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Reconciling Science, Religion, and Awards Season

Evolution, global warming, human cloning, abortion rights. The cultural and political debates playing out on today’s world stage invoke frenetically partisan passions, and yet they are symptomatic of...

Michael Ruse | 6 Apr 2010

Meet the Friendly Faces of the Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York!

On the eve of the publication of Cambridge’s latest addition to our Companion series – The CC to the Literature of New York – Editors Cyrus Patell and Bryan Waterman have started featuring profiles...

1 Apr 2010

The “S” is Out!

Happy April 1st!  Kudos to the vaulted halls of higher learning – good to see you’ve still got a sense of humor. Read More ?

1 Apr 2010

Rethinking the History of Early American Law: Kathryn Preyer’s "Blackstone in America"

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...

31 Mar 2010

Chronicle of Higher Ed Comments on Commentary

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...

30 Mar 2010

Calling Columbia’s Bluff

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...

30 Mar 2010

Saudi Arabia: The Struggle for Its Soul

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...

29 Mar 2010

NYT Op-Ed: Overspending Is a Bipartisan Affliction

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.  ——– The...

Jeffrey M. Stonecash | 29 Mar 2010

Dinner with a Marketing Associate, an Editor, a Cambridge Author… and his Family

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...

26 Mar 2010

Out of Office, Full of Wit

Best 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...

25 Mar 2010

The Press in The Changeling

Lead character Kogito Choko in The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe “read too many Cambridge University Press research monographs about everyone from Blake to Dante.” Read More ?

25 Mar 2010

From the Editors of Questioning Collapse: Requesting Full Disclosure and Correction of Factual Errors

A few weeks ago, Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, wrote a (rather negative) book review of Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and...

22 Mar 2010