April 24, 2012

National Poetry Month Selection: "Azaleas" by Kim Sowol

April is National Poetry Month, and for the rest of April we will be posting poems from our poetry titles and from those of our distributed presses.

April 24, 2012

James Lawrence Powell: Are Humans Causing Global Warming? Ask Floyd Landis.

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post explains how we know humans are causing global warming, and is written by James Lawrence Powell.

April 24, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 2 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

April 24, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Bourdieu, Butler, Corrupt Cops, and International Film

Our weekly list of new titles: Picturing Algeria Pierre Bourdieu International Film Guide 2012: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema Edited by Ian Haydn Smith They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption...

April 23, 2012

Earth Day 2012: Part 1 of an Interview with Michael E. Mann

April 22 was Earth Day, and in honor of the occasion, we will be running a series of posts over the course of this week by authors of our environmental studies titles. This post is part one of a two-part interview with climatologist Michael E. Mann.

April 20, 2012

National Poetry Month Selection: "Lacquer" by Tomaž Šalamun

April is National Poetry Month, and for the rest of April we will be posting poems from our poetry titles and from those of our distributed presses.

April 20, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of recent blog posts and features from other academic presses (this week with a political focus).

April 20, 2012

Peter Decherney on Copyright and the Netroots Movment

“This netroots infrastructure has proven to be an important corrective to the backroom policymaking of the past.”—Peter Decherney In the conclusion to Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, Peter Decherney looks at how academics and netroots movements are...

April 19, 2012

James McWilliams on the Myth of Sustainable Meat in the New York Times

“After all, it’s not how we produce animal products that ultimately matters. It’s whether we produce them at all.” — James McWilliams

April 19, 2012

Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Todd Haynes, and Copyright

In the following excerpt from Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet, Peter Decherney discusses how Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising influenced other filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes. Specifically, Anger’s use of public gave them creative inspiration...

April 18, 2012

Nicholas Teich Explains Transgender 101 on the Huffington Post

In an article and slideshow posted today on the Huffington Post, Nicholas Teich, author of Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue, explained the story behind Transgender 101 and lays out “15 essential things to know” about what “transgender” really means.

April 18, 2012

National Poetry Month: National Haiku Poetry Day

April is National Poetry Month and April 17 was National Haiku Poetry Day, so we’ve selected a number of haiku in honor of the occasion.