July 31, 2013

Dickson D. Despommier on How Parasites Can Prevent Disease

In following excerpt from People, Parasites, and Plowshares: Learning from Our Body’s Most Terrifying Invaders, Dickson D. Despommier examines how some parasites might reduce the chance to suffer from other diseases: Some of the most interesting findings with regard to...

July 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...

July 30, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Plane Crashes, Design Thinking, the Newest from Donald Keene, and More New Titles!

The following books are now available: Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution Matt J. Rossano The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life Peter Rabins Solving Problems with Design Thinking:...

July 29, 2013

Between Sunrise and Sunless — Film by Rob Stone, Author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater

In this beautiful short film, Rob Stone, author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run, searches for Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) in Vienna on Bloomsday, 16 June 2013. As their absence reveals the city, so...

July 26, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

July 26, 2013

Frederick Cooper: How Global Do We Want Our Intellectual History to Be?

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, the final day of this week’s feature, we have an excerpt from Frederick Cooper’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “How Global Do We...

July 25, 2013

Julia Lovell Discusses Zhu Wen with the Los Angeles Review of Books

There is certainly no shortage of writing about contemporary China by historians, journalists, and political scientists. While their work and analysis undoubtedly deepens our understanding of China, it is often left to fiction to fill in some of the gaps...

July 25, 2013

Cemil Aydin: Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the "Muslim World"

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we have an excerpt from Cemil Aydin’s chapter in Global Intellectual History: “Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’”...

July 24, 2013

Kenneth Goldsmith on The Colbert Report

Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age, has read at the White House, been the poet laureate at the Museum of Modern Art, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and can now add...

July 24, 2013

Samuel Moyn: Global Intellectual Life Past and Present

This week our featured book is Global Intellectual History, edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori. Today, we are cross-posting a short article by Samuel Moyn, originally published on Interdisciplines, which uses David Mitchell’s novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob...

July 23, 2013

Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori: Approaches to Global Intellectual History

Read an excerpt from “Approaches to Global Intellectual History,” by Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori, the first chapter of GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, edited by Moyn and Sartori.

July 23, 2013

New Book Tuesday: A Little Gay History, Al Qaeda's Strategy and More!

The following books are now available. For more recent titles click here: A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World R. B. Parkinson Decoding Al-Qaeda’s Strategy: The Deep Battle Against America Michael W. S. Ryan Robert N. Butler,...