September 22, 2008

How East Asians View Democracy

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian regimes of the past. Yet citizens throughout the region value freedom, reject authoritarian alternatives, and believe in democracy. How...

September 19, 2008

Autism's False Prophets by Paul Offit

Earlier this week, The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a very interesting profile of Dr. Paul Offit, author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. The article describes Offit’s work as well as the ways...

September 18, 2008

Tattooing the World Selected as Best New Book

The Baltimore City Paper just named Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin by Juniper Ellis as the best new book by a local author. The paper writes: Juniper Ellis has authored a tattoo book that is as...

September 17, 2008

The Seminary Co-op Bookstore Relaunches The Front Table

Chicago’s Seminary Co-op, one of the best bookstores in the country, is now offering an online version of The Front Table, a book magazine edited by Jeff Waxman. This is very good news, for anyone interested in not only university...

September 16, 2008

Men to Boys in the Washington Post

It seems as if Gary Cross is not the only one who has been thinking about how men are failing to grow up. A recent article in the Washington Post discusses Men to Boys: The Making of Immaturity and three...

September 15, 2008

David Foster Wallace

The sudden and very sad news of David Foster Wallace’s death is a tragic loss for admirers of his writing and for those who care about literature. His piece “Host” was included in The Best American Magazine Writing 2006. The...

September 12, 2008

The Valve on Trilling, Part II

We began the week with Trilling and we’ll end the week with Trilling. More specifically, The Valve held its second round of responses to Lionel Trilling’s novel, The Journey Abandoned. This segment includes a response from the book’s editor Geraldine...

September 11, 2008

"Dangerous Islands": Alexis Dudden on JapanFocus

“Although not immediately foreseeable, the results of [the Bush administration’s] move hold the potential to make the Falklands War look like child’s play.”—Alexis Dudden, JapanFocus As has been reported in the New York Times and elsewhere, the question of sovereignty...

September 11, 2008

Final Days: Save on titles in Environmental Studies and the Social Sciences

There are a few days left to save on dozens of titles in Environmental Studies and the Social Sciences. Save on recent titles and classics from our backlist. Sale ends September 15.

September 10, 2008

"Debunking an Autism Theory" / Online Reviews of "Autism's False Prophets"

“Sadly, even after all this, many parents still blame the vaccine. The big losers in this debate are the children who are not being vaccinated because of parental fears and are at risk of contracting serious—sometimes fatal—diseases.”—from the New York...

September 9, 2008

Banned! The UAE Bans Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success

In what might be a first for us, one of the books we publish has been banned for sale in the United Arab Emirates. Late last week the Times Higher Education Supplement ran an article about the banning of Christopher...

September 9, 2008

Molecular Gastronomy Hits the Bestseller list

Bookcourt, one of Brooklyn’s finest bookstores, lists the recently published paperback edition of Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor by Herve This on their bestseller list (nonfiction paperback). For more This, there is also Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science...