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Interns Blog: The ideal position for reading

Chrstopher Zingaro In an airport terminal on the eve of summer break, I pulled a receipt from my wallet and wrote out a list of books to read before school began in August. Several weeks later, and a few...

2 Jul 2009

Judea Pearl in Forbes

Judea Pearl, author of legendary book Causality (new edition coming soon!) writes about the problem of AI in Forbes. Read More ?

2 Jul 2009

Happy Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day everyone! Here’s an archive of posts by our Canadian sales rep, Pam Robinson. Read More ?

1 Jul 2009

Honduras and the Chances of Turmoil

In his recent book, The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America, co-authored with John Booth, Mitchell Seligson dig through massive amounts of data to uncover the many dimensions of popular support for democracy...

Mitchell A. Seligson, John A. Booth | 30 Jun 2009

Steve Sheppard – new FindLaw Column

Steve Sheppard, author of I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials, just kicked his own FindLaw column off with a bang – an analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision on...

29 Jun 2009

Happy Birthday, Shelf Awareness!

Happy Birthday, Shelf Awareness! The book industry newsletter is 4 years old today, but golly, they don’t look a day over two! Their announcement >> Read More ?

29 Jun 2009

Riz Khan interviews Janet Afary

Janet Afary, in a two part interview with Riz Khan on Al-Jazeera, discusses the question: How far could things go in Iran? Afary is author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Read More ?

29 Jun 2009

Abrahamian: Mousavi would shun nuclear weapons

From Haaretz Online, an analysis by one of our top Iran scholars, Ervand Abrahamian, author of A History of Modern Iran. Even if the Iranian authorities succeed in suppressing the large demonstrations,...

29 Jun 2009

Dylan the Brand

No Faith in the Market – Part II To read Part I, Click Here >> Anne Ream Back to the music. In one of the angriest anti-love songs ever written — “Positively Fourth Street” —...

Anne Ream | 29 Jun 2009

Bob Dylan Joins DuBois and Franklin

The Times Higher Education Supplement reviews The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan. Too restless, omnivorous and single-mindedly creative to sit in university classrooms, Dylan, as Shumway notes, has absorbed...

26 Jun 2009

Foreign Policy on Iran Reading

Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn’t Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary’s Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary’s recent...

25 Jun 2009

Good Beer + Good Food. Please.

Charles Bamforth’s predictions are coming true; but in the opposite direction. Good restaurants are adding good beer. Beer bars aren’t exactly venturing towards good food. Eric Asimovin the...

24 Jun 2009