February 21, 2013

Divine Decadence: Nightclubs in Bollywood Film — Kush Varia

The following essay on the role of the nightclub in Bollywood film is by Kush Varia, author of Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip, our featured book of the week. For more on the book, you can also read an interview...

February 20, 2013

Evolution and the Tools of Imagination — Christopher Collins

“When we open a book and turn its pages, our paleopoetic past is never very long ago or far away.”—Christopher Collins The following essay is by Christopher Collins, author of Paleopoetics: The Evolution of the Preliterate Imagination In both biological...

February 20, 2013

Interview with Kush Varia, Author of Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip

The following is an interview with Kush Varia, author of Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip Question: Why write a book on Bollywood? Kush Varia: This year, Bollywood turns 100 years old and I have presented highlights which demonstrate a variety...

February 20, 2013

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): Rising Seas, Al Qaeda, Takeshi Kitano, and More

Our weekly list of new titles: Rising Seas: Past, Present, Future Vivian Gornitz The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond Eastern Sentiments (Now available in paper) Yi T’aejun; Translated by Janet Poole Countering Al-Qaeda in London: Police and...

February 19, 2013

Claude Piantadosi on the Meteor Crash in Siberia

“This strange happenstance of the DA 14 flyby and the Chelyabinsk explosion on the same day is a wake up call about how little we know actually know about space, even in our own region of the Solar System. What...

February 19, 2013

There's More to the Catholic Church than the Pope

“For all his influence, the pope makes up an infinitesimal fraction of the opinions and activities of Catholics.”—Julie Byrne Julie Byrne, author of O God of Players: The Story of the Immaculata Mighty Macs and the forthcoming The Other Catholics,...

February 15, 2013

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

February 15, 2013

Claude Piantadosi: The Case for Mars

This week’s Book of the Week was Claude Piantadosi’s Mankind Beyond Earth. We gave you the opportunity to win a FREE copy of the book (you can still enter our Giveaway!), brought you an author Q&A and an interesting tidbit...

February 14, 2013

Read an excerpt from Kiku's Prayer, by Endō Shūsaku

Read an excerpt from Kiku’s Prayer, by Endo Shusaku

February 14, 2013

Roy Brand on Love and Philosophy

Read a post by Roy Brand in which he discusses the relationship between love and knowledge.

February 14, 2013

Lawrence J. Friedman – Valentine's Day, Erich Fromm, and The Art of Loving

Lawrence J. Friedman discusses Erich Fromm’s views on love.

February 14, 2013

Why Mankind Beyond Earth makes for Better Life on Earth: A little thing called "Spinoff"

Civilization is obliged to become spacefaring, not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable… staying alive. — Carl Sagan While Claude Piantadosi’s Mankind Beyond Earth exudes an obvious “romantic zeal” for space exploration, it...