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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...

11 Mar 2009

What is Progress?

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...

10 Mar 2009

I. Domestication

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...

Pita Kelekna | 9 Mar 2009

Iran – ripe for a sexual revolution?

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...

Janet Afary | 6 Mar 2009

Samuel Beckett Letters in New York Times

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:...

6 Mar 2009

Japanese literacy book sales spiking

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...

5 Mar 2009

‘Mission and Money’ in Higher Ed

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,...

4 Mar 2009

Richard Bronk on BBC Forum

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...

3 Mar 2009

Charles Bamforth on Authors@Google

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...

2 Mar 2009

Marci Hamilton to speak on religion and the law

Marci Hamilton will join a panel discussion called Legal Responses to Abuse in Religious Communities on Tuesday, March 3. C-SPAN’s Book TV will be taping as well. The Justice Denied author’s...

27 Feb 2009

ICC to arrest al-Bashir?

Earlier this week, the Times reported that the International Criminal Court (ICC) will likely issue an arrest warrant for Sudan president Omar al-Bashir. This would be the first such warrant for a sitting...

27 Feb 2009

Notes from the Field

Southeast rep Alex Beguin braves the wintry cold of Western NY and lives to tell about it. Special bonus road mix-tape inside! On a recent trip to Western New York (yes, I traveled there in February),...

25 Feb 2009