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July 18, 2012

VIDEO: Carl Hobbs on the Beach

The good folks at William & Mary, recently produced a video featuring Carl Hobbs discussing his new book The Beach Book: The Science of the Shore. Hobbs’s The Beach Book provides an understanding of the formation of beaches, how they...

July 18, 2012

Aaron Belkin – “This Is Not Who We Are”: Contradictory Expectations in the US Military

“American warrior identities are contradictory, in that service members are expected to be civilized and barbaric, dominant and subordinate, rapist and rape victim. They are told to be paragons of virtue, and we express shock when they misbehave.” — Aaron...

July 17, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Our featured cover this week is from Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, by Dung Kai-cheung. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.

July 17, 2012

Aaron Belkin on Military Masculinity

“Americans have been encouraged to understand military masculinity as an archetypal expression of democracy. But there is something profoundly undemocratic about military masculinity and the way in which public adulation of it is premised on a disavowal of its blemishes.”—Aaron...

July 17, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Poetry of the Taliban and The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Poetry of the Taliban Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City Dung Kai-cheung; Translated by Dung Kai-cheung, Anders Hansson, and Bonnie S. McDougall The Science of the Oven (Now available in...

July 16, 2012

Richard Betts on "American Force" and Current Threats to the United States

Earlier this summer, Richard Betts talked with BookTV in a fascinating discussion about the issues raised in his recent book American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security. In the interview, Betts discussed how his approach to national security...

July 13, 2012

University Press Roundup

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July 13, 2012

What Steve Jobs Did Not Know About Apps

“Apple’s iPhone and App Store has, thus, proven that walled gardens are not necessarily a bad thing, at least not for a successful digital marketplace to emerge.”—Pelle Snickars The following post is by Pelle Snickars, co-editor of Moving Data: The...

July 12, 2012

Event Alert: A Celestial Angle on the Greatest Grid

Join the Museum of the City of New York for “A Celestial Angle on the Greatest Grid!”

July 12, 2012

Patrick Vonderau on What Can Be Learned from an iPhone Bill

The following post is by Patrick Vonderau, co-editor of Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media. For more on the book, you can read the introduction. In 2007, blogger Justine Ezarik uploaded a video on YouTube, titled 300-page...