January 9, 2020

Book Excerpt! If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!, by Leonard Sherman

“A wonderfully comprehensive view of competition and competitive strategy and illustrating it well with contemporary examples and citing of the scholarly literature and linking that to action oriented techniques.” ~John Czepiel, New York University Stern School of Business Breaking through...

January 8, 2020

The Fundamental Flaws of Softbank’s New Rules of Venture Investing

By Leonard Sherman

“Sherman takes a machete to standard thinking in strategy, offering up a common sense but deeply insightful—and sometimes surprising—recipe for what it takes to win in business.” ~Sydney Finkelstein, professor, Dartmouth College and author of, Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the...

January 8, 2020

New from Transcript-Verlag! An Eclectic Bestiary, Ludotopia, Musical Practice as a Form of Life and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Human-Animal Studies series An Eclectic Bestiary Encounters in a More-than-Human World Edited by Birgit Spengler and Babette B. Tischleder The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the...

January 7, 2020

Six Empowering Steps Towards Political Discourse

By Noëlle McAfee

“In exploring the fear of breakdown that underlies human existence, Noëlle McAfee creates a genuine intellectual breakthrough—her book is a stunningly original exploration of the political significance of mourning. This is one of the most thrilling books I have read...

January 7, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Fresh Kills, Forms of Poetic Attention, A Slave Between Empires and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Fresh Kills A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City Martin V. Melosi Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre structure on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. Martin V. Melosi...

January 6, 2020

Book Giveaway! If You’re in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth, by Leonard Sherman

“A wonderfully comprehensive view of competition and competitive strategy and illustrating it well with contemporary examples and citing of the scholarly literature and linking that to action oriented techniques.” ~John Czepiel, New York University Stern School of Business This month,...

January 3, 2020

Announcing Our 2020 Literary Studies Catalog

Letter from the Editors: Four English professors, some friends, some strangers, decide to read Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet together. Their subsequent exchange of letters and essays about the experience of reading the novels resulted in The Ferrante Letters. This book...

January 2, 2020

Book Excerpt! Views from the Streets, By Roberto R. Aspholm (introduction)

“In this path-breaking book, Roberto R. Aspholm reminds us that our understandings of contemporary gang culture remain mired in nostalgia and urban legend. Views from the Streets provides an unprecedented look at the new social dynamics resulting from public housing demolitions, displacement,...

January 1, 2020

Understanding Contemporary Gangs and Violence in Chicago

“I am very excited about Views from the Streets. It addresses central questions in contemporary gang research. . . It does so by offering what is deeply needed but rarely accomplished in this field: a grounded analysis providing a convincing, cogent...

December 31, 2019

Eight Books to Help You Understand the Climate Crises and What You Can do to Curtail Future Deterioration

Climate change is a global problem. The increasing temperature, shrinking ice sheets, and surge of extreme weather conditions have damaged Earth—affecting everyone that lives on this planet. Forecasts show that these effects will only get more extreme as time goes...

December 27, 2019

Take a Literary Vacation

It’s the middle of winter break, and as the temperature drops, snuggling up next to a cozy fire with a good book is the perfect way to relax. So today, we invite you to take a vacation through place and...

December 26, 2019

Book Excerpt! Suburban Fantastic Cinema, by Angus McFadzean (introduction)

Suburban Fantastic Cinema: Growing Up in the Late Twentieth Century  is a study of American movies in which preteen and teenage suburban boys are called upon to combat a disruptive force. Beginning in the 1980s, the suburban fantastic established itself as...