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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 18 Jun 2009

    Astronomy.com on Mullaney & Tirion

    Gerald Mullaney and Wil Tirion just published the splendid Cambridge Double Star Atlas, and Astronomy.com posted their review today. And yes, the review is very nice. Thanks for the kind words, Michael!

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  • 18 Jun 2009

    Inside Higher Ed Reviews Norwood

    Inside Higher Ed reviews the latest book by Stephen Norwood, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower. Norwood's research uncovers years of complicity and cooperation between American Universities and Nazi Germany in the years running up to WWII.

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  • 18 Jun 2009

    Can tech bring the country doctor to the city?

    It may seem that the doctors of New York today are a far cry from the old-fashioned country doctors of mid-century Middle America. Or are they? Stephanie Harnett examines the "patient centered" movement in health care, and catches up with Dr. Stanley Reiser to find out if technology alone can guarantee better health care.

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  • 17 Jun 2009
    Bjørn Lomborg

    Bjørn Lomborg: Stop Scaring the Kids!

    Bjørn Lomborg, writing for the Guardian, warns of Global Warming exaggeration. An argument he's been making for a while, yes, but here, he points to new studies on children, terrified by exaggerations in the media.

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  • 17 Jun 2009

    New White Nationalism

    On The Huffington Post, Carol Swain shares an excerpt from her book, The New White Nationalism in America.

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  • 17 Jun 2009

    Interns Blog: The Job Search

    Here we turn to one of our current interns, reflecting on searching for a job in even tougher times than I faced, in an industry seeing greater flux than ever before. What does it feel like now? Any advice from our readers? What does this mean for publishing as a whole?

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  • 16 Jun 2009

    The Same-Sex Future

    David Cole, writing for the New York Review of Books, looks at several books on the same-sex marriage debate. Among them is Cambridge author Evan Gerstmann's Same Sex Marriage and the Constitution. Gerstmann is a constitutional scholar at Loyola Marymount.

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  • 16 Jun 2009

    Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?

    “Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?” E-readers may not spell the end of book signings just yet. On the NY Times, an article about ebook signings. What did David Sedaris write? “This bespells doom”

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