Category: Current Affairs
By john
July 26, 2013
American History, Biology, Current Affairs, Education, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Law, Literature, Poetry, Popular Culture, Reviews, Uncategorized, War and Conflict
News and Notes Curious about life sciences, or want to learn more about American history? Click here to let us know which subject areas you are interested in so that we can let you know about books we know you'll want to read. Tragically, there seems to be a rash of train wrecks of late,…
Guest post by Mark A. Largent Last week the daytime talk show The View announced that it had hired Jenny McCarthy as a co-host for the show. The show has never shied away from hiring strong-willed, opinionated women. But, unlike any of the previous hires, McCarthy has drawn fire from the public health and medical…
Guest post by Daniel Kilbride Clearly, a lot of them do. News of the Royal Birth was the lede on talk radio, newspapers, and cable news stations. None of the other roughly 362,000 births that took place on that day received even a fraction of the attention lavished on the son of William and Kate.…
Guest post by Daniel Kilbride Clearly, a lot of them do. News of the Royal Birth was the lede on talk radio, newspapers, and cable news stations. None of the other roughly 362,000 births that took place on that day received even a fraction of the attention lavished on the son of William and Kate.…
Guest Post by Neil Roberts Not guilty. The force of those two words, delivered on July 13, 2013, by the six-person jury in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman case, nationally and globally ignited already intense domestic debates about race, Stand Your Ground laws, gun control, and the strictures of federalism demarcating distinct domains between federal jurisprudence…
Following revelations about the reach of the United States government's controversial surveillance programs, groups representing publishers, booksellers, libraries, and authors have renewed their push for amendments to the USA Patriot Act. In a statement released yesterday, the Campaign for Reader Privacy said: The Campaign for Reader Privacy calls on Congress and on the President to take the…
Following revelations about the reach of the United States government's controversial surveillance programs, groups representing publishers, booksellers, libraries, and authors have renewed their push for amendments to the USA Patriot Act. In a statement released yesterday, the Campaign for Reader Privacy said: The Campaign for Reader Privacy calls on Congress and on the President to take the…
Guest post by Michael A. Olivas Monday was hog heaven for me, as I teach both higher education law and immigration law courses, and had important litigation and legislation grist for both areas of study. Of course, immigration reform is moving its drunkard’s reel through Congress, and it is a full time business to keep…
By john
June 17, 2013
American History, Awards, Biology, Coming Soon, Current Affairs, Education, Food / Cooking, For Everyone, Health and Medicine, History, Journals, Law, Literature, Politics, Popular Culture, Regional-Chesapeake Bay, Reviews, Uncategorized
News and Notes Take a look at our new Fall 2013 catalog to see what's in store for the coming season. Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, writes about ‘Why Amish Romance Novels Are Hot’ in The Wall Street Journal. Mark Bowden writes in the The Atlantic,…
Guest post by Donald R. Prothero The year 2012 and now early 2013 have been an unending litany of bad climate news. After a record-breaking year of heat and drought in North America, followed up by devastating Superstorm Sandy, and record heat and fires in Australia, the year 2012 ended up being the ninth hottest…