Two new books just landed on my desk: –Asen, Ancestors, and Vodun: Tracing Change in African Art by Edna G. Bay –Holy Dogs & Asses: Animals in the Christian Tradition […]
The January 14, 2008, issue of Publishers Weekly features a cover story on this season’s political books. Asked to comment on Erika Falk’s book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight […]
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) has updated its list of Books for Understanding Voting & Elections. We have some current titles listed including Erika Falk’s just published Women for […]
The new book The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training just landed on my desk. The publication date is February 18, 2008, but it will be available to order by […]
It looks like I need to add a new contact to my review copy mailing lists. […]
Classical-Drone recommends John Cage, David Nicholls’s new title in our American Composers series. “Barely 100 pages in length, Nicholls provides a high-level overview, and in the process he is able […]
Norman Johnston, author of the University of Illinois Press book Forms of Constraint: A History of Prison Architecture, is quoted in a recent New York Times story on the facility in […]
I love Guitar Hero. I’ve never played the game, but my seven-year-old played it on his cousin’s wii over the holidays. When I came home from work one day last week […]
Three new books landed on my desk this week: –Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War by Kimberley Jensen (Publication date: February 18, 2008) –Memories and Migrations: Mapping Boricua […]
Scott McLemee, writing in Inside Higher Ed about Erika Falk’s new book Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, opines, “It seems like a book that Clinton’s staff would […]
The Feminist Review blog just launched a review of Lisa M. Anderson’s new book Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama. “Anderson’s slender book is a great start—a lucid and powerful argument about the […]
Kim Hayden, writing for The Stranger‘s music blog, expresses her affection for the music of swoonworthy Faron Young and compliments Diane Diekman’s new biography, Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young […]