Press, 2022)
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The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who so…
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Walking the Via Dolorosa: An Archaeologist Follows Jesus from His Trial to His Crucifixion
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Archaeologist Ilka Knüppel discusses her master's thesis—The Search for Jesus's Final Steps: How Archaeological and Literary Evidence Reroutes the Via Dolorosa—and how she came to write it. To use both ‘archaeological and literary evidence’ requires digging in both the earth and in books, and to ‘reroute’ the Via Dolorosa reveals that many of the t…
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Out of TIme: Sacred Time and 'Time is Money'
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Many of the earliest time technologies were used to mark sacred time -- time set apart for the divine. But with the Industrial Revolution, efficient time use became its own sacred value. We now live in the age of capitalist time, where time is money and must be spent as productively as possible. As we struggle with a global pandemic, it’s time to r…
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C. P. Lesley, "Song of the Storyteller" (Five Directions Press, 2023)
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Today I talked to C. P. Lesley about Song of the Storyteller (Five Directions Press, 2023). It’s 1546, and Ivan the Terrible is about to be coronated and married off. Government nobles are given 6 weeks to choose the most beautiful, highborn, fertile, and politically expedient brides from around the country. Before Tsar Ivan makes his choice, 16-ye…
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Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful administrative and military apparatus. In Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2022), Gregory Brew o…
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War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
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Nicole Archambeau, associate professor of history at Colorado State University, talks about her book, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence (Cornell University Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of succe…
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Andrea Dara Cooper, "Gendering Modern Jewish Thought" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana UP, 2021), Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that challenges the key figures of the all-male fraternity of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy to open up to the feminine. Coop…
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David Newheiser, "The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics (University of Chicago Press, 2022), edited by Professor David Newheiser reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the be…
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War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
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Nicole Archambeau, associate professor of history at Colorado State University, talks about her book, Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence (Cornell University Press), with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of succe…
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Arthur Keefer, "Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Is the search for meaning a luxury of the modern world or have human beings always struggled to find meaning in the human condition – in the face of suffering, injustice and the finality of life? In Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life in the Ancient World (Cambridge UP, 2022), Arthur Keefer offers a timely assessment of Ecclesiastes and what it ha…
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Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful administrative and military apparatus. In Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2022), Gregory Brew o…
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Greg Brew, "Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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From the 1940s to 1960s, Iran developed into the world's first “petro-state,” where oil represented the bulk of state revenue and supported an industrializing economy, expanding middle class, and powerful administrative and military apparatus. In Petroleum and Progress in Iran: Oil, Development, and the Cold War (Cambridge UP, 2022), Gregory Brew o…
Over six million prime-age men are neither working nor looking for work; America's low unemployment rate hides the fact that many men have dropped out of the workforce altogether. Our workforce participation rate is on par with that seen during the Great Depression. Why does this problem affect men so acutely? Why is it so specific to America? What…
