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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....

March 31, 2009

Peter Maguire on the Cambodian Genocide Trials

Yesterday, The Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) interviewed Peter Maguire, author of Facing Death in Cambodia, about the opening of the Cambodian genocide tribunal. The long-delayed tribunal began with the testimony of the man known as Brother Duch. As Maguire states...

March 30, 2009

Evolutionary Explanations for March Madness

With March Madness coming to a conclusion in the next week and baseball season upon us, we wanted to highlight David P. Barash’s recent article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Roar of the Crowd: Sport Fans’ Primal Behavior....

March 27, 2009

The Week in Review: University Press News

The last couple of weeks have seen some interesting developments both troubling and interesting. Troubling: The University Missouri of Press recently cut half its staff while the number of poetry readers continues to dwindle. The interesting news includes the continuing...

March 26, 2009

The Israeli Secret Services vs. Terrorism — A Post by Ami Pedahzur

In an article written for Middle East Strategy at Harvard , Ami Pedahzur argues that the resources now being spent on counterterrorism operations should be allocated to other national security needs and that it is time for Israel and other...

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