December 13, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Islam Through Western Eyes, The Greatest Grid, and Other New Titles

Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism Jonathan Lyons The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 Edited by Hilary Ballon The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude, Vitalism, and Modernity Donna Jones Intermittency:...

December 12, 2011

The Greatest Grid: Hilary Ballon and Jon Meacham on the History of Manhattan's Grid

We are very excited to be publishing The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, edited by Hilary Ballon, which accompanies an exhibit of the same name at the Museum of the City of New York. In the following...

December 9, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Aging, Flavor, and Taste

We conclude our week-long feature on Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, by Gordon Shepherd fittingly enough with an excerpt from the final chapter. In the chapter, “Why Flavor Matters,” Shepherd discusses how perceptions of flavor...

December 8, 2011

Interview with John T. E. Richardson, author of Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island

The following is an interview with John T. E. Richardson, author of Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island Question: Who is the subject of your book? John T.E. Richardson: Howard Andrew Knox was one of the...

December 8, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Language and Flavor

One of the facets of the brain and food that Gordon Shepherd links in Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters is the role of language. Below is an excerpt from the book on this subject. (For...

December 7, 2011

How Neurogastronomy Can Fight Obesity and Fast-Food Cravings

Gordon Shepherd, author of Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, recently talked with The Chronicle of Higher Education about his book. In the article Shepherd discusses the science behind neurogastronomy and the ways in which we...

December 7, 2011

MLA Award Winners: Donna Jones and Michael K. Bourdaghs

We were very excited to learn that two of our authors will be receiving awards at this year’s Modern Language Association’s annual conference. And the winners are: Donna V. Jones for her book The Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Négritude,...

December 6, 2011

Tuesday Titles: New Books from Joseph Stiglitz and Titles on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Piano

The Philosopher’s Touch: Sartre, Nietzsche, and Barthes at the Piano Francois Noudelmann The Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadists, the Military and the People–The Struggle for Control Yunas Samad The Restructuring of Capitalism in Our Time William K. Tabb When More Is Less:...

December 6, 2011

Neurogastronomy: Gordon Shepherd Discusses "Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters"

Gordon Shepherd, author of Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, was recently interviewed in Salon. In the interview, Gordon Shepherd explains among other things why we overeat, how to do the nose-pinch test, how to get...

December 6, 2011

Hans Georg-Moeller: Niklas Luhmann, the Radical and Occupy Wall Street

The following is a post by Hans Georg-Moeller, author of The Radical Luhmann: Unfortunately, the radicalism of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of society has often been ignored, misunderstood, or watered down. This is unfortunate because the theory is probably the most...

December 4, 2011

Neurogastronomy and Why Smell Matters for the Food We Love

“Rather than being weak and vestigial, human smell appears to be quite powerful. Some have even suggested that humans and their primate relatives are “supersmellers” among ani­mals. It is time, therefore, for a new appreciation of this much maligned and...

December 2, 2011

Alan Wallace: "A True Revolution in the Mind Science"

We conclude our week’s feature on B. Alan Wallace’s Meditations of a Buddhist Skeptic: A Manifesto for the Mind Sciences and Contemplative Practice, with an excerpt from his epilogue in which he discusses the potential for a true revolution in...