July 22, 2013

Laura Frost Names the 10 Best Modernist Novels in English

Publishers Weekly recently asked Laura Frost, author of The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents to name The 10 Best Modernist Books (in English). For the more ambitious readers the list provides a kind of alternate beach-reading list. Frost...

July 19, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

July 19, 2013

Further reading on the problem with God from Peter J. Steinberger

Check out a list of further reading if you are interested in the philosophical background of the problem with God, pulled from the Afterword of Peter J. Steinberger’s THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 18, 2013

A Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger

Read a Q&A with Peter J. Steinberger about his new book, THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

July 17, 2013

Peter Steinberger: "An Exercise in Chutzpah"

Read a blog post by Peter J. Steinberger on his goals in writing his new book, THE PROBLEM WITH GOD.

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.