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Gary Rivlin, "AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash In on Artificial Intelligence" (Harper Collins, 2025)

65 hours 23 mins; August 20, 2025

James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)

52 mins; August 14, 2025

Philip Carr-Gomm, "A Brief History of Nakedness" (Reaktion, 2010)

32 mins; August 13, 2025

Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)

43 mins; August 12, 2025

Vijay Selvam, "Principles of Bitcoin: Technology, Economics, Politics, and Philosophy" (Columbia UP, 2025)

58 mins; August 11, 2025

Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa, "Africa's New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, 2022)

115 hours 57 mins; August 10, 2025

Paul Thagard, "Bots and Beasts: What Makes Machines, Animals, and People Smart?" (MIT Press, 2021)

59 mins; August 09, 2025

Nathan Wainstein, "Grant Us Eyes: The Art of Paradox in Bloodborne" (2025)

24 mins; August 08, 2025

David J. Helfand, "The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom" (Columbia UP, 2023)

62 hours 13 mins; August 07, 2025

Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)

43 mins; August 06, 2025

Jean-Marc Coicaud, "The Law and Politics of International Legitimacy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

40 mins; August 05, 2025

Lizzie Wade, "Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures" (Harper, 2025)

89 hours 26 mins; August 04, 2025

Dan Reiter, "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

43 mins; August 03, 2025

Bradley Morgan, "Frank Zappa's America" (LSU Press, 2025)

48 mins; August 02, 2025

Martin Shuster, "Critical Theory: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024)

44 mins; August 01, 2025

On Bullshit in AI

20 mins; July 31, 2025

Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)

49 mins; July 30, 2025

Michael Vorenberg, "Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War" (Knopf, 2025))

97 hours 56 mins; July 29, 2025

Hanno Sauer, "The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality " (Oxford UP, 2024)

73 hours 3 mins; July 28, 2025

Sarah Teasley, "Designing Modern Japan" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

105 hours 12 mins; July 27, 2025

Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao, "Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise" (Yale UP, 2022)

49 mins; July 26, 2025

Robyn Arianrhod, "Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation" (U of Chicago Press, 2024)

71 hours 46 mins; July 25, 2025

Amir Hussain, "One God and Two Religions: Christians and Muslims as Neighbors" (Fortress Press, 2025)

59 mins; July 24, 2025

Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (Harper, 2025)

65 hours 13 mins; July 23, 2025

Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)

80 hours 56 mins; July 22, 2025

Ketian Zhang, "China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

73 hours 57 mins; July 20, 2025

How ClioVis is Transforming Education and Historical Research

22 mins; July 19, 2025

David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "See Jane Run: How Women Politicians Matter for Young People" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

59 mins; July 17, 2025

Kelly A. Spring, "SPAM: A Global History" (Reaktion, 2025)

34 mins; July 16, 2025

On Bullshit in Politics

33 mins; July 12, 2025

Phil Tiemeyer, "Women and the Jet Age: A Global History of Aviation and Flight Attendants" (Cornell UP, 2025)

55 mins; July 11, 2025

Andrew S. Berish, "Hating Jazz: A History of Its Disparagement, Mockery, and Other Forms of Abuse" (U of Chicago Press, 2025)

76 hours 3 mins; July 10, 2025

Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

88 hours 8 mins; July 09, 2025

Myles Lennon, "Subjects of the Sun: Solar Energy in the Shadows of Racial Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2025)

70 hours 47 mins; July 08, 2025

Genocide Studies International Partners with New Books Network

39 mins; July 07, 2025

John Bardes, "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" (UNC Press, 2024)

48 mins; July 05, 2025

Didi Kuo, "The Great Retreat: How Political Parties Should Behave and Why They Don't" (Oxford UP, 2025)

55 mins; July 04, 2025

Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

46 mins; July 03, 2025

Michael Cook, "A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity" (Princeton UP, 2024)

79 hours 2 mins; July 02, 2025

Minxin Pei, "The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China" (Harvard UP, 2024)

39 mins; July 01, 2025

Jack Snyder, "Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times" (Princeton UP, 2024)

48 mins; June 30, 2025

Paul R. Beckett, "An Anatomy of Tax Havens: Europe, the Caribbean and the United States of America" (de Gruyter, 2023)

64 hours 21 mins; June 29, 2025

Ian Kumekawa, "Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge" (Knopf, 2025)

44 mins; June 27, 2025

Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)

38 mins; June 26, 2025

Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)

91 hours 12 mins; June 25, 2025

Christopher Clarey, "The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay" (Grand Central Publishing, 2025)

75 hours 22 mins; June 24, 2025

The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi

36 mins; June 23, 2025

Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

42 mins; June 22, 2025

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)

44 mins; June 20, 2025

Chris Horton, "Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival" (MacMillan, 2025)

64 hours 40 mins; June 19, 2025

Violet Moller, "Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe" (OneWorld, 2024)

40 mins; June 18, 2025

Frederick Reece, "Forgery in Musical Composition: Aesthetics, History, and the Canon" (Oxford University Press, 2025)

64 hours 7 mins; June 17, 2025

Ben Snyder on Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment

61 hours 34 mins; June 16, 2025

Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025)

30 mins; June 13, 2025

Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)

106 hours 15 mins; June 12, 2025

Jeffrey P. Rogg, "The Spy and the State: The History of American Intelligence" (Oxford UP, 2025)

64 hours 58 mins; June 09, 2025

Sladja Blažan, "Ghosts and Their Hosts: The Colonization of the Invisible World in Early America" (University of Virginia Press, 2025)

53 mins; June 08, 2025

NATO, the Indo-Pacific, and the Future of Burden-Sharing: A Conversation with Brian Blankenship

47 mins; June 07, 2025

Joseph Torigian, "The Party’s Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping" (Stanford UP, 2025)

102 hours 59 mins; June 05, 2025

Christoph Schuringa, "Karl Marx and the Actualization of Philosophy" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

51 mins; June 04, 2025

Robert Garland, "What to Expect When You're Dead: An Ancient Tour of Death and the Afterlife" (Princeton UP, 2025)

53 mins; June 02, 2025

Lina Pinto-García, "Maraña: War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

64 hours 34 mins; May 31, 2025

Amit Ron and Abraham A. Singer, "Everyone's Business: What Companies Owe Society" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

54 mins; May 29, 2025

Keir Giles, "Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent" (Hurst & Co., 2024)

42 mins; May 28, 2025

Samuel Western, "The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies" (UP of Kansas)

47 mins; May 27, 2025

Dmitri N. Shalin, "Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination" (Routledge, 2024)

164 hours 13 mins; May 25, 2025

Jennifer T. Roberts, "Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture" (Princeton UP, 2024)

98 hours 33 mins; May 24, 2025

Claire Knight, "Stalin's Final Films: Cinema, Socialist Realism, and Soviet Postwar Reality, 1945-1953" (Cornell UP, 2024)

86 hours 23 mins; May 23, 2025

Matthew Shindell, "Lunar: A History of the Moon in Myths, Maps and Matter" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

75 hours 9 mins; May 22, 2025

Derek J. Penslar, "Zionism: An Emotional State" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

62 hours 12 mins; May 21, 2025

Quentin Skinner, "Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

57 mins; May 20, 2025

Alan Strathern, "Converting Rulers: Global Patterns, 1450-1850" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

81 hours 1 min; May 19, 2025

Dennis Ross, "Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Survive in a Multipolar World" (Oxford UP, 2025)

54 mins; May 18, 2025

Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)

57 mins; May 17, 2025

Eric Heinze, "Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left" (MIT Press, 2025)

74 hours 54 mins; May 16, 2025

Noel Rubinton, "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" (Princeton UP, 2025)

46 mins; May 15, 2025

Rochelle Rojas, "Bad Christians and Hanging Toads: Witch Crafting in Northern Spain, 1525–1675" (Cornell UP, 2025)

45 mins; May 14, 2025

Brian VanDeMark, "Kent State: An American Tragedy" (Norton, 2024)

52 mins; May 13, 2025

Elaine Pagels, "Miracles and Wonder:The Historical Mystery of Jesus" (Doubleday, 2025)

39 mins; May 12, 2025

Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023)

80 hours 41 mins; May 11, 2025

Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World

35 mins; May 10, 2025

Ruth Braunstein, "My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America" (Princeton UP, 2025)

73 hours 18 mins; May 09, 2025

Jake Monaghan, "Just Policing" (Oxford UP, 2023)

64 hours 21 mins; May 08, 2025

Katherine Stewart, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

57 mins; May 07, 2025

Eunji Kim, "The American Mirage: How Reality TV Upholds the Myth of Meritocracy" (Princeton UP, 2025)

39 mins; May 06, 2025

Liz Pelly, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist" (Atria, 2025)

89 hours 18 mins; May 05, 2025

Charlie English, "The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War" (Random House, 2025)

47 mins; May 04, 2025

Simon Mayall, "The House of War: The Struggle Between Christendom and the Caliphate" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

71 hours 54 mins; May 03, 2025

Miles Pattenden, "Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450-1700" (Oxford UP, 2017)

54 mins; May 02, 2025

Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian, "The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform" (Yale UP, 2024)

41 mins; May 01, 2025

Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner, "Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts" (Eerdmans, 2025)

71 hours 57 mins; April 30, 2025

Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)

48 mins; April 29, 2025

Nat Dyer, "Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray" (Bristol UP, 2024)

81 hours 22 mins; April 28, 2025

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

55 mins; April 27, 2025

Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

39 mins; April 26, 2025

William Kiser, "The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America" (Yale UP, 2025)

66 hours 55 mins; April 25, 2025

Steven Hahn, "Illiberal America: A History" (Norton, 2024)

51 mins; April 24, 2025

Adam Kissel et al., "Slacking: A Guide to Ivy League Miseducation" (Encounter Books, 2025)

50 mins; April 23, 2025

Peter B. Kaufman, "The Moving Image: A User's Manual" (MIT Press, 2025)

52 mins; April 22, 2025

Saleem H. Ali, "Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

46 mins; April 21, 2025

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