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January 22, 2016

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January 22, 2016

An Interview with Daniel McCool

The following is an interview with  Daniel McCool, author of  River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers:nnQuestion: Why should people care about rivers?nnDaniel McCool: To start with, their lives depend on them. Rivers are our source of water,...

January 22, 2016

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January 22, 2016

An Interview with Michael Mauboussin

In More Than You Know, Mauboussin shares his secret to becoming an insightful investor and provides invaluable tools to better understand the concepts of choice and risk.nnQuestion: More Than You Know comes at the world of investing from a very...

January 22, 2016

Alexandra Lutnick on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: Beyond Victims and Villains

Read excerpts from a Twitter Chat interview with Alexandra Lutnick, author of DOMESTIC MINOR SEX TRAFFICKING: BEYOND VICTIMS AND VILLAINS, hosted by @DontSellBodies.

January 22, 2016

Shirley Hazzard's Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's THE PORTRAIT OF ZÉLIDE

Shirley Hazzard discusses Zélide, a fascinating character from the eighteenth century perhaps best known for her romantic connections to James Boswell and Benjamin Constant, in this excerpt from WE NEED SILENCE TO FIND OUT WHAT WE THINK: SELECTED ESSAYS!

January 22, 2016

An Interview with Siddharth Kara

Q: Since sex slaves are a small percentage of slaves worldwide, why did you focus your book on this small category of slavery?nnSK: Sex slavery is the first form of slavery I (consciously) encountered. I first came across sex trafficking...

January 22, 2016

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January 22, 2016

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January 21, 2016

An Interview with Raymond Martin and John Barresi

In The Rise and Fall of Soul and Self: An Intellectual History of Personal Identity, Raymond Martin and John Barresi trace the development of theories of the self and personal identity from the ancient Greeks to the present day. In...

January 21, 2016

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January 21, 2016

An Interview with Kimberly Zisk Marten

To read more about Kimberly Zisk Marten’s Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial PastnnQuestion: You argue that United Nations peacekeeping operations have fundamentally changed in the last ten years. Explain.nnKimberly Zisk Marten: It used to be that UN peacekeeping...

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