Category: Video

July 12, 2012

Patrick Vonderau on What Can Be Learned from an iPhone Bill

The following post is by Patrick Vonderau, co-editor of Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media. For more on the book, you can read the introduction. In 2007, blogger Justine Ezarik uploaded a video on YouTube, titled 300-page...

February 21, 2012

VIDEO: Michael Mann on "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars"

Following up on our post on Michael Mann’s interview with the Guardian about his new book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, here is a video produced in conjunction with the story:

January 23, 2012

Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

The following is a video for Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, which is now available in paperback. For more on the book, you can browse the book using Google Preview or visit the site jonathansoffer.com

January 20, 2012

My Life with the Taliban

We are pleased to announce that the much-discussed My Life with the Taliban, by Abdul Salam Zaeef is now available in paperback. My Life with the Taliban is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former senior member of Afghanistan’s...

January 19, 2012

Go Nomadic Now with Rosi Braidotti

Check out this great video for Rosi Braidotti’s Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti and the new edition of Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory:

January 18, 2012

Michael Mann, author of "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" on Up With Chris Hayes

Michael E. Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, was recently on Up With Chris Hayes to discuss climate warming and its deniers. Michael E. Mann suggests that what we...

January 6, 2012

Howard Marks Discusses "The Most Important Thing"

In the following video Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, discusses his new book and investing with James Flanigan.

December 21, 2011

Richard Betts on Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer

Earlier this year, Richard Betts, author of American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, wrote a much-discussed article in Foreign Affairs exploring the controversial visions of world politics put forth by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer....

December 14, 2011

Michael Mann — A Look Into Our Climate: Past To Present To Future

The following video features Michael Mann, author of the forthcoming The Hockey Stick: Dispatches from the Front Lines. In the talk given at a TEDx event, Mann explains the scientific data pointing to global warming.

December 12, 2011

The Greatest Grid: Hilary Ballon and Jon Meacham on the History of Manhattan's Grid

We are very excited to be publishing The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, edited by Hilary Ballon, which accompanies an exhibit of the same name at the Museum of the City of New York. In the following...

November 30, 2011

Alan Wallace on science, Buddhism, skepticism, and meditation

In this video Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, discusses science, Buddhism, skepticism, and meditation.

November 18, 2011

Brian Boyd on The Original of Laura

We conclude our feature on Stalking by Nabokov, by Brian Boyd with a video of Boyd discussing Nabokov’s unfinished final work The Original of Laura. As he discusses in his talk, Boyd initially thought the book should not be published...