Yesterday’s New York Times featured an interview with doctor-patient communication expert and Cambridge author Anthony Back (When Patients Feel Abandoned by Doctors, March 12). Back is concerned...
The Child Victims Act is getting another shot in the New York legislature, and yesterday Assemblywoman Markey (D-Queens) introduced the bill to a Democratic house for the first time. Governor Patterson...
From the Times Literary Supplement review of The Letters of Samuel Beckett: “Letters, on the other hand, are so moving because we live each moment with their author and time takes on the dimension...
Pam Robinson – Cambridge Canadian Rep In addition to selling trade, I’m also Cambridge’s medical book specialist for North America. Medical books are a world unto themselves and the challenges...
Today’s Penny Arcade took a shot at e-book readers. And this, coming from a video-gamer blog and web comic; one of the two bloggers really embraces gadgets. Progress Personally, I’m still...
Anthropologist Pita Kelekna’s years of research demonstrates countless ways in which horses influenced the tide of human civilization. Her book, The Horse in Human History tells this story, and she’ll...
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran author Janet Afary wrote an op-ed piece for yesterday’s Guardian full of fascinating insights into women’s place in modern Iran. Iranian policies over the past...
And the reviewer identifies the best quality of my favorite Cambridge books–they come with academic trappings and all the necessary scholarly apparatus, but “…reading it is far from homework:...
Why? Prime Minister Aso quite publicly bungled a televised reading test, confusing some characters that have, well, divergent meanings. From the AP via Yahoo News: ‘The Japanese leader bungled the...
Burton Weisbrod, one of the authors of Mission and Money did a very interesting Q & A with Inside Higher Ed today. Questions of university funding are now swept up in our economic mess, and for now,...
The Romantic Economist Richard Bronk chats with James Lovelock and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, on BBC’s The Forum. Bronk even provides the weekly 60 second idea to change the world. Bronk’s...
Grape vs. Grain author Charles Bamforth recently spoke at an Authors@Google event. See the video below! Truly entertaining stuff. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjLHsUOraHI He even manages a jab at the...