Podcast Listen in: How the Universe Got Its Spots January 20, 2023 Is the universe infinite or just really big?聽With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Queer Career January 13, 2023 Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as 鈥渟traight spaces鈥� in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job.聽 Read More
Podcast Listen in: What Do You Want Out of Life? January 06, 2023 What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money鈥攐r work for justice? To run marathons鈥攐r sing in a choir? To have children鈥攐r travel the world? The things we care about in life鈥攆amily, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals鈥攐ften conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Read More
Video Celebrating 100 audiobooks November 14, 2022 In 2018, the 快色直播 team launched the first university press audiobook program, 快色直播 Audio. Four years and almost a thousand hours of published audiobooks later, we are thrilled to be publishing our hundredth audiobook. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Viral Justice November 04, 2022 Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing groundbreaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of聽COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the importance of small, individual actions. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Sounds of Life October 12, 2022 The natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range. Scientists are using groundbreaking digital technologies to uncover these astonishing sounds, revealing vibrant communication among our fellow creatures across the Tree of Life. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws September 13, 2022 Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights鈥攇limmering, long-buried nuggets of truth鈥攅mbedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Work Matters August 17, 2022 Low-wage workers make up the largest group of employed parents in the United States, yet scant attention has been given to their experiences as new mothers and fathers.聽Work Matters聽brings the unique stories of these diverse individuals to light. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Sonorous Desert July 19, 2022 For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophony of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising in their harsh desert surroundings: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant.聽 Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Sky Is for Everyone July 07, 2022 The Sky Is for Everyone聽is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Start listening to Chapter 1 of the audiobook. Read More
Podcast Listen in: What Makes an Apple? July 05, 2022 In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel,聽Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw.聽 Read More
Essay The sounds of summer June 21, 2022 During the month of June we celebrate the audiobook and all that it has to offer as we start on our summer reading lists. Read More
Podcast Listen in: Translating Myself and Others June 01, 2022 Translating Myself and Others聽is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. Read More
Podcast Listen in: The Joy of Science May 05, 2022 The Joy of Science,聽narrated by acclaimed quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili,聽presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically. Read More
Podcast Listen in: In Praise of Good 快色直播tores April 29, 2022 In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch鈥攖he director of Chicago鈥檚 Seminary Co-op 快色直播tores, one of the finest bookstores in the world鈥攑ays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. Read More
