On this edition of Conversations, Lucy Spelman talks with host Dan Skinner about the second edition of the “National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia.”

On this edition of Conversations, Anita Hill talks with host Dan Skinner about “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.” Hill is University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. After the 1991 Senate confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, Hill became a leading figure in the fight for women's rights and against gender-based violence.

On this edition of Conversations, Leonard Rubenstein talks with host Dan Skinner about “Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War.” Rubenstein is the former executive director and president of Physicians for Human Rights and a globally recognized expert on violence against health care.

On this edition of Conversations, Kwame Mbalia talks with host Dan Skinner about the final novel in the Tristan Strong trilogy, “Tristan Strong Keeps Punching.” Mbalia is the best-selling author of “Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky,” for which he received a Coretta Scott King Author Honor award. The second book in the trilogy is “Tristan Strong Destroys the World.”

On this edition of Conversations Joel Sartore talks with host Dan Skinner about “Photo Ark Wonders: Celebrating Diversity in the Animal Kingdom” and “The Photo Ark ABC: An Animal Alphabet in Poetry and Pictures.” Sartore is a photographer, author, teacher, conservationist, regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, and the founder of the National Geographic Photo Ark.

On this edition of Conversations, Charles Foster talks with host Dan Skinner about “Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness.” Foster is a legal scholar, veterinary surgeon and naturalist. He has written on travel, evolutionary biology, natural history, anthropology and philosophy. His other books include “The Sacred Journey” and “Being a Beast.”

On this edition of Conversations, Paul Hawken talks with host Dan Skinner about “Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation.” Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment.

On this edition of Conversations, Claude A. Clegg III talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Black President – Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama.” Clegg III is the Lyle V. Jones Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His previous books include “An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad” and “Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South.”

What happens when a stalker becomes stalked? On this edition of Conversations, Lee Matthew Goldberg talks with host Dan Skinner about his latest novel, “Stalker Stalked.” Goldberg is the author of eight novels including “The Ancestor,” “Orange City,” “The Mentor” and the Young Adult series “Runaway Train.”

On this edition of Conversations, Amanda Hesser talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Lovingly Revised and Exceedingly Cookable.” Hesser is founder and CEO of Food52. She was a reporter, feature writer, and food editor at the New York Times and wrote several award-winning books, including “Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes” and “The Cook and the Gardener.”