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June 17, 2008

Sale on Animal Studies Titles

We’ve had such a great response to the post by Wendy Lochner, editor of the Press’s Animal Studies list, that we are offering a 50% discount on all animal studies titles, including works by Gary Francione, Stanley Cavell, James Rachels,...

June 16, 2008

Asian Advocates: An Interview with Bruce Fulton

In conjunction with their interview with Ch’oe Yun, author of There a Petal Silently Falls, PRI’s “The World” also spoke with Bruce Fulton, the book’s translator. In the interview Fulton considers the place of Ch’oe Yun in Korean literature, the...

June 13, 2008

Inevitable Dissident: An Interview with Ch’oe Yun

Bill Marx of PRI’s The World recently interviewed Ch’oe Yun, author of There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch’oe Yun. Our edition marks the first English translation of Ch’oe Yun’s work and, as Marx notes, she is considered...

June 12, 2008

The Pesky Quiz: How Well Do You Know the History of American Attempts to Wipe out Insects?

To highlight the history of U.S. efforts to control insects we offer a quiz to test your knowledge of this fascinating story as explored by James E. McWilliams in American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to...

June 11, 2008

The Hudson as Literary Muse: Frances Dunwell's The Hudson: America's River

The New Yorker’s blog on books, The Book Bench, recently featured Frances Dunwell’s The Hudson: America’s River. The post reflects on how the Hudson River has inspired key American writers such as, Washington Irving, Edith Wharton, and Herman Melville. Frances...

June 11, 2008

A Review of Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East from "A Fistful of Euros"

We had meant to post something about this sooner but earlier this month A Fistful of Euros (AFOE) reviewed Olivier Roy’s The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. (Read a pdf of the Roy’s introduction here.) AFOE is an...

June 10, 2008

Dr. Paul Offit on Autism and the Safety of Vaccines

Last week, parents including those associated with the group Moms Against Mercury marched in Washington D. C. to express their concerns about the possible connection between vaccines and childhood autism. The parents are also troubled by the vaccine schedule which...

June 9, 2008

Bruce Hoffman and the Feud over Terrorism

Yesterday’s New York Times “Week in Review” featured an article about the growing dispute between experts on the nature of the terrorist threat. One of the central figures in this debate is Bruce Hoffman, professor at Georgetown University’s School of...

June 6, 2008

Beer, Richard Dawkins, New York's Sexual Underworld, DJ Spooky, and More from University Press Blogs

Every so often we like to highlight books and blog postings from other university presses. The following links reveal the great breadth of what university presses publish and the fascinating reading and listening to be found at university press blogs:...

June 5, 2008

Benjamin Barber on the Clinton Legacy

With Hillary Clinton dropping out of the race and Bill Clinton recently telling a crowd in South Dakota that he may not be involved in another political campaign, attention will undoubtedly once again turn to examining the Clinton legacy and...

June 4, 2008

Religion and Other Animals: An Essay from Paul Waldau

Over the next few weeks we hope to have a series of posts highlighting titles from our Animal Studies list. Yesterday, the list’s editor Wendy Lochner wrote about her interest in the field and in recent days we’ve had three...

June 3, 2008

Why Animal Studies Now?: A Short Personal Note from the Editor

The following post is by Wendy Lochner, senior executive editor for Religion, Philosophy, and Animal Studies Why animal studies now? Like many people who are interested in the fate of animals and of the Earth, I came to this issue...

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