March 10, 2008

Book for National Women’s History Month: Women’s Religious History

We continue with our series of postings on books relating to National Women’s History Month with today’s look at women’s religious history. I’ve chosen one book to represent each of the four major religious traditions, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism....

March 7, 2008

The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: Reading the World 2008

We have not had time to post about this yet but we are very excited to announce that The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai, by Wang Anyi, translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry and Susan Chan...

March 6, 2008

Winning the Battle Losing the War: A NYT Op-ed from James Willbanks

James Willbanks’s op-ed “Winning the Battle, Losing the War” appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. James Willbanks is the author of The Tet Offensive: A Concise History. In the piece, Willbanks looks at how the Tet Offensive, while considered a...

March 5, 2008

The Power of the Consumer

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the tax rebate President Bush just signed into law. As a single taxpaying citizen I’m entitled to receive up to $600 for my rebate check. The rebates are intended to stimulate the U.S....

March 4, 2008

Film and Philly: The Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference

For some people six things come to mind when they think about Philadelphia and film: Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, and the mose recent Rocky Balboa. However, beginning on Thursday, The Society for Cinema & Media...

March 3, 2008

Books for National Women’s History Month

Today, I’d like to bring your attention to the fact that March is National Women’s History Month. In honor of the strong contributions women have made to American history, I bring you several distinguished titles from our list in women’s...

February 29, 2008

Humanity’s Growing Pains: A Post by Walter Dodds

Walter Dodds is a professor of biology at Kansas State and the author of Humanity’s Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment. Humanity is entering adolescence. For most of our history, the world has had unlimited capacity to take care...

February 28, 2008

Letter from Jim Jordan about Gutenberg-e

The recent Chronicle of Higher Education article about Gutenberg-e got a number of facts wrong, which is not surprising given the fact that Columbia University Press was not contacted before the article was published. First, it is wrong in fact...

February 27, 2008

I Love Dollars: Finalist for the Kiriyama Prize

I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen and translated by Julia Lovell was selected as a finalist for The Kiriyama Prize in the fiction category. The other finalists are Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (The Dial...

February 26, 2008

Black History Month: The Education of Booker T. Washington

Continuing our series of postings on Black History Month, we turn to Michael West’s The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations. In the book, West explores the power and influence of Washington’s ideas...

February 25, 2008

Evolution and the Blogosphere

Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters by Donald Prothero continues to receive enthusiastic reviews from a variety of excellent science-related blogs. Most recently, the blog Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) wrote of the book, “Beautifully written...

February 22, 2008

Oscar Reading to Win That Pool

Whether you are watching the Academy Award nominated movies for fun, for money, or for professional reasons, it’s always good to do a little research on the categories that films are nominated in. To that end, we present our highly...