June 12, 2013

The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving and Adventures in Quantitative Philanthropy

This week two different stories looked at the ideas at the center of The Robin Hood Rules for Smart Giving , by Michael Weinstein and Ralph M. Bradburd. In his post, Adventures with quantitative philanthropy, Felix Salmon, examines the Robin...

June 12, 2013

Gusher by Steve Coll — The Best Business Writing 2013

Steve Coll’s “Gusher,” published in The Best Business Writing 2013 offers a behind-the-scenes look at the tremendous influence ExxonMobil has in Washington and in shaping environmental and climate policy. In this excerpt, Steve Coll documents some of the early battles...

June 11, 2013

How Companies Learn Your Secrets from The Best Business Writing 2013

“There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subcon­scious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive render­ing of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how...

June 11, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Avian Migrant and More!

Our weekly list of new titles: The Avian Migrant: The Biology of Bird Migration John H. Rappole The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (Now available in paper) Amy Allen François Laruelle’s Philosophies of...

June 7, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

June 7, 2013

"Dirtied” Star images and Acting Against Type in "Behind the Candelabra" — Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait

The following blog post is by Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait, authors of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, and Digital Videotape. You can also read an interview with the authors. In our book, The Cinema...

June 6, 2013

A Richard Linklater Moment — Rob Stone

The following is a post by Rob Stone, author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run. You can also read an interview with Rob Stone discussing the book and Linklater’s films: When the British-Canadian film scholar Robin Wood...

June 5, 2013

Q&A with Goldie Kadushin on the new 5th edition of The Social Work Interview

Read an interview with one of the coauthors of the fifth edition of The Social Work Interview, Goldie Kadushin.

June 5, 2013

Interview with Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait, Authors of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

“I think that [Soderbergh’s] ‘final films’ from 2009-2013 after he announced his retirement reflect one of the most prolific and creative bursts of filmmaking in recent American cinema.”—R. Colin Tait, coauthor of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh The following is...

June 4, 2013

Interview with Rob Stone, Author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater

The following is an interview with Rob Stone, author of The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don’t Run. Question: What makes the cinema of Richard Linklater a good subject for study? Rob Stone: Linklater is an incredibly versatile filmmaker, not...

June 4, 2013

New Book Tuesday: The Problem With, The Great Civilized Conversation, Global Intellectual History, and More

The Problem with God: Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong Peter J. Steinberger The Great Civilized Conversation: Education for a World Community Wm. Theodore de Bary Global Intellectual History Edited by Samuel Moyn and Andrew...

June 3, 2013

Double Book Giveaway! The Cinema of Richard Linklater and The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh

Remember the ’90s? I do but if you don’t, there are two new books on two of the decade’s directorial stars who helped to shape and define American independent film. However, these directors are more than just remnants of the...