NBN Book of the Day

1528 Episodes

1. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)

   Published: 4/16/2024
2. Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/15/2024
3. Rasmus Winther, "Our Genes: A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/14/2024
4. Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/13/2024
5. David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts, "Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine" (Harper, 2023)

   Published: 4/12/2024
6. Robert D. Kaplan, "The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China" (Random House, 2023)

   Published: 4/11/2024
7. Eric Schwitzgebel, "The Weirdness of the World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

   Published: 4/10/2024
8. Sumita Pahwa, "Politics as Worship: Righteous Activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brothers" (Syracuse UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/9/2024
9. Christopher Michael Blakley, "Empire of Brutality: Enslaved People and Animals in the British Atlantic World" (Louisiana State UP, 2023)

   Published: 4/8/2024
10. Jonathan W. Hackett, "Theory of Irregular War" (McFarland, 2024)

    Published: 4/7/2024
11. Joseph M. Thompson, "Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism" (UNC Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/6/2024
12. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, "The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" (Bloomsbury. 2023)

    Published: 4/5/2024
13. Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

    Published: 4/4/2024
14. Marc Masters, "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape" (UNC Press, 2023)

    Published: 4/3/2024
15. Matthieu Grandpierron, "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2024)

    Published: 4/2/2024
16. Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)

    Published: 4/1/2024
17. Huaping Lu-Adler, "Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/31/2024
18. Matthew H. Hersch, "Dark Star: A New History of the Space Shuttle" (MIT Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/30/2024
19. Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/29/2024
20. Ignacio Cofone, "The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/28/2024