November 5, 2013

Interview with Richard J. Meyer, author of "Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai"

The following is an interview with Richard J. Meyer, author of Wang Renmei: The Wildcat of Shanghai. In the interview Meyer discusses Wang’s onscreen career as well as her turbulent off-screen life and his own interest in Chinese film: Question:...

November 5, 2013

New Book Tuesday! Nuclear Nightmares, Chinese Food, and More New Titles!

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Nuclear Nightmares: Securing the World Before It Is Too Late Joseph Cirincione The Land of the Five Flavors: A Cultural History of Chinese Cuisine Thomas O. Höllmann How Finance Is Shaping the...

November 4, 2013

Chang Jae Lee on Book Design and Korean Photography

Chang Jae Lee, of our very talented designers, was recently interviewed by Asian Global Impact. In the interview, Chang Jae revealed the process that goes into selecting the appropriate image and design for a book as well as discussing some...

November 1, 2013

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. Halloween is over...

November 1, 2013

Philip Kitcher on beauty and love in Death in Venice

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have an excerpt from “Beauty,” the second chapter of Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses the philosophical concepts of...

October 31, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Luchino Visconti's Morte a Venizia

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have a couple brief excerpts from Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses Luchino Visconti’s film version of Mann’s novella,...

October 31, 2013

Tributes to the Life and Work of Arthur Danto

Earlier this week we had a short post on the death of Arthur Danto, the influential philosopher and art critic. Not surprisingly, a variety of tributes to and assessments of Danto has poured forth. The following are just a few...

October 30, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Benjamin Britten's Opera

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have a brief excerpt from Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses the opera, Death in Venice, by Benjamin Britten,...

October 30, 2013

Steven Cohen on the Lessons of Superstorm of Sandy

“In the long run, the key lessons from Superstorm Sandy are that we must face the reality of climate change and adapt to it.”—Steven Cohen In an essay for The Huffington Post , Steven Cohen, author of Sustainability Management: Lessons...

October 29, 2013

Philip Kitcher on Thomas Mann and Gustav von Aschenbach

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today we have an excerpt from “Discipline,” the first chapter of Deaths in Venice, in which Philip Kitcher looks at the works...

October 29, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Great Plains, Daoist Philosophy, the Underside of Bangladeshi Film, and More New Titles!

This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains David Stark, Photographs by Nancy Warner An Introduction to Daoist Philosophies Steve Coutinho Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh Lotte Hoek Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New...

October 28, 2013

Arthur Danto, 1924-2013

We were saddened to learn of the death of Arthur Danto this past weekend. Danto was the Johnsonian professor emeritus of philosophy at Columbia University and one of the leading art critics of the past fifty years. (Incidentally, Danto’s death...