On this week's Front Table, find a mosaic of the historical fragments, diaries, criticism and research that shaped the modern world: from a braided narrative of two leaders who embodied the fighting spirit of the 1960s to a deeper dive into one of the world’s most influential poems that described the moral decay of a world after war. Find the following and more at...
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February 3rd, 2023
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January 27th, 2023
Daodejing
(Liveright)
Laozi; Brook Ziporyn, trans. ...
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January 25th, 2023
On Monday, February 6th, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "The Arctic World Archive: Storing Human Knowledge for a Long Winter" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Worskshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Shannon Lee Dawdy.
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Description: In 2017, deep in an abandoned coal mine in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a Norwegian company built a vault designed to store backup archives of human knowledge for thousands of years, inspired by the so-called "Doomsday Seed Vault"...
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January 20th, 2023
On this week's Front Table, journey into stories about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art: from a collection that moves effortlessly between a mother, grandmother, and daughter to explore the meanings of maternal to a biography of a 19th century multiracial family who personified the racial myths that reverberate to this day. Find the following and more at...
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January 13th, 2023
On Monday, January 23rd, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "Organs and Humans on Chips: Biomedical Models and the Political Economy of Innovation" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Worskshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Melanie Jeske.
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Description: In the wake of mounting concerns regarding translational failure between bench research to bedside therapies, new actors, fields, and technologies now promise to disrupt existing...
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January 13th, 2023
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January 6th, 2023
Chuck Berry: An American Life
(Hachette Books)
RJ Smith
Best known as the...
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December 16th, 2022
I Fear My Pain Interests You
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December 9th, 2022
The Everybody Ensemble
(Picador USA)
Amy Leach
Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories...
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December 2nd, 2022
On this week's Front Table, find stories framed against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence to reckon with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and multiple identities - from a mapping of one young woman’s Black diaspora as she revisits her unsettled childhood in order to reclaim her legacies to a young boy’s story of coming north to the promise of opportunity, only to pay the harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants...
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