By Derek Hirst This week, Christine Grahame, convenor of the Scottish National Party’s Justice committee, has urged the linkage of the forthcoming Scottish referendum on independence to a referendum on the continuation of monarchy. Her ... [read more]

McGill-Queen's University Press has released its Fall 2012 catalogue. Click to view the virtual catalogue to browse MQUP's upcoming releases. Notable Upcoming Releases [read more]

From the 1910s through the 1930s, hundreds of American Indians settled in Los Angeles and worked in the motion picture industry as actors, extras, stunt performers, and technical advisors. Some were recruited from reservations to make f ... [read more]

NYU Press is proud to announce that Jonathan Hafetz’s book, Habeas Corpus After 9/11: Confronting America’s New Global Detention System, has been chosen to receive Honorable Mention in this year’s 2012 American Bar Association Silver Ga ... [read more]

After a minor hiatus, Janis Stirna is back with his on-going preview of the Eurovision. The semi-finals start next Tuesday (5/22), and he promised me he’d cover all the entries before the finals along with all his yes/no votes on who wi ... [read more]

The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire Akçam, Taner ¤ Princeton University Press ¤ Publication Date: April 15, 2012 ¤ Hardcover ( 528 pages ) ¤ Category: History: [ ... [read more]

By David Gibson “You’re an ecologist, so tell me, should I replace all the incandescent bulbs in my house with fluorescent bulbs? And, what about these new light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs?” Well, I have a reasonably well-informed opin ... [read more]

 BY JOHANNA DRUCKER Breslauer Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles [read more]

To continue our celebration of National Bike to Work Week with posts inspired by John Forester's Effective Cycling, seventh edition, Justin Kehoe, another bicyclist and MIT Press staffer (acquisitions department), discusses the lively d ... [read more]

We were sorry to learn of the death last week of Patricia Pessar, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Yale and author of From Fanatics to Folk: Millenarianism and Popular Culture (2004) as well as several other books. Her... [read more]

By Emily Ardizzone On the May 16th, it will be French designer Christian Lacroix’s 61st birthday. Lacroix has been a leading fashion designer ever since he found fame with his collection for Patou in 1986. Heavily influenced by his int ... [read more]

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China’s Warring States era (ca. 5th–3rd century BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political c ... [read more]

Men’s Fitness recently deemed La Belle Vie as one of the 25 Best Bars in America. The  Parlez-Vous cocktail is noted as a standout. Bar manager Johnny Michaels, author of North Star Cocktails, calls it “a real favorite with the ladies.” ... [read more]

Two of my friends have memoirs coming out this spring (the other being Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s A Sense of Direction), which is a sort of interesting phenomenon. I don’t typically read a lot of memoirs, but when it’s someone you know? . . . ... [read more]

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Stephen Wade’s forthcoming book The Beautiful Music All Around Us: Field Recordings and the American Experience will be published in September 2012. Visit Stephen’s information page for details on his new CD and upcoming concert dates. [read more]

In his new book, MOSES, JESUS, AND THE TRICKSTER IN THE EVANGELICAL SOUTH, Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and souther ... [read more]

Today is the publication day for Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography, by Randal Maurice Jelks. The book is available in hardcover and e-book. In this interview, Jelks discusses the ideologies and ambitions of ... [read more]

It’s cap-and-gown season, and this month’s college grads are entering a tough job market. However, there’s hope for today’s graduates to land their dream job.  That’s the message of Pete Leibman in his new book I Got My Dream Job … Cont ... [read more]

By Mark Katz I covered nearly forty years in the history of an art form -- from its birth in the early 1970s to the latest technological developments -- in my new book, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. I wanted to h ... [read more]

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Jeremy Garber on Roberto Bolaño’s The Secret of Evil, which is translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer, and was recently released by New Directions. [read more]

The following is excerpted from the Ottawa Magazine article Q&A with writer Linda Kay on being a female journalist and a local reporter’s impact on history. Linda Kay is the author of The Sweet Sixteen: The Journey that Inspired the... [read more]

Yet despite today's typical view of marijuana as a "soft" drug in comparison to, say, the opiates and cocaine, Mexicans of a century ago believed it to be perhaps the "hardest" drug of them all, one that triggered sudden paroxysms and d ... [read more]

By Sydney Beveridge On this day in 1804, two Virginian explorers set out on a journey west in what would become the legendary Lewis and Clark Expedition. And in their footsteps, we can follow America's expansion west. [read more]

The May 13, 2012, edition of the The Boston Globe includes a review of Mitchell Nathanson’s new book A People’s History of Baseball. “The most enjoyable moment in A People’s History of Baseball comes when Mitchell Nathanson recalls US R ... [read more]

By Edward Shorter and Susan Bélanger In the fifty years since the publication of A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess’s dystopian fable remains by far the best-known of his more than 60 books. It also remains controversial and widely mi ... [read more]

Over the next week, we will be pairing excerpts from Jim Johnston’s From Slave Ship to Harvard with the historical comic strip “Flashbacks” by Patrick Reynolds. Together they tell the story of Yarrow Mamout. [read more]

On this day in 1496, British doctor Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccination to James Phipps, an eight year old boy. To mark the anniversary, we speak with  Martin S. Hirsch, MD, FIDSA. Dr. Hirsch is editor-in-chief of ... [read more]

Amy Seidl is an ecologist and teaches at the University of Vermont. She is the author of Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming and Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World.  [read more]

BY AMY STONE Assistant professor of sociology at Trinity University in San Antonio [read more]

In which we continue to promote The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine by considering what exists outside its daunting canon of twentieth- and twenty-first-century giants. Part I here. [read more]

Today's post is from Jay Michaelson, author of God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Michaelson is a writer, scholar, and activist whose work addresses the intersections of religion, sexuality, spirituality, and law.  [read more]

Chef Brenda Langton signs a copy of The Spoonriver Cookbook for a regular customer. [read more]

Pluralistic attitudes toward Buddhism can be found in many parts of the United States, but it is no accident that this unusually institutionalized example of Buddhist pluralism emerged in the South, where practitioners are relatively is ... [read more]

By Jessica Barbour May 12th, which falls exactly one week after last Saturday’s Supermoon, marks the 167th birthday of Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), a composer whose best-known song was inspired by the moon. Fauré is known today as the p ... [read more]

John Tomasi has been in London discussing whether libertarians care about social justice. In his new book Free Market Fairness he argues that they can and should. [read more]

This Day in World History Six years before, the emperor had ordered the building of a vast new city. On May 11, 330, construction was sufficiently complete for that city to be dedicated. The Emperor Constantine took part in a solemn ma ... [read more]

By Patricia Aufderheide What happens to documentary when media goes interactive? It’s not always a welcome question. Documentarians aren’t necessarily thrilled at the idea of someone poking at their precious work on a smartphone, rathe ... [read more]

The Evolution of a New Industry: A Genealogical Approach Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, and Zur Shapira [read more]

Collaborative Evaluations: Step-by-Step, Second Edition Liliana Rodriguez-Campos and Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez [read more]

Empowerment Evaluation in the Digital Villages: Hewlett-Packard’s $15 Million Race Toward Social Justice David M. Fetterman [read more]

In an interview with ABC News yesterday, President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality. Here are a few reactions from our authors: [read more]

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Many of us at HUP were saddened this week by the death of author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. Among those most moved were editor Lindsay Waters and designer Jill Breitbarth, who remain grateful to Sendak for allowing our use of... [read more]

Moishe from Where the Wild Things Are. Image via Flickr. But the wild things cried, Oh, please don't go We'll eat you up We love you so And Max said: "No!" [read more]

By David Potter This past weekend Olympic superstar swimmer Janet Evans showed up in New York in the company of Olympic sponsor BMW. The London Olympics are unthinkable without their corporate sponsors, both for the site itself and for ... [read more]

By Maury Klein For Americans in 1869, the driving of the golden spike, which joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, carried a significance similar to that of the first moon landing ... [read more]

Astounding Wonder: Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America John Cheng 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 Illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4383-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 "John Cheng's highly readable book imaginatively shows the scien ... [read more]

Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is an internationally acknowledged expert on animal behavior and cognition. In 2009, the University of Chicago Press published W ... [read more]