David Price, author of Anthropological Intelligence (2008) and Threatening Anthropology (2004), appears on Democracy Now today, discussing how the U.S. intelligence community has established academic outposts at twenty-two U.S. universi ... [read more]

Some years ago we published an account of life on the road with a chamber music ensemble: Beyond the Notes. Pianist Susan Tomes’ diary of her time with Domus and the beginnings of the Florestan Trio captured the imagination of music lov ... [read more]

Mammoth had a piece last week about the intersection between book design and architecture in the form of the Large Higgs Field Galactic Archive. Less a library than a holographic depiction of everything in the galaxy ever, the LHFGA is ... [read more]

Elvin Lim's weekly column looks at Reagan and Sarah Palin. [read more]

I assume this is what it says on the tin, but I'm not going to order one to confirm it. Because I can see why it would be there. They need to test their database just like anyone else. What cracks me up about this Amazon listing is the ... [read more]

Author, historian, and journalist Bob Dye passed away on February 5, 2010. [read more]

Australian sex worker Elena Jeffreys has written a review essay for Intersections about four books written by non-sex workers about sex work. She features Tiantian Zheng's Red Lights: [read more]

Swell by Ioanna Karystiani; trans. by Konstantine Matsoukas In Swell, Ioanna Karystiani’s novel of modern Greece and its relationship with the sea, we follow the path of the container ship Athos III thousands of miles from the Mediterr ... [read more]

Listen to the latest Penn Press podcast to hear David Zaring of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania discuss Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy. Zaring teaches legal studies and business ethics an ... [read more]

The tragic deaths of Lawrence King (age 13), Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover (age 11), and Jaheem Herrera (age 11)—all victims of school-based homophobia—serve as stark reminders that American schools remain unsafe for many young people who p ... [read more]

Our friends over at The Rumpus (for those who don't know, it's an online magazine taking the pop out of culture and offering insight on what really matters.  For the full 411 check it out here!)  have posted a hilarious and oh-so-true p ... [read more]

Gordon Thompson on February 1965. [read more]

In The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression, an article just published on the History News Network, Robert E. Wright, editor of Bailouts: Public Money, Profit, argues that policymakers’ and schol ... [read more]

An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing. [read more]

When it comes to infrastructure, President Obama faces a tricky balancing act. On one side he needs to invest in the kind of infrastructure that the nation needs to remain competitive and put us on the path to a low-carbon future. On th ... [read more]

The Haitian Coat of Arms As we all know, events in recent weeks have been difficult for the people of Haiti. Victories have been few, and all accounts suggest the nightmare is far from over. Today, though, is an important day in Haiti, ... [read more]

The Signature of All Things: On Method Agamben, Giorgio ; Santo, Luca di ; Atell, Kevin ¤ Zone [...] [read more]

Lake Lambert, author of Spirituality, Inc., talked to NYU Press editor Jennifer Hammer about Religion in the American Workplace. [read more]

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a profile of one of the most consistently interesting academics today, Mark C. Taylor, chair of the religion department at Columbia University and a prolific author, having published ... [read more]

The January 22, 2010, edition of the Times Literary Supplement includes a review of Robert E. Norton’s new English translation of Ernst Bertram’s classic Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology. Ernst Bertram’s seminal work … not only highli ... [read more]

Book review of American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State [read more]

Valentine’s Day is less than two weeks away. And to celebrate the University of Nebraska Press is offering a discount on Ted Kooser’s poetry collection Valentines through next Friday, February 12. You may already know how Ted came to wr ... [read more]

In a recent essay for Rorotoko, Gary Francione writes about his book Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation. His essay explains his rejection of conventional animal welfare reform and his belief in the aboli ... [read more]

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Larissa Kyzer on Tales of a Finnish Tupa, adapted by James Cloyd Bowman and Margery Bianco from a translation by Aili Kolehmainen with illustrations by Laura Bannon. [read more]

The film A Single Man, which releases today in an expanded number of theaters upon Colin Firth's Oscar nod, has been the subject of much analysis in the media recently. Has it been snubbed in a handful of deserving Oscar categories? Did ... [read more]

One of our new titles, The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time by former U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Rod Paige and Elaine Witty, Ed.D., has been attracting some early trade buzz ... [read more]

What Kirsty in Oxford has been reading this week. [read more]

5 IU Press books are reviewed by CHOICE Magazine [read more]

What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Mark Redfield: in his book The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror he writes about the impact that the events of September 11, 2001 had not only physically, but culturally ... [read more]

Adrian Johns, author of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates was recently interviewed by Serena Golden of Inside Higher Ed. In a series of questions that highlight several of the current hot-button issues in th ... [read more]

In recent Hill testimony, directors of U.S. intelligence agencies stated a new terrorist attack against the United States is possible in the next six months.  In response to this forecast, Bruce Riedel explains why the Obama administrat ... [read more]

President Obama's decision not to seek additional legislative authority for Guantánamo detentions, along with Congress's lack of interest in taking on the subject, means that judges must write the rules governing military detentions of ... [read more]

In honor of Black History Month, we offer the following reading selections: Travels with Mae Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood Eileen M. Julien With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American... [read more]

 I’m sure most of you by now have read all about the Amazon-Macmillan face-off that happened over this past week. If not, I shall summarize.   On Friday afternoon, after months of debates over e-book pricing, Amazon drastically pulled ... [read more]

Toyota and its massive recall has been very much in the news lately but what can be learned from their experience? This is the question that Edward D. Hess takes up in a recent piece in Forbes, entitled Bigger Is Not Always Better: What ... [read more]

Tuesday's episode of NPR's Planet Money features an extended piece on the booming spice economy of the Middle Ages, which seems to hold some of the earliest lessons in global economics. Always in high demand in the West, spices were... [read more]

The podictionary word of the week is "geisha". [read more]

Because of its fragile nature and the fact that it is small and poor, Somalia has been grossly underestimated in its capacity to destabilize its surrounding region and to engage in extremely costly activities to the international commun ... [read more]

Do film and photography affect your life? Do you ever consider these forms of artistic expression to be an essential part of your existence? While many people may tend to regard these types of art as background in our lives,... [read more]

When it comes to public figures who bring their ‘A’ game, few will argue that television host Stephen Colbert is not near the top of the list. For proof, just look to the Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody awards that adorn the mantle on the set ... [read more]

Paul Martin Lester is the author of On Floods and Photo-Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes. Lester is a professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Visual C ... [read more]

John A. Garcia, co-author of Latino Lives in America reflects on understanding Latino politics and writing his book. [read more]

"This reference work is valuable for researchers, but it is also accessible to high school students. It provides undeniable evidence about the purpose of these sites in essays, images (192 photographs and 23 maps) and personal testimoni ... [read more]

Sharon Irish, an art and architecture historian who works at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Suzanne Lacy is the recipient of this year's College Art Association Lifetime Achievem ... [read more]

Ethan Watters at The Rumpus on 10 Things You Should Know Before going on The Daily Show. 3. You will only see the set 30 seconds before you walk on. When they need you, a production assistant will lead you down a series of grim hallway ... [read more]

A review of "Stillness & Light: The Silent Eloquence of Shaker Architecture" from the Library Journal. [read more]

Upon yesterday's announcement of the Oscar nomination for A Single Man, WCCO reporter Darcy Pohland stopped by our office in downtown Minneapolis. Check out the news footage, which includes info about all of Minnesota's ties to the Osca ... [read more]

"Realtors were trying to show me places with landing strips and big fancy houses, and I said, 'You got me all wrong. I'm not interested in this kind of stuff. I want something nobody else wants. I want something that has been so beat up ... [read more]

Yesterday, counterterrorism expert Marc Sageman appeared in a PBS Newshour interview with Margaret Warner. You can watch the interview here in its entirety. Marc Sageman is the author of Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-F ... [read more]

Our author Steven Strogatz (THE CALCULUS OF FRIENDSHIP: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math) will be blogging about math on the NYTimes.com's blog "Opinionator."  He'll be doing this for a coup ... [read more]