Monthly Archive: January, 2018

January 31, 2018

An Interview with Venkat Venkatasubramanian, author of How Much Inequality is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Venkat Venkatasubramanian. Q: The topic is obviously very important,...

January 30, 2018

New Books Tuesday! Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt,Ethical Loneliness, How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen Columbia University Press Ethical Loneliness The Injustice of Not Being Heard Jill Stauffer How to Read Chinese Poetry in...

January 29, 2018

Book Giveaway! How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society

This week, our featured book is How Much Inequality Is Fair?: Mathematical Principles of a Moral, Optimal, and Stable Capitalist Society, by Venkat Venkatasubramaniani. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our...

January 25, 2018

Tapehead: Video Store Film School

This week, our featured book is The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out. Today, we are happy to present an essay in which author Wayne Byrne, reveals how the book came to be. CUP Blog Essay – Tapehead: Video Store...

January 24, 2018

An Interview with Wayne Byrne, Author of The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out

This week, our featured book is The Cinema of Tom DiCillo: Include Me Out. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Wayne Byrne. Q: What attracted you to Tom DiCillo’s work enough for you to embark...

January 23, 2018

New Books Tuesday: Learning to Kneel, Art as a Political Witness, Religion and Magic in Socialist and Post-Socialist Contexts II, and more!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Now in Paper! Learning to Kneel Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching Carrie J. Preston Art as a Political Witness Edited by Kia Lindroos and Frank Möller (Barbara Budrich Publishers) Experiences of...

January 17, 2018

Q&A: Michael Tapper on Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face

This week, our featured book is Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face. Today, we are happy to present an exclusive interview with author Michael Tapper. Q: Why another book on Ingmar Bergman? A: That is the very first sentence in my...

January 16, 2018

New Books Tuesday: Reset, Breathing Space, Expand Your English, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available: Reset Business and Society in the New Social Landscape James Rubin and Barie Carmichael Danger: Diabolik Leon Hunt (Wallflower Press) Now in Paper! Medieval Tastes Food, Cooking, and the Table Massimo Montanari....

January 15, 2018

Book Giveaway! Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face

This week, our featured book is Ingmar Bergman’s Face to Face, by Michael Tapper. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our Twitter feed and our Facebook page....

January 12, 2018

Concluding Remarks: Rethinking Investment Incentives

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. In this video,  Perrine Toledan, provides an overview of the book’s conclusion. Visit our page on Issuu to read...

January 11, 2018

Definitions, Motivations, and Locational Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. In this video, Sarianna M. Lundan, provides an overview of Chapter 3, where she explores the...

January 10, 2018

What Experts Say About Trends in Incentive Packages Around the World

This week, our featured book is Rethinking Investment Incentives: Trends and Policy Options, edited by Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Perrine Toledano, Lise Johnson, and Lisa Sachs. Today, we are proud to present a guest post from Nathan Lobel, special Assistant to the Director at...