Best Daniel Fernandez Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 382: What Investors Need to Know About Built to Rent Opportunities in Chicago 16:47

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Future of Wind farms Ep 30: Dr Aidan Rhodes, Cristina Fernández Alonso, Sara Jiménez Alfaro. 39:40

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What are the key challenges in manufacturing wind turbines, and is the lifespan of wind turbines impacting the sustainable nature of wind farming? Host Dr. Aidan Rhodes, Research Fellow and Briefing paper at Energy Futures Lab Guest  Cristina Fernández Alonso, a product service engineer – and Blade Project manager at GE Vernova Sara Jiménez Alfaro,…

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Financing Decarbonisation Ep31: Dr Nadine Moustafa & Paul Davies 38:53

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Financing Decarbonisation Ep 31: Dr Nadine Moustafa & Paul Davies Is Carbon capture an investable industry, and can it be financeable? Host Dr. Nadine Moustafa, Research Associate at Imperial, specialising in carbon management and decarbonisation technologies. Guest  Paul Davies - Director at 7CO2: The Severnside Carbon Capture and Shipping Hub Top…

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Episode 381: How Chicago’s Powerhouse Lender Renovo Financial Was Built with Kevin Werner 1:11:05

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Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024) 40:38

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In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view – one guided by observation, technology and logic. But omens and elixirs did not disappear from the sixteenth-century laboratory. Charms and potions could still be found nestled between glistening …

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Alice Hunt, "Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660" (Faber and Faber, 2024) 49:51

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Alice Hunt’s Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade 1649-1650 (Faber and Faber, 2024) takes a chronological look at the current events, personalities, political struggles and cultural highlights of Britain’s short-lived but intense experiment in republicanism. From the deeply controversial execution of Charles I in January 1649 to the similarly c…

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Mark Somos, Matthew Cleary, Pablo Dufour, Edward Jones Corredera, and Emanuele Salerno, "The Unseen History of International Law" (Oxford UP, 2025) 1:05:37

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The Unseen History of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2025) locates and describes almost one thousand surviving copies of the first nine editions of Hugo Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis (IBP) published between 1625 and 1650. Meticulously reconstructing the publishing history of these first nine editions and cataloguing copies across hun…

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Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025) 46:53

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Andreas Beyer joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist (Reaktion, 2025). Benvenuto Cellini was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary autobiography, the Vita, Cellini describes his activities vividly and in lu…

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June 2025 Series Break: Billy Lile | God Is Our Father 55:30

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Happy Father’s Day weekend! As we celebrate the dads and father figures in our lives, we also take this time to reflect on the Father heart of God—a love that is constant, faithful, and full of grace.By Billy Lile

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June 2025 Series Break: Mark Tusoy | God Is Our Father 1:01:55

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Happy Father’s Day weekend! As we celebrate the dads and father figures in our lives, we also take this time to reflect on the Father heart of God—a love that is constant, faithful, and full of grace.By Mark Tusoy

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Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, "Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2024) 45:02

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Enrique Fernández and Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, eds. Death and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2024). In premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, or even neutralized. Testimonies of this renegotiation of gender at the encounter with death is detectable in wills, letters …

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Nearness Week 3: Paolo Punzalan | Are You Listening? 35:47

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By Paolo Punzalan

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Nearness Week 4: Patrick Mercado | Nearness brings Assurance 32:25

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By Patrick Mercado

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Nearness Week 4: Ray Diaz | God Will Never Forget You 39:09

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By Ray Diaz

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Episode 380: Innovation in Modular Housing With Rory Rubin 33:25

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Episode 379: Preparing Your Property To Add an ADU 12:25

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Properties for Sale on the North Side? We want to buy them. Email: [email protected] Have a vacancy? We can place your next tenant and give you back 30-40 hours of your time. Learn more: GCRealtyInc.com/tenant-placement Has Property Mgmt become an opportunity cost for you? Let us lower your risk and give you your time back to grow…

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The Sounds of Pentecost Week 2: Rev Araneta | The Sound of the Nations 51:39

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Imagine yourself being there on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2. The rushing wind echoes, people speaking in different languages, and, amidst it all, the presence of God is loud and clear. That day changed everything: it fulfilled an ancient promise, empowered believers, and launched the Church’s mission to bring the good news to the ends of the ear…

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The Sounds of Pentecost Week 2: Dave Estrera | The Sound of the Nations 1:00:05

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Imagine yourself being there on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2. The rushing wind echoes, people speaking in different languages, and, amidst it all, the presence of God is loud and clear. That day changed everything: it fulfilled an ancient promise, empowered believers, and launched the Church’s mission to bring the good news to the ends of the ear…

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David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen eds.,"Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) 34:45

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David de Boer and Geert H. Janssen, eds. Refugee Politics in Early Modern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2024). This book is available as an open source publication here. Refugees have existed since ancient times but it was in the early modern era that they first became a distinct social and political category. This open access book maps the early modern 'inv…

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Episode 378: How Wonderful Togbey Built a 20-Unit Portfolio Against the Odds 56:57

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Properties for Sale on the North Side? We want to buy them. Email: [email protected] Have a vacancy? We can place your next tenant and give you back 30-40 hours of your time. Learn more: GCRealtyInc.com/tenant-placement Has Property Mgmt become an opportunity cost for you? Let us lower your risk and give you your time back to grow…

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Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy 1:03:52

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• Philip J. Stern, Empire, Incorporated. The Corporations That Built British Colonialism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2023), by. • Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Penguin, 2023). Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it …

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The data behind online scams with Erin West 27:40

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In this episode, we dive into the world of Pig Butchering Scams with Operation Shamrock founder and Cyber Crime expert Erin West. You will learn about how scammers are using AI to automate their jobs and using digital currency to move their proceeds around. You can learn more about these scams and protect yourself with resources from Operation Sham…

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Kathleen Miller, ed., "Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World" (Penn State UP, 2025) 36:24

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Kathleen Miller talks about her new edited volume, Doctrine and Disease in British and Spanish Colonial World (Penn State University Press, 2025). In the sixteenth century, unprecedented migration caused diseases to take hold in new locales, turning illness and the human body into battlegrounds for competing religious beliefs as well as the colonia…

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The Sounds of Pentecost Week 1: Rodnel Gascon | The Sound of Heaven 51:49

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Imagine yourself being there on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2. The rushing wind echoes, people speaking in different languages, and, amidst it all, the presence of God is loud and clear. That day changed everything: it fulfilled an ancient promise, empowered believers, and launched the Church’s mission to bring the good news to the ends of the ear…

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The Sounds of Pentecost Week 1: Daniel Trinidad | The Sound of Heaven 45:00

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Imagine yourself being there on the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2. The rushing wind echoes, people speaking in different languages, and, amidst it all, the presence of God is loud and clear. That day changed everything: it fulfilled an ancient promise, empowered believers, and launched the Church’s mission to bring the good news to the ends of the ear…

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Episode 377: This is How Grit Can Take You Further in Chicago Real Estate with Daniel Baker 55:27

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Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025) 45:48

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Before the invention of the gummed envelope in the 1830s, how did people secure their private letters? The answer is letterlocking—the ingenious process of securing a letter using a combination of folds, tucks, slits, or adhesives such as sealing wax, so that it becomes its own envelope. This almost entirely forgotten practice, used by historical f…

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Julia McClure, "Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire" (Oxford UP, 2025) 42:51

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Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Julia McClure examines how changing concepts of poverty in the long-sixteenth century helped shape the deep structures of states and empires and the contours of imperial inequalities. While poverty is often understood to have become a politic…

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Episode 376: Buy Before You Sell; How To Write Offers Non-Contingent on The Sale of Your Existing Property 10:20

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Properties for Sale on the North Side? We want to buy them. Email: [email protected] Have a vacancy? We can place your next tenant and give you back 30-40 hours of your time. Learn more: GCRealtyInc.com/tenant-placement Has Property Mgmt become an opportunity cost for you? Let us lower your risk and give you your time back to grow…

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Yosie Levine, "Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate" (Littman Library, 2024) 41:43

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My recent interview with Rabbi Dr. Yosie Levine about his book, Hakham Tsevi Ashkenazi and the Battlegrounds of the Early Modern Rabbinate (Littman Library, 2024), illuminated the dynamic interplay between Sephardi and Ashkenazi traditions-a theme that resonates deeply with our mission at the Unity Through Diversity Institute. From the outset, Rabb…

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Dan Sperrin, "State of Ridicule: A History of Satire in English Literature" (Princeton UP, 2025) 53:06

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Satire is a funny, aggressive, and largely oppositional literature which is typically created by people who refuse to participate in a given regime’s perception of itself. Although satire has always been a primary literature of state affairs, and although it has always been used to intervene in ongoing discussions about political theory and practic…

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Pag-asa Week 5: Brandel Manalastas | Filled With Hope 45:53

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Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future. In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardles…

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Pag-asa Week 5: Jek Valle | Filled With Hope 40:25

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Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future. In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardles…

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Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 57:23

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What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal (Cambridge UP, 2025) surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence f…

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Camilla Annerfeldt, "Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 30:22

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Camilla Annerfeldt joins to discuss Clothing and Identity in Early Modern Rome (Bloomsbury, 2025). This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of its most fascinating periods. It also challenges the notion – well-established in dress historical resea…

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Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025) 50:13

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In Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England (University of London Press, 2025), Hannah Jeans explores the reading habits of early modern women and the ways in which their reading became a site of identity formation and promotion. Jeans studies both contemporary prescriptions around women's reading, particularly their consumption …

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Episode 375: Learn How To Build A Chicago Portfolio Without Quitting the W2 with Nate Fernandez 52:05

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Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 1:21:01

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Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Dr. Alan Strathern set out a theoretical framework for understanding the relation between religion and political authority based on a distinction between two kinds of religion - immanentism and transcendent…

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Kirsten Macfarlane, "Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2024) 45:49

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Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Greek, and the ancient Jewish and Christian past. Historians have devoted much attention to how these developments were received by the academic and clerical elite, and yet there is little research on their …

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Richard Calis, "The Discovery of Ottoman Greece: Knowledge, Encounter, and Belief in the Mediterranean World of Martin Crusius" (Harvard UP, 2025) 1:01:51

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In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled an exceptionally rich record of Greek life under Ottoman rule. Although he never left his home in the university town of Tübingen, Crusius spent decades annotating books and manuscripts, corresponding with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and interviewing Greek Orth…

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Jody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024) 1:17:14

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The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700 – 1850 (Ohio UP, 2024) examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa—from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone—through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk c…

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Pag-asa Week 4: Jeric Bernabe | Fueled by Hope 42:04

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Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future. In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardles…

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Pag-asa Week 4: Patrick Mercado | Fueled by Hope 46:17

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Hope is a confident expectation and desire for something good in the future. Yet, its depth and meaning begin to fade when faced with the sorrows of the past, the realities of the present, and the uncertainties of the future. In all these, where do we anchor our hope? Let us discover this unshakeable hope that only Christ can truly offer, regardles…

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Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025) 58:41

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Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Ben Jackson examines the material and consumer practices of over 1000 men from the middling and upper ranks of eighteenth-century society, c.1650-1850. It draws upon evidence from over 35 archives and museum collections to detail how mater…

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Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 48:49

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Emily Colbert Cairns of Salve Regina University and Nieves Romero-Díaz of Mount Holyoke join Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). It is the first volume to emphasize women's personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlanti…

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Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025) 45:09

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Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675 (Cornell University Press, 2025) by Dr. Rochelle Rojas tells riveting stories of witchcraft in everyday life in early modern Navarra. Belief in witchcraft not only emerged in moments of mass panic but was woven into the fabric of village life. Some villagers believed witc…

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Episode 374: Taking On Opportunity In Chicago’s Toughest Neighborhoods with Corey Oliver 1:06:33

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Properties for Sale on the North Side? We want to buy them. Email: [email protected] Have a vacancy? We can place your next tenant and give you back 30-40 hours of your time. Learn more: GCRealtyInc.com/tenant-placement Has Property Mgmt become an opportunity cost for you? Let us lower your risk and give you your time back to grow…

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Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025) 55:11

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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy (University of Delaware Press, 2025) investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century—includin…

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Andrea Pappas, "Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740-1770" (Lund Humphries, 2023) 48:05

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Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, in Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art and the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770 (Lund Humphries, 2023) Dr. Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book …

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Episode 373: A New Option to Fund Renovations For Chicago 2-4 Properties 10:09

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Properties for Sale on the North Side? We want to buy them. Email: [email protected] Have a vacancy? We can place your next tenant and give you back 30-40 hours of your time. Learn more: GCRealtyInc.com/tenant-placement Has Property Mgmt become an opportunity cost for you? Let us lower your risk and give you your time back to grow…