NBN Book of the Day

1516 Episodes

1. Stefanos Geroulanos, "The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins" (Liveright, 2024)

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

   Published: 4/3/2024
3. 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
4. Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)

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

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

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

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

   Published: 3/28/2024
9. Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

   Published: 3/27/2024
10. Anita R. Gohdes, "Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 3/26/2024
11. Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/25/2024
12. Colette Cann and Eric Demeulenaere, "The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change" (Myers Education Press, 2020)

    Published: 3/24/2024
13. Lillian Guerra, "Patriots and Traitors in Revolutionary Cuba, 1961-1981" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)

    Published: 3/23/2024
14. Anelise Hanson Shrout, "Aiding Ireland: The Great Famine and the Rise of Transnational Philanthropy" (NYU Press, 2024)

    Published: 3/22/2024
15. Beth Linker, "Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/21/2024
16. Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/20/2024
17. Colin Elliott, "Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World" (Princeton UP, 2024)

    Published: 3/19/2024
18. Dan Stone, "The Holocaust: An Unfinished History" (Mariner Books, 2023)

    Published: 3/18/2024
19. Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)

    Published: 3/17/2024
20. Ruth A. Morgan, "Climate Change and International History: Climate Diplomacy in the Global North and South Since 1950" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

    Published: 3/16/2024