Intelligence researcher and Cambridge author James Flynn has a fresh batch of interesting research results, as reported in several papers. Flynn’s research famously shows rising IQ scores from generation...
Karen Greenberg of NYU published two groundbreaking books with us: The Torture Papers and The Enemy Combatant Papers, both legal records of US treatment of “detainees” and enemy combatants...
Cambridge author John Hagan’s research recently produced Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, which examines a 2004 US State department survey of the Darfur region. The results of this survey were never...
Oxymoron? Hardly. According to Richard Bronk, the Romantic Economist diversifies, remains responsive to change, and doesn’t assume thing will go on as they have in the past. And yes, he realizes...
The remarkable manhood of Barack Obama suggests he is as forward-looking on issues of gender as on issues of race, transcending old categories and inviting new understanding and debate. We see this in...
Canadian field rep Pam describes the joys of making sales calls in the winter. I can’t help but liken Bob’s experience last week, caught in the crush with thousands of other “Blue Ticket”...
Why do we assume that economists have a firm grasp on the markets when the economy itself is driven by innovation and new, unfamiliar ideas? Romantic Economist author Richard Bronk wishes to address this...
From December 23, 1871 to September 13, 1873, one of the first embassies of Meiji Japan traveled throughout the US and Europe on a fact-finding mission. Led by Prince Iwakura, their task was to re-negotiate...
Every week, we’ll get a look at book selling and culture through the eyes of our field reps. This week, with our “inaugural” piece, Bob Barnett of Louisville on his Obama Inauguration...
Puzzle Monster posted an interview with Robert Abbott, puzzlist and creator of Eleusis. Abbott shared his game with the world through Martin Gardner’s Scientific American column. Read More ?
For the upcoming 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, what better place for NPR to trace his roots than at Cambridge University. Weekend Edition Sunday sent a correspondent to the Sedgwick Museum, where they’ll...
From the Charlotte Observer, January 20 Will Barack Obama govern as a Moderate, a Centrist, or a left of center Democrat? Every sane person is a moderate in the sense of disliking extremes and striving...