October 19, 2016

Interview with Richard Plunz, author of "A History of Housing in New York City"

“Beyond doubt the large question facing New York housing production today has to do with a market that can not provide for the half of our households that are low income…. One can hope that growing public pressure bottom-up can merge with a top-down realization that we need to innovate in order to grow and prosper as a competitive and cosmopolitan global urban entity.” — Richard Plunz

October 19, 2016

Video: Michael Mann Discusses "The Madhouse Effect"

Michael Mann discusses how he and Tom Toles use satire and irony to expose the very serious issue of climate change denial.

October 18, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Class Clowns, New York's Elite, The Parole Board, and Much More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

October 18, 2016

Michael Mann and Tom Toles Name 9 Prominent Climate Change Deniers

In a recent “Washington Post,” piece Michael Mann and Tom Toles, authors of “The Madhouse Effect,” look at the words and deeds of Donald Trump, the Koch Brothers, and other climate change deniers.

October 14, 2016

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.

October 14, 2016

Media Roundup: Capital and the Common Good

Read a roundup of the great media attention that CAPITAL AND THE COMMON GOOD: HOW INNOVATIVE FINANCE IS TACKLING THE WORLD’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS, by Georgia Levenson Keohane, has received recently.

October 13, 2016

Investing in Hope: Innovative Finance for the World’s Refugees

Read an article, coauthored by Georgia Levenson Keohane, author of CAPITAL AND THE COMMON GOOD: HOW INNOVATIVE FINANCE IS TACKLING THE WORLD’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS, on how innovative finance can help the world better handle refugee crises.

October 12, 2016

Fighting Deforestation and Climate Change

Read an excerpt from CAPITAL AND THE COMMON GOOD: HOW INNOVATIVE FINANCE IS TACKLING THE WORLD’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS, by Georgia Levenson Keohane, on the way that REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is attempting to combat deforestation in Brazil through innovative finance.

October 11, 2016

Innovative Finance and the Visible Hand

Read Georgia Levenson Keohane’s introduction to CAPITAL AND THE COMMON GOOD: HOW INNOVATIVE FINANCE IS TACKLING THE WORLD’S MOST URGENT PROBLEMS.

October 7, 2016

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the world of academic publishing.

October 7, 2016

Is “Democracy” Nothing More Than a Slogan Now?

Read an article on the uses and misuses of the concept of “democracy” by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, coauthors of THROUGH VEGETAL BEING.

October 6, 2016

Plant Lessons

Read an article by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder on the need for an “environmental pedagogy,” including some of the lessons that plant life can teach us.