Monthly Archive: October, 2009

October 16, 2009

THES reviews Christopher Davidson's Abu Dhabi

In a recent review the Times Higher Education Supplement praises Christopher Davidson’s latest book, Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond, writing, “Specialists and non-specialists will be treated to a critical yet deeply sympathetic account of the raison d’etre and very identity...

October 15, 2009

More from Paul Offit on the flu vaccine

On Monday, NPR’s Talk of the Nation interviewed Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. about the swine flu vaccine. Dr. Offit was a guest as result of his...

October 14, 2009

Africa's new financial apartheid, by R. Glenn Hubbard

Yesterday, R. Glenn Hubbard, author of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty contributed an op-ed on the Web site for Fortune. In the essay, Hubbard argues that while African nations have opened up to foreign trade and investment,...

October 14, 2009

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October 13, 2009

Paul Offit on the Flu Vaccine

In his book Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, Paul Offit makes a scientific and medical case against those who have claimed a link between autism and vaccines. Fear has now spread to...

October 9, 2009

Interview with Alex Danchev, author of Art and War and Terror

The following is an interview with Alex Danchev, author of On Art and War and Terror. (The book is currently on sale during our special offer on politics, political theory, and political science theory titles.) Question: Art and war and...

October 8, 2009

Toby Talbot at the Hamptons International Film Festival

The Hamptons International Film Festival kicks off today and continues through the Columbus Day weekend. Some of the highlights for this year’s festival includes the U.S. premier of Heath Ledger’s last film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Among the many...

October 8, 2009

The Oldest Tree in New York City

Not surprisingly, when the New York Times City Room blog wanted to find out what the oldest tree is in New York City they asked Edward S. Barnard author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan...

October 7, 2009

Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East conflict and the two-state solution

In a recent interview on Rear Vision, Rashid Khalidi, author of, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (revised edition forthcoming), discussed the history of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here’s what Rashid Khalidi has to say...

October 6, 2009

The Tyrannical History of Military Tribunals for Civilians — A Post by Greg Robinson

The History News Network recently published an essay on U.S. military tribunals during World War II by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. In the essay Robinson looks at the implementation military rule...

October 5, 2009

Alexander Joy Cartwright and the invention of baseball

For many fans, the baseball season has come to an end, so for those whose teams did not make the playoffs but still need their baseball fix, the following is an interview with Jay Martin, author of Live All You...

October 2, 2009

Israel's nuclear bomb — 40 years of ambiguity

Avner Cohen’s recent op-ed in Haaretz looks back to the 40th anniversary of a meeting between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir. Cohen, author of the forthcoming Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb: Democracy, Secrecy, and Taboo, writes, During a protracted tete-a-tete...