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This writing is born out of our experiences of becoming older women, academy hags, facing the performative demands of the neoliberalizing patriarchal university. We are raging. With the figure of the Crone, and feminist-killjoy-croning as our creative and livid research method (Ahmed, S. 2023. Feminist Killjoy. London: Penguin Random House), we squeeze time out/with impossible university spaces and schedules to tend to grey matters. This paper traces the normalization of menopause policies in workplaces and universities, following the social trending and capitalization of menopausal and ageing matters. We question what menopause policies do and argue they constitute a failed project for the advancement of gender equality and should be abandoned. Inspired by Barad’s (2021. “Dialogue with Karen Barad Dialogues on Agential Realism.” In Dialogues on Agential Realism: Engaging in Worldings through Research Practice, edited by H. P. Juelskjær and A. W. Stine, 118–141. London: Taylor and Francis) call to engage in ‘spacetimemattering’, we create webs of entanglement through the objects of university menopause policies. We grey, fade out/ fit in, sweat, bleed, scowl. Powered by fury and frustration, we scrape away the genealogical underpinnings of menopausal bodyminds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe" by Mark Mazower explores the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire and its broader implications for Europe. Mazower argues that the revolution was the first manifestation of the theory of nationalities and set in motion the decline of the Ottoman Empire. The book examines the domestic and international phases of the war, highlighting the clash between old and new, pre-modern and modern, and the role of religion in shaping the conflict. Mazower also discusses the use of disinformation and irregular warfare tactics during the revolution. Overall, the book offers a complex and captivating account of the Greek Revolution and its relevance to understanding historical and contemporary conflicts. [Extracted from the article]

Late last year, a federal court sided with the Department of Justice and blocked the planned merger of book publishers Simon & Schuster and Penguin Random House. The decision was a rare collision between antitrust law and the deeply consolidated copyright content industries. Over the course of the past decade, acquisitions and mergers in the recording, music publishing, and audiovisual space have left just a handful of juggernaut content producers in their wake. Moreover, new technology companies that have entered the content-creation and distribution markets have begun to leverage their scale to further their own industry consolidation. This Article examines the growing competition problems in the copyright industries and argues that, despite a resurgent interest in antitrust enforcement among policymakers, antitrust alone has not provided adequate solutions. Indeed, in the aftermath of the DOJ's victory against Penguin Random House, the publishing industry is now predicting that Simon & Schuster will simply be stripped and sold for parts, hurting author compensation while doing little to stop industry concentration. Copyright law--including its collection of safe harbors, compulsory licenses, and other industry-regulating regimes--also appears unable to meaningfully address the current reality. The Article argues that antitrust and copyright law cannot work in silos. To find a way forward, we shine a spotlight on an underexplored legal regime: the antitrust consent decrees that continue to regulate certain licensing markets in the music industry by subjecting the organizations ASCAP and BMI to rate setting by the federal courts. We draw on this unusual system--perhaps the only example of antitrust regulation that has directly incorporated a concern with copyright's policy agenda--to propose a new regulatory model based not on discrete, one-off interventions (such as blocking a merger), but rather full regulation of the licensing practices in concentrated content markets. As the consent decree model shows, copyright and competition law can work in tandem, ensuring that antitrust regulation of the creative-content space remains sensitive to copyright's overarching goals of incentivizing creativity and ensuring public access to cultural works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling Apart: New York: Penguin Random House, 2021. This definition, Hertz argues, is in line with thinkers like Marx, Durkheim, Arendt, and Huxley, among others (Hertz [5], p. 11). Hertz calls this "WeWashing" (akin to greenwashing) (Hertz [5], p. 217). Hertz calls for a "New Deal"-esque policy to implement a more cooperative form of capitalism, but even if we assume benevolence, it is worth examining the unintended consequences. [Extracted from the article]

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For over 40 years, starting in 1954, Popular Electronics Magazine was the major American publication for electrical hobbyists. The last years of the magazine saw it renamed Computers and Electronics. This is an unremarkable history but, as explained by Peter Bebergal about 3/4th of the way through his fascinating book Strange Frequencies, there is an issue from October 1995 that proposes experiments that deviate from the magazine’s usual gadgetry. The magazine is easily read at this website https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/90s/95/PE-1995-10.pdf. The cover features a middle-aged man hunched over a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Behind him, he is haunted by a trio of faded ghost-like figures. The cover story is captioned, “Ghost voices: Are the dead trying to contact us through electronic means? Try these experiments and see for yourself” The article begins with a discussion of two electronic voice phenomena (EVP) experimenters of the 1950s: Frederich Jurgenson and Konstantin Raudive who claimed that with electronics they have communicated with the dead and that they have recordings of those voices preserved on tape. During his lifetime, Raudive asserted that he captured about 70,000 such communications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Long-standing criteria for Common Reads (CR) programs recognize the value of diversity in the book selection process. This study, examining 1,801 books chosen over a four-year period (2017–20), explored the extent to which these programs have embodied this spirit. In particular, this work focused on the diversity of the books (through genre and subject headings) and the authors (gender, nationality, ethnicity and race). We also looked at characteristics of participating institutions and publishers. Initial data was gathered from an annual list of CR selections posted online by Penguin Random House. Findings revealed a notable presence of diverse topics in the titles selected and an examination of a subset of authors showed that 58% of these authors were people of color. Possible areas of improvement are noted, including expanding the geographic focus of books as well as potential implications for CR programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With its alumnus having founded 1300 VC backed startups since 2006, of which 19 achieved unicorn status (many of whom have been author's students), HBS has been a fertile ground for the startup factory. Tom Eisenmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School (HBS) has attempted to unravel the reasons for 90% of start-ups to fail and presented in I The Fail-Safe Startup i . Christensen and Raynor (2003) quoted that only 20% of start-ups funded by venture capitalists (VC) money succeed, 50% end up walking wounded, and the rest fail altogether. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International Community" by Rohan Gunaratna provides an assessment and analysis of the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka. The book explores the genesis, threat trajectory, government response, and lessons learned from the tragic events. It includes details about the planning and execution of the attacks, based on interviews with arrested members of the Sri Lankan branch of ISIS, government investigators, and eyewitness accounts. The book also proposes measures for governments to consider in their campaigns against radicalization and emphasizes the importance of a diverse mix of specialties within security forces. [Extracted from the article]

As the United States struggles to remain a powerhouse nation in the 21st Century, books proliferate on the subject. The U.S. needs that injection of an additional 650 million people to finally become a fully-populated nation of one billion Americans, the title of Mr. Yglesias' book. [Extracted from the article]

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation: Christine Emba. Where readers might diverge from I Rethinking Sex i is in Emba's assertion that certain sexual behaviors or relationship models are intrinsically less-than: less healthy, less consensual, less empowering, and less socially tolerable. One of the most ironic features of I Rethinking Sex i is how often Emba cites seminal Second Wave Feminist thinkers to bolster her claims, while completely overlooking the fact that they would be excluded from the very model of "good sex" she proposes. [Extracted from the article]

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them: written by Barbara F. Walter, New York: Penguin Random House, 2022, Pp. 320. Walter argues that although the United States features all five factors for an imminent civil war, there remains opportunities to course correct. Conducting a sobering review of civil wars over the course of the last century, Walter identifies and examines the recurrent features leading to internal bloodshed across otherwise distinct circumstances. [Extracted from the article]

Clark has designed a book well suited to bringing the rather intimidating field of historiography into the tertiary classroom. These stories reveal Clark's own processes of research and writing and her sources of inspiration, as well as those of the historians whose work she explores. Penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/vintage. [Extracted from the article]

The phenomenon of state capture is creating political angst among South African citizens, and therefore the role the media is playing in revealing sensitive information about key personas, as well as evoking public interest and debate, warrants further investigation. This article explores the media's role, but specifically trade book publishers' roles as gatekeepers and information disseminators in a post-democratic South Africa. Case studies of the controversial socio-political exposés Jacques Pauw's The President's Keepers: Those keeping Zuma in Power and out of Prison (published by NB Publishers in 2017), and Pieter-Louis Myburgh's Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's Web of Capture (published by Penguin Random House in 2019), are used to illustrate that these publishers achieved both social and business objectives in publishing high-risk titles. NB Publishers and Penguin Random House managed to publish these titles in the right format (hard copy and electronic format), at the right time (before the provincial and national elections), at the right price, and were supported by strong publicity and marketing campaigns, which contributed to the success of these titles. Furthermore, publishers assisted in bridging the gaps in knowledge that may have existed among concerned South African citizens because of political uncertainty, by publishing timely and relevant books. This concept links with Dervin's sense-making methodology regarding information behaviour, and the aim of this article is to highlight the synergy between gatekeeping and sensemaking, fuelled by trade publishers that take calculated risks in publishing controversial titles, amid a politically tense environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

So argues Lisa Miller, professor of clinical psychology and founder of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University. Given that the human person is an embodied being, starting from the heart would not preclude the study of the brain, but would properly situate it as a subsidiary level to the human mind and spirit. The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life: By Lisa Miller. [Extracted from the article]