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Marcia Zug is our guest for the hour. She joins us to talk about her new book, 'You'll Do: A History of Marrying for Reasons Other Than Love'.
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Carl Safina joins us for the hour to talk about his new book 'Alfie & Me', the story of the remarkable impact this little owl would have on their lives.
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Dr. Elizabeth D. Hilborn is a veterinarian, a honeybee specialist, and a senior environmental health scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.We revisit our conversation about her book, Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farm Community.
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We talk with Judith Tick about her new book Becoming Ella Fitzgerald, where she offers a portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist.
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Writer Alexandra Hudson joins us for this episode to discuss her new book, 'The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.' In the book, Hudson scours the human experience, offering a sweeping history of social norms and giving readers insight from hundreds of civility handbooks across history and the globe.
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We revisit our conversation with Will Grant, who rode the Pony Express trail himself, and talk about his new book, The Last Ride of the Pony Express: My 2,000-Mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West.
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Jim Steenburgh, author of 'Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth,' joins us for the program. We talk the science of snow, climate and climate change.
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In their new book A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements. Kelly Weinersmith joins us for the episode.
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Our guest for the hour is Stephen Armstrong. We discuss his new book, I Want You Around: The Ramones and the Making of Rock 'n' Roll High School.
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At the height of the American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. On this episode we revisit our conversation with Timothy Egan about his book, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them.