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Fashion – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 5



In this episode, Rebecca Arnold introduces fashion, a gigantic global industry which generates some three hundred billion dollars in revenue every year yet is often denigrated as trivial and superficial.

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Rebecca Arnold is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities in the Department of History of Design at the Royal College of Art.

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Globalization – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 4



In this episode, Manfred B. Steger introduces globalization, the transformative power spearheading our interconnected world.

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Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa and Global Professorial Fellow at Western Sydney University. He also served as a globalization consultant for the U.S. Department of State.

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Logic – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 3



In this episode, Graham Priest introduces logic, an area which is often wrongly perceived as having little to do with rest of philosophy and even less to do with real life.

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Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne (where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy), and at St. Andrews University.

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The U.S. Supreme Court – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 2



In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse introduces the U.S. Supreme Court, which she spent 30 years chronicling as a correspondent for the New York Times.

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Linda Greenhouse was the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent for 30 years. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Journalism (Beat Reporting) in 1998. She in now Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and writes a biweekly opinion column on the Supreme Court and the law for the New York Times web site.

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Ancient Greece – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 1



In this episode, Paul Cartledge introduces Ancient Greece, a period of unmatched influence on the politics, philosophy, religion, and social relations of Western civilization.

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Paul Cartledge is the inaugural A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.

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