June 18, 2014

A Conversation With Leslie Pratch, Author of LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER?

The following is an interview with Leslie S. Pratch, author of Looks Good on Paper: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance. In this book, Pratch shares insights from more than twenty years of executive personality assessment and proposes an empirically based approach to predict the effectiveness of individuals within organizations.

June 17, 2014

The Other Closet: An Introduction to Atheism and Coming Out Processes

Read “The Other Closet: An Introduction to Atheism and Coming Out Processes,” editor Melanie Brewster’s introduction to ATHEISTS IN AMERICA.

June 17, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Wrong Carlos, Bubbles, Value, and More!

The following books are now available: The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project Speculation, Trading, and Bubbles José A. Scheinkman The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy...

June 16, 2014

Laura Frost on Bloomsday, James Joyce, David Foster Wallace and the Pleasures of Unpleasure

“The modernist legacy, its essential ambivalence, continues, and let us hope that it does, for it signals not only the continuing problem with plea­sure but also pleasure’s continuing potency.”—Laura Frost In honor of Bloomsday, we offer an excerpt from the...

June 13, 2014

Sharing Jerusalem: On the Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative

Read Michael Dumper’s take on Geneva Initiative and the Jerusalem Old City Initiative for sharing Jerusalem, excerpted from JERUSALEM UNBOUND.

June 13, 2014

Gay Men Choosing Fatherhood — Gerald Mallon

“Now that non-gay dads are addressing some of the issues relating to being a more involved parent, it is newsworthy. That made me mad.”—Gerald Mallon We conclude our series of posts about fathers with a post is by Gerald Mallon,...

June 12, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best blog posts from the world of academic publishing.

June 12, 2014

Michael Dumper on Reparation and Restitution

Watch a lecture on reparations, restitution, and Palestinians given by Michael Dumper, author of JERUSALEM UNBOUND.

June 12, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: My Father, by Hwang Sunwon

Read “My Father,” a short story from Korean author Hwang Sunwon’s collection, LOST SOULS.

June 11, 2014

The Myth of the Missing Black Father

“The black male. A demographic. A sociological construct. A media car­icature. A crime statistic…. Rarely a father. Indeed, if one judged by popular and academic coverage, one might think the term ‘black fatherhood’ an oxymoron.” With Father’s Day coming up,...

June 11, 2014

Introducing Jerusalem Unbound

Read the Introduction to Michael Dumper’s JERUSALEM UNBOUND!

June 10, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The Collapse of Western Civilization, Shadow Medicine, Ernst Lubitsch, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies John S. Haller Jr. Foundations of the Earth: Global...