NBN Book of the Day

Erin Mayo-Adam, "Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation" (Stanford UP, 2020)

2020/12/31

Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only

K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)

2020/12/30

It is often assumed that American politics is dominated by financial elites and the 1%, who use thei

Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany" (Metropolitan, 2020)

2020/12/29

In the aftermath of World War II, a succession of mass supernatural events swept through a war-torn

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-right Circle of Global Power Brokers" (Dey Street Books, 2020)

2020/12/28

An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and th

Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason" (Simon & Schuster, 2019)

2020/12/24

Let’s face it, 2020 has been a hell of a year. We could all use a good laugh. But as historians and/

Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)

2020/12/23

In The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans (St. Martin's Press, 2020

Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)

2020/12/22

In The Camera Lies, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, author Dan Callahan spotlights the

Ben Bland, "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia" (Penguin, 2021)

2020/12/21

Joko Widodo, or “Jokowi”, as he is popularly known, famously rose from a riverside shack to become p

Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)

2020/12/18

Living in an age awash with information can sometimes obscure its extraordinary fragility. Indeed, a

Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)

2020/12/17

Sharon Marcus’s new book, The Drama of Celebrity (Princeton UP, 2020), sets out to help us understan

Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)

2020/12/16

In the United States, gun violence is in a state of national crisis, yet efforts to reform gun regul

Noel J. Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Palgrave, 2019)

2020/12/15

Noel Pinnington's A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600 (Palg

Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It" (HarperVia, 2020)

2020/12/14

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that governments matter again, that competent leadership is the d

Episodes

Erin Mayo-Adam, "Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation" (Stanford UP, 2020)

K. A. Young and M. Schwartz, "Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It" (Verso, 2020)

Monika Black, "A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post–WWII Germany" (Metropolitan, 2020)

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, "War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-right Circle of Global Power Brokers" (Dey Street Books, 2020)

Matt Christman, "The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason" (Simon & Schuster, 2019)

Eben Kirksey, "The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)

Dan Callahan, "The Camera Lies: Acting for Hitchcock" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Ben Bland, "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia" (Penguin, 2021)

Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Sharon Marcus, "The Drama of Celebrity" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Ian Ayres and Fredrick E. Vars, "Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights" (Harvard UP, 2020)

Noel J. Pinnington, "A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600" (Palgrave, 2019)

Adrian Wooldridge, "The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It" (HarperVia, 2020)

Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)

Gemma Milne, "Smoke and Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It" (Robinson, 2021)

Virginia Postrel, "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World" (Basic Books, 2020)

Paul Donovan, "Profit and Prejudice: The Luddites of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" (Routledge, 2020)

Nicolas Petit, "Big Tech and the Digital Economy: The Moligopoly Scenario" (Oxford UP, 2020)

E. Chemerinsky and H. Gillman, "The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Peter Singer, "Why Vegan?: Eating Ethically" (Liveright, 2020)