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Anu Bradford, "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" (Oxford UP, 2023)
An interview with Anu Bradford
Asif Siddiqi on Rockets, Prisons, Pop Songs, and So Much More
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History at Fordham University, about the arc of his career and his wide-ranging interests and work. The pair start by discussing Siddiqi's wonderful book, The Red Rockets' Glare: Spa
Héctor Beltrán, "Code Work: Hacking Across the US/México Techno-Borderlands" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Hctor Beltrn
Heather Parry, "Electric Dreams: Sex Robots and Failed Promises of Capitalism" (404 Ink, 2024)
An interview with Heather Parry
Coreen McGuire, "Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standards for Disability in the Interwar Period" (Manchester UP, 2020)
An interview with Coreen McGuire
Stephen Morillo, "War and Conflict in the Middle Ages" (Polity Press, 2022)
An interview with Stephen Morillo
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair, "Space Rover" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Stewart Lawrence Sinclair
Tina Sikka, "Health Apps, Genetic Diets and Superfoods: When Biopolitics Meets Neoliberalism" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
An interview with Tina Sikka
Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)
An interview with Marc Masters
Guru Madhavan on Wicked Problems and Engineering a Better World
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Guru Madhavan, Norman R. Augustine Senior Scholar and Senior Director of Programs at the National Academy of Engineering, about his recent book,Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World(W. W. Norton &