Harvard University Press
Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press is a major publisher of non-fiction, scholarly, and general interest books, and maintains offices in both Cambridge, New York, and London.

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“Revolutions” and the Politics of Networks
... with special reference to the role played by the internet during the recent developments in Iran.A few posts back, I talked up a new book by former software designer David Golumbia on the repressive potential of the computational turn in culture and society...
June 24 at 1:21pm
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Harvard University Press Minding your Blackberry or Minding Your Manners

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As Web-enabled smartphones have become standard, the etiquette of using them during meetings is up for debate.
June 23 at 5:51pm
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Harvard University Press I highly recommend reading Fresh: A Perishable History before seeing Food, Inc.

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Harvard University Press Live debate at the Economist: Is a fixed retirement age a senile concept?

Economist Debates: Reaching 65
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Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion
June 23 at 5:49pm
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Harvard University Press Great book on why we toss-out so many electronic devices each year. Where will all the old TVs go? The dirty secret is planned obsolescence.

Harvard University Press: Made to Break
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Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America by Giles Slade, published by Harvard University Press
June 23 at 5:48pm
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Harvard University Press Culture War on Aisle 5? Wal-Mart, Evangelicals, and Extreme Capitalism.

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June 23 at 5:47pm
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Harvard University Press Hamid Dabash, forthcoming HUP author--"Shi'ism: A Religion of Protest," is in great demand as mainstream media tries to make sense of Iran:

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June 23 at 5:46pm
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Harvard University Press David Moss (When All Else Fails) proposes a tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions. "The extension of implicit guarantees to all systemically significant institutions takes moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level," he warns. But Moss has a fix.

"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms — HBS Working Knowledge
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Four little words have cost U.S. taxpayers dearly in government bailouts of once-mighty Wall Street firms. Congress can put an end to such costly rescues, says HBS professor David A. Moss, and the Federal Reserve could be a super regulator, adds senior lecturer Robert C. ...
June 23 at 5:42pm
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Harvard University Press PopMatters loves the story David Suisman tells in Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music: http://tinyurl.com/l5rvgm

Selling Sounds by David Suisman < Reviews | PopMatters
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Eleven-year-old Jay Witmark, a young resident of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, wins an arithmetic competition and receives a printing press as the prize. He and his brother print greeting cards and later, business cards. ...
June 23 at 5:38pm
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Harvard University Press Charles Maier, Fakhreddin Azimi, and Charles Kurzman on events in Iran. Worth reading: http://tinyurl.com/l9fwno

Global Perspective from Harvard Press Authors
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Charles S. Maier is the Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University, and the author of Among Empires: Ascendancy and Its Predecessors ("This is a truly masterly essay, which brilliantly ...
June 22 at 7:16pm
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Harvard University Press Have posted 31 excerpts (and there's lots more coming) of new HUP books to Scribd. See if there's anything you'd like to read more about at: http://www.scribd.com/harvard_press

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June 18 at 5:11pm
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Harvard University Press New York Times mines data to identify words that its readers have to look up. Very interesting article: http://bit.ly/nyt-abstruse

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Harvard University Press Will A Good-Looking Nurse Help You Heal Faster? http://bit.ly/OUTsI

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The latest news on health and medicine from NPR
June 18 at 5:06pm
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Harvard University Press An important book on who we are and the kind of work we do-- JUST WORK by Russell Muirhead: http://tinyurl.com/nd3ez3

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Just Work: by Russell Muirhead, published by Harvard University Press
June 18 at 5:05pm
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Harvard University Press Susanne Freidberg, author of Fresh: A Perishable History, weighs-in at a New York Times debate, The Seafood Eater’s Latest Conundrum. How do you figure out which fish is both ethical and safe to eat: http://tinyurl.com/n22hsq

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It’s been more than 20 years since conservationists pushed tuna fleets to stop using fishing methods that killed tens of thousands of dolphins a year. Since then, choices for seafood-eating consumers have become more complex and confusing.
June 18 at 5:04pm
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Harvard University Press Four HUP authors quoted in New York Times piece on decline of traditional history curriculum. The world is a changing.

Traditional History Courses - Disappearing or Just Evolving? - NYTimes.com
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While the number of history faculty has more than doubled since 1975, a smaller share of departments at four-year institutions have specialists in intellectual, diplomatic or economic history.
June 18 at 5:01pm
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Harvard University Press VIDEO: Paul Ingram of Prairie Lights Books runs through his invaluable recommendations for great summer reading: http://tinyurl.com/kwn8r4

Summer Reading
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Paul Ingram, of Prairie Lights Books, shares a hand picked selection of excellent books to read this summer.
June 18 at 5:00pm
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Harvard University Press Alex Beam, beloved Boston Globe columnist says Naming Infinity is the most unusual book he has read this year. Excerpt of book and author podcast at: http://tinyurl.com/nyvgpa

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Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham, published by Harvard University Press
June 18 at 4:58pm
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Harvard University Press AUDIO: Great NPR piece on the 4-volume Dictionary of American Regional English. It's a fascinating dictionary that's always a joy to dip into. Great gift for the smarties in your life: http://tinyurl.com/mtaphb

Regional Dictionary Tracks The Funny Things We Say : NPR
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The Dictionary of American Regional English is a multivolume collection of the nation's linguistic treasures — from pipjennies to mumble squibbles. Now, five decades after its inception, the final volume, containing words S to Z, is almost ready to be published.
June 18 at 4:57pm
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Harvard University Press VIDEO: Gene Heyman, author of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice talks about his very controversial theory with the big Canadian morning talk show: http://tinyurl.com/kljo5h

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Do drug addicts in Canada's poorest cities have a choice to change? A new book suggests addiction is voluntary.
June 18 at 4:55pm
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Harvard University Press Charlie Rose talks with Richard Posner about his book on the economic crisis, A Failure of Capitalism. Worth watching if you want to learn more about how it happened and how we need to get out of the hole: http://tinyurl.com/l7mm9h

Charlie Rose - A conversation with author Richard Posner
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A conversation with author Richard Posner about his book
June 18 at 4:53pm
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A New Literary History of America - Bookstore Display Contest
In the fall, we are publishing a massive work, edited by Greil Marcus (Lipstick Traces, Mystery Train) and Werner Sollors (Neither Black nor White yet Both), that represents the culmination of decades of effort...
June 18 at 8:30am
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White House joins blog fray
Via Braniac, we learn that White House Office of Management and Budget Director Peter R...
June 11 at 9:00am
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Harvard University Press David Moss, author of When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, has written an article for The American Prospect, addressing the current economic crisis: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=private_risk_is_the_publics_business

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June 11 at 7:58am
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Global academic reaction to Obama's Cairo speech
After the President's long-awaited and much-discussed speech in Cairo last week, we solicited the reactions of several current and forthcoming HUP authors, many of whom hail from the Muslim world...
June 9 at 8:45am
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The true story of Katie, a meter-long western diamondback rattlesnake
We are pleased to note that our friend Kate Jackson, who detailed her fieldwork adventures in Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo, which has been called "an inspiration to future field biologists" (Choice) and which contains some of the most explicit descriptions of...
June 8 at 8:18am
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The Cultural Logic of Computation
Do computers by definition set us free...
June 5 at 12:51pm
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Contra Rawls, toward a truer equality
In Monday's post I remarked something to the effect that anyone concerned with justice, or with political philosophy more broadly, has little choice but to reckon with Rawls, whose work in some ways functions as a sun around which present-day Western political philosophy revolves...
June 3 at 2:21pm
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"Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law"
So said the ancient lawgiver Solon. Anyway, need to impress friends with your thoughtful and perspicacious take on the Sotomayor nomination...
June 1 at 1:48pm