New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)

   Published: 9/19/2019
2. Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)

   Published: 9/9/2019
3. Charles King, "Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century" (Doubleday, 2019)

   Published: 9/4/2019
4. Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

   Published: 8/9/2019
5. Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower" (Cornell UP, 2018)

   Published: 8/7/2019
6. Stefan Al, "Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies" (Island Press, 2018)

   Published: 8/5/2019
7. Violet Moller, "The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" (Doubleday, 2019)

   Published: 7/31/2019
8. John Quiggen, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)

   Published: 7/29/2019
9. David R. Montgomery, "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life" (W. W. Norton, 2018)

   Published: 7/26/2019
10. Paul Sutter, "Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence" (Prometheus, 2018)

    Published: 7/18/2019
11. Donald Stoker, "Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

    Published: 7/8/2019
12. Joan Wallach Scott, "Sex and Secularism" (Princeton UP, 2017)

    Published: 7/2/2019
13. Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty Trap" (Cornell UP, 2016)

    Published: 7/2/2019
14. Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvard UP, 2019)

    Published: 7/1/2019
15. Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory" (Atlas Publishing, 2019)

    Published: 6/28/2019
16. Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Dueling Facts in American Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 6/26/2019
17. Michael Ruse, "A Meaning to Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 6/10/2019
18. Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 5/31/2019
19. Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Prevention" (RAND Corporation, 2019)

    Published: 5/30/2019
20. Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)

    Published: 5/27/2019