May 27, 2015

Your Seventh Sense: Beyond Mindfulness

The following post is by William Duggan, author of The Seventh Sense: How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life: You need more than meditation to calm your mind. Over the past decade, meditation has become a popular method in the...

May 27, 2015

New Book Tuesday, Wednesday Edition: Stem Cell Dialogues, Coming of Age in Grief, The Jewish Lives of Paul, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

May 22, 2015

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. (And look back...

May 22, 2015

The Journey Ahead

Read “The Journey Ahead,” an excerpt from Markus Heilig’s THE THIRTEENTH STEP: ADDICTION IN THE AGE OF BRAIN SCIENCE.

May 21, 2015

PTSD and addiction

Read “PTSD and Addiction,” a guest post by Markus Heilig, author of THE THIRTEENTH STEP: ADDICTION IN THE AGE OF BRAIN SCIENCE.

May 20, 2015

Us and Them

Read “Us and Them,” an excerpt from Markus Heilig’s THE THIRTEENTH STEP: ADDICTION IN THE AGE OF BRAIN SCIENCE.

May 19, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Excellent Beauty, Emperor Wu Zhao, and More New Books!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

May 19, 2015

Why breakthroughs in addiction research have not changed addiction treatment

Read a post by Markus Heilig, author of THE THIRTEENTH STEP, on the difficulties of treating addiction and the disparities between addiction treatment and new breakthroughs in addiction research.

May 15, 2015

Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone?

Read “Where Has the Moral Instinct Gone?,” an excerpt from Ruwen Ogien’s of HUMAN KINDNESS AND THE SMELL OF WARM CROISSANTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS.

May 14, 2015

Frankenstein, Minister of Health

Read “Frankenstein, Minister of Health,” an excerpt from Ruwen Ogien’s of HUMAN KINDNESS AND THE SMELL OF WARM CROISSANTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS.

May 14, 2015

On the making of trout amandine and cauliflower gratin, an excerpt from "The Author and Me"

Read an excerpt from 2015 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction finalist THE AUTHOR AND ME, written by Éric Chevillard and translated by Jordan Stump.

May 13, 2015

An Intellectual Toolbox

Read “An Intellectual Toolbox,” a guest post by Ruwen Ogien, author of HUMAN KINDNESS AND THE SMELL OF WARM CROISSANTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS.