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March 13, 2009

Herve This Video for Building a Meal

In conjunction with the publication of Herv&eacute This’s new book Building a Meal: From Molecular Gastronomy to Culinary Constructivism, we’ve produced a special video of This in the lab discussing the book and his ideas about cooking.

March 12, 2009

Further Thoughts on the UCSD Breast Cancer Cluster: The Garland Report — A Posting by Geoffrey Kabat

The following post is by Geoffrey Kabat, a cancer epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Kabat has conducted studies of environmental factors, including EMF, in relation to breast cancer risk, and is the author of Hyping Health Risks:...

March 11, 2009

Robert Barnett on the 50th Anniversary of the Dalai Lama's Flight from Tibet

Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s forced exile to India and to discuss the event, NPR interviewed Robert Barnett, director modern Tibetian studies at Columbia University and author of Lhasa: Streets with Memories. Barnett, who was in...

March 11, 2009

Is Obama Satan's Warm-up Act? Mark Hulsether in Religion Dispatches

As Mark Hulsether, author of Religion, Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century United States, notes in his recent piece in Religion Dispatches, “End Times believers consider Barack Obama as a serious contender for the Antichrist.” The Obama-as-Antichrist rhetoric got...

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,...

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