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June 10, 2011

Weiner, Weiwei, and More from University Press Blogs

The following is a roundup of some excellent posts from our fellow university press blogs: Yale University Press interviews the husband-and-wife biologist team John and Colleen Marzluff, co-authors of Dog Days, Raven Nights. Marjorie Cohn asks if the assassination of...

June 9, 2011

Interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order

“Migration control is the last bastion of open discrimination in the modern world.”—Adam McKeown The following is an interview with Adam McKeown, author of Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. The book is now available and paper...

June 9, 2011

Geoffrey Kabat on Cancer and Cellphones

The following post by Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology discusses the recent World Health Organization’s report on cellphone use and its possible link to cancer. Kabat questions some...

June 8, 2011

Brent Stockwell: The National Institutes of Health and the Drug Discovery Crisis

Brent R. Stockwell is the author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines, and Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biological Sciences at Columbia University, and an Early Career Scientist of the...

June 7, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Why Jane Austen?

The following books are now available: Why Jane Austen? Rachel Brownstein Storming the World Stage: The Story of Lashkar-e-Taiba Stephen Tankel Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political Anne McNevin Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic...

June 6, 2011

Review of Quest for the Cure by Brent Stockwell

Brent Stockwell’s The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines was recently reviewed in The Globe and Mail. (It is the third review.) Here’s the review and for more on the book, you...

June 3, 2011

Authors, Editors, and Librarians on Turning a Dissertation into a Book

It has been a big week for the American Association of University Presses. It launched a redesigned website and the annual meeting began today with a keynote address from Wire creator, David Simon. (For those unable to attend the meeting...

June 2, 2011

9/11 After Ten Years: A New Blog from Charles Strozier

Charles Strozier, author of the forthcoming Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses, has started a blog 9/11 After Ten Years that addresses many of the issues in...

June 1, 2011

Hispanic New York and Claudio Remeseira

Congratulations to Claudio Remeseira, the editor of Hispanic New York: A Sourcebook, which won the 2011 International Latino Award for Best Reference Book in English. Remeseira was also the subject of a recent interview with Global Voices which he talked...

May 31, 2011

New Book Tuesday: Ancient Business, a New Saussure, and International Film

The Origins of Business, Money, and Markets Keith Roberts Course in General Linguistics Ferdinand de Saussure; Translated by Wade Baskin; Edited by Perry Meisel and Haun Saussy International Film Guide 2011: The Definitive Annual Review of World Cinema Edited by...

May 27, 2011

Voices from Iraq: "The occupier is still here."

May 26, 2011

Voices from Iraq: Usra J'Bara Hadi and Standing Up to Sectarian Violence

“These terrorists were trying to do whatever they could to displace us. There were Sunnis in our village as well, by the way. About half the families were Sunni and the other half Shi’ites. We all banded together against these...

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