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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...

February 20, 2009

Breast Cancer Cluster in a Building at the University of California at San Diego

The following post is by Geoffrey Kabat, Ph.D., a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, who has conducted studies of breast cancer and environmental factors and is the author of Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily...

February 19, 2009

The Late Age of Print … Blog

Ted Striphas’s The Late Age of Print:Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control will be published in May but in the meantime you can visit his excellent blog fittingly titled The Late Age of Print. Posts on the site have...

February 18, 2009

Will Corporate Social Responsibility Survive the Recession?

In last week’s The Big Money, published by Slate, Christopher Flavelle examined whether or not corporate social responsibility (CSR) would be jettisoned for the bottom line during these very difficult economic times. While the concept of corporate social responsibility might...

February 17, 2009

The Power of Nonviolence — A Post by Joseph Kip Kosek

The following post is by Joseph Kip Kosek, author of Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy. The concept of nonviolence seems to have little power today. Barack Obama’s inauguration, followed quickly by Black History Month, inspired many...

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