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...

February 13, 2013

Andrew Nathan on His First Trip to China

My First Trip to China: Scholars, Diplomats, and Journalists Reflect on their First Encounters with China, edited by Kin-ming Liu, includes an essay by Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and more recently the...

February 13, 2013

Imagining Mankind Beyond Earth (on Pinterest!)

Claude Piantadosi’s Mankind Beyond Earth frames space exploration as humanity’s ultimate challenge to adapt to new and extremely hostile environments. However, while Piantadosi is quite frank about the physical and financial limits of human spacefaring, his book is also brimming...

February 12, 2013

New Book Tuesday: Japan, South Africa, Hong Kong, and More New Titles

Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts (Now available in paper) Haruo Shirane Songs and Secrets: South Africa from Liberation to Governance Barry Gilder Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong Arthur van Langenberg...

February 12, 2013

An Interview with Claude Piantadosi, Author of Mankind Beyond Earth

“As a lifelong investigator, I have a deep belief that maintaining our research leadership in all facets of science is critical to our nation’s continued success as a forward-thinking civilization. Despite its great costs and high risks, space exploration is...

February 11, 2013

Judith Butler, BDS, and Threats to Academic Freedom

Judith Butler’s appearance last week at an event at Brooklyn College with Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement campaigner Omar Barghouti elicited controversy regarding both Israeli policies and the limits or threats to academic freedom. In her recently published book...

February 8, 2013

University Press Roundup

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

February 8, 2013

Mike Wallace interviews Erich Fromm

Watch Mike Wallace interview Erich Fromm in 1958.