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October 9, 2009

Interview with Alex Danchev, author of Art and War and Terror

The following is an interview with Alex Danchev, author of On Art and War and Terror. (The book is currently on sale during our special offer on politics, political theory, and political science theory titles.) Question: Art and war and...

October 8, 2009

Toby Talbot at the Hamptons International Film Festival

The Hamptons International Film Festival kicks off today and continues through the Columbus Day weekend. Some of the highlights for this year’s festival includes the U.S. premier of Heath Ledger’s last film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Among the many...

October 8, 2009

The Oldest Tree in New York City

Not surprisingly, when the New York Times City Room blog wanted to find out what the oldest tree is in New York City they asked Edward S. Barnard author of New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan...

October 7, 2009

Rashid Khalidi on the Middle East conflict and the two-state solution

In a recent interview on Rear Vision, Rashid Khalidi, author of, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (revised edition forthcoming), discussed the history of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here’s what Rashid Khalidi has to say...

October 6, 2009

The Tyrannical History of Military Tribunals for Civilians — A Post by Greg Robinson

The History News Network recently published an essay on U.S. military tribunals during World War II by Greg Robinson, author of A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America. In the essay Robinson looks at the implementation military rule...

October 5, 2009

Alexander Joy Cartwright and the invention of baseball

For many fans, the baseball season has come to an end, so for those whose teams did not make the playoffs but still need their baseball fix, the following is an interview with Jay Martin, author of Live All You...

October 2, 2009

Israel's nuclear bomb — 40 years of ambiguity

Avner Cohen’s recent op-ed in Haaretz looks back to the 40th anniversary of a meeting between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir. Cohen, author of the forthcoming Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb: Democracy, Secrecy, and Taboo, writes, During a protracted tete-a-tete...

October 2, 2009

The Prime Minister of Mauritius praises the Aid Trap

On September 24 during the UN General Assembly in New York, Dr. Honorable Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam of the Republic of Mauritius met with Dean R. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School Here’s what PM Ramgoolam had to say about...

October 1, 2009

Have dinner with Andre (and Toby Talbot)

For those in New York City (and sorry for the short notice), there is a great event tonight at the New York Film Festival surrounding Toby Talbot’s new book The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at...

September 30, 2009

Do cell phones cause cancer?

Recently on the British Web site Spiked, Geoffrey Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology, takes a closer look at recent reports linking cell phone use and brain cancer. Kabat argues...

September 29, 2009

The Main Course interviews Andy Smith

In an interview on Heritage Radio Network’s show The Main Course Andy Smith discusses some of the 30 turning points in American food from his book, Eating History. In the interview he touches on topics as varied as the invention...

September 28, 2009

Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch on quintessential New York City dishes and more

In a recent interview with Serious Eats New York, Jonathan Deutsch and Annie Hauck Lawson, co-editors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City, talked about the history of New York City food and some of their favorite New York City...

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