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Boston, MA: Thursday, April 15 (6:00 p.m. Reception. 6:30 p.m. Event.): Mary Sarah Bilder, co-editor of Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer — reviewed here — will be speaking at a great program organized by the Massachusetts Historical Society: “Rethinking the History of Early American Law: Kathryn Preyer’s ‘Blackstone in America.’” Also featuring […]
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Norman Podhoretz: A Biography already getting attention in The Chronicle of Higher Ed: Author Thomas L. Jeffers “briskly moves the narrative from the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, where Podhoretz was born in 1930, to Columbia University, where he studied with the literary critic Lionel Trilling, and the University of Cambridge, where he studied with the […]
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Calling Columbia’s bluff: Cambridge author Stephen Norwood responds to President Lee Bollinger’s article representing the university as a champion of free speech and press. Not so fast. Exhibits A & B – from Norwood’s recent book, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower – Columbia ruined the academic careers of Robert Burke and Jerome Klein […]
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The Economist calls Jihad in Saudi Arabia a “rare combination of sympathetic nuance and critical rigour.” The book is out next month; the review is online now. Read it here: Saudi Arabia: The Struggle for Its Soul…
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With tax season and budget cuts raining down on us, Jeffrey M. Stonecash takes a closer look at how New York state ended up drowning in debt in an op-ed for this weekend's New York Times. Stonecash is Maxwell Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and an author of three Cambridge books: Reassessing the Incumbency Effect (2008), Dynamics of American Political Parties (with Mark D. Brewer, 2009), and the forthcoming Counter Realignment: Political Change in the Northeastern United States (with Howard L. Reiter, October 2010). -------- The New York Times, March 28, 2010, Op-Ed Contributor Overspending Is a Bipartisan Affliction By JEFFREY STONECASH New York has some of the highest state and local taxes in the country, as well as high (and rising) debt from years of borrowing. Why? Because both political parties have electoral bases that support spending. For most of the 20th century, Democrats were out of power in the Legislature. But beginning with victories after Watergate in 1974, they began building a majority in the Assembly, drawing votes from people in New York City and upstate urban areas. That base wanted spending on Medicaid, social service programs and schools. Gradually, Democrats appealed to suburban voters who also wanted more school aid. Until last year, the Senate had been held for decades by the Republicans, who win more seats in suburban districts that are generally more affluent. They might have been a voice for fiscal restraint — if it were not for the fact that Republican Party enrollment in the state has been steadily sliding, from 50 percent of voters in 1957 to only 25 percent today. Senate Republicans have fought to preserve what votes they have by delivering more school aid for the suburbs. Keep reading at The New York Times > > >
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By Stacey Kahn As the marketing associate for life science and engineering titles, I work on a vast array of subjects. From Quirks of Human Anatomy to Compression for Multimedia to A Designer's Guide to Asynchronous VLSI, the scholarship covered in these books can be somewhat overwhelming. And, while general correspondence with an author is normal, I rarely get to put a face to a name or discuss anything beyond the initial marketing of a particular book. That's why attending meetings in my subject areas can be so rewarding. Here, I get to meet many of my authors, learning a lot more about the books themselves and the individuals that write them. I was recently in San Francisco to attend the annual Biophysical Society Meeting with my editor, Katrina Halliday. It's a meeting that does not vary from one year to the next. But on the third day of this year's event, Patrick Dillon - an author who had just signed his contract with Cambridge - came by the booth and offered to take Katrina and myself out to dinner that night. I was worried that it would be uncomfortable and did not want to go but, not to appear rude to a future Cambridge author, I reluctantly accepted the invitation. Patrick, wife and daughter in tow, picked Katrina and I up after the booths closed for the day and the five of us headed down to the Fisherman’s Wharf. Although a little awkward at first, once we ordered our dinners, the conversation began to flow more naturally. I learned about Patrick’s current research and the details of the book he is writing. But I also learned about why Patrick is conducting the research he is doing, why he is a professor at Michigan State, and why he has decided to write a book now. As someone who rarely gets to experience this kind of interaction with an author, it was refreshing to be able to converse with Patrick this way. The opportunity to receive such a vast amount of insight from Patrick made me feel more connected to the future book and to one of my subject areas. It really made me appreciate the work that they do as well as the work that I do in support of them, and I would jump at the chance to go out to dinner with any of my authors in the future. -------- Patrick Dillon is a professor in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University in the Physiology Department. His research focuses on the physical properties of molecules that bind as complimentary pairs. Patrick also studies the physiological consequences of the binding of the pairs. His intention is to write a biophysics book, based on physiological examples (including at the cell and molecular level), rather than a physiology book with a biophysics slant. Patrick’s book is tentatively called: Biophysics: A Physiological Approach.
Read MoreBest auto-responder I’ve ever received. NB: ESTEEMED CORRESPONDENTS As an indentured bondsman, I am forced away from work yet again, this time in a use-it-or-lose-it situation. I’ll be away in the wilds of Cambridgeshire and points east again. But I’ll be back, I think, on April 5, 2010 — ready, nay eager, to accept your […]
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