State and Federal Pension Issues
With Jeffrey R. Brown, Ph.D. (Professor of Finance and the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance; Director of the Center for Business & Public Policy, University of Illinois)
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Non Native Invasive Species in Illinois
With Reuben Keller, Ph.D. (the Henry Chandler Cowles Lecturer in Environment, Program on the Global Environment, University of Chicago), and , and Glenn Sandiford, Ph.D. ( Environmental Researcher and Writer)
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Environment
The Origins of Political Order From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
With Francis Fukuyama, Ph.D. (the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
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Current Events in Syria
With Joshua M. Landis, Ph.D. (Director of the Center for Middle East Studies; Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oklahoma)
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Chocolate Wars: The 150-Year Rivalry Between the World’s Greatest Chocolate Makers
With Deborah Cadbury (Writer and Award-Winning Documentary Producer for the BBC)
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Personal Finance
With David Sinow, Ph.D., J.D. (Clinical Professor of Finance, College of Business; Director of the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Reseach, University of Illinois)
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Consumer issues,
Personal Finance
Tangled Webs How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
With James B. Stewart, J.D. (Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist; Editor at Large, SmartMoney; the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism, Columbia University)
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
With Janny Scott (Journalist; Biographer)
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Biography
Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention
With Wendy Wolf (Editor at Viking/Penguin)
The Churchills In Love and War
With Mary S. Lovell (Biographer)