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April 28, 2015

New Book Tuesday! Warm Croissants, The Thirteenth Step, The Seventh Sense, and More New Titles!

Our weekly listing of new books!

April 24, 2015

University Press Roundup

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

April 24, 2015

The Drugs Do Work (Sometimes) — Nessa Carey on Junk DNA and Medicine

Nessa Carey looks at how science’s growing knowledge of junk DNA is leading to new advances in medicine and the positive and negative role of Big Pharma.

April 23, 2015

Nessa Carey Introduces Us to Dark Genomic Matter

Read an excerpt from “An Introduction to Genomic Dark Matter,” a chapter in Nessa Carey’s JUNK DNA: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE DARK MATTER OF THE GENOME.

April 23, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Sierra Nevada, by Tomaž Šalamun

Read “Sierra Nevada,” a poem from Tomaž Šalamun’s 2015 BTBA longlisted poetry collection, SOY REALIDAD! Happy National Poetry Month!

April 22, 2015

VIDEO: Nessa Carey Discusses Junk DNA

Watch Nessa Carey, author of JUNK DNA, discuss her new book.

April 22, 2015

Earth Day Video: Michael Mann on the Climate Wars

Michael Mann author of “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars,” discusses the political objections and obfuscations that have shaped the debate about climate change.

April 21, 2015

An Interview with Nessa Carey, Author of "Junk DNA"

The following is an interview with Nessa Carey, author of Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome: Question: Junk DNA explores the massive amount of excess DNA that do not directly create genes and make up...

April 21, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Balibar, Contemporary Violence, Paul, and More New Books

Our weekly listing of new books includes “Violence and Civility,” by Étienne Balibar

April 20, 2015

A Post for 4/20: Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter Discuss Pot Smuggling

In recognition of 4/20, we are re-posting Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter’s appearance on HuffPost Live to discuss their book Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade In the interview, Maguire and Ritter discuss drug...