Reviews and Media Appearances
as of May 16, 2008
The Journey Abandoned: The Unfinished Novel
Read Cynthia Ozick's review in the New Republic.
Cloth,
$26.95 / £15.95 224 pages
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai
Read the New York Times book review by Francine Prose.
Read an interview with the translator Michael Berry from "The World."
Cloth,
$29.95 / £17.50 456 pages
The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East
Read a review from the New York Times Book Review.
Cloth,
$24.95 160 pages
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
Read an interview from the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Cloth,
$22.95 / £13.50 232 pages
There a Petal Silently Falls: Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
"These three stories are the work of a fiction writer of the very highest order."—Booklist
Cloth,
$24.50 / £14.50 200 pages
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Read a review from the Los Angeles Times.
Hear Houston Baker’s appearance on NPR’s News and Notes
Listen to an interview with Houston Baker on “Sunday Journal.”
Cloth,
$24.95 / £14.95 272 pages
One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Translation of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu
Read a review from Complete Review.
Read a review from the Japan Times.
Cloth,
$39.50 / £23.00 240 pages
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
Read James Millward's piece "China's story: putting the PR into the PRC" published in Open Democracy.
Cloth,
$40.00 352 pages
When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Read an interview with Geoffrey Heal from Ideas at Work.
Cloth,
$29.95 / £17.95 288 pages
Representing Atrocity in Taiwan: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film
Read a review from the Taipei Times.
Cloth,
$40.00 / £23.50 256 pages
The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Read a review from the Nation.
Read a review from History Wire.
Cloth,
$32.50 / £19.00 264 pages
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Read a review from the New Scientist (reg. req'd)
Read reviews from the Scienceblogs network: Afarensis, Gene Expression, and Living the Scientific Life (Scientist Interrupted).
Cloth,
$29.50 / £17.50 408 pages
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Read a reviews from the Los Angeles Times and American Scientist.
Listen to Perkowitz's appearance on Living on Earth.
Cloth,
$24.95 / £14.95 272 pages
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Read a review from Bookslut.
Cloth,
$24.95 / £16.95 320 pages
Memories of Life in Lhasa Under Chinese Rule
Read an article from Radio Free Asia.
Cloth,
$32.50 / £19.00 344 pages
Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right
Listen to an interview with Timothy Brennan on "Against the Grain."
Paper,
$19.50 / £11.50 360 pages
Cloth,
$31.00 / £18.00 360 pages
Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond
Read Naomi Wolf's posting on Huffington Post.
Read Jameel Jaffer's interview on Inside Higher Ed.
Cloth,
$29.95 / £17.95 456 pages
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking
From Zagat's, and the Los Angeles Times.
Cloth,
$22.95 / £13.50 232 pages
Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
Listen to William Duggan's podcast on Econtalk.
Cloth,
$27.95 / £16.95 208 pages
Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex, and the Media
Watch a video of Kelly Oliver's talk.
Read Kelly Oliver's article from the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Read a review from Media Mouse.
Cloth,
$26.50 / £15.50 224 pages
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy
Watch a video of Richard Kahlenberg's appearance at the Century Club. (Via BookTV on C-Span2)
Read reviews from The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Monthly, Education Review and American Prospect.
Cloth,
$29.95 / £17.95 552 pages
The Art of War: Sun Zi's Military Methods
Read a review from The Japan Times.
Cloth,
$19.95 / £11.95 256 pages
Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World
Read a review from the Los Angeles Times and listen to Perkowitz's appearance on Living on Earth.
Cloth,
$24.95 / £14.95 272 pages
Mountains Painted with Turmeric
Read reviews from the Complete Review, Nepali Times ,and the Japan Times.
Cloth,
$22.50 / £13.00 152 pages