April 25, 2012

Bryan Tilt: China's Path to Sustainable Development

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 concerns sustainable development in China and is written by anthropologist Bryan Tilt.

April 25, 2012

How the State Can Ensure Gender Equality: Sex and World Peace

“It is time, then, for power and responsibility to be married by states. Caregiving must count—really count—in the perspective of national governments.” In their book Sex and World Peace, the authors offer some top-down approaches to ensuring the security of...

April 24, 2012

Sex and World Peace: How Inequality of the Sexes Affects International Security

“Efforts to establish greater peace and security throughout the world might be made more effective by also addressing the violence and exploitation that occur in personal relationships between the two halves of humanity, men and women.” ~ authors of Sex...

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