NBN Book of the Day

1523 Episodes

1. Kristin Hass, "Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices" (Beacon Press, 2022)

   Published: 3/26/2023
2. Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S Jacobs, "Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor" (U California Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/25/2023
3. David J. Halperin, "Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO" (Stanford UP, 2020)

   Published: 3/24/2023
4. Todd McGowan, "Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets" (Columbia UP, 2016)

   Published: 3/23/2023
5. Leigh Goodmark, "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism" (U California Press, 2023)

   Published: 3/22/2023
6. Nadia Abu El-Haj, "Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America" (Verso, 2022)

   Published: 3/21/2023
7. Alexis James, "Unsung: Not All Heroes Wear Kits" (Pitch Publishing, 2023)

   Published: 3/20/2023
8. Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)

   Published: 3/19/2023
9. Michael Walzer, "The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On 'Liberal' As an Adjective" (Yale UP, 2023)

   Published: 3/18/2023
10. Bleddyn E. Bowen, "Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/17/2023
11. Bradford Vivian, "Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher Education" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/15/2023
12. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran, "Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race" (Harvard UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/14/2023
13. Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren, "The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

    Published: 3/13/2023
14. Toby Green and Thomas Fazi, "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor—A Critique from the Left" (Hurst, 2023)

    Published: 3/12/2023
15. Richard Thompson Ford, "Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)

    Published: 3/11/2023
16. Ross Melnick, "Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World" (Columbia UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/10/2023
17. Xin Wen, "The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road" (Princeton UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/9/2023
18. Miguel Sicart, "Playing Software: Homo Ludens in Computational Culture" (MIT Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/8/2023
19. Elizabeth Cobbs, "Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé" (Harvard UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/7/2023
20. Rohit De, "A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic" (Princeton UP, 2018)

    Published: 3/6/2023