February 8, 2019

Book Excerpt! Poetry and Animals, by Onno Oerlemans (introduction)

“Oerlemans interrogates how poetry, as a specific form of writing, “reveals tendrils of meaning about animals that other kinds of writing and thinking do not.” His astonishing close readings of choice examples illuminate how poetry sustains a productive ambiguity and...

February 7, 2019

Marian Schwartz On Translating the Title of The Man Who Couldn’t Die

Today’s #TranslationThursday post comes to us from Marian Schwartz, who translated Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being. In this piece, Schwartz discusses the literary aspects she considered in translating the title from Russian to English. •  • ...

February 6, 2019

Onno Oerlemans on Poetry and Animals

“Onno Oerlemans’s Poetry and Animals represents an important contribution to the scholarship on animals and human-animal relations in literature. We badly need some excellent work on poetry from a human-animal studies perspective, and this book provides a provocative, erudite, thoughtful, and engaging...

February 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Post-Fordist Cinema, All the Nations Under Heaven, Political Categories, and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! Political Categories Thinking Beyond Concepts Michael Marder Post-Fordist Cinema Hollywood Auteurs and the Corporate Counterculture Jeff Menne All the Nations Under Heaven Immigrants, Migrants, and the Making of New York, Revised...

February 1, 2019

An Inner Voice for Those Who Change the World

“You have choices. As a leader making decisions that impact your business, and as a person making decisions that impact your life, you don’t have to be a prisoner of the default and (nearly) automatic ways in which your brain...

January 31, 2019

Book Excerpt! Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873 (chapter 2)

“Bringing economic history and cultural history into the same frame, Davies makes a compelling case for the wider significance of the panics of 1873 in the development of a global consciousness of finance.” ~Peter Knight, University of Manchester Read an...

January 30, 2019

Four Steps to Strategic Leadership

“The Wise Advocate is a key book for aspiring leaders aiming to make the best—and hardest—choices. The authors provide a practical guide to decision making through a combination of neuroscience concepts, a process of self-reflection, and consideration of the greatest good...

January 29, 2019

Q&A: Catherine Davies on Transatlantic Speculations

“This creative global history of the financial panics of 1873 is now surely the leading study of its subject. In tracing not only transnational capital flows, but also the meanings and interpretive frameworks employed to make sense of them, Davies...

January 29, 2019

New Book Tuesday! The Politics of Losing, Centrifugal Empire, Ghalib, and more!

Our weekly list of new releases is now available! The Politics of Losing Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep The Putin System An Opposing View Grigory Yavlinsky New in Paper! Centrifugal Empire Central–Local...

January 25, 2019

“Tough Love” Tips from The CEO’s Boss

“The CEO’s Boss serves up a wealth of practical, hands-on recommendations to build a productive partnership and a plan of action for a variety of businesses and settings…. For anyone who wants to take board evaluation, leadership structure, and dynamics to...

January 24, 2019

Practicing Tough Love: An Excerpt from The CEO’s Boss

“The CEO’s Boss is a must-read for anyone who looks to be taking the highest position in a company.” ~ Midwest Book Review Tuesday you learned about Tesla $40 Million lesson in the need to show “tough love” in the boardroom....

January 23, 2019

The CEO’s Boss (preface)

“Too many researchers forget that we have as much—or more—to learn from failure as we do from success. By examining transitions that have worked and ones that haven’t, William M. Klepper has given us new perspective on how boards can...