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Oh, sales conference. If you’ve ever worked in publishing, you know they’re non-stop, caffeine-filled days of hearing about new books, talking about new books, and planning for new books. From editors to sales reps to marketing associates to publicists (to name only a few!), all hands are on deck to strategize about major new titles in the pipeline. As a publicist, it’s a great opportunity for me to not only have a bird’s eye view of the season’s titles, but also to start crafting the stories that we believe will drive public discussion.
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As co-editor Leonard Cassuto and I brought The Cambridge Companion to Baseball together, we saw how many themes and narrative arcs have recurred in the stories our culture tells about baseball. One of this year’s stories features pitcher Jamie Moyer of the Colorado Rockies, who recently became the oldest pitcher in major league history to post a win.
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Over the course of my teaching career, I became aware of something rather alarming: Science majors know all about hypothesis-testing, philosophy majors know all about argumentation, and business students know about economic theories. But they know very little about research in disciplines outside of their majors. And then these bright and well-educated people are asked to evaluate proposed economic, legal, or medical policies, and sometimes even to vote on them. How are they to do that when there are holes in their knowledge bases where crucial pieces of information should be?
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Last month, in light of the release of the documentary Bully, we asked you for your questions about how bullying is transforming adolescence, education, and parenting. Today, our expert authors answer your questions.
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On the face of it, the first round of the French 2012 presidential elections went according to script. The Socialist candidate François Hollande—who came first with 28.6% of the vote—will square off, as predicted, against Nicolas Sarkozy, the candidate of the Right who garnered 27.2% of the vote, in the second round run-off on May 6. However, beyond this widely anticipated run-off, the first round results confounded the pundits’ expectations in two important respects.
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There’s nothing like turning 200 to get people to sit up and notice you again. Such is the fortune of Charles Dickens, England’s most popular novelist for generations, whose bicentennial celebration has merited attention far and wide (well, at least in English teacher circles) and inspired a slew of new books, biographies, journal articles, and celebrations.
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Charles Darwin’s theory of “natural selection,” competition, and “survival of the fittest” describes evolution during intervals of stability. It tells us that over time, slow and gradual change creates the fittest and most dominant species. Darwin’s evolutionary theory works well when climate is stable. But what happens when climate changes rapidly?
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Today’s Globe Theatre has become one of London’s most popular attractions. Built through the efforts of the Shakespeare Globe Trust, it began hosting performances in 1997 a short walk from the riverside site of the original Globe, which put on its first play nearly three centuries earlier.
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