March 10, 2009

Alternet on All the Art That's Fit to Print

Alternet posted a piece by Steve Brown on the various illustrations for the Op-Ed page that have been killed by the New York Times over the years. In fact, rejecting illustrations, such as David Levine’s depiction of Kissinger, has cost...

March 9, 2009

Video Part 2 of Alan Wallace talking about Mind in the Balance

A while ago we posted here part 1 of an interview with Alan Wallace, author of the recently published book, Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity. Today, we are posting part 2 of the video series....

March 6, 2009

First Peek at Building a Meal by Herve This

We are very excited to report that the new Hervé This book, Building a Meal, is rolling-out world-wide over the next two weeks. To whet your appetite we give you a short excerpt from the preface of the book. This...

March 5, 2009

A Poem in Honor of Spring

I don’t know about you, but we are getting tired of winter’s bitter cold and snow assaulting us here in New York City. To encourage warmer weather we offer below a poem from the anthology Beyond Spring: Tz’u poems of the...

March 4, 2009

Spring Sale!

Check out our spring sale, featuring discounts of 20%-80% off more than 1,000 selected titles. Some of the categories on sale are: Best-sellers American History Film & television Religion Science and many more…..

March 3, 2009

Why the Recent Elections Won’t Stop Terrorism in Israel

The following post is by Ami Pedahzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. Two months after the end of the Israeli offensive in Gaza it seems that once again the “war model” for counterterrorism has...

March 2, 2009

The Dover Ban – Why No One Gets It Right

The following is a post by Michael Sledge, author of Soldier Dead. Recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the ban on media presence at the return of “transfer cases” containing the remains of US service personnel who have died...

February 27, 2009

More events with Donald Prothero on Evolution

Donald Prothero continues his whirlwind tour to spread the word about Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why it Matters. March 9, 2009, 7:30 PM University of Alabama The Biology Auditorium (room 127 Biology) Biology Building, 411 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa,...

February 26, 2009

Dubai: Is the Party Over?

In recent years Dubai has experienced stunning growth with glittering hotels and fabulous skyscrapers on practically every corner. But is Dubai a case of the higher they rise, the further they have to fall? In this video that recently aired...

February 25, 2009

Interview with Bruce Gilley

The following is an interview with Bruce Gilley, author of The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy. Q: Isn’t legitimacy just smoke and mirrors, a way for the powerful to mystify and subdue the weak? Bruce Gilley:...

February 24, 2009

Don’t Try to Speak to the Muslim World!

The following is a post from Olivier Roy, author of The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. This post originally appeared on the UC Berkeley website Blue Sky: New Ideas for the Obama Administration. The Obama administration must not...

February 23, 2009

Anatomy of a Scare

In this week’s issue of Newsweek, reporter Sharon Begley tells the background story behind the vaccine-autism link scare and how bad science for years managed to derail efforts to investigate the true cause of autism. This article is a short...