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Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, author of "Real Food, Real Facts"
Oct 02 2024
In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real Food, Real Facts offers lessons that extend well beyond food choice and will appeal to readers interested in how everyday people come to accept or reject scientific authority in matters of personal health and well-being.
Read MoreAn interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
Oct 01 2024
The "Ben Cao Gang Mu" brings together ancient medicine, wisdom, and culture. German scholar and translator Paul U. Unschuld explains why it remains a crucial text — revealing the culture that underlies Chinese health care and politics.
Read MoreCelebrate National Honey Month with an exclusive author event
Sep 25 2024
To celebrate National Honey Month, pre-order THE WORLD ATLAS OF HONEY and receive an exclusive invite with author C. Marina Marchese.
Read MoreThe Climate Crisis and Eroding Public Beach Access: A Q&A with Kara Murphy Schlichting, winner of the 2024 Forest History Society's Blegen Article Award
Sep 23 2024
Malibu's Broad Beach is backed by some of the most expensive, exclusive real estate in Los Angeles County and is a bellwether for how California coastal communities address the tension between public access and private development in the face of the climate crisis and sea level rise.
Read MoreAs renewable energy demand rises, mining for minerals in the Amazon is at a critical point
Sep 20 2024
Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon. In recent years, these illegal miners, who are often self-employed, mobile and working covertly, have expanded their gold mining operations to include cassiterite or “black gold”, a critical mineral essential for the renewable energy transition.
Read MoreHearing While Deaf: Beethoven, Helen Keller, and the Ninth Symphony
Sep 19 2024
The story of Ludwig van Beethoven’s confronting his growing deafness as he continued to compose and conduct has always provided special inspiration for me that transcends his music. Whenever I listen to his compositions, I hear more than notes exquisitely written and performed. I hear the voice of a fellow human being who is overcoming trauma, adversity and fear through his art, whispering to me not to despair, but like him, to make the most of what I have while I can in my own way.
Read MoreSix decades of indie documentary storytelling chronicled in "Kartemquin Films"
Sep 16 2024
For decades, our own Patricia Aufderheide—who founded this organization’s precursor, the Center for Social Media—has chronicled, studied, and impacted the global community of documentary storytellers who seek to speak truth to power and uphold democracy. In her new book, Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy (University of California Press), she brings readers into the six-decade history and living story of the longest-running independent documentary production organization in the United States, Kartemquin Films.
Read MoreRest in Peace, Darlene
Sep 06 2024
“The tough-looking blonde over there,” is how Darlene was described to us nearly fifteen years ago when we launched our ongoing project with formerly incarcerated women in Massachusetts. Our first conversation was brief; her words were clipped. She gave the impression that she was annoyed, that she was in a hurry to go somewhere important.
Read MoreRewriting the story of horses and human history
Sep 05 2024
Archaeologist William T. Taylor shares a behind-the-scenes tour of the fieldwork and discoveries that inspired HOOF BEATS, a new book that explores how horses forever altered the course of human history.
Read MoreQ&A with Stephanie L. Canizales, author of Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Sep 04 2024
First-gen scholar and author Stephanie L. Canizales discusses the inspiring stories of the migrant youth at the center of her work, the research and writing process for Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and how to better support first-gen scholars.
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