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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...

April 2, 2009

William Logan: "The Dirty Harry of the Poetry Beat"

It has almost become of a rite of Spring for publishers to trot out their books of poetry in April for National Poetry Month. Admittedly, we do the same (though we do talk about poetry in other months). We begin...

April 2, 2009

Event Reminders: Julia Kristeva and "The Resilent City: New York Facing Adversity"

For New Yorkers, there are two interesting events featuring Columbia University Press authors tonight: At the New School, Julia Kristeva will be speaking. The event will be at 6:30 and will take place at the Theresa Lang Student Center, 55...

April 1, 2009

Herve This Has a Blog and Web Site

Hervé This, most recently the author of Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, now has a blog. (Please note: the previous link is for the Google-translated English version. For the original French version, click here.) With the...

March 31, 2009

Mr. Bezos Goes to Lexington — A Post from the Late Age of Print

On his blog The Late Age of Print, Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Culture from Consumerism to Control, discusses Jeff Bezos’s recent decision to spend a week working at an Amazon warehouse in Lexington, Kentucky....

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