August 14, 2008

The Insider Forum at NewsHour – Experts Answer Questions about China's Olympic Moment

Yesterday Victor Cha, author of the forthcoming Beyond the Final Score, was invited to participate in the Insider’s Forum hosted by the website for NewsHour. The discussion between Victor Cha and Orville Schell of the Asia Society was hosted by...

August 13, 2008

Day 6 of the Beijing Olympics – So Far, So Good….

The following post is by Victor Cha, the D. S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and associate professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and author of the forthcoming Beyond the...

August 12, 2008

Review of Hyping Health Risks in the Wall Street Journal

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a review of Geoffrey Kabat’s new book, Hyping Health Risks. The review says of the book: In “Hyping Health Risks,” Geoffrey Kabat, an epidemiologist himself, shows how activists, regulators and scientists distort or magnify...

August 11, 2008

Victor Mair interviewed on The Art of War

Recently, Victor Mair, the translator of our new edition of Sun Zi’s classic work, The Art of War, was interviewed by Marty Moss-Coane on Philadelphia NPR station WHYY. Listen to the interview, which discusses whether Sun Zi was in fact the true...

August 8, 2008

The power of the Olympics to bring democracy to China

          This week C.U.P. authors have been hitting the pavement to discuss on tv, radio, and in print the prospect of China becoming more democratic as a result of the Olympic games that open tonight in Beijing....

August 7, 2008

Interview with Geoffrey C. Kabat, author of Hyping Health Risks

The following is an interview with Geoffrey C. Kabat, who is senior epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology....

August 6, 2008

Re-Enactment

The following post is by Jonathan Kahana, author of Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary  This is the third in a series of postings by Jonathan Kahana: read his first post and second post In his recent review of...

August 5, 2008

Vice Presidential Candidates and the Debates: A Post by Alan Schroeder

The following post is by Alan Schroeder, author of Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV In selecting their running mates, Barack Obama and John McCain will choose not just a prospective vice president, but also a vice presidential debater. ...

August 4, 2008

Getting beyond the Conventions of Biography – and Hagiography Too: A Post by Peter Heehs

The following post is by Peter Heehs, author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo How do you write about a man who is known to some as a politician, to others as a poet and critic, to still others as a...

August 1, 2008

Hard-To-Find Classic Documentaries: A Post from Jonathan Kahana

 Jonathan Kahana is assistant professor of cinema studies at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and author of the just-published Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary. My first post to this blog listed the “best documentary...

July 31, 2008

Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries: Michael Fischbach on the History News Network

In a recent post on the History News Network, Michael Fischbach, author of the forthcoming book, Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries, discusses the recent U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 185, which asks the United States government whenever mention is...

July 30, 2008

The Man Behind "A Civil Action"

The August issue of Discover magazine features a profile and interview with Phil Brown, author of Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement. The interview tells how Phil Brown’s work as a sociologist in the field of public...