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4 posts published by Phạm Thu Hương, Trần Đình Hoành, Đào Thu Hằng, and Đọt Chuối Non on January 5, 2024

Why these campuses need to change, and how to bring about essential transformations. I came of age intellectually in an era of big nonfiction books, both popular—like Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique and Unsafe at Any Speed)—and academic, by such scholars as Eugene Genovese, Erving Goffman and Thomas Kuhn. That era was followed by a succession of truly path-breaking scholarly books. Among the greatest were Orlando Patterson’s magisterial history of freedom and the making of Western culture and Theda Skocpol’s study of states and social revolution.

Stewardship saved a Southern California estuary from development. Climate change is the next challenge.

In 2018 Cosmos reported on Queensland biochemist Glenn King’s efforts to turn spider venom into a biopesticide that farmers could use to protect their crops.

Twenty-one Flagler County leaders--in politics, culture, business, education, media--were asked to tell us about their favorite book of 2023.