July 15, 2008

The New Yorker Cover Controversy and the History of Editorial Cartoons

While the New Yorker Obama cover has been dominating the news cycle for the past 24 hours, disputes and controversies regarding editorial cartoons are hardly new. Here are a couple of books that offer some historical perspective: In her forthcoming...

July 14, 2008

What's Different About the Immigration Problem We Face Today — And What Can Be Done About It?: A Post by Phil Kretsedemas

There is an interesting article by Phil Kretsedemas, co-editor of Keeping Out the Other: A Critical Introduction to Immigration Enforcement Today, on History News Network which looks at the history of immigration policy and how the United States has defined...

July 11, 2008

A Crock Pot Lamp?: Two Columbia University Press Employees Explain

Now that you are ready to crack open one of the newest titles from Columbia University Press, you’ll need a light to read to read it under and it just so happens that we have a great suggestion for where...

July 10, 2008

Lights, Camera, Action at University Presses

In a marvelous moment of navel-gazing we’d like to draw your attention to a recent article at the Chronicle of Higher Education that reports on the new trend of University Press publishers producing videos to promote their books. We’re proud...

July 10, 2008

Gary Francione on Vegan Freak, Part II

This ran a few days ago but we forgot to mention that the second part of Gary Francione’s interview with Vegan Freak is now available. (Click here for the first part.) The book has received a lot of notice from...

July 9, 2008

Pests and Presidents: On the Air with Alan Schroeder and James McWilliams

You can read excerpts from James McWilliams’s American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT and Alan Schroeder’s Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV but you can also listen to them thanks to NPR. In...

July 8, 2008

Presidential Debabtes: Beyond the 4th of July / A Post by Alan Schroeder

The following post is by Alan Schroeder author of the recently published Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High-Risk TV. You can also read Schroeder’s description of the Nixon-Kennedy debate from Presidential Debates. To the chagrin of political junkies everywhere, the...

July 7, 2008

Trouble Sleeping?

Trouble sleeping? You are not alone. According to John Lundberg’s piece in yesterday’s Huffington Post 30 to 50% of us occasionally suffer from insomnia. So, it is not surprising that sleeplessness has also been a subject for poets. To read...

July 3, 2008

Interview with Xiaoming Wang, author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History

The following is an interview with Xiaoming Wang co-author of Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History. For more on the book you can also view an excerpt from Natural History or visit Wang’s Web site. Q: Why study the...

July 2, 2008

International Trade & Labor Standards: A Proposal for Linkage

Bringing together the approaches of ethics and economics, Christian Barry and Sanjay G. Reddy propose ways in which the international trading system can support poor countries in promoting the well-being of their peoples. Barry and Reddy elaborate their argument in...

July 1, 2008

The Measure of America

In the coming weeks, we’ll be writing much more about the forthcoming The Measure of America: American Human Development Report 2008-2009 but for now we wanted to let you know that the American Human Development Project has set up a...

June 30, 2008

Richard Betts and Intelligence Reform

The Washington Note recently cited Richard Betts’s newest book Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security for its impact on policymakers and legislators in Washington D. C. Thomas Fingar, the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council, favored...