September 2, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Newest from Rey Chow, Wombs in Labor, and More!

Our weekly listing of new titles: Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience Rey Chow Wombs in Labor: Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India Amrita Pande Youth: Autobiographical Writings Wolfgang Koeppen The Republic of Užupis: A Novel...

September 2, 2014

Author Events for September

We’ve got a great lineup of events this month in locations stretching from Slovenia to Bryn Mawr and on topics ranging from the Middle East to Atheism. Visit our author events page for all the details but herre is a...

August 29, 2014

H. H. Shugart on Comprehending the Earth

“Are we creating the intellectual environment for creative, synthetic, and revolutionary researchers that can push us across the old boundaries into new paradigms? … Sadly, the politicization and the businessification of science may be taking the intellectual and creative environment...

August 29, 2014

University Press Blog Round Up: Ferguson, Social Networking, The Physics of Cocktails, and More!

Before heading off to the beach, read up on some of the excellent posts from university press blogs from the week that was: Jeanne Theoharis explores the connection between the recent protests in Ferguson and the history and legacy of...

August 28, 2014

Can We Change the Weather? H. H. Shugart on the Peril and Promise of Geoengineering

One of the issues H. H. Shugart explores in Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job is whether and to what extent should humankind should see itself as “masters of nature”. In the chapter, “Making...

August 28, 2014

Alain Badiou Performs a Scene from Ahmed the Philosopher

Known as one of the most important contemporary philosophers, Alain Badiou is perhaps less well-known for his abilities as an actor. However, in the video below, Badiou can be seen performing a scene from his play Ahmed the Philosopher: Thirty-Four...

August 27, 2014

H. H Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth, takes the "Page 99 Test"

Earlier this summer, H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job took the Page 99 Test. Taken from a Ford Maddox Ford quote, the Page 99 Test asks authors to explain...

August 27, 2014

What Constitutes Compelling Evidence, and for Whom? — B. Alan Wallace

The following post is by B. Alan Wallace, most recently the author of Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice and Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. For more,...

August 26, 2014

Interview with H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth

“Science is not likely to produce an ethical basis for proper conduct in cases in which strangers in distant locations are damaged by an individual’s actions involving spending resources, extirpating species, or polluting air and ocean. Help in these matters...

August 26, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Vital Conversations, Women in the Mosque, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Vital Conversations: Improving Communication Between Doctors and Patients Dennis Rosen Women in the Mosque: A History of Legal Thought and Social Practice Marion Holmes Katz Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation (Now...

August 26, 2014

An Interview with H. H. Shugart

The following is an interview with H. H. Shugart, author of Foundations of the Earth: Global Ecological Change and the Book of Job: nn Question: Science and religion are often seen as antagonistic and while you are not interested in “reconciling”...

August 25, 2014

An Interview with B. Alan Wallace

“Buddhism … proposes experiments in consciousness through the rigorous practices of meditation that enable the first-person investigation of the mind and its role in nature to fully complement the third-person methods of modern science.”—B. Alan Wallace The following is an...