Anne Applebaum on The Affirmative Action Empire

Terry Martin’s The Affirmative Action Empire got a mention in Anne Applebaum’s Better Read Than Red: The Best Recent Books About Communism on Slate.

Why France? on John Talbott’s Paris

The “John Talbott’s Paris” blog features a review of Why France?: American Historians Reflect on an Enduring Fascination, edited by Laura Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson.

Carne Ross in Time Magazine

Carne Ross, author of Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite, is featured in Time Magazine with regard to his firm’s work with Kosovo.

Cornell Authors Named Guggenheim Fellows

We would like to congratulate the Cornell University Press authors just named Guggenheim Foundation Fellows:

Edward Fowler (author of San’ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo and translator of A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer)

Samuel Moyn (author of Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics)

Kathryn Sikkink (author of Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America and coauthor of Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics)

Li Zhang (coeditor of Privatizing China: Socialism from Afar)

Emily Monosson’s Event at Cornell 5/9

On Friday, May 9, from 12 to 5 P.M., the Cornell Store is going to host an event centered on our new book Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out.

Participants include Emily Monosson, Joan Baizer, Marilyn Merritt, and Gina Wesley-Hunt. The Cornell faculty discussants are Shelley Correll, Melissa Thomas-Hunt, Barbara Knuth, Lisa Fortier, and Margaret Frey.

This event is cosponsored by the Cornell Store, the CU–ADVANCE Center, and Cornell University Press. For more information, please e-mail Ted Arnold at eaa26@cornell.edu.

Peter Andreas coming to Cornell 4/24

Cornell University Press author Peter Andreas (Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide and the forthcoming Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo) is going to speak at the Cornell University Peace Studies Program’s brown bag luncheon seminar at 12:15 P.M. on April 24 at G08 Uris Hall. His topic is “Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo.”

Reviews on “Reading Archives”

Richard J. Cox, Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh, features three Cornell University Press books on his blog “Reading Archives“:

Holocaust Witnesses, a review of Annette Wieviorka’s The Era of the Witness,

Studying Medieval Manuscripts, a review of Introduction to Manuscript Studies by Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham,

and

a review of The Iron Whim by Darren Wershler-Henry

Jeff Lipkes in the Media

Rehearsals: The German Army in Belgium, August 1914 by Jeff Lipkes is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium as it affected civilians. Rehearsals is receiving some good attention from the media:

Books by Nicholson Baker, Jeff Lipkes Keep History Lively (LA Times)

Author Traces ‘Invented’ WWI Atrocities (Tampa Tribune)

Recent Releases

Recent arrivals in our warehouse include:

Targeting Civilians in War by Alexander B. Downes
Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care by Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan by Sean L. Malloy
Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection by Leonard J. Schoppa (paperback edition)
The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia by Jonathan Ray (paperback edition)
Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade by Cornelia Woll

Recent Award-Winners

A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras by Carol Symes is the winner of the David Pinkney Prize given by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book in French history published in 2007.

Deaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity by Karen Nakamura is the winner of the 2008 John Whitney Hall Book Prize given by the Association for Asian Studies.