Judea Pearl, author of legendary book Causality (new edition coming soon!) writes about the problem of AI in Forbes. Read More ?
Happy Canada Day everyone! Here’s an archive of posts by our Canadian sales rep, Pam Robinson. Read More ?
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...
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...
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 ?
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 ?
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,...
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” —...
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...
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...
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...
Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times. Read More ?