May 19, 2020

Q&A: Margaret M. Chin on the New York City Garment Industry

“Sewing Women provides a new and illuminating perspective on New York’s garment industry and the dynamics of work among today’s immigrants through a carefully argued and insightful comparison of Chinese- and Korean-owned garment shops and their Chinese and Hispanic workers.”...

May 19, 2020

New Book Tuesday! Film Studies and Foucault’s Strange Eros

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Film and Culture Series Film Studies, second edition An Introduction Ed Sikov Film Studies is a concise and indispensable introduction to the formal study of cinema. The second edition...

May 18, 2020

Book Giveaway! Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry, By Margaret M. Chin

“An insightful and sensitively written ethnographic study of New York’s immigrant garment industry. Chin reports on the virtues and vices of coethnicity and the enclave economy. Her broad-based study delves into the urban low-wage economy, globalization, New York’s fashion industry...

May 15, 2020

Book Excerpt! Buddhism in America, By Richard Hughes Seager (introduction)

“This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”...

May 15, 2020

Introducing Driving Innovation from Within, by Kaihan Krippendorff

 “This smart and wide-ranging book will convince you that it’s often more promising to be an ‘intrapreneur’—someone who innovates from within an established organization—than an entrepreneur. If you work for an organization and are itching to become more creative—to...

May 14, 2020

Richard Hughes Seager on Buddhism in America

“This well-informed book provides a comprehensive survey of a variety of Buddhist traditions in the contemporary U.S. . . . [Its] strength, apart from being a mine of information, is Seager’s insistence on taking a historically informed and comparative perspective.”...

May 14, 2020

Q&A: Robert Goodspeed on Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions

COVID-19 has introduced countless uncertainties into our lives. To prepare for the future, organizations ranging from hospitals to school districts to transit agencies, are using scenario planning, a framework for creating and analyzing multiple plausible versions of the future. In this interview with scenario planning expert Robert Goodspeed, he...

May 14, 2020

Book Excerpt! Meals Matter, By Michael Symons (prologue)

“Michael Symons succeeds brilliantly in a radical project: convincing readers to rethink a singular ‘economics’ as multiple ‘economies’: bodily, household, market, political, and natural. His book draws on intellectual history, economic and social theories, and gastronomy, and it is richly...

May 13, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema

“The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under...

May 13, 2020

Book Giveaway! Buddhism in America, by Richard Hughes Seager

Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. This week, in observation of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we’ll explore...