July 7, 2008

Trouble Sleeping?

Trouble sleeping? You are not alone. According to John Lundberg’s piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post 30 to 50% of us occasionally suffer from insomnia. So, it is not surprising that sleeplessness has also been a subject for poets. To read...

July 3, 2008

Interview with Xiaoming Wang, author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

The following is an interview with Xiaoming Wang co-author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. For more on the book you can also view an excerpt from Natural History or visit Wang’s Web site. Q: Why study the...

July 2, 2008

International Trade & Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Bringing together the approaches of ethics and economics, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Barry and Reddy elaborate their argument in...

July 1, 2008

The Measure of America

In the coming weeks, we’ll be writing much more about the forthcoming The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 but for now we wanted to let you know that the American Human Development Project has set up a...

June 30, 2008

Richard Betts and Intelligence Reform

The Washington Note recently cited Richard Betts’s newest book Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security for its impact on policymakers and legislators in Washington D. C. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, favored...

June 30, 2008

Stephen Burt on Poetry for Pride Month

Beacon Press’s very interesting blog the Beacon Broadside recently featured Stephen Burt’s excellent post on gay and lesbian poetry. In the piece, Burt provides a concise and thoughtful history of gay and lesbian poetry and depictions of same-sex erotic passion...

June 27, 2008

William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard on a Marshall Plan for Africa

The always interesting Policy Innovations recently excerpted from William Duggan and R. Glenn Hubbard’s article “The Forgotten Lessons of the Marshall Plan”, which originally appeared in Strategy & Business. Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement,...

June 26, 2008

Dogs

July’s issue of Natural History Magazine includes an excerpt from Xiaoming Wang and Richard Tedford’s Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. The excerpt also features the stunning illustrations of Mauricio Anton. While there is no shortage of books that...

June 25, 2008

Gary Francione on "Vegan Freak"

With the recent release of some very noteworthy titles in animal studies as well as our special 50% off sale, we’ve been writing quite a bit about our books in the field. Today, we point you to Gary Francione’s recent...

June 24, 2008

Michael Fischbach Speaks at the UN on Palestinian Refugees

On Friday, June 20th, Michael Fischbach spoke at a special meeting at the United Nations to mark 60 years of dispossession of Palestine Refugees. As several speakers noted the question of Palestinian refugees is the longest standing crisis on the...

June 23, 2008

Looking for Peace and Enlightenment with Sri Aurobindo

Peter Heehs, co-founder of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, and author of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo is traveling to the East Coast to talk about Sri Aurobindo and his new biography of the famed Indian yogi and philosopher. You...

June 20, 2008

Sue OPEC: An Op-Ed from Thomas W. Evans

In an opinion piece in yesterday’s New York Times, Thomas W. Evans, a former adviser to presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and the author of The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold...