On this edition of Conversations, Jessica Fanzo talks with host Dan Skinner about “Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?” Fanzo is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Global Food & Agricultural Policy and Ethics at Johns Hopkins University, where she is the director of the Global Food Ethics and Policy Program.

What is pleasure? On this edition of Conversations, Dr. Jia Gottlieb talks with host Dan Skinner about “aah… The Pleasure Book.” Dr. Gottlieb founded the Still Mountain Clinic in Boulder, Colorado, where he provides patients a unique therapeutic approach based on his extensive training in both Western medicine and Eastern healing arts.

On this edition of Conversations, Serena Valentino talks with host Dan Skinner about the latest edition to her Villains Series, a new take on Cinderella’s evil stepmother. It’s called “Cold Hearted.” Valentino has earned critical acclaim for her unique style of storytelling, combining both beauty and terror.

On this edition of Conversations, Barbara Hofer and Gale Sinatra join host Dan Skinner to talk about “Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It.” Hofer is a Professor of Psychology Emerita at Middlebury College and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Sinatra is a Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Southern California.

On this edition of Conversations, Chris Tomlinson talks with host Dan Skinner about “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth.” Tomlinson is a columnist for the “Houston Chronicle” and the “San Antonio Express-News” and the author of the bestselling “Tomlinson Hill” about his family's slave-owning history in Texas.

On this edition of Conversations, Christina Hillsberg talks with host Dan Skinner about “License to Parent: How My Career as a Spy Helped Me Raise Resourceful, Self-Sufficient Kids.” Hillsberg is a former CIA intelligence analyst, writer and mom of five.

On this edition of Conversations, Peter T. Coleman talks with host Dan Skinner about “The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization.” Coleman is professor of psychology and education at Columbia University. He is the author of “Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement” and “The Five Percent: Finding Solutions to Seemingly Impossible Conflicts” among other books.

On this edition of Conversations, Jenny Elder Moke talks with host Dan Skinner about her latest novel, “Curse of the Specter Queen.” Her previous novel is "Hood," a re-imagining of the Robin Hood tale. She is a member of the Texas Writer’s League and was a finalist in the 2017 Austin Film Festival Fiction Podcast Script Competition.

On this edition of Conversations, Anita Silvey talks with host Dan Skinner about “Unforgotten: The Wild Life of Dian Fossey and Her Relentless Quest to Save Mountain Gorillas.” With her latest book for National Geographic Kids, Anita Silvey completes a trilogy of biographies about female researchers who chose to study primates. The two previous books are “Undaunted: The Wild Life of Birute Mary Galdikas and Her Fearless Quest to Save Orangutans” and “Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall.”

On this edition of Conversations, Jonathan Balcombe talks with host Dan Skinner about “Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects.” Balcombe is a biologist with a PhD in ethology, the study of animal behavior, and is the author of four popular science books on the inner lives of animals including the bestselling “What a Fish Knows.”