NBN Book of the Day

1524 Episodes

1. John Jeffries Martin, "A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World" (Yale UP, 2022)

   Published: 10/27/2022
2. Ron E. Hassner, "Anatomy of Torture" (Cornell UP, 2022)

   Published: 10/26/2022
3. Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools

   Published: 10/25/2022
4. Kwame Edwin Otu, "Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 10/24/2022
5. Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)

   Published: 10/21/2022
6. Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

   Published: 10/20/2022
7. John Briscoe, "Crush: The Triumph of California Wine" (U Nevada Press, 2018)

   Published: 10/19/2022
8. David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)

   Published: 10/18/2022
9. Kimberly Kay Hoang, "Spiderweb Capitalism: How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 10/17/2022
10. Sherry Boschert, "37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination" (New Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/14/2022
11. Geert Lovink, "Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the Internet" (Valiz, 2022)

    Published: 10/13/2022
12. P. E. Caquet, "Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

    Published: 10/12/2022
13. Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/11/2022
14. Gabriel Levy, "Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion" (MIT Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/10/2022
15. Joseph Blankholm, "The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious" (NYU Press, 2022)

    Published: 10/7/2022
16. Adam Adatto Sandel, "Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life" (Harvard UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/6/2022
17. Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)

    Published: 10/5/2022
18. C. Thi Nguyen, "Games: Agency as Art" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 10/4/2022
19. Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam" (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 10/3/2022
20. Noah Shusterman, "Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

    Published: 9/30/2022