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April 15, 2009

New Biography of Fred Friendly

We have just published the first-ever biography of legendary television executive Fred Friendly. In his book, Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism, Ralph Engleman examines Friendly’s immense impact on television news as well as his...

April 14, 2009

Herve This on Love and Cooking

We have been featuring some of the scientific knowledge the Herve This brings to cooking and food, including some steps for the perfect hard-boiled egg. However, at the center of “building a meal” is the far less quantitative concept of...

April 14, 2009

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009

Columbia University Press mourns the loss of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, one of the pioneers of gay and lesbian studies and queer studies. She died in New York following a long battle with breast cancer. We were fortunate enough to publish...

April 13, 2009

Interview with Ted Striphas at Conversational Reading

Conversational Reading has posted a fascinating interview with Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumption to Control. In the interview Striphas discusses several interesting issues from the book including, the book as an...

April 10, 2009

"Pirates are Winning" — Martin N. Murphy

With the recent hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, it is no surprise that Martin N. Murphy, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) in Washington D.C. and author of Small Boats, Weak...

April 9, 2009

William Duggan: Spend more on "D" and Less on "R"

William Duggan, author of Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement and the forthcoming The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty, was recently profiled in a Wall Street Journal article that looked at the decision of some major...

April 9, 2009

The Tablet Reviews Global Catholicism

“Every bishop and priest in the Catholic Church should sit down and read this remarkable book.” So begins a review from The Tablet of Ian Linden’s Global Catholicism: Pluralism and Renewal in a World Church. The Tablet, which is Britain’s...

April 8, 2009

When Watching the Sun Needs a Permit — A Post by Lisa Keller

Lisa Keller is the author of Triumph of Order: Democracy and Public Space in New York and London and associate professor of history at Purchase College, State University of New York. Not many Jews, let alone Christians, are familiar with...

April 7, 2009

Herve This on the Perfect Hard-Boiled Egg

One of the six classic French bistro dishes that Hervé This discusses in Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism is hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise. Employing science rather than relying on old dicta, This explains how to achieve...

April 6, 2009

I Speak of the City Poetry Reading at the Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum will be having a special reading with Stephen Wolf, editor of I Speak of the City: Poems of New York. This is becoming an annual event to celebrate National Poetry Month and Wolf will be joined by...

April 6, 2009

The Art of the Peer Review

In What Just Ain’t So, published today on Inside Higher Ed., Patrick H. Alexander, associate director and editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania State University Press, offers a great discussion of the peer review process. Alexander identifies four types of reviews that...

April 3, 2009

Feministe Reviews Sex Trafficking

The popular Web site Feministe has just posted a review of Siddharth Kara’s Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. Here’s an excerpt from the review: “Solutions are where Kara’s analysis really shines. He offers a two pronged plan...

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