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Al-Qaida Today

A Movement at the Crossroads Writing for Open Democracy, The Far Enemy author Fawaz Gerges outlines public opinion polls from Muslim communities around the world to show how popular sentiment has shifted...

Fawaz Gerges | 15 May 2009

Page 99 Test: The Fisherman’s Cause

America Reads applies the Page 99 Test to Christopher Magra’s The Fisherman’s Cause, an exploration of the relationship between commercial fishing and the American Revolution. Read More ?

15 May 2009

Review of Boonin’s Problem of Punishment

Metapsychology Online Reviews just posted an interesting review of Boonin’s The Problem of Punishment. Read More ?

14 May 2009

Recreating virginity in Iran

Janet Afary’s latest article in The Guardian finds an intriguing trend that adds another dimension to her suspicion that a “sexual revolution” may be on the way for Iran. Hymenoplasty,...

Janet Afary | 13 May 2009

X. Efficient Equine Transport

From Han China to the Industrial Era Pita Kelekna In the fourth millennium BC, yoke harnessing was originally designed for paired bovid draft. Also known as throat-and-girth, this mode of harnessing was...

Pita Kelekna | 11 May 2009

The Torture Debate: Disbar the Lawyers?

An editorial in the New York Times today calls for the Obama administration to “[move] toward some accountability for the Bush administration lawyers who justified torture.” The lawyers, it...

7 May 2009

Authors and Readers Coming Together

Alex Beguin, Cambridge Southeastern Rep In the past month, I have been working more at home in preparation for next season’s catalog. This has enabled me to really notice even more what events are happening...

6 May 2009

Gordon Silverstein on The Last Conservative

Law’s Allure author and court expert Gordon Silverstein‘s article about Justice Souter is now available for the reading in The New Republic. The Supreme Court will lose its only true conservative...

5 May 2009

IX. Rebel Horsemen of the Americas

The ninth post in the series The Horse in Human History Gaucho from Argentina, 1868 (Wikipedia) The story of the Spanish conquest of the Americas is well known. In a hemisphere where the horse had been...

Pita Kelekna | 4 May 2009

The Page 99 Test: Rachel Hope Cleves

Rachel Hope Cleves applied the Page 99 Test to her book: The Reign of Terror in America. The test seeks to introduce a book by way of the 99th page, and Cleves doesn’t disappoint: P. 99 of The Reign...

4 May 2009

No Free Book Friday Today

It’s yucky outside, yes, but we’re also tied up in Sales Conference. See you next week! Read More ?

1 May 2009

Tomorrow: Free Comic Book Day!

A host of comic publishers have sponsored Free Comic Book Day, taking place tomorrow, May 2. I’m all for the free ice cream days and free iced coffee days, but this one really beats them both. Read More ?

1 May 2009