http://thehumanities.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From n+1 magazine: To read the 1,802 pages of the Swedish crime novelist Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is to be told that, for all their perceived virtue, the institutions of social democracy are a farce. In Larsson's books, American readers will find the Sweden they expect: the welfare-state comforts, Volvo security, ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/08/the-man-who-blew-up-the-welfare-state/ From It's Nice That: Feminist Press is an independent nonprofit publisher based in New York. Founded in 1970, they have a wide variety of material that ranges from fiction to feminist theory. Promoting freedom of expression and social justice, they now own a great collection of books from around the world ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/05/feminist-press/ The final issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published. Volume 7, Number 12 includes: A Socialist Feminist Reading of Doris Lessing’s the Grass is Singing by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya and Pedram Lalbakhsh. Cultural Identity Past ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/03/05/humanities-journal-volume-7-number-complete/ Reclaim Your Self: The Complexity of Identity by Andrew Malionek is now available from The Humanities imprint. Socrates once asked the simple question - "Who am I?" For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, scientists and psychologists have contemplated the answer to this question. In a modern world filled with distractions, ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/02/16/reclaim-your-self-the-complexity-of-identity/ The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 11, of The International Journal of the Humanities includes: The Cinematic Transformation in Post-Socialist China: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower by Lunpeng Ma. Is History Just a Collection of Biographies? Notes from a Military Historical Database by William Acres. Adolescents’ Perceptions about Coping ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/02/03/latest-humanities-journal-papers/ By Daniyal Mueenuddin From The Washington Post... Because of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Rohinton Mistry, to mention just a few of the most prominent authors, American readers have long been able to enjoy one terrific Indian novel after another. But Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/29/michael-dirda-on-in-other-rooms-other-wonders/ The eleventh issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published. Volume 7, Number 11 includes: The Estrangement of Community in Between the Acts: A Play Embedded in a Novel by Nicole Tabor. Embodied Knowledge and Platonic Epistemology by Dwayne Moore. Artist and Designer Statements by Lisa Graham. Unvisibility Undone: ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/27/humanities-journal-volume-7-number-11-available/ From Richard Eskow at 3quarksdaily.com... Occasionally an idea will come to mind that's claimed quickly and eloquently by someone else before you have a chance to execute it.  When Michael Jackson died I began dabbling with the subject of Jackson as Transhumanist, but my piece was only half-written when RU Sirius ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/26/all-geared-up-elvis-the-transhumanist/ [caption id="attachment_2355" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Orwell's press card portrait, taken in 1933"][/caption] From D. J. Taylor in The Times Online: Diaries brings together the eleven individual journals that George Orwell compiled between 1931 and 1949. The final entry, written in September 1949, describes the daily routines of University College Hospital, where he was to ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/18/george-orwells-days-from-strawberry-picking-in-hertfordshire-to-rat-fixations-in-jura-%e2%80%93-the-final-diaries/ From Edmund White in the New York Times: Aspiring fiction writers have been reading E. M. Forster’s “Aspects of the Novel” since it was first published in 1927. I can remember devouring it in 1960 or soon after; here was one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century, the author of ... http://thehumanities.com/2010/01/18/only-reflect/