January 18, 2013

University Press Roundup

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January 18, 2013

Read an Excerpt from our Book of the Week: Jonathan Kahn's Race in a Bottle

This week, we’ve brought you an interview and author post from Jonathan Kahn, Hamline Law Professor and expert on BiDil, the first race-specified drug approved by the FDA (click here for the story of BiDil). To wrap up our feature...

January 17, 2013

Jonathan Kahn – Is the Patent Office Forcing Race into Biotechnology Patents?

One of the most significant things you’ll learn from Jonathan Kahn’s new book, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, is that racial discourse surfaces within most all of the vertically integrated...

January 17, 2013

Interview with Nahshon Perez, author of Freedom from Past Injustices

“Do contemporary citizens, some of them descendants of wrongdoers, owe anything to the descendants of victims? For almost all cases, the answer given is no.”—Nahshon Perez The following is an interview with Nahshon Perez, author of Freedom from Past Injustices:...

January 16, 2013

VIDEO: Andrew Smith Discusses American Drinking History

Last month, Andrew F. Smith, author of Drinking History: Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages, discussed what makes American drinks “American” at the Los Angeles Public Library in an event sponsored by the Culinary Historians of Southern...

January 16, 2013

An Interview with Race in a Bottle author Jonathan Kahn

Earlier this week, we posted on BiDil, the first FDA-approved drug with a race-specific indication on its label. In the following interview with Columbia University Press, Jonathan Kahn, author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized...

January 16, 2013

Interview with James Pettifer, author of The Kosova Liberation Army

The following is an interview with James Pettifer, author of The Kosova Liberation Army: Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001 : Question: Some years have passed now since the main conflicts in the Balkans, and interest in them has been...

January 15, 2013

Interview with Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated

In the following interview with The Street, Howard Marks, author of The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, discusses some of his insights about investing. Marks points to the complexity of the stock market and the...

January 15, 2013

The Story of BiDil: the FDA's First Race-Specific Drug

Hamline University Law Professor Jonathan Kahn has become a prominent critical voice in the last decade on the controversial injection of racial discourse into American medical practice (particularly in the realm of genetically tailored drugs). In the following post, he...

January 15, 2013

New Book Tuesday: A New Biography of Erich Fromm and More!

The following titles are now available: The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet Lawrence J. Friedman Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking Hunter Vaughn Muriel Rukeyser and Documentary: The Poetics of Connection Catherine Gander Digital...

January 14, 2013

Massimo Montanari discusses "Let the Meatball Rest" on the Leonard Lopate Show

Late last week, Massimo Montanari, most recently the author of Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories About Food and Culture appeared on the Leonard Lopate show to discuss his new book and how humans have cooked over time, the...

January 11, 2013

University Press Roundup

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