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 […]
Publishers Weekly on political books
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 […]
Books for Understanding Voting & Elections
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 […]
Just Landed: “The Body Eclectic” edited by Melanie Bales and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
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 […]
Top 10 Reviewer calculation
It looks like I need to add a new contact to my review copy mailing lists. […]
Classical-Drone on John Cage
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 […]
“Forms of Constraint” author quoted in New York Times story on San Quentin
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 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 […]
Just Landed: “Mobilizing Minerva,” “Memories and Migrations,” and “Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s ‘Plana musica & Musica speculativa'”
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 […]
Inside Higher Ed features “Women for President”
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 […]
Feminist Review reviews “Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama”
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 […]
The Stranger on Faron
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 […]