August 20, 2013

An Introduction to Sports Analytics – Benjamin C. Alamar

Read the introduction to Benjamin Alamar’s Sports Analytics!

August 20, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Ethical Economy, Night Passages, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles: The Ethical Economy: Rebuilding Value After the Crisis Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen Night Passages: Philosophy, Literature, and Film Elisabeth Bronfen Democracy and Islam in Indonesia Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan Perversion...

August 16, 2013

A Little Gay History — Protest and Rights

We conclude our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson, with a focus not on art and culture but politics. The images above and below are pins from the past...

August 16, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

August 15, 2013

Images from A Little Gay History

We continue our week-long feature on A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World, by R. B. Parkinson with some images from the book, which come from the collection at the British Museum. Working backwards in time, we...

August 14, 2013

Interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History

The following is an interview with R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World. For more on the book, you can also read Parkinson’s blog post, Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum or...

August 13, 2013

R. B. Parkinson on Same-Sex Desire in the British Museum

The following post is by R. B. Parkinson, author of A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World: My own academic research concerns Ancient Egyptian poetry from around 1800 BCE and because some of these works deal with...

August 9, 2013

Breaking Bad, Education Reform, Lovelace, and More from the University Press Blogs

Our weekly roundup of some of the best posts from the university press blogs: The debate about education “reform” is bound to heat up as kids start heading back to school. Writing on the Beacon Broadside, Dave Chura correctly points...

August 9, 2013

Is Cryptozoology Dangerous? Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero Weigh in

“Loxton suspects that the cryptozoology literature may as easily and as often become a “gateway drug” for science literacy as it may be for attitudes of resistance to science” “The more the creationist cryptozoologists manage to damage the understanding of...

August 8, 2013

Interview with Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, authors of Abominable Science!

The following is an interview with Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, authors of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. In the interview, Loxton and Prothero consider, among other things, the phenomenon of cryptozoology and...

August 8, 2013

Benjamin Alamar Discusses Sports Analytics

Today at 4:00 (EST) Benjamin Alamar, author of Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makerswill take part in #cloudchat to discuss how Big Data, the cloud, and analytics are changing sports. Among the other guests will...

August 7, 2013

Yeti! Nessie!, Bigfoot! As Drawn by Daniel Loxton via Abominable Science

Even as they debunk the myths surrounding monsters like Big Foot and the Abominable Snowman, Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, the authors of Abominable Science: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids acknowledge their hold over us....