August 21, 2012

Peter Sloterdijk on the Rising Tensions between Germany and France

In a recent and much-discussed article in Der Spiegel, Romain Leick discusses the growing tensions between France and Germany. Needless to say, the French-German relationship is one whose history is fraught with violence and war. However, in recent years France...

August 21, 2012

New Book Tuesday — Beyond Pure Reason & More

Our weekly listing of new titles: Beyond Pure Reason: Ferdinand de Saussure’s Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents Boris Gasparov Post-War Planning on the Periphery: Anglo-American Economic Diplomacy in South America, 1939-1945 Thomas Mills Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts...

August 17, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

August 17, 2012

Daniel McCool on the rebirth of rivers

Daniel McCool explains the new era in river policy in the U.S.

August 16, 2012

Q&A with Daniel McCool, author of River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers

Q&A with Daniel McCool, author of River Republic, on his love for rivers and the writing of his book.

August 15, 2012

Read an excerpt from River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America’s Rivers

Read the first chapter of River Republic, by Daniel McCool.

August 14, 2012

Daniel McCool on rethinking our relationships with rivers

In today’s guest post, Daniel McCool discusses our abuse of rivers.

August 10, 2012

University Press Roundup

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

August 10, 2012

Chek Lap Kok Airport — From "Atlas" by Dung Kai-cheung

In his novel, Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Dung Kai-cheung writes from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. In the following excerpt, Dung mixes the real-life Chek Lap Kok airport with a...

August 9, 2012

Public Square Street from Dung Kai-cheung's "Atlas"

In the third section of his novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Dung Kai-cheung describes the streets of the fictional city of Victoria (based on Hong Kong) in the following excerpt he recounts the strange history of Public...

August 9, 2012

800CEOREAD Reviews Best Business Writing 2012

Earlier this summer the popular website 800CEOREAD reviewed The Best Business Writing 2012, edited by Dean Starkman, Martha M. Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, and Felix Salmon. The review praises the book for collecting the most compelling and important writing of the...

August 8, 2012

Dung Kai-cheung on Atlas and History as Fiction

Dung Kai-cheung sets Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong). The novel, which fuses history and fiction is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling...