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Bookish Monkey (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
…. just very good indeed. Isaac Tobin’s jacket designs, mainly for the University of Chicago Press. Pointer from The Book Design Review, a while back. Image: jacket for Chad Heap’s Slumming: Sexual and Racial Encounters in American Nightlife, 1885-1940. Interestingly, this seems not to be the final jacket - this is the book’s page at the University of [...]
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The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Part 1 (below) | Part 2 (tomorrow) - - - The World's Fair is proud to discuss British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2007) with its author, Jan Golinski of the University of New Hampshire. Golinski is a Professor of History and Humanities, the Chair of the Department of History at UNH, and a leader in the field of the history of science....
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Peter Stothard (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Perhaps I haven't been noticing before. But I've just seen my first book in a catalogue to come with an endorsement from Barak Obama. University of Chicago Press is offering a reissue of Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History...
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Garden Voices (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
At the beginning of the southern hemisphere spring I was asked by a representative of The University of Chicago Press whether I would be interested in reading James B. Nardi's new book Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners (aff.). Being that I'm not a great reader of books - that's my wife's department for future reference - I hesitantly accepted and received...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
The University of Chicago Press Journals Division is pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Human Capital, the first publication of its type in this important field.
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The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
I'm pleased to announced that I've signed a contract with the University of Chicago Press to write a book called Rehabilitating Lochner. The book will build on my previous Lochner-related work,...
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PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
I've been reading Devah Pager's fascinating new book Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago Press 2007). Pager, a Princeton sociologist, conducted an experiment here in Milwaukee in an attempt to quantify the effects of race and criminal history on the evaluation of job applications. Here is her description of the study:
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Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
This article by James Kirchick is too funny : Of all the absurd claims expressed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his recent address at Columbia University, his assertion that homosexuality does not exist in his country is the most ridiculous.... Yet while the audience in the Roone Arledge Auditorium and millions of television viewers laughed and booed at the Islamist rube, there...
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History News Network (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Brian Flanagan: Review of Daniel Farber's Lincoln's Constitution(10-18-07)Daniel Farber. Lincoln's Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ix + 240 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $27.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-23793-0. Reviewed by: Brian Flanagan, Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies, Grand Valley State University Examples abound in history,...
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Off the Mark (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007
NOTE: CommentPress version of LC Working Group Draft Final Report needed Please see last entry. We really need a CommentPress install of the LC Working Group’s Draft Final Report. Can anyone do this service quickly? Sunday - Tuesday, 25 - 27 Nov Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores. Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Reading, Mass: [...]
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Christina's LIS Rant (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
What publisher in their right mind would redesign their website and break every single link without a re-direct and without letting anyone know? University of Chicago Press. Yes, thank you for your consideration. I needed to redo all of our links this afternoon instead of doing other work I had planned. (as a side note, it's much prettier now and more functional, but really...)...
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/29/2007
The latest contributor to Writers Read: Roberta Isleib , a clinical psychologist who has written seven mysteries including five featuring a neurotic LPGA golfer and two starring psychologist/advice columnist Dr. Rebecca Butterman. Part of her entry: At my recommendation, my book group recently read Boombox by Gabriel Cohen, published by University of Chicago Press. I'd read Cohen's...
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Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
For a Christian, Eugene McCarraher (I know, it takes all sorts …), a professor of humanities and director of graduate liberal studies at Villanova University , writes a very unchristian (unless he belongs to a new Taliban wing of Christianity) review of Deirdre McCloskey's , The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (University of Chicago Press). I confess I have...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
A Northwestern University sociologist made headlines a few years ago when she sent pairs of capable and articulate...
