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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

Beckett in the Washington Times

Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times. Read More ?

23 Jun 2009