Book interviews tagged Academia
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
- ISBN: 978 0295987521
- featured in: The other half of Edward Said’s Orientalism—and of three decades of polemicsApril 3, 2009
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance
- ISBN: 978 0 292 71877 7
- featured in: Charting the latest development in Israeli cultural historyApril 21, 2009
Greek Sport and Social Status
- ISBN: 978 0 292 71869 2
- featured in: Ancient Greeks had no notion of amateurismMay 6, 2009
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13708 7
- featured in: Power in twelfth-century Europe was of lordship—not government, nor “feudalism”May 15, 2009
Mathematics in 10 Lessons: The Grand Tour
- ISBN: 978 1591026860
- featured in: The necessity to understand mathematics is simpleJune 3, 2009
Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher Education
- ISBN: 978 0801890536
- featured in: Higher education has a central role in determining the future not just within individual families but also for entire nationsJuly 1, 2009
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
- ISBN: 978 1861894304
- featured in: The questions answered by the pseudo-historians are questions that a curious public frequently asksJuly 8, 2009
The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth
- ISBN: 978 0691138985
- featured in: Evolution is ecology on a longer time scaleJuly 17, 2009
The Once and Future New York: Historic Preservation and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0816656042
- featured in: Historic preservation is a fundamental part of every modern cityJuly 20, 2009
Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 5945 2
- featured in: Remain vigilant about the continuing mysteries of sexJuly 29, 2009
Essaying Shakespeare
- ISBN: 978 0816655892 hb
- featured in: Being a world citizen of culture, and, paradoxically, a ShakespeareanAugust 24, 2009
The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
- ISBN: 978 0674033191
- featured in: Institutions are the medium of collective human endeavorSeptember 7, 2009
Febris Erotica: Lovesickness in the Russian Literary Imagination
- ISBN: 978 0295988955 hb
- featured in: The case history of lovesickness as a literary-medical conceptSeptember 16, 2009
The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978 0521518420 hb
- featured in: On the state of scholarship in the American academy, and on the state of humanitySeptember 18, 2009
The Frankfurt School in Exile
- ISBN: 978 0816653676
- featured in: The well-known history of Critical Theory in an unfamiliar lightDecember 2, 2009
Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
- ISBN: 978 0691138008
- featured in: It is experts, not managers that make the better leadersDecember 30, 2009
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
- ISBN: 978 0 691 12762 0
- featured in: The whole of the American Empire in six brief biographiesApril 28, 2010
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
- ISBN: 978 0691128818
- featured in: For the importance of style in the understanding and the enjoyment of literatureMay 31, 2010
