March 26, 2013

An Editorial and Ontological Insurrection, by Santiago Zabala

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...

March 26, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Double Agents, Picturing Power, the Quest for Security, and More New Titles

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Double Agents: Espionage, Literature, and Liminal Citizens Erin Carlston Picturing Power: Portraiture and Its Uses in the New York Chamber of Commerce Karl Kusserow The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and...

March 25, 2013

Insurrections on Pinterest

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...

March 25, 2013

Clayton Crockett: The Conception of Insurrections

This week we are featuring the Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture series, edited by Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, Jeffrey Robbins, and Slavoj Zizek. Remember to enter our Book Giveaway to win FREE copies of The Incident at...

March 22, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly Roundup of the best blog posts from around the world of academic publishing.

March 22, 2013

Marc Lynch: What’s Missing from the Iraq Debate

“On the 10th anniversary of the invasion, we should be hearing a lot more from them — and a lot less from the former American officials and pundits who got it wrong the first time.”—Marc Lynch Amid the many discussion...

March 21, 2013

Mark Kukis on Voices from Iraq and the Nation’s Future

“The experience of the U.S. invasion and occupation scarred the country much more deeply than even I as a correspondent there imagined.”—Mark Kukis Upon the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we are re-posting an earlier interview with...

March 20, 2013

Paul Pillar: Still Peddling Iraq War Myths, Ten Years Later

We continue our week long feature on the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq with a look at a recent essay by Paul Pillar, author of Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform. In the...

March 20, 2013

Guobin Yang: China’s Twitter Revolution is Slow in Coming

In recent article in Scientific American, Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, argues that twitter, microblogging, and other social media is changing China but doubts that radical political change will occur. Yang...

March 19, 2013

Voices from Iraq: What the U.S. Invasion Felt Like to Iraqis

Mark Kukis author Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009 recently discussed the stories of some of the people he interviewed for the book on Juan Cole’s blog Informed Comment. In particular, Kukis shares some of the reactions of a...

March 19, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Animals, Postmodernism, Muslim Identities, and More New Titles

Our weekly listing of new titles. Remember these and all our titles are 50% off when you add SALE to your shopping cart during our Spring Sale: Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism Gary Steiner Muslim Identities: An Introduction to...

March 18, 2013

Book Giveaway: Voices from Iraq

This week marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. During the week, we will be featuring books and authors’ perspectives on Iraq. In particular, the extraordinary work by Mark Kukis, Voices from Iraq: A People’s History, 2003-2009...