New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Raghuveer Parthasarathy, "So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World" (Princeton UP, 2022)

   Published: 2/15/2022
2. Aubrey Clayton, "Bernoulli's Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science" (Columbia UP, 2021)

   Published: 2/10/2022
3. Neil Vallelly, "Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness" (MIT Press, 2021)

   Published: 1/26/2022
4. Helga Nowotny, "In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms" (Polity, 2021)

   Published: 1/20/2022
5. Bradley Schurman, "The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny" (Harper Business, 2022)

   Published: 1/18/2022
6. Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)

   Published: 1/14/2022
7. Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism" (Duke UP, 2021)

   Published: 1/7/2022
8. Robert W. Baloh and Robert E. Bartholomew, "Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria" (Copernicus, 2020)

   Published: 1/4/2022
9. Seth David Radwell, "American Schism: How the Two Enlightenments Hold the Secret to Healing our Nation" (Greenleaf, 2021)

   Published: 12/29/2021
10. Andrew Zitcer, "Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/28/2021
11. Gabriel Yoran, "The Interfact: On Structure and Compatibility in Object-Oriented Ontology" (Open Humanities Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/24/2021
12. Roger Mac Ginty, "Everyday Peace: How So-Called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 12/22/2021
13. Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)

    Published: 12/15/2021
14. Jason Lyall, "Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War" (Princeton UP, 2020)

    Published: 12/14/2021
15. Jeremy Lent, "The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe" (New Society, 2021)

    Published: 12/14/2021
16. Paul Collier, "The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties" (Harper, 2019)

    Published: 11/30/2021
17. Eva von Redecker, "Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2021)

    Published: 11/29/2021
18. Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)

    Published: 11/19/2021
19. Daniel K. L. Chua and Alexander Rehding, "Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music from Earth" (Zone Book, 2021)

    Published: 11/16/2021
20. Steve Katsouros, "Come to Believe: How Jesuits Are Reinventing Education (Again)" (Orbis, 2017)

    Published: 11/15/2021