The September 5, 2009, issue of The Wall Street Journal featured a glowing review of Walter Rimler’s George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “More thorough biographies than Mr. Rimler’s slender Âvolume […]
Lawrence Richards to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal
Lawrence Richards, author of the book Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, is scheduled to appear on C-Span’s Washington Journal program on Labor Day, Monday, September 7, 9:30-10:00 a.m. (Eastern). His segment […]
Mushrooms in the Chicago Tribune
The September 2, 2009, issue of the Chicago Tribune includes a profile of Joe McFarland and Gregory Mueller’s new book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States. If you […]
Inside Higher Ed on Global Campus
Inside Higher Ed reports today on the failure of Illinois’ Global Campus initiative. […]
Lists, more lists!
It’s not time for our 2009 end-of-the-year favorites yet but blogs at the Los Angeles Times and NPR’s All Songs Considered have me thinking. LA Times posted a list yesterday titled The 46 […]
Berle Adams
Berle Adams, co-founder of Mercury Records and the subject of Chapter 2 of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, died […]
$526 per page
Inside Higher Ed reports on a recently released paper that anazlyed the cost of printing humanities and social science journals. The analysis of the eight journals was conducted to help […]
Chang vs. Yang
In April we published Doris T. Chang’s book Women’s Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan, which featured this beautiful cover. On August 4, 2009 Random House published Xianhui Yang’s Woman from Shanghai: […]
Is the peer review process broken?
Daniel J. Myers expresses concern in the The Chronicle of Higher Education about his popularity as a peer reviewer. In the past month, I have been asked to review not one […]
Orenic to speak in Chicago
Liesl Miller Orenic will discuss her new book On the Ground: Labor Struggle in the American Airline Industry at the Open University Of The Left, Lincoln Park Library, 1150 W. Fullerton in Chicago, […]
Beito op-ed in L.A. Times on T. R. M. Howard
David Beito and Linda Royster Beito, authors of the new book Black Maverick: T. R. M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power, penned an op-ed in today’s Los […]
Larry Kanfer on Chicago Tonight
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