August 29, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 2)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the second half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 28, 2013

Adam Arvidsson: Can Capitalism Evolve? (Part 1)

This week our featured book is The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen. Today, we have the first half of an essay by Adam Arvidsson: “Ethical Economy: Can Capitalism Evolve?” In his essay,...

August 28, 2013

Atlas by Dung Kai-cheung wins Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award

“It is the task of literature to make visible the invisible.”—Dung Kai-cheung We don’t publish a lot of science fiction, so we hope you will indulge us in our excitement in announcing the news of Atlas: The Archaeology of an...

August 27, 2013

Excerpt: Preface from The Ethical Economy

Read the preface from The Ethical Economy, by Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen.

August 27, 2013

New Book Tuesday!: Negri on Spinoza and More New Titles

Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity Antonio Negri Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism Tyler Roberts Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders Kyle D. Killian The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies Michael Goddard Hitchcock Annual:...

August 26, 2013

The Art of Being Erich Fromm – A Review from The New York Review of Books

A review of The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet, by Lawrence J. Friedman, was published in the Summer Issue of The New York Review of Books. A link to the review is available by clicking here (you need a...

August 23, 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. Remains of Fort...

August 23, 2013

On Being a Sports Statistician: more interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, the last day of our book giveaway, we have an excerpt from...

August 22, 2013

Interviews with Ben Alamar

This week our featured book is Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers, by Benjamin C. Alamar, with a foreword by Dean Oliver. Today, we have a couple of great interviews with Ben Alamar, one with...

August 22, 2013

Michael Mann Discusses Climate Change on Hardball and Al Jazeera America

Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines has become one of the leading spokespeople about the science and dangers of climate change as well as the dangers of climate change denialists....

August 21, 2013

Benjamin Alamar: "Analytics Is Not a Strategy"

Read “Analytics Is Not a Strategy,” By Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics.

August 21, 2013

Interview with Whitney Strub, author of Perversion for Profit (now out in paper!)

With Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right now available in paperback, we’re re-posting our earlier interview with the book’s author, Whitney Strub Question: Why “Perversion for Profit”? Won’t people think the book...