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Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
91 hours 47 mins; August 25, 2023
Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
101 hours 40 mins; August 24, 2023
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America" (Basic Books, 2023)
35 mins; August 23, 2023
Postscript: Guns, Violence, and the Law: How Federal Courts are Trying to Figure Out the Second Amendment
52 mins; August 22, 2023
Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, "We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care" (Penguin, 2023)
56 mins; August 21, 2023
Peter Moore, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)" ( FSG, 2023)
70 hours 26 mins; August 20, 2023
Samuel Moyn, "Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times" (Yale UP, 2023)
49 mins; August 19, 2023
The Future of Traditionalism: A Discussion with Mark J. Sedgwick
49 mins; August 18, 2023
Don J. Wyatt, "Slavery in East Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
44 mins; August 17, 2023
Lauren S. Foley, "On the Basis of Race: How Higher Education Navigates Affirmative Action Policies" (NYU Press, 2023)
35 mins; August 16, 2023
Benjamin Y. Fong, "Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge" (Verso, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2023
Nicholas Tochka, "Rocking in the Free World: Popular Music and the Politics of Freedom in Postwar America" (Oxford UP, 2023)
52 mins; August 13, 2023
Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)
45 mins; August 13, 2023
Kris Marsh, "The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
64 hours 57 mins; August 12, 2023
Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
78 hours 50 mins; August 11, 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
43 mins; August 10, 2023
Andrii Portnov, "Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
60 hours 17 mins; August 09, 2023
Steven Press, "Blood and Diamonds: Germany's Imperial Ambitions in Africa" (Harvard UP, 2021)
82 hours 36 mins; August 08, 2023
Philip Roscoe, "How to Build a Stock Exchange: The Past, Present and Future of Finance" (Bristol UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 07, 2023
Mike Rothschild, "Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories" (Melville House, 2023)
49 mins; August 06, 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
42 mins; August 05, 2023
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, "Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America" (UNC Press, 2023)
57 mins; August 04, 2023
Rudi Matthee, "Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop's Door: A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World" (Oxford UP, 2023)
44 mins; August 03, 2023
Colleen M. Grogan, "Grow and Hide: The History of America's Health Care State" (Oxford UP, 2023)
40 mins; August 02, 2023
D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
46 mins; August 01, 2023
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIveright, 2023)
45 mins; July 31, 2023
Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)
68 hours 24 mins; July 30, 2023
Yonatan Adler, "The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal" (Yale UP, 2022)
84 hours 15 mins; July 29, 2023
Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023)
45 mins; July 28, 2023
Petra Bueskens, "Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract" (Routledge, 2018)
69 hours 0 mins; July 27, 2023
Syed Ali and Margaret M. Chin, "The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become" (NYU Press, 2023)
53 mins; July 26, 2023
Vincanne Adams, "Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move" (Duke UP, 2023)
57 mins; July 25, 2023
Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023
Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; July 23, 2023
Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2023
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; July 21, 2023
Scott E. Simon, "Truly Human: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
44 mins; July 20, 2023
Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022)
48 mins; July 19, 2023
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
58 mins; July 18, 2023
Michele Meek, "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (Indiana UP, 2023)
47 mins; July 17, 2023
Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, "Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It" (Basic Books, 2023)
61 hours 11 mins; July 16, 2023
Stephen Bright and James Kwak, "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts" (The New Press, 2023)
46 mins; July 15, 2023
Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
63 hours 20 mins; July 14, 2023
Marco Grasso, "From Big Oil to Big Green: Holding the Oil Industry to Account for the Climate Crisis" (MIT Press, 2022)
35 mins; July 13, 2023
Randall Patnode, "The Synchronized Society: Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
52 mins; July 12, 2023
Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
65 hours 45 mins; July 11, 2023
Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
53 mins; July 10, 2023
Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
53 mins; July 09, 2023
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
43 mins; July 08, 2023
Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)
32 mins; July 07, 2023
James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
59 mins; July 06, 2023
Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn C. Higgins, "Believability: Sexual Violence, Media, and the Politics of Doubt" (Polity Press, 2023)
52 mins; July 05, 2023
Jennifer Caplan, "Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; July 04, 2023
Malcolm F. Purinton, "Globalization in a Glass: The Rise of Pilsner Beer through Technology, Taste and Empire" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
47 mins; July 03, 2023
Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, "Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother" (Seal Press, 2023)
50 mins; July 02, 2023
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
66 hours 43 mins; July 01, 2023
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
79 hours 49 mins; June 30, 2023
Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan SĂĽleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
66 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2023
Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
48 mins; June 28, 2023
David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
37 mins; June 27, 2023
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
62 hours 59 mins; June 26, 2023
Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; June 24, 2023
Robert Falconer, "The Others Within Us: Internal Family Systems, Porous Mind, and Spirit Possession" (Great Mystery Press, 2023)
54 mins; June 23, 2023
Anna Della Subin, "Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire, and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
82 hours 8 mins; June 22, 2023
James Hannam, "The Globe: How the Earth Became Round" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
47 mins; June 22, 2023
Lisabeth During, "The Chastity Plot" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
38 mins; June 21, 2023
The Future of Venture Capitalists: A Discussion with Sebastian Mallaby
38 mins; June 20, 2023
The History of the American Shopping Mall and Its Cultures
67 hours 55 mins; June 19, 2023
Keith Tribe, "Constructing Economic Science: The Invention of a Discipline 1850-1950" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 25 mins; June 18, 2023
Chris Manias, "The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, and Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
53 mins; June 17, 2023
Chris Impey, "Worlds Without End: Exoplanets, Habitability, and the Future of Humanity" (MIT Press, 2023)
32 mins; June 16, 2023
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
76 hours 0 mins; June 15, 2023
Peter Baldwin, "Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All" (MIT Press, 2023)
34 mins; June 14, 2023
The Future of Politicized Narratives: A Discussion with Andreas Krieg
55 mins; June 13, 2023
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, "Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
61 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2023
R. T. Howard, "Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler" (Oxford UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 11, 2023
Patrick J. Charles, "Vote Gun: How Gun Rights Became Politicized in the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; June 10, 2023
Amanda L. Van Lanen, "The Washington Apple: Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2022)
48 mins; June 09, 2023
Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
50 mins; June 08, 2023
Robin James, "The Future of Rock and Roll: 97X WOXY and the Fight for True Independence" (UNC Press, 2023)
63 hours 24 mins; June 07, 2023
Erik J. Dahl, "The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure: Why Warning Was Not Enough" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
61 hours 4 mins; June 06, 2023
Xiaomei Chen, "Performing the Socialist State: Modern Chinese Theater and Film Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
34 mins; June 05, 2023
Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, "The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States" (Columbia UP, 2023)
90 hours 34 mins; June 04, 2023
The Future of Big Finance: A Discussion with Anastasia Nesvetailova
46 mins; June 03, 2023
Patrick Jory, "A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
48 mins; June 02, 2023
Amber Knight and Joshua Miller, "Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice" (Oxford UP, 2023)
38 mins; June 01, 2023
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
55 mins; May 31, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
36 mins; May 30, 2023
Jaime Green, "The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Vision of the Cosmos" (Hanover Square Press, 2023)
56 mins; May 29, 2023
Bart D. Ehrman, "Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
37 mins; May 28, 2023
NaoĂse Mac Sweeney, "The West: A New History of an Old Idea" (Dutton, 2023)
42 mins; May 27, 2023
Evelyn Alsultany, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion" (NYU Press, 2022)
61 hours 9 mins; May 26, 2023
Robert F. Trager and Joslyn N. Barnhart, "The Suffragist Peace: How Women's Votes Lead to Fewer Wars" (Oxford UP, 2022)
66 hours 5 mins; May 25, 2023
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, "Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
66 hours 0 mins; May 24, 2023
Rosamond McKitterick, "Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
49 mins; May 23, 2023
Rebecca BrĂĽckmann, "Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregation" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
70 hours 42 mins; May 22, 2023
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, "We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism" (Bristol UP, 2023)
45 mins; May 21, 2023
Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
43 mins; May 20, 2023
Kathryn J. McGarr, "City of Newsmen: Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
64 hours 20 mins; May 19, 2023
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
