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• On the hundredth anniversary of its outbreak, Sean McMeekin, author of The Russian Origins of the First World War, talked with WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook about World War I’s lasting impact and its worrisome parallels to today’s global conflicts.
• The Baffler has translated an early conversation (originally published in the French magazine Mediapart) between Thomas Piketty, author of the bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century, and economic activist David Graeber.
• Davi Kopenawa, author of The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman, recently spoke with Mashable about how his tribe’s new solar-powered Wi-Fi network will help them battle threats to their land and traditions.

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July 30: Association of American University Presses Supports Principles of Net Neutrality

University Presses are famously committed to the dissemination of scholarship “far and wide,” in the words of Daniel Coit Gilman. Today, that mission often relies on the Internet and open, neutral public network access to the online content and services of libraries, institutions of higher learning, and publishers small and large. Proposals to allow ISPs to create paid “fast lanes” and other threats to open and equitable online access for all users, content, and services also threaten the underlying mission of the nonprofit members of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). AAUP supports the “Net Neutrality Principles” issued by eleven library and higher education …