What Wellesley's Reading
by Wellesley Faculty
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Description
Listen as Wellesley College faculty introduce you each week during the fall and spring semesters to a book that they're passionate about in their field, and then read a brief passage to whet your appetite. The books might be little-known literary gems, beloved classics, scenes from plays, recent provocative essays, poems, thought-provoking analyses of current social issues, biographies, or many other literary forms. Take a few minutes to explore the books that captivate Wellesley faculty.
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Talking to Ourselves | Inela Selimovic reads from Talking to Ourselves, by Andres Neumann, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2012. | 10/19/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Writing Down the Bones | Nadya Hajj reads from Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, by Natalie Goldberg, published by Shambhala in 1986. | 9/28/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sensational Flesh | Octavio Gonzalez reads from Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism, by Amber Jamilla Musser, published by NYU Press in 2014. | 10/5/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Your Inner Fish | Yui Suzuki reads from Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin, published by Pantheon in 2008. | 9/21/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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H is for Hawk | Erich Matthes reads from H Is For Hawk by Helen MacDonald, published by Grove Press in 2015. | 9/14/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Poor Economics | Kartini Shastry reads from Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, published by Public Affairs in 2011. | 9/7/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States | Susan Ellison reads from Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States by Audra Simpson, published by Duke University Press in 2014. | 5/4/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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For More than One Voice | Francesca Southerden reads from For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression by Adriana Cavarero, published by Stanford University Press in 2005. | 4/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gabriel | Catherine Masson reads from Gabriel by George Sand, translated by Kathleen Robin Hart and Paul Fenouillet and published by Modern Language Association of America. | 4/20/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Secret Language of Color | Marcy Thomas reads from The Secret Language of Color by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut, published by Black Dog & Leventhal. | 4/13/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Fires of Vesuvius | Kimberly Cassibry reads from The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found, by Mary Beard, published by Belknap Press. | 4/6/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parting with Illusions | Igor Logvinenko reads from Parting With Illusions, by Vladimir Pozner, published by The Atlantic Monthly Press. | 3/30/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Hydrogen: The Essential Element | George Caplan reads from Hydrogen: The Essential Element, by John Rigden published by Harvard University Press. | 3/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On the Nature of Things | Corinne Gartner reads from Lucretius' On the Nature of Things from The Hellenistic Philosophers, Volume 1, by A.A. Long and D.N. Sedately, published by Cambridge University Press. | 3/8/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America | Kyung Park reads from The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, by Khalili Gibran Muhammad, published by Harvard University Press. | 3/2/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable | Vanja Klepac-Ceraj reads from Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul Falkowski, published by Princeton University Press. | 2/24/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Fire Next Time | Brenna Greer reads from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, published by The Dial Press. | 2/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity among Chinese Americans | Stephen Chen reads from Compelled to Excel: Immigration, Education, and Opportunity among Chinese Americans by Vivian Louie Baldwin, published by Stanford University Press. | 2/10/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Diamond Age | Eni Mustafaraj reads from The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson, published by Bantam Spectra. | 2/3/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Cord Whitaker reads from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage and published by W. W. Norton. | 1/27/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Politics and Conscience | Tom Cushman reads from the essay Politics and Conscience by Václav Havel, collected in Open Letters: Selected Writings 1965-1990, published by Vintage. | 12/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Woman Who Defends all the Persons of her Sex | Julie Walsh reads from A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex by Gabrielle Suchon, translated by Domna C. Stanton and Rebecca M. Wilkin and published by University of Chicago Press. | 11/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre | Simon Grote reads from Letter to M. D'Alembert on the Theatre by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published by Cornell University Press. | 11/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Stuff of Thought | Shiao Wei Tham reads from The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker, published by Penguin Books. | 11/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wicked Bugs | Heather Mattila reads from Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart, published by Algonquin Books. | 10/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Luminous Heart of Jonah S | Yu Jin Ko reads from The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. by Gina Nahai, published by Akashic Books. | 10/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers | Christen Deveney reads from Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky, published by Holt Paperbacks. | 10/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Desert Solitaire | Ben Wood reads from Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey, published by Ballantine Books. | 10/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South | Dan Fetter reads from Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South by Gavin Wright, published by Belknap Press. | 9/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gaviotas - A Village to Reinvent the World | Amy Banzaert reads from Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the Word by Alan Weisman, published by Chelsea Green Publishing. | 9/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Artificial Silk Girl | Anjeana Hans reads from The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun, translated by Kathie von Ankum and published by Other Press. | 9/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Down the Rabbit Hole | Nancy Hall reads from Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos, published by FSG Originals. | 5/6/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Triumph of the City | Pinar Keskin reads from Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser, published by Penguin. | 4/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Defence of Poetry | Yoon Sun Lee reads from A Defense of Poetry by Percy Shelley, collected in the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. | 4/22/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Blind Watchmaker | David Ellerby reads from The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins, published by W.W. Norton and Company. | 4/15/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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#Accelerate - The Accelerationist Reader | Nicholas Knouf reads from #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, edited by Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, published by Urbanomic. | 4/9/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love | Paul Wink reads from My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love, by Karl Ove Knausgaard published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | 4/2/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Alan Turing: The Enigma | Karen Lange reads from Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges, published by Princeton University Press. | 3/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images | Lamia Balafrej reads from The Cognitive Work of Images by Barbara Stafford, published by the University of Chicago Press. | 3/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The World Until Yesterday | Angela Carpenter reads from The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?, by Jared Diamond, published by Viking Adult. | 3/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Eighth Day of Creation | Kaye Peterman reads from The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology by Horace Freeland Judson, published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. | 2/25/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh | Guy Rogers reads from The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Andrew George and published by the Folio Society. | 2/18/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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History of the Peloponnesian War | Paul MacDonald reads from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. "Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources...Let not this be the case with you, who are weak and hang on a single turn of the scale." | 2/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Where Good Ideas Come From | Michael Hearn reads from Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson, published by Riverhead. "The work of dreams turns out to be a particularly chaotic, yet productive, way of exploring the adjacent possible." | 2/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Death and the Afterlife | Helena de Bres reads from Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler, published by Oxford University Press. "...The existence of the [collective] afterlife matters more to us than our own continued existence." | 1/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Bridge of the Golden Horn | Quinn Slobodian reads from The Bridge of the Golden Horn by Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, published by Serpent's Tail. "It was about words. All the students had big ears, because they heard every word and, like surgeons, immediately dissected them." | 12/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity | Andy Schultz reads from The Man Who Knew Infinity, by Robert Kanigel, published by Scribner. | 11/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Thinking Fast and Slow | Margery Lucas reads from Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "...people who are simultaneously challenged by a demanding cognitive task and by a temptation are more likely to yield to the temptation." | 11/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens | Jennifer Musto reads from It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens by Danah Boyd, published by Yale University Press. "Teens do think through the social cost to what they post, but they don’t always get it right." | 11/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Images in Spite of All | Codruta Morari reads from Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz by Georges Didi-Huberman, published by The University of Chicago Press. | 9/24/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Why Evolution is True | Andrea Sequeira reads from Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne, published by Viking. | 10/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought | Miya Woolfalk reads from Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought by Melissa Harris-Lacewell, published by Princeton University Press. | 10/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Invisible Man | Nikki Greene reads from Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, published by The Modern Library. | 10/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History | Megan Nunez reads from Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History, by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson, published by Tarcher. | 10/8/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India | Smitha Radhakrishnan reads from Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism Through Seven Lives in India, by the Sangitin Writers, published by University of Minnesota Press. | 10/1/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America | Michael Jeffries reads from How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, by Kiese Laymon, published by Agate Bolden. | 9/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics | James Battat reads from The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics, by Robert Kanigel, published by Scribner. | 9/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Capital in the 21st Century | Casey Rothschild reads from Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty, published by Belknap Press. | 9/10/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence | Sarah Wall-Randell reads from Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence, by Geoff Dyer, published by Picador. | 9/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People | Angela Bahns reads from Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwal, published by Delacorte Press. | 5/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America | Connie Bauman reads from The Changing Face of Medicine: Women Doctors and the Evolution of Health Care in America by Ann K. Boulis and Jerry A. Jacobs, published by ILR Press. | 4/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Queer Times, Queer Assemblages | Sima Shakhsari reads from Queer Times, Queer Assemblages by Jasbir Puar, collected in the Routledge Queer Studies Reader, edited by Donal Hall and Annamarie Jagose. | 4/23/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Bend in the River | Peggy Levitt reads from A Bend in the RIver, by V.S. Naipaul, published by Knopf. | 4/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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JavaScript - The Good Parts | Scott Anderson reads from JavaScript - The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford, published by O'Reilly Media. | 4/9/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Tale of Genji | Carolyn Morley reads from The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, translated by Royall Tyler, published by Penguin Classics. | 4/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality | Kristin Butcher reads from The Great Escape: Health, Welfare, and the Origins of Inequality, by Angus Deaton, published by Princeton University Press. | 3/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life | Nick Doe reads from The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, by Parker J. Palmer, published by John Wiley & Sons. | 3/19/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Middlemarch | Lisa Rodensky reads from Middlemarch by George Eliot, published by Oxford University Press. | 3/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Navigating Environmental Attitudes | Beth DeSombre reads from Navigating Environmental Attitudes, by Thomas A. Heberlein, published by Oxford. "The student assumed that people used plastic-foam cups simply because they did not know or care about the environmental damages..." | 3/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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1Q84 | Ismar Volic reads from 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, published by Knopf. "In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math." | 2/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Lost Chalice: The Real-Life Chase for One of the World's Rarest Masterpieces | Bryan Burns reads from The Lost Chalice by Vernon Silver, published by William Morrow. "The entire front cover of the New York Times Magazine was a color photograph of the vase. [Euphronios'] Sarpedon practically bled onto brunch tables…" | 2/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia | Robbin Chapman reads from Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia, edited by Gutierrez y Muhs, Niemann, Gonzalez, and Harris, and published by Utah State University Press. | 2/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival | Marianne Moore reads from The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant, published by Random House. | 1/29/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom | Ryan Quintana reads from River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empires in the Cotton Kingdom, by Walter Johnson, published by Harvard University Press. | 12/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Don Quixote | Jill Syverson-Stork reads from Don Quixote, by Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman, published by Harper Collins. | 11/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dance for Two: Essays | Mala Radhakrishnan reads from Dances for Two: Essays by Alan Lightman, published by Random House. "Science offers little comfort to anyone who aches to leave behind a personal message in his work, his own little poem or haunting sonata." | 11/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris | Venita Datta reads from The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough, published by Simon and Schuster. | 11/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Democracy in America | Tom Burke reads from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, translated by George Lawrence, edited by J.P. Mayer, and published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics. | 10/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Evolving the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Conciousness | Mike Wiest reads from Evolving the Mind: On the Nature of Matter and the Origin of Consciousness by Graham Cairns-Smith, published by Cambridge University Press. | 10/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe | Sharon Elkins reads from Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe, by Ana Castillo, published by Riverhead Books. | 10/16/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Theodore Rex | Eric Hilt reads from Theodore Rex, by Edmond Morris, published by Random House. | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water | Alden Griffith reads from Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner, published by Penguin Books. | 10/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Music and the Ineffable | Gurminder Bhogal reads from Music and the Ineffable, by Vladimir Jankélévitch, published by Harvard University Press. "The wrenching cry heard here and there in Ravel's music: is this not the most unmediated expression of pain and terror?" | 9/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World | Linda Carli reads from Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World, by Cecilia Ridgeway, published by Oxford University Press. | 9/18/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It | Fred Shultz reads from The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It, by Scott Patterson, published by William Morrow. | 9/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Kristin Lavransdatter | Marilyn Sides reads from Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Unset, translated by Tiina Nunnally, published by Penguin. | 9/4/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead | Dan Sichel reads from After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan Blinder, published by Penguin. | 5/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics | Deborah Matzner reads from Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics by Amahl Bishara, published by Stanford University Press. | 5/1/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ethics | Eugene Marshall reads from Spinoza's Ethics, translated by Edwin Curley, published by Penguin Classics. "I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a question of lines planes and bodies." | 4/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context | Barbara Geller reads from Rediscovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context, by Carol Meyers, published by Oxford University Press. | 4/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Works and Days | Kate Gilhuly reads the story of Pandora from Works and Days by Hesiod, translated by Stanley Lombardo, published by Hackett. | 4/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality | Martina Koniger reads from Long for This World, by Jonathan Weiner, published by Ecco. "The problem of longevity is a deep problem....to do anything fundamental about it, you first have to answer the questions: What makes us mortal? Why do we die?" | 4/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dreaming in French: The Paris Years Of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, And Angela Davis | Barry Lydgate reads from Dreaming in French by Alice Kaplan, published by University of Chicago Press. "…The year in Paris changed their relationship to their bodies, to their words, and strengthened their sense of being in the world." | 3/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emilie's Voice | Claire Fontijn reads from Emilie's Voice by Susanne Dunlap, published by Touchstone. "When she gave herself to the music, when she let it take her over, she became a vessel for something beyond the notes themselves." | 3/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War | Lauri Wardell reads from AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by Tom McNichol, published by Jossey-Bass. | 3/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Political Economy of Violence Against Women | Catia Confortini reads from The Political Economy of Violence Against Women by Jacqui True, published by Oxford University Press. | 2/27/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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All the King's Men | Tim Peltason reads from All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, published by Harcourt Brace. | 2/20/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form | Alex Diesl reads a selection from The Mathematician's Lament, written by Paul Lockhart and published by Bellevue Literary Press. "Math is not about following directions, it's about making new directions." | 2/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Blizzard | Alla Epsteyn reads from The Blizzard, a short story by Aleksander Pushkin, first published in 1831. This translation by Paul Deborah Janey can be found in Aleksander Pushkin: Complete Prose Fiction, published in 1983 by Stanford University Press. | 2/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Martian Chronicles: And The Moon Be Still As Bright | Wes Watters reads from The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, published by Simon & Schuster. "And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth?" | 1/30/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns | Hahrie Han reads a selection from Ground Wars by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, published by Princeton University Press. | 12/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Predictably Irrational | Olga Shurchkov reads an excerpt from Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, published by Harper. | 11/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Marble Faun | Jacki Musacchio reads from The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1860. | 11/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli | Carlos Ramos reads an excerpt from Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food, written by Colman Andrews and published by Gotham. | 11/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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e: The Story of a Number | Alan Shuchat reads an excerpt from e The Story of a Number by Kevin Kelly, published by Princeton University Press. | 10/31/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Fugitive Pieces | Lidwien Kapteijns reads from Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels, published by Vintage. | 10/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I Am, The Poetry of John Clare | Alison Hickey reads the poem The Nightingale's Nest from I Am: The Selected Poetry of John Clare, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. | 10/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Radiation and Modern Life | Chris Arumainayagam reads from Radiation and Modern Life, published by Prometheus. | 10/10/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Stat-Spotting | Joe Swingle reads a selection from Stat-Spotting by Joel Best, published by University of California Press. "A good first question is, who produced this figure? That is, who did the counting - and why?" | 10/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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On B******t | Adam Schwartz reads an excerpt from On B******t by Harry Frankfurt, published by Princeton University Press. | 9/26/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Name of the Rose | David Ward reads from The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver. | 9/19/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Tucker Crum reads selections from The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. | 9/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Speak, Memory | Jenny Johnson reads a selection from Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov. "The long 'a' of the English alphabet…has for me the tint of weathered wood, but a French 'a' evokes polished ebony." | 9/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! | Robbie Berg reads Richard Feynman's memoir, published by W.W. Norton. "He kept telling everybody what a tremendous genius I was, saying, 'He fixes radios by thinking!'" | 5/9/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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China Marches West | Pat Giersch reads from China Marches West by Peter C. Perdue, published by Belknap Press. "This book joins a growing body of work that finds China and Western Europe sharing broad similarities in the eighteenth century." | 5/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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American Prophecy | Laura Grattan reads an excerpt from American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture by George Shulman. "Because the danger is great, it is tempting to split good and bad forms of prophecy..." | 4/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Eucalyptus | Nick Rodenhouse reads an excerpt from Eucalyptus by Murray Bail. "Anyway, don’t you think the compliant pine is associated with numbers, geometry, the majority, whereas the eucalypt stands apart, solitary, essentially undemocratic?" | 4/11/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Ill Fares the Land | Stephen Marini reads an excerpt from Ill Fares The Land by Tony Judt. "This is not only a book of historical interpretation […] it is more importantly a call to moral advocacy and action for all who believe in the common good..." | 4/4/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read | Scott Gunther reads How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard. "There’s ... social pressure to say we’ve read a book if we’re going to talk about it, but Bayard encourages us to acknowledge without shame the many books we haven’t | 3/28/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Answer | Evelina Guzauskyte from The Answer by Juana Inés de la Cruz, translated by Electa Arenal and Amanda Powell. "…One can philosophize quite well while preparing supper. I often say...'Had Aristotle cooked, he would have written a great deal more.'" | 3/21/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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I Want to Be a Mathematician | Marty Magid reads I Want to Be a Mathematician by Paul Hamos. "One of the chapters is "How to Do Almost Anything." There are short essays on how to write a recommendation, how to be a chairman, how not to be a chairman, and […] how to do research..." | 3/14/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Small Wonder | Barbara Beatty reads Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory by Jonathan Zimmerman. "Today, almost nobody [attends a one-room school]. But images of the little red schoolhouse ... are ubiquitous..." | 3/7/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Technology Wants | Franklyn Turbak reads an excerpt from What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly. "Kelly believes that […] humans have the power and responsibility to train technology to be convivial, or compatible with life." | 2/29/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Drunkard's Walk | Robin McKnight reads The Drunkard's Walk by Leonard Mlodinow. "I think that readers will be interested in, and perhaps surprised by, the myriad ways that our understanding (or misunderstanding) of statistics can lead us astray." | 2/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Consider the Lobster | Vernon Shetley reads from Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace. "Every August I vow silently to chill about usage this year, and then by Labor Day there’s foam on my chin. I can’t seem to help it." | 2/15/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Washington: A Life | Rob Paarlberg reads from Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. "Chernow’s great achievement in this book is to turn Washington from a statue or an icon back into a human being. This is a highly intimate biography..." | 2/8/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Carrying the Fire | Wendy Bauer reads an excerpt from Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. "The moon I have known my entire life, that two-dimensional small yellow disc in the sky, has gone away somewhere, to be replaced by the most awesome sphere I have ever seen." | 2/1/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Metamorphosis | Jens Kruse reads from The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. "One morning, upon awakening from agitated dreams, Gregor Samsa found himself, in his bed, transformed into a monstrous vermin." | 1/25/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Most Human Human | Brian Tjaden reads an excerpt from The Most Human Human: What Talking to Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian, published by Doubleday. | 12/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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All Souls | Lynne Viti reads an excerpt from All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald, published by Beacon Press. | 11/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Nine Gates | Phyllis McGibbon reads an excerpt from Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield. "Part of any good artist’s work is to find a right balance between the independence born of willing solitude and the ability to speak for and to others." | 11/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Perpetual Euphoria | Julie Norem reads an excerpt from Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy by Pascal Bruckner, published by Princeton University Press. | 11/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The New World of Mr. Tompkins | Ted Ducas reads an excerpt from The New World of Mr. Tompkins by George Gamow, published by Cambridge University Press. | 11/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Princess of Cleves | Helene Bilis reads an excerpt from The Princess of Cleves by Madame de La Fayette, published by W. W. Norton. | 10/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Two Cultures | Don Elmore reads an excerpt from The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow, published by the Cambridge University Press. | 10/19/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Tiger's Wife | Kate Brogan reads an excerpt from The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht, published by Random House. | 10/12/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion | Marion Just reads an excerpt from The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion by John R. Zaller, published by Cambridge University Press. | 10/5/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | Sergio Parussa reads an excerpt from The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani, published by Everyman's Library. | 9/28/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Noah's Garden | Kristina Jones reads an excerpt from Noah's Garden by Sara Stein, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. | 9/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's "Irreverent Apparition" | Irene Mata reads an excerpt from "Our Lady of Controversy: Alma López's 'Irreverent Apparition'" edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma López, published by the University of Texas Press. | 9/14/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Let Their People Come | David Lindauer reads an excerpt from Let Their People Come: Breaking the Gridlock on Global Labor Mobility by Lant Pritchett, published by the Center for Global Development. | 9/7/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov | Adam Weiner reads "A Nursery Tale" from The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov, published by Vintage Books. | 8/31/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Next of Kin | Wini Wood reads an excerpt from Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts, published by William Morrow. | 5/4/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Parenting Out of Control | Kelly Rutherford reads an excerpt from Parenting out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times by Margaret Nelson, published by NYU Press. | 4/27/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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King of Infinite Space | Megan Kerr reads from King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts, published by Walker Books. | 4/20/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Apres Vous | Jim Petterson reads an excerpt from his unpublished translation of Apres Vous by Pierre Alferi, published by P.O.L. | 4/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Wrong Place Wrong Time | Soo Hong reads an excerpt from Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. | 4/6/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Canon | John Cameron reads an excerpt from The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. | 3/30/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain | Carlos Vega reads an excerpt from A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain by Chris Lowney, published by Oxford University Press. | 3/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Face of Battle | Stacie Goddard reads an excerpt from The Face of Battle by John Keegan, published by Penguin Books. | 3/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Design of Everyday Things | Orit Shaer reads an excerpt from The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, published by Basic Books. | 3/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson | Paul Fisher reads an excerpt from Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters by Emily Dickinson, Edited by Thomas Johnson, Harvard University Press. | 2/23/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Other Wes Moore | Beth Hennessey reads an excerpt from The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, published by Spiegel & Grau. | 2/16/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Einstein's God | Adele Wolfson reads an excerpt from Einstein's God: Conversation About Science and the Human Spirit by Krista Tippett, published by Penguin Books. | 2/9/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Origins of Totalitarianism | Martin Brody reads an excerpt from The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, published by Schocken. | 2/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Your Money or Your Life | Courtney Coile reads an excerpt from Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System by David Cutler, published by Oxford University Press. | 1/26/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Emancipation | Fran Malino reads an excerpt from Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance by Michael Goldfarb, published by Simon & Schuster. | 12/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Billion Dollar Molecule | Julia Miwa reads an excerpt from The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug by Barry Werth, published by Simon & Schuster. | 12/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart | Andy Shennan reads an excerpt from The Somme: The Darkest Hour on the Western Front by Peter Hart, published by Pegasus Press. | 12/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Adornment | Jon Imber reads an excerpt from The Rise of Fashion: A Reader, by Daniel Leonhard Purdy, published by University of Minnesota Press, featuring an essay by George Simmel. | 11/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Losing Control | Joe Joyce reads an excerpt from Losing Control: The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity by Stephen D. King, published by Yale University Press. | 11/17/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Poetics of Space | Anjali Prabhu reads an excerpt from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard published by Beacon Press. | 11/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful | Emily Buchholtz reads an excerpt from Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carroll, published by W.W. Norton & Company. | 11/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Toxic Bodies | Jay Turner reads an excerpt from Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES by Nancy Langston, published by Yale University Press. | 10/27/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Gilead | Ed Silver reads an excerpt from Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. | 10/20/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quantum | Courtney Lannert reads from Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar, published by W.W. Norton & Company. | 10/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Imaginary Companions | Tracy Gleason reads an excerpt from Imaginary Companions and the Children Who Create Them by Marjorie Taylor, published by Oxford University Press. | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Enlightened Sexism | Susan Reverby reads an excerpt from Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism's Work is Done by Susan J. Douglas, published by Times Books. | 9/29/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Worldly Philosophers | Corri Taylor reads an excerpt from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, published by Simon & Schuster. | 9/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Blown to Bits | Takis Metaxas reads an excerpt from Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis, published by Addison-Wesley. | 9/15/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis | Dan Chiasson reads an excerpt from The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. | 9/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing | Adam Van Arsdale reads an excerpt from To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing by Sarah Wagner, published by the University of California Press. | 6/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Clearing: A Play by Helen Edmundson | Nora Hussey reads an excerpt from The Clearing: A Play by Helen Edmundson, published by Theatre Communications Group. | 6/2/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Moby Dick | Larry Rosenwald reads an excerpt from Moby Dick by Herman Melville. | 5/26/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Plato's Symposium - The Speech of Aristophanes | Nicolas de Warren reads an excerpt from Plato's Symposium translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, published by Hackett Publishing Company. | 5/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject | Roxanne Euben reads an excerpt from Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood, published by Princeton University Press. | 5/12/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Mathematics in Civilization | Stanley Chang reads an excerpt from Mathematics in Civilization by Harold Resnikoff and Ronald Wells, published by Dover Publications. | 5/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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War and Peace | Tom Hodge reads an excerpt from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude and published by W.W. Norton. | 4/28/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War | Kathy Moon reads an excerpt from The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam, published by Hyperion. | 4/21/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Life of Ira Remsen (1846-1927) | Flick Coleman reads an excerpt from The Life of Ira Remsen by Frederick Getman, published by Journal of Chemical Education. | 4/14/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Homer's Odyssey | Carol Dougherty reads an excerpt from The Odyssey of Homer translated by Richmond Lattimore, published by Harper Collins. | 4/7/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It | Ann Velenchik reads an excerpt from The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier, published by Oxford University Press. | 3/31/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Einstein's Dreams | Glenn Stark reads an excerpt from Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, published by Vintage Books. | 3/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human | Kathryn Lynch reads an excerpt from Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham, published by Basic Books. | 3/17/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870-1940 | Lee Cuba reads an excerpt from Women and the City: Gender, Power, and Space in Boston, 1870-1940 by Sarah Deutsch, published by Oxford University Press. | 3/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Copenhagen: A Play by Michael Frayn | Nancy Kolodny reads an excerpt from Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn, published by Anchor Books. | 3/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chekhov's "Peasants" | Nina Tumarkin reads an excerpt from the short story "Peasants", collected in The Essential Tales of Chekhov edited by Richard Ford, published by Harper Perennial. | 2/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History | Craig Murphy reads an excerpt from the preface to Unmaking the West: "What-If?" Scenarios That Rewrite World History, edited by Philip Tetlick, Richard Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker, published by Michigan University Press. | 2/17/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus | Dick French reads an excerpt from the preface to The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich, published by Walker and Company. | 2/10/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Tower of Babel (from Genesis) | Thomas Nolden reads the story of the Tower of Babel from The Five Books of Moses translated by Everett Fox, published by Random House. | 2/3/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism | Akila Weerapana reads an excerpt from Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller. | 1/27/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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