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Anna M. Grzymała-Busse, "Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
55 mins; December 03, 2023
J. Christopher Edwards, "Crucified: The Christian Invention of the Jewish Executioners of Jesus" (Fortress Press, 2023)
75 hours 15 mins; December 02, 2023
Rachel Stephens, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture" (U Arkansas Press, 2023)
54 mins; December 01, 2023
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; November 30, 2023
Charles S. Maier, "The Project-State and Its Rivals: A New History of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries" (Harvard UP, 2023)
50 mins; November 29, 2023
Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
57 mins; November 28, 2023
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; November 27, 2023
Fae Garland and Mitchell Travis, "Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Patienthood" (Bristol UP, 2022)
56 mins; November 26, 2023
Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
45 mins; November 25, 2023
Tabitha Stanmore, "Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
53 mins; November 24, 2023
Jessi Streib, "The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
34 mins; November 23, 2023
Anne Mendelson, "Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood" (Columbia UP, 2023)
65 hours 55 mins; November 22, 2023
Providence and Power: Rabbi Meir Soloveichik on Jewish Statesmanship from King David to David Ben Gurion
53 mins; November 21, 2023
Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
54 mins; November 20, 2023
Erin Baggott Carter and Brett L. Carter, "Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
74 hours 41 mins; November 19, 2023
Nicole Eaton, "German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad" (Cornell UP, 2023)
72 hours 16 mins; November 18, 2023
Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
58 mins; November 17, 2023
Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
60 hours 26 mins; November 16, 2023
Martin Jay, "Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School under Pressure" (Verso, 2023)
82 hours 23 mins; November 15, 2023
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
78 hours 42 mins; November 14, 2023
Musab Younis, "On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought" (U California Press, 2022)
51 mins; November 13, 2023
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
54 mins; November 12, 2023
Steven Simon, "Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East" (Penguin, 2023)
60 hours 42 mins; November 11, 2023
Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
45 mins; November 10, 2023
The Future of Crucial Materials: A Discussion with Ed Conway
49 mins; November 09, 2023
Malcolm D. Evans, "Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice" (Bristol UP, 2023)
58 mins; November 08, 2023
Helen Fry, "Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars" (Yale UP, 2023)
51 mins; November 07, 2023
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2023
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
34 mins; November 05, 2023
Drew A. Swanson, "A Man of Bad Reputation: The Murder of John Stephens and the Contested Landscape of North Carolina Reconstruction" (UNC Press, 2023)
61 hours 0 mins; November 04, 2023
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, "Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality" (Hurst, 2023)
74 hours 36 mins; November 03, 2023
Wendy H. Wong, "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2023)
56 mins; November 02, 2023
The Future of Cancelling: A Conversation with Greg Lukianoff
39 mins; November 01, 2023
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
63 hours 44 mins; October 31, 2023
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
77 hours 47 mins; October 30, 2023
Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
74 hours 56 mins; October 29, 2023
Norman Solomon, "War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine" (New Press, 2023)
65 hours 46 mins; October 28, 2023
Nicole Nguyen, "Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
55 mins; October 27, 2023
Linda Kinstler, "Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends" (PublicAffairs, 2023)
43 mins; October 26, 2023
Itamar Rabinovich, "Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region" (Brookings Institution Press, 2023)
41 mins; October 25, 2023
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
50 mins; October 24, 2023
Trenton W. Holliday, "Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe" (Columbia UP, 2023)
42 mins; October 23, 2023
Philip Jenkins, "A Storm of Images: Iconoclasm and Religious Reformation in the Byzantine World" (Baylor UP, 2023)
33 mins; October 22, 2023
Danielle N. Boaz, "Voodoo: The History of a Racial Slur" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 27 mins; October 21, 2023
Stephen Robert Miller, "Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature" (Island Press, 2023)
39 mins; October 20, 2023
The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
45 mins; October 19, 2023
The Future of Incarceration: A Discussion with Colleen P. Eren
43 mins; October 18, 2023
Colin Dickey, "Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy" (Viking, 2023)
32 mins; October 17, 2023
Branko Milanovic, "Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War" (Harvard UP, 2023)
36 mins; October 16, 2023
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
58 mins; October 15, 2023
Margaret Hillenbrand, "On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
46 mins; October 14, 2023
Lucy Fulford, "The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus" (Coronet, 2023)
52 mins; October 13, 2023
Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol, "Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party" (Columbia UP, 2023)
40 mins; October 12, 2023
Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
67 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2023
Christopher M. Bellitto, "Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
60 hours 31 mins; October 10, 2023
John Arena, "Expelling Public Schools: How Antiracist Politics Enable School Privatization in Newark" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
47 mins; October 09, 2023
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
56 mins; October 08, 2023
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 07, 2023
Benjamin Savill, "England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, C. 680-1073" (Oxford UP, 2023)
62 hours 57 mins; October 06, 2023
James N. Druckman and Elizabeth A. Sharrow, "Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX's Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
88 hours 1 min; October 05, 2023
Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, "Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution" (Polity, 2023)
98 hours 37 mins; October 04, 2023
Adrian Chastain Weimer, "A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
37 mins; October 03, 2023
Rik Peels, "Life without God: An Outsider's Look at Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
43 mins; October 02, 2023
Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)
74 hours 55 mins; October 01, 2023
Aaron Tang, "Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence Is Destroying the Court--And How We Can Fix It" (Yale UP, 2023)
52 mins; September 30, 2023
Michael D. Smith, "The Abundant University: Remaking Higher Education for a Digital World" (MIT Press, 2023)
62 hours 30 mins; September 29, 2023
Jared Davidson, "Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand" (Bridget Williams Books, 2023)
Dylan C. Penningroth, "Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights" (Liveright, 2023)
107 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2023
Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
53 mins; September 25, 2023
The Future of Ukraine: A Discussion with Christopher Miller
44 mins; September 24, 2023
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in Democratic States" (Routledge, 2023)
74 hours 23 mins; September 23, 2023
Jack Schneider and Ethan L. Hutt, "Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don't Have To)" (Harvard UP, 2023)
38 mins; September 22, 2023
Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
52 mins; September 21, 2023
Molly Ladd-Taylor, "Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
37 mins; September 20, 2023
Maria Smilios, "The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
41 mins; September 19, 2023
Ian Patel, "We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire" (Verso, 2021)
61 hours 24 mins; September 18, 2023
Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)
62 hours 39 mins; September 17, 2023
Christopher F. Zurn, "Splitsville USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking Up the United States" (Routledge, 2023)
80 hours 4 mins; September 16, 2023
Zachary Parolin, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19" (Russell Sage Foundation, 2023)
31 mins; September 15, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
77 hours 6 mins; September 14, 2023
Michèle Lamont, "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works-And How It Can Heal a Divided World" (Atria, 2023)
36 mins; September 13, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
34 mins; September 12, 2023
The Future of Secularization: A Discussion with Ryan Cragun
35 mins; September 11, 2023
Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
65 hours 35 mins; September 10, 2023
Ryan Tucker Jones, "Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
59 mins; September 09, 2023
Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler, "Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
50 mins; September 08, 2023
Michael S. Roth, "The Student: A Short History" (Yale UP, 2023)
45 mins; September 07, 2023
Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
54 mins; September 06, 2023
Mike Pesca, "Upon Further Review: The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History" (Twelve, 2018)
44 mins; September 05, 2023
Alexander Stille, "The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune" (FSG, 2023)
44 mins; September 04, 2023
John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
61 hours 28 mins; September 03, 2023
Ari Ezra Waldman, "Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
35 mins; September 02, 2023
Kathryn J. Edin et al., "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America" (Mariner Books, 2023)
33 mins; September 01, 2023
Sarah R. Coleman, "The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
47 mins; August 31, 2023
Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
42 mins; August 30, 2023
On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
62 hours 29 mins; August 29, 2023
David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
69 hours 43 mins; August 28, 2023
Gary Smith, "Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
36 mins; August 27, 2023
Chris Dietz, "Self-Declaration in the Legal Recognition of Gender" (Routledge, 2022)
