June 2, 2009

Google Enters the E-book Market

This past weekend witnessed a slightly toned down, slightly anxious, but still enthusiastic Book Expo America (BEA), the book industry’s largest trade show. (For a wrap-up of the show, you can visit Galley Cat, Jacket Copy, or Publishers Weekly, and...

June 1, 2009

Eat Me Daily Reviews Building a Meal

We’re a little bit late with this but along with their excellent accompanying photographs (see above), showcasing the beautiful interior and exterior design of Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, Eat Me Daily also provides a very...

May 28, 2009

Gary Steiner on His Book Animals and the Moral Community

The Web site Rorotoko has a cover interview/post with Gary Steiner in which he discusses his recent book Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship. Steiner’s post describes his book’s exploration and critique of the Western...

May 28, 2009

A New Report Disputes any Link Between Eating Red Meat and Breast Cancer

Geoffrey Kabat, whose book Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology takes a closer look at recent health scares, was recently a co-author of a study investigating possible links between eating meat and breast...

May 27, 2009

The Valve Begins Its Book Event/Discussion on Jenny Davidson's "Breeding"

The Valve has begun its eagerly anticipated discussion of Jenny Davidson’s Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century. Davidson, it should be noted, is an academic, novelist, YA author, and blogger. Given the many genres in which she works,...

May 27, 2009

Laelaps Reviews Donald Prothero's Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs

Brian Switek author of the always-excellent blog Laelaps recently posted a review of Donald Prothero’s forthcoming Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet. In the review, Switek highlights Prothero’s emphasis on the importance of understanding...

May 26, 2009

Pyongbang!: Washington's Korea Conundrum" — Victor Cha on North Korea

Though written after North Korea’s failed missile launch earlier this Spring, Victor Cha’s article on the Foreign Affairs Web site speaks to this weekend’s events. Victor Cha, co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies , argues, “So...

May 26, 2009

A Book in 48 Hours? Ted Striphas on "Book: The Sequel"

On his blog, The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control, considers Book: The Sequel, an experiment to take place during this year’s Book Expo America in...

May 26, 2009

Authors of Between Ocean and City answer questions about Rockaway, Part II

Last week we mentioned that Lawrence and Carol P. Kaplan, authors of Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York were taking from readers of the New York Times City Room blog about the history of the once...

May 22, 2009

“Professor, the Red Brigades have telephoned. They say they want to kill you.”

In his recently published, Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, Gianni Vattimo provides a series of vignettes looking back at his life as a philosopher, social activist, politician, and gay rights advocate. Needless to say, one of the more dramatic...

May 22, 2009

Interview with Michael Sledge, author of Soldier Dead

In honor of Memorial Day, we are re-posting our interview with Michael Sledge. This weekend we celebrate Memorial Day, the annual holiday to remember United States soldiers who have died in combat. In his book, Soldier Dead: How We Recover,...

May 22, 2009

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on Philosophy and Animal Life

In a recent review for the online journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Gerald Bruns considers how two recent philosophy books explore novelist J. M. Coetzee’s philosophical views on animals. One of the books discussed by Bruns is Philosophy and Animal...