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Calling Columbia’s Bluff

Calling Columbia’s bluff: Cambridge author Stephen Norwood responds to President Lee Bollinger’s article representing the university as a champion of free speech and press. Not so fast. Exhibits...

30 Mar 2010

Saudi Arabia: The Struggle for Its Soul

The Economist calls Jihad in Saudi Arabia a “rare combination of sympathetic nuance and critical rigour.” The book is out next month; the review is online now. Read it here: Saudi Arabia: The...

29 Mar 2010

NYT Op-Ed: Overspending Is a Bipartisan Affliction

With tax season and budget cuts raining down on us, Jeffrey M. Stonecash takes a closer look at how New York state ended up drowning in debt in an op-ed for this weekend’s New York Times.  ——– The...

Jeffrey M. Stonecash | 29 Mar 2010

Dinner with a Marketing Associate, an Editor, a Cambridge Author… and his Family

By Stacey Kahn As the marketing associate for life science and engineering titles, I work on a vast array of subjects. From Quirks of Human Anatomy to Compression for Multimedia to A Designer’s Guide...

26 Mar 2010

Out of Office, Full of Wit

Best auto-responder I’ve ever received. NB: ESTEEMED CORRESPONDENTS As an indentured bondsman, I am forced away from work yet again, this time in a use-it-or-lose-it situation.  I’ll be away...

25 Mar 2010

The Press in The Changeling

Lead character Kogito Choko in The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe “read too many Cambridge University Press research monographs about everyone from Blake to Dante.” Read More ?

25 Mar 2010

From the Editors of Questioning Collapse: Requesting Full Disclosure and Correction of Factual Errors

A few weeks ago, Jared Diamond, author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, wrote a (rather negative) book review of Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and...

22 Mar 2010

Lost and Found Lunokhods

Point of trivia: Lunokhod means moon walker in Russian. The Lunokhod 2 was a Russian Rover that landed on the moon in 1973, and to this day holds the record for the longest distance of surface travel on...

19 Mar 2010

Speaking with the Dictionary of Irish Biography Blogger

Meet Bill, author and originator of the Dictionary of Irish Biography Blogspot. His mission statement: The new Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge UP. 9 volumes, 10,000...

17 Mar 2010

The ABC of the Irish in Biographies

Happy St. Patrick’s Day friends! The Irish Times on The ABC of the Irish: “Twelve years in the making, the innovative and imaginative comprehensive Dictionary of Irish Biography is a wonderful...

17 Mar 2010

Our Changing Planet Picks

Congratulations to Michael D. King, Claire L. Parkinson, Kim C. Partington, and Robin G. Williams, editors of Our Changing Planet: The View from Space for winning the Best of Show 2009-2010 and Distinguished...

16 Mar 2010

THE Review of Why We Disagree About Climate Change

Times Higher Education discusses the subtleties and subjectivity of science – calling Why We Disagree About Climate Change “a distinctive and courageous book.” Full review here… Read More ?

16 Mar 2010