February 26, 2014

Asceticosmologies: Modern Science as Religious Practice

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 25, 2014

How to Avoid the G-Word

This week our featured book is Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on our...

February 25, 2014

New Book Tuesday: The DMZ, Gass, Millhauser, Slow Movies, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new books now available: DMZ Crossing: Performing Emotional Citizenship Along the Korean Border Suk-Young Kim The Barnum Museum (Available again) Steven Millhauser Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife William H. Gass Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action...

February 21, 2014

Shifting Sands After the Arab Spring

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Post-Book

Read an excerpt of an interview with S. D. Chrostowska, author of the novel PERMISSION.

February 19, 2014

The Olympics, Large Sporting Events, and Recalibrating the Discussion on Human Trafficking (It’s Not Just For Sex, People) — Stephanie Hepburn

The following post is by Stephanie Hepburn, coauthor of Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight: In preparation for the Winter Olympics this month and the Paralympic Games in March, Russia has spent an estimated (U.S.) $51 billion...

February 19, 2014

Tiptoeing Through Minefields

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 18, 2014

The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm, by Joel Migdal

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 18, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Eating and Praying in North America, Medieval China, New from Dalkey Archive, and More!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Religion, Food, and Eating in North America Edited by Benjamin E. Zeller, Marie W. Dallam, Reid L. Neilson, and Nora L. Rubel Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert...

February 14, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. We’ll kick things...

February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day — Roy Brand on Love and Knowledge

Happy Valentine’s Day! In honor of the occasion, we are reposting an essay from Professor Roy Brand, author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida, in which Brand discusses the relationship between love and knowledge. What is...