November 1, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Wine and Brain Science, Getting Risk Right, the History of Chinese Food in America, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

November 1, 2016

Flying Money and Capitalist Monks

Read an excerpt from “Flying Money and Capitalist Monks,” Joe Carlen’s chapter on entrepreneurship in Tang and Song China from A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THE PIONEERS, PROFITEERS, AND RACKETEERS WHO SHAPED OUR WORLD!

October 31, 2016

University Press Roundup

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

October 28, 2016

Intelligence Agency Logic

Read an excerpt on Edward Snowden, data surveillance, and the NSA from the first chapter of DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, by Roberto Simanowski.

October 26, 2016

Interview with Jeremy Rosen, Author of "Minor Characters Have Their Day"

Jeremy Rosen discusses his new book, “Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace”

October 26, 2016

The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies

Read a Q&A with Roberto Simanowski, author of DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES!

October 25, 2016

Introducing "Data Love"

Read the preface, epilogue, and postface to DATA LOVE: THE SEDUCTION AND BETRAYAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, by Roberto Simanowski!

October 25, 2016

New Book Tuesday: Better Presentations, the Political Thought of Martin Heidegger, and More!

Our weekly listing of new books now available!

October 21, 2016

University Press Roundup

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

October 21, 2016

Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles on Why We Can’t Ignore Science — An Excerpt from "The Madhouse Effect"

“Well, we ignored the science, and we avoided the sensible choices that were before us. And now we are already paying the price.” — Michael E. Mann and Tom Toles

October 20, 2016

Tom Toles's Drawings from "The Madhouse Effect"

View drawings by Tom Toles that satirize the misguided efforts of climate change denialists.

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