July 23, 2014

An Interview with John Haller, author of Shadow Medicine

“The question at hand is not only whether conventional and unconventional therapies can stand on their own self-authenticating authority, but whether it is possible to modify the context of these two opposing camps into something both can benefit from sharing....

July 23, 2014

Pierre Bourdieu's Photographs of Algeria

In today’s post, we are re-posting some of the photographs from Picturing Algeria (now available in paper). The extraordinary photographs were taken during the years of 1957-1960 when Bourdieu was working there as a university lecturer. Taken during the Algerian...

July 22, 2014

The Medical Challenge — A Post by John S. Haller Jr.

The following post is by John S. Haller Jr., author of Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies: “The placebo has undermined the positivist model of biomedicine by interjecting subjectivity, uncertainty, and ambiguity into the clinical encounter. It...

July 22, 2014

New Book Tuesday! Lectures by Koolhaas; Pictures by Bourdieu; and Poems by Salmun!

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Preservation is Overtaking Us Rem Koolhaas; with a supplement by Jorge Otero-Pailos The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet (Now available in paper) Lawrence J. Friedman Picturing Algeria (Now available in paper)...

July 18, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

July 18, 2014

Carlos DeLuna, Carlos Hernandez, and Wanda Lopez: the Story in Pictures

See pictures and evidence telling the story of THE WRONG CARLOS on our Pinterest board!

July 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Andrej Blatnik

Read an interview with Dalkey Archive Press author Andrej Blatnik on his recent short story collection LAW OF DESIRE!

July 17, 2014

The Wrong Carlos: Video Testimony

Watch video interviews with people connected to the Carlos DeLuna murder case from THE WRONG CARLOS.

July 16, 2014

Do we execute innocent people?

“Our book challenges readers to consider the evidence we have carefully arrayed—and to test each phrase in the book against all of the relevant evidence on the point to which readers can quickly link on the web site—and decide for...

July 15, 2014

The Death of Wanda Lopez

Read “The Death of Wanda Lopez,” an excerpt from THE WRONG CARLOS: ANATOMY OF A WRONGFUL EXECUTION, by James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project.

July 15, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Interspecies Ethics, Esoteric Buddhist Rituals, and New Fiction from Dalkey Archive!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Interspecies Ethics Cynthia Willett Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals Koichi Shinohara Metamorphosis Nicholas Mosley The Tree with No Name Drago Jančar. Translated by Michael Biggins Ballerina,...

July 11, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.