September 22, 2014

"Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy" Wins a "50 Books | 50 Covers"

Congratulations to Jordan Wannemacher and the amazing Columbia University Press design department for their design of Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders, by Kyle D. Killian, which was recently selected as one of the 50 Books | 50...

September 19, 2014

Test Your Flying Dinosaur Knowledge!

We’ve spent the past week featuring Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by John Pickrell and now’s your chance to see much your really know about dinosaurs, flying and otherwise. CredSpark recently created a quiz specifically about the book...

September 19, 2014

University Press Roundup: Zombies, Domestic Violence, Blimps, Big Pharma, David Lynch, and More from UP Blogs!

Behind the Book with Ummni Khan: The author of Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary discusses the book and its challenge to the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth. (University of Toronto Press) Your Rugged...

September 18, 2014

An Interview with John Pickrell, author of "Flying Dinosaurs"

“Dinosaurs are very much still alive, and are more successful and numerous in terms of species numbers now than they have been at any other point in their roughly-230-million-year history.”—John Pickrell The following is our interview with John Pickrell, author...

September 18, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: Translating a Novel of Sadism — On Alain Robbe-Grillet's "A Sentimental Novel"

“I am unconvinced that the only man on the planet with horrifying fantasies was Alain Robbe-Grillet.”—D. E. Brooke Recently The New Yorker interviewed D. E. Brooke, the translator of A Sentimental Novel, just published by Dalkey Archive. The interviewer Elisabeth...

September 17, 2014

Video: John Pickrell Talks Flying Dinosaurs with ABC News

In the following video, John Pickrell, author of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds talks with Australian TV about recent discoveries about dinosaurs. Calling it a “Golden Age” in dinosaur research, Pickrell discusses the likelihood of feathered dinosaurs, recent...

September 17, 2014

Male Sex Work Throughout History

This blog post offers a look at Male Sex Work and Society sharing 8 facts about male sex work history, from Roman concubines to Depression-era hustlers.

September 16, 2014

Flying Dinosaurs in Action!

View images of flying dinosaurs from John Pickrell’s FLYING DINOSAURS!

September 16, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Losing Tim, On Slowness, Photography and Its Violations, and More New Books

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Losing Tim: How Our Health and Education Systems Failed My Son with Schizophrenia Paul Gionfriddo On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary Lutz Koepnick Photography and Its Violations John Roberts Rewiring...

September 12, 2014

Edward Hess: Can You Build a High-Performance Learning Organization?

“If we want adaptable learning organizations, we need to humanize our management models, and that requires many companies to fundamentally change attitudes and behaviors toward employees…. [W]e need to form new capital markets to support the building of endur­ing, value...

September 12, 2014

Fracking, The Wire, Zombies, Why It's Good to Be Good and More from University Presses

Our weekly round up of some of the best posts from the world of university press blogs: Andrew Cuomo and the Future of Fracking: Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary in New York state was, in part, a referendum on Andrew Cuomo’s policy...

September 11, 2014

VIDEOS: Edward Hess Presents Chapters from "Learn or Die"

We continue our video feature of Edward Hess’s discussions of chapters from his new book Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization. In these video, Hess presents overviews of chapters 7 to 11: Chapter 7: Critical...