New Books in Big Ideas

807 Episodes

1. Cass Sunstein, “Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 9/1/2015
2. Christine Desan, “Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 8/25/2015
3. Tom Jackson, “Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

   Published: 8/19/2015
4. William Davies, “The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being” (Verso, 2015)

   Published: 8/18/2015
5. Gyanendra Pandey, “A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States” (Cambridge UP, 2013)

   Published: 8/14/2015
6. Craig Martin, “Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie” (Bloomsbury, 2014)

   Published: 8/4/2015
7. John H. Walton, “The Lost World of Adam and Eve: Genesis 2-3 and the Human Origins Debate” (IVP Academic, 2015)

   Published: 7/24/2015
8. Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)

   Published: 7/21/2015
9. William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis, “Real College Debt Crisis” (Praeger, 2015)

   Published: 7/20/2015
10. Kocku von Stuckrad, “The Scientification of Religion: An Historical Study of Discursive Change, 1800-2000” (De Gruyter, 2014)

    Published: 7/6/2015
11. Iain W. Provan, “Seriously Dangerous Religion: What the Old Testament Really Says and Why It Matters” (Baylor UP, 2014)

    Published: 7/6/2015
12. James Laine, “Meta-Religion: Religion and Power in World History” (U of California Press, 2015)

    Published: 6/23/2015
13. Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)

    Published: 6/12/2015
14. J. Bronsteen, C. Buccafusco, and J. S. Masur, “Happiness and the Law” (U Chicago Press, 2014)

    Published: 5/12/2015
15. Robin Grier and Jerry F. Hough, “The Long Process of Development” (Cambridge UP, 2014)

    Published: 5/11/2015
16. Eben Kirksey, “The Multispecies Salon” (Duke University Press, 2014)

    Published: 5/10/2015
17. Thom van Dooren, “Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction” (Columbia UP, 2014)

    Published: 4/17/2015
18. Robert W. Gehl, “Reverse Engineering Social Media” (Temple UP, 2014)

    Published: 4/13/2015
19. Robert Putnam, “Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis” (Simon and Schuster, 2015)

    Published: 3/23/2015
20. Rick Strassman, “DMT and the Soul of Prophecy” (Park Street Press, 2014)

    Published: 3/15/2015