July 16, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Abominable Science, Gendering Global Conflict, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War Laura Sjoberg The Cinema of Michael...

July 16, 2013

Peter Steinberger on the question of God's existence

Read an excerpt from the introduction to Peter J. Steinberger’s THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 15, 2013

Thomas Doherty and the Debate over Hollywood and Hitler

“I’m always leery of history that allows the present to feel smugly superior to the past.”—Thomas Doherty Thomas Doherty, author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939 has recently been involved in a well-covered and somewhat contentious scholarly debate. As reported in...

July 12, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from around the academic publishing blogosphere.

July 11, 2013

August Turak Unplugged

August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks, speaks about his book in multiple venues.

July 11, 2013

Part 2 of a Q&A with Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, authors of If A, then B

Read the second half of a Q&A with Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, authors of IF A, THEN B: HOW THE WORLD DISCOVERED LOGIC.

July 11, 2013

August Turak: The Power of Trust

August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks, lists eleven important lessons on trust in business he learned from the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey.

July 10, 2013

Part 1 of a Q&A with Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, authors of If A, Then B

Read the first half of a Q&A with Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, authors of IF A, THEN B: HOW THE WORLD DISCOVERED LOGIC.

July 10, 2013

August Turak: Why Being Selfless is Good for Business

This week our featured book is Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning, by August Turak. Turak is a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award-winning writer. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast...

July 9, 2013

August Turak: "The Economic Miracle of Mepkin Abbey"

Read an excerpt from “The Economic of Mepkin Abbey,” the first chapter of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks, by August Turak.

July 1, 2013

Laura Frost: You probably didn’t read the most telling part of Orwell’s “1984″—the appendix

Read an article by Laura Frost in which she discusses the crucial importance of the appendix to George Orwell’s classic, 1984.

June 30, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier on What We Can Learn from Parasites

“Despite all our efforts, the parasites still have the upper hand. The question is: Do we have to sit there and take it like all the other hapless host species on our planet? Or can we use our ingenuity and...