July 20, 2012

The Evolution of a Cover — Julia Kushnirsky on "Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City"

Earlier this week we featured the cover for Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City. In the following post, Julia Kushnirsky, the book’s designer, describes the thinking behind this beautifully evocative cover: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City is...

July 20, 2012

Aaron Belkin — Gay Marines, but No Gay Scouts

“Gay troops can fight for the country and be maimed or killed, but they can’t be scouts?”—Aaron Belkin In a recent contribution to the New York Times‘s Room for Debate, Aaron Belkin, author of Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and...

July 19, 2012

New inquiry into the 1961 death of Dag Hammarskjöld

A new inquiry into the death of Swedish UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld has been commissioned.

July 19, 2012

VIDEO: Herve This on Science and the Future of Cuisine

As part of the Euroscience Open Forum 2012, held recently in Dublin, Herve This, whose book The Science of the Oven is now out in paperback, was on a panel to discuss Science and the Future of Cuisine. Herve This...

July 19, 2012

Aaron Belkin on Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military

“Respect for the troops is important. But when respect turns into uncritical idealization, that can easily slip into a mode of thinking in which people assume that what’s good for the military is good for America.”—Aaron Belkin In a recent...

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

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