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The History of Typewriters and Why Honesty and Work Rarely Mix April 06, 2007 Japan's Economy, Dirty Books, Anti-Americanisms, and Illegal Butterflies January 24, 2007 The Enron Scandal, Grasshoppers, and the Truth About 9/11 September 12, 2006 The first wrap-up of September from Cornell University Press. Freshman Dorms, American Hegemony, and Doctor Zhivago August 29, 2006 A late August round-up from Cornell University Press. Russian Spies, Emmanuel Levinas, and Darfur August 08, 2006 Cornell University Press news hits of early August. Japanese Schoolgirls Gone Wild, Immigration, and China's One Child Campaign July 25, 2006 Another round-up of July's news. Kim Jong-Il, Toyota, and Amnesty International July 10, 2006 Cornell University Press in the News this July. Joseph Nevins' "A Not-So-Distant Horror" June 15, 2006 The official East Timorese commission of inquiry's report handed over in January 2006 to the United Nations definitively request the United States pay war-crimes restitution to East Timor, for supporting the mass killings and destruction in that country. Find out the reasons why in Joseph Nevins'new book. Mireille Kingma's "Nurses on the Move" May 15, 2006 In the first book on international nurse migration, Mireille Kingma investigates one of today’s most important health care trends, "Nurses on the Move." Sandra Herbert's "Charles Darwin, Geologist" April 15, 2006 Yes, you knew he was the man behind the theory of evolution, now discover how his background in geology was absolutely essential to his later work. Vladmir Jabotinsky's "The Five" March 01, 2006 "I am not quite sure whether it is quite lawful for a Zionist to be so patriotic about a city somewhere in the Diaspora -- but that is how we (Odessa natives) all feel about Odessa, and those who don't are just black traitors." Vladmir Jabotinsky David Ost's "The Defeat of Solidarity" February 15, 2006 Twenty-five years later, what actually happened to Poland’s Solidarity Movement? Ost explains... Richard Armstrong's "A Compulsion for Antiquity" February 01, 2006 Understand more clearly Sigmund Freud's fascination with the ancient world, and how this immersion in classical myth structured both his thinking and formal practice. Lucy McDiarmid's "The Irish Art of Controversy" January 15, 2006 True stories of Irish bravado in the heady throes of argument. As George Moore once remarked, "Yeats told me how popular noise was in Ireland, and controversy, too, when accompanied with the breaking of chairs." "Diseases of Trees and Shrubs" January 01, 2006 The Washington Post called the First Edition of this reference volume "one of the ten best horticultural books of the century." Library Journal wholeheartedly concurs the same for the Second Edition... Francine Hirsch's "Empire of Nations" December 15, 2005 For an interesting take on how ethnographic research was instrumental in the creation of the new Soviet Union, look no further than Francine Hirsh's "Empire of Nations." Faisal Devji's "Landscapes of the Jihad" December 01, 2005 If you want to understand al-Qaeda, your best bet is to put down the newspaper, turn off the television, and take a good look at Faisal Devji's "Landscapes of the Jihad." What you will find will most certainly surprise you... "A Man with No Talents" November 15, 2005 Japanese homeless author Oyama Shiro has written an intriguing memoir on life on the streets of Tokyo - "A Man with No Talents." "Revolt on the Tigris - the Al Sadr Uprising and Governing Iraq" November 01, 2005 Mark Etherington, a former paratrooper in the British Army with extensive conflict and post-conflict management experience, delivers a compelling first-hand account of post-conflict Iraq. "Nursing Against the Odds" October 15, 2005 "Nursing Against the Odds" is Suzanne Gordon's in-depth look at the nursing crisis in America. This timely book has helped direct the media spotlight towards this problem. "Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide" October 01, 2005 Gerard Prunier's new book is an in-depth analysis of the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan. The Undercover Professor - "My Freshman Year" September 15, 2005 Anthropologist "Rebekah Nathan" receives national attention for her look at campus student life.

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