NBN Book of the Day

1528 Episodes

1. Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)

   Published: 8/27/2020
2. Lisa Selin Davis, "Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different" (Hachette Go, 2020)

   Published: 8/26/2020
3. Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)

   Published: 8/25/2020
4. Bjorn Lomborg, "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" (Basic Books, 2020)

   Published: 8/24/2020
5. Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/21/2020
6. John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality: What Really Motivates Trump’s Base and Why It Matters for the Post-Trump Era" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/20/2020
7. Jered Rubin, "Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/19/2020
8. C. Besteman and H. Gusterson, "Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World" (U Chicago Press, 2019)

   Published: 8/18/2020
9. Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States" (Harvard UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/17/2020
10. John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving their Neighbors" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 8/14/2020
11. Satyan Devadoss, "Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries" (MIT Press, 2020)

    Published: 8/13/2020
12. Christopher Newfield, "The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2016)

    Published: 8/12/2020
13. Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Quest for Medical Legitimacy" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)

    Published: 8/11/2020
14. Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)

    Published: 8/10/2020
15. Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle" (Fiction Advocate, 2020)

    Published: 8/7/2020
16. Thomas Borstelmann, "Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners" (Columbia UP, 2020)

    Published: 8/6/2020
17. W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump" (BenBella Books, 2020)

    Published: 8/5/2020
18. Samuel Morris Brown, "Joseph Smith's Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism" (Oxford UP, 2020)

    Published: 8/4/2020
19. Paula Fredriksen, "When Christians Were Jews: The First Generation" (Yale UP, 2018)

    Published: 8/3/2020
20. Sarah B. Rodriguez, "The Love Surgeon: A Story of Trust, Harm, and the Limits of Medical Regulation" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

    Published: 7/31/2020