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...workers early in the pandemic, such as food factory workers, but have since seen their working conditions stagnate or deteriorate as businesses reopened, said Bryant Simon, a labour historian at Temple university...
...However, Amelia Miazad, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor, argues that scepticism over mission statements is misplaced....
...“The impeachment inquiry is survivable for him, but it’s an example of what can happen if he stays as secretary of state,” said Bob Beatty, a politics professor at Washburn University in Topeka, the Kansas...
...When I was studying at Oxford University, my then boyfriend was the world debating champion....
...The Technology Trap: Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation, by Carl Benedikt Frey, Princeton University Press, RRP£25/$29.95 The Industrial Revolution was a catastrophe for most of the workers...
...You can listen to acclaimed novelist Ben Lerner discuss his newest book, The Topeka School, on the FT’s culture podcast Culture Call....
...Sex, Death, and Minuets: Anna Magdalena Bach and Her Musical Notebooks, by David Yearsley, University of Chicago Press, RRP£34/$45 Singer, musical copyist, second wife of one of music’s most revered composers...
...Goulson, a professor of biology at the University of Sussex, brings the broader picture into sharp focus, detailing the complex lives of earwigs, ants and worms in a way that compels the reader to care about...
...The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information are Solving the Mystery of Life, by Paul Davies, Allen Lane, RRP£20/University of Chicago Press, RRP$27.50 Davies — one of the most imaginative scientists...
...Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Amelia Bonea, Melissa Dickson, Sally Shuttleworth and Jennifer Wallis, University of Pittsburgh Press, RRP$50 This group of academics...
...Super Continent: The Logic of Eurasian Integration, by Kent Calder, Stanford University Press, RRP$30/£24.99 The author argues that we are witnessing the creation of a Eurasian supercontinent, stretching...
...An FT review persuaded me to read 1931: Debt, Crisis and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, RRP£16.99)....
...The comedian Jon Stewart accused Ms Carlson, a Stanford University graduate, of playing dumb....
...Kevin Washburn, a University of New Mexico law professor who formerly served as general counsel for the federal agency that regulates Indian gaming and as assistant secretary of the interior for Indian affairs...
...In February, John Booker, 21, of Topeka, Kansas, pleaded guilty to charges of planning to detonate a car bomb on a nearby US Army base....
...In the summer of 1942 the Washburns await the arrival of their only child, Frankie, a Princeton University graduate (like Treuer) who has just enlisted in the air force....
...Away from the formality of the town hall, Vogl, an administrator at the local university, is more confident, with a sharp tongue and dry wit....
...… The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, by Dan Washburn, Oneworld, RRP£12.99/$18.99 US journalist Washburn weaves colourful narratives to document the rising popularity of golf in China....
...Notes from the Heartland Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, ushers me into his plush Topeka office, which is adorned with the heads of two deer he killed with a bow and arrow....
...Dan Washburn is a Shanghai-based writer....
...A few weeks before, Father Scott had sent a letter postmarked Michigan to the museum, an elegant institution attached to the University of Louisiana....
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