Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W44

“Fast forward perhaps a year—on the day that my dad died, I get a notification: 'Cassie Hutchinson's coming out with a book,' and the teaser of the book explicitly says she's going to talk about her interplay with the Trump lawyer who told her to lie. So all of a sudden I realize, and of course it's on the day”

“We wrote a book called 'Good Energy' with the simple thesis that conditions plaguing us are connected! We need to stop treating conditions with ineffective drugs and siloed approaches, and appreciate the interconnectedness of our beautiful human body!”

“Well, your prison story, I must say, is one of the most incredible I've ever heard. Yeah, I'm writing a book about it. It's an unusual story.”

“He is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist, also an author. Reality Plus and The Conscious Mind are two of his many books.”

“First of all, this has been yet another edition of StarTalk, a special edition this time with Professor David Chalmers regarding your latest book. Tell me about Reality+, all those questions about reality and consciousness.”

“So it's a great question; it's reminiscent of a famous essay from the 19th century written by Michael Faraday called 'What is Fire?' Because what is it?”

“What does that tell us in his book the rise and fall of the neoliberal order the historian Gary gell introduced me to this concept of political orders these structures of political consensus that stretch over decades”

“visually you have John Kenneth gallb one of the Great economists of the new dual era writing the affluent society which is all about the problems of the society where now there is much more plenty but what makes life worth living has been been eroded”

“I found kind of an unconventional place to study this and read about it Tim Harper underground asia Global revolutionaries and the assault on Empire and this is a book about underground radicals in east and south Asia and Southeast Asia 1900 to 1925 looking to upend Empire looking to upend capitalism looking to free their countries from Colonial shackles”

“and finally uh Sarah iigo the known citizen very different kind of book a history of privacy in modern America We're talking about morality We're talking about community and of course social media has put the question of privacy and what constitutes privacy and what's private and what's public such an urgent question in understanding America”

“What's it called? This is 'The Woman's Ghost Story' by Algernon Blackwood.”

“But he also made this statement, I think it's in the preface to his autobiography. And he says, one never looks twice at the offer of service in elite force.”

“You gave a lecture on 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' It's widely considered to be the most influential work of anti-Semitism ever, perhaps. Can you describe this text?”

“Yeah, the ACA is so deeply ingrained; we need massive reforms to make this work.”

“Today, I am honored to be able to sit down with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, representing California's 11th District for the last thirty years, inductee to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, recipient of the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and also New York Times best-selling author of The Art of Power, which”

“There's a guy named Joseph Needham who wrote a book called Science and Civilization in China and he talks about this in volume six.”

“Now, Teal's biographer, Max Chafkin, author of 'The Contrarian,' which is a book that will be a sizable source for this, although I do have some disagreement—I think Chafkin is a very good writer, a good biographer—there are a couple of areas where I disagree with him that we'll talk about here.”

“I loved your biography of Queen Victoria, and then I thought, because I was going to write about Queen Elizabeth in my next book, there has to be a book this good about her.”

“I think it's unusual that someone would do a serious, big, thick biography and then transition into the books that you're doing now. Was that a deliberate choice?”

“When you quote 'Amazing Grace' in the book, it reads as an acknowledgment of the man who wrote that song, who was a slave trader and later became an abolitionist.”