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The book cover has bright yellow lights like fireflies, and says, “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science; Alan Lightman, best-selling author of Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine.” On the right is a portrait of Alan Lightman.

Minds wide open

Alan Lightman’s new book asks how a sense of transcendence can exist in brains made of atoms, molecules, and neurons.

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Heather Hendershot portrait photo on grey background. The book cover has large capitalized text that says, “Heather Hendershot, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America.” The cover includes 1968 photo of protestors outside CBS News.

Why 1968 still matters

Professor Heather Hendershot’s new book about that year’s Democratic National Convention explores how anger at the media became part of our culture wars.

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