February 14, 2014

Moralism and the Facts — The Pillars of Paul Cabot's Investment Strategy

We conclude our week-long feature on Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, with an excerpt from the epilogue. In these excerpts, Yogg considers some of the core values that shaped Cabot’s investment strategy and...

February 13, 2014

Paul Cabot's Jeremiad

In the following passage from Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot, Michael Yogg examines Paul Cabot’s ideas about reform for the financial industry and the characteristics of a good investment manager. He also looks...

February 13, 2014

"The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am" and Solitude

As close readers of our blog might have noticed in our recent New Book Tuesday posts, we are now distributing Dalkey Archive Press. Needless to say, we are very excited to be working with one of the leading publishers of...

February 12, 2014

Michael Yogg — Investment Profession Should Learn from Industry Pioneer who Spoke Out

“The investment profession must do a better job of policing its own or face the loss of public trust and ever more draconian regulation.”—Michael Yogg The following post is by Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life...

February 12, 2014

Quadrophenia: Album, Movie, and Now, Book!

The newest entry in the Cultographies series is Quadrophenia by Stephen Glynn. The 1979 film is, of course, based on the Who’s concept album Quadrophenia (1973) and tells the story of young mod Jimmy Cooper and the 1964 clash between...

February 11, 2014

Interview with Michael Yogg, author of "Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot"

The following is an interview with Michael Yogg, author of Passion for Reality: The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot. Find out how to win a FREE copy of Passion for Reality! Question: Why did you chose to...

February 11, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Einstein on Relativity, Kristeva on the Severed Head, and New Fiction from Dalkey Archive Press

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter Jeffrey Bennett The Severed Head: Capital Visions (Now available in paper) Julia Kristeva More Than You Know Melissa Malouf...

February 10, 2014

Marianne Hirsch on the MLA's Resolution on Israel and Palestine

“When it comes to the topic of Israel and Palestine, discussion is curtailed before it begins. In a debate that is structured to allow only two clear-cut sides, words lose their meaning.”—Marianne Hirsch Recent resolutions from the American Studies Association...

February 7, 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. February is African...

February 7, 2014

Beyond News and Ezra Klein's New Venture

The following post is by Mitchell Stephens, author of the forthcoming Beyond News: The Future of Journalism: “The century-and-a-half-long period in human history when it was possible to make a big business out of selling news … was an anomaly,...

February 6, 2014

The Concept of the State in General Can and Must Be Destroyed

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 6, 2014

Hans van de Ven on the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

The following post is by Hans van de Ven, author of Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China: “The Chinese Maritime Customs Service helped keep China together at key critical moments...