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Show #251 Recorded 04/16/13

Show #251 Recorded 04/16/13

Show#250       Recorded 04/12/13        Aired 5/10/13 The Sexual Politics of Meat:  A Feminist-vegetarian Critical Theory Carol Adams makes the connections between male dominance, the killing of animals and killing of human beings.  Language fuses women’s and animals’ inferior status in a patriarchal culture.  This book caused an immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists, and animal rights activists when it was published more than 20 year...

Show #249      Recorded 4/19/13     Aired 4/19/13 “Strengthening Your Body and Your Bones” Two best-selling authors provide diet and exercise  information.  Plant-based health and fitness expert Lani Muelrath’s book is Fit Quickies: 5-Minute Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts.  She struggled with weight herself until 17 years ago when she lost 50 pounds.  She has been a guest lecturer in kinesiology at San Francisco State University, and is certified in pl...

Show #249 Recorded 09/27/08

Show #248 Recorded 03/22/13

Show#247    Recorded 2/22/13    Air date 3/29/13 Our Experience, Ourselves Lyn Relph began teaching English at Chico State University in 1966.   He retired in 1995 at age 55 and moved to three and a half acres on the Trinity River.  Over a period of 16 years his book Our Experience, Ourselves took shape.  He writes about the popularity of pilgrimage in medieval Europe, the devastating effects of the plague, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, Montaigne, and ...

Show #246     Recorded 3/15/13     Aired 3/22/13 The Wild Horse Conspiracy Craig Downer is a wildlife ecologist who has studied how wild horse and burrow herds are being destroyed by the very agencies charged with protecting them with disasterous consequences for humans.   Cohasset resident and wild horse advocate Helen Madeleine joined Craig to talk about local opportunities for saving wild horses.   Craig composed music for a CD “Wild Horse Rhapsody&...

Show#235     Recorded 12/13/12     Aired 12/28/12 Talking to Terrorists: Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers & “Martyrs” Ambassador’s wife, mother, and psychologist, Anne Speckhard began by wanting to help PTSD sufferers cope with having been hostages, and this led her to research why terrorists, hostage-takers, and suicide bombers are motivated to do what they do....

Show#245      Recorded 02/15/13    Aired 3/15/13 Doing Time in Q: The Story of One Man’s Life in Prison Redding author Margery McAleer grew up on the grounds of San Quentin Prison, where her father was Athletic Director.  This book is a fact-based story of her father’s life at the prison.