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Books first mentioned on podcasts this week
11 books were mentioned for the first time on the podcasts we follow this week. Grouped by podcast, newest first.
Hidden Brain
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The Opposite of Happiness
Recommended“And maybe it will even make you more accepting of yourself, knowing how broadly shared your miseries are.”
Breaking Points
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Weimar Germany
Recommended“He is the author of a new book, Weimar Germany, The Death of a Democracy.”
EconTalk
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Terra Incognita
Discussed“Our topic for today is fertility and demography, based on a recent paper he wrote, he co-authored with Patrick Norick, and that paper is Terra Incognita, the Economics of a Shrinking World, a paper I found, to be honest, shocking in its claims, but the claims are mostly facts.”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Wuest's Expanded Translation of the Greek New Testament
Recommended“This is actually I don't know if you've ever heard of this. This is the Kenneth Wuest New Testament.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Bloodlines
Discussed“Um, and this is the essence of Blood Lunger book. Like, it's a memoir, but it's really this odyssey like experience of navigating this disease and trying to find a way to heal yourself, not just in body, but in mind and spirit.”
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Operation Nemesis
Discussed“Now since like Eric Bosian who's another you know hero of mine wrote took seven years to write Operation Nemesis which was about the attempts by the Armenians after the war to kill all of the Turkish government officials who were responsible for the genocide”
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The Burning Tigris
Recommended“Then you find Peter Bolakian's books, The Burning Tigris, which is like a textbook, and then you find the Black Dog of Fate, which is a a memoir about his memories of his grandmother that survived the genocide. And that was a big influence on me.”
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Black Dog of Fate
Recommended“Then you find Peter Bolakian's books, The Burning Tigris, which is like a textbook, and then you find the Black Dog of Fate, which is a a memoir about his memories of his grandmother that survived the genocide. And that was a big influence on me. That's probably my favorite memoir is Black Dog of Fate.”
The Rubin Report
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This Cursed Beautiful Land
Discussed“The Wall Street Journal reporter was speaking at a literature festival to promote his memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land.”
Modern Wisdom
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The Golden Compass
Discussed“It had the subtle knife in it, the golden compass. Oh. Uh, so it's it must be 30 years old.”
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The Subtle Knife
Discussed“So I listened to The Subtle Knife first, which is the second book. And uh it kind of makes sense.”
