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October 2, 2013

Hollywood & Hitler, Erich Fromm, The Secret Financial Life of Food, and More Author Events

For those on the East Coast and/or in Portugual we’ve got some great events coming up in October. These include Thomas Doherty talking about his much-discussed book Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Lawrence...

October 1, 2013

Design Thinking for the Financial Industry via "Solving Problems with Design Thinking"

This week our featured book is Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works, by Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett. In the following excerpt from the book, the authors provide a case study of design thinking...

October 1, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Smart Machines, Prehistoric Animals, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new titles: Smart Machines: IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions George R. McGhee Jr. Scholastic...

September 30, 2013

Nessa Carey Explains Epigenetics with Marshmallows and Gum Drops

Genetics and epigenetics are admittedly not the easiest concepts to grasp. However, in this video, Nessa Carey, author of The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance (now available in paperback) helps out...

September 30, 2013

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers! These are just a few of our favorite posts from last week, since we didn’t have a chance to fill you in on Friday (sorry...

September 27, 2013

Laura Frost on David Foster Wallace and Modernism's Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure

The following is an excerpt from “Modernism’s Afterlife in the Age of Prosthetic Pleasure,” the final chapter in Laura Frost’s The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents. In the chapter Laura Frost looks at “David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite...

September 26, 2013

Interview with Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure

“It’s a rare work of academic literary criticism that finds a general audience. There is still a kind of snobbery—not unlike the modernists’, actually—that if it’s not ponderous, contorted, and insular, then it’s not serious. God forbid that scholarly work...

September 25, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 2 — Laura Frost

This is second part of Laura Frost’s essay “Of Modernism and Muscle Cars” (you can read part 1 here). Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents “Modern literature should be commemorated in all...

September 24, 2013

Of Modernism and Muscle Cars, Part 1 — A Post by Laura Frost

Laura Frost is the author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents, our featured book of the week: “Modernism constantly puts up … resistance and, even more audaciously, it asks its viewers to value, savor, and learn to...

September 24, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Are the Lips a Grave?, Radical Cosmopolitics, and More New Titles

Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex Lynne Huffer Radical Cosmopolitics: The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism James D. Ingram The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease,...

September 20, 2013

Rossano: Fear of Death, Joy of Life and the Origins of God

This week our featured book is Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution, by Matt J. Rossano. (And don’t forget to enter our book giveaway for a chance to win a FREE copy...