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May 30, 2014

University Press Roundup

Read our weekly collection of the best blog posts from the world of academic publishing.

May 30, 2014

Kenneth Arrow's Commentary on Creating a Learning Society

Read Kenneth J. Arrow’s Commentary on CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald!

May 29, 2014

Joseph Stiglitz on the Kenneth Arrow Lecture Series

Read Joseph Stiglitz’s Preface to CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY.

May 29, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: "I've heard it said that on a good day, Askildsen wrote two sentences and crossed out one, but that on a really good day, he wrote one and crossed out two"

This week’s Thursday Fiction Corner post comes courtesy of Seán Kinsella, who describes the experience of translating Kjell Askildsen’s SELECTED STORIES.

May 28, 2014

Creating a Learning Society — the Introduction

Read the introduction to CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald.

May 28, 2014

Got Cricket? Get it at Book Expo America

Every year publishers from around the world descend on the Javits Center in New York City for Book Expo America to promote their new titles. To lure visitors to their booths, publishers will try a variety of incentives ranging from...

May 27, 2014

The Learning Revolution, by Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald

Read “The Learning Revolution,” an excerpt from Joseph Stiglitz and Bruce Greenwald’s CREATING A LEARNING SOCIETY.

May 27, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Reading Style, Looks Good on Paper, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Reading Style: A Life in Sentences Jenny Davidson Looks Good on Paper?: Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance Leslie S. Pratch Russia and the EU in a Multipolar World: Discourses,...

May 23, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best post from around the world of academic publishing.

May 23, 2014

Umami Has Come to Stay

We conclude our week-long feature on Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste by Ole Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbaek with the authors’ discussion of the importance of umami for the way we think about food and diet: “We consider...

May 22, 2014

Umami and the Art of Killing a Fish

The following excerpt is from Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste by Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbaek: Ikijime, which means to terminate while alive, is a 350 year old Japanese technique for killing fish. It has the...