In the News, September 2010
Posted 07.09.10: Tuesday's Wall Street Journal on What Women Want, "Mr. Underhill once studied with the urban anthropologist William H. Whyte, and he has made his name as a purveyor of retail insights—those little (and sometimes large) strategies that companies can pursue to turn idle browsers into active shoppers. He revealed some of his discoveries in Why We Buy, which drew on his two decades of observing the in-store traffic patterns and buying preferences of consumers.... Mr. Underhill also runs a consulting firm, Envirosell, which advises clients such as Target, Wal-Mart and Estee Lauder…. In What Women Want, Mr. Underhill shows himself to be both an amiable and a knowledgeable guide to the shifting retail landscape.”
Posted 06.10.10: Edward N. Luttwak in The American Interest on Grand Strategies by Charles Hill: “A truly masterful synthesis of 'Literature, Statecraft and World Order', in the words of the subtitle. Hill has drawn from a career in diplomacy, a thorough grounding in classical and modern philosophy and a rich appreciation of great literature to produce a kaleidoscopic masterpiece that illuminates all it surveys.”
Posted 06.02.10: A starred review in Library Journal for Wes Denham's Arrested: What to Do When Your Loved One's in Jail, "Denham turns years of experience as an investigator for a criminal defense law firm into no-nonsense advice. His book amounts to a valuable extended checklist for those coping with the incarceration of a family member or significant friend, from the time the phone rings with news of the arrest onward. Denham shares the jargon, procedures, tricks, and traps in his coverage of jail visits, bail, public defenders, jail medical care, and legal and jail costs, and he outlines a decision-making process that considers the well-being of the entire family…. VERDICT: Hard-hitting, blunt, and practical, this book is packed with inside knowledge of the jail experience. It's a necessary purchase for criminal justice collections in public libraries."
Posted 05.07.10: Some recent sales: Maximum Brainwidth: How to Challenge the Brain for Health and Wisdom by Shlomo Breznitz and Collins Hemingway to Ballantine Books; Michael Grabell's Great American Stimulus: Obama's $1 Trillion Plan to Rebuild the Economy to Public Affairs; Irving Kristol's previously uncollected essays, The Neoconservative Persuasion, edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb, to Basic Books; Charles J. Sykes's A Nation of Moochers to St. Martin's Press; and a biography of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout to Gotham Books.
Posted 05.07.10: Sandra Beasley is the subject of a profile in Washingtonian magazine. She recently won the Barnard Women Poets Prize and is writing Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life for Crown.
Posted 05.04.10: “In his new tour de force, Palestine Betrayed, Efraim Karsh ... confirms his status as the preeminent historian of the modern Middle East writing today.”—Daniel Pipes, National Review
Posted 04.17.10: “More than a decade ago, Robert Strassler conceived the idea of presenting the great classics of Greek historiography in new translations with ample annotation, excellent maps, and contributions from major scholars. He calls his volumes Landmark editions, and indeed they are. There is nothing like them. With the publication of the first Landmark volume, covering Thucydides, it was apparent that for the first time a Greekless reader could study the text closely and critically, much as a professional classicist would. After Thucydides, Strassler produced the equally successful The Landmark Herodotus. Now he has given us The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika…. Strassler has assembled an outstanding team of contributors for his Xenophon volume.”—G.W. Bowersock, The New York Review of Books, April 29th
Posted 04.08.10: On the New York Times Best Seller list for the week of April 18th, Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera is #14. The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch is #27.
Posted 04.06.10: On the New York Times Best seller list for the week of April 11th, The Death and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch is #16.
Posted 04.04.10: "In Paul Among the People, Sarah Ruden brings a unique perspective to the teachings of the apostle most responsible for spreading Christianity throughout the Greco-Roman world. As an accomplished translator of classical literature, Ruden offers a wholly fresh reinterpretation of Paul's most controversial writings…. Quoting from Aristophanes, Petronius, Juvenal and others, she provides startling insights."—Jane Lampman, The Washington Post
Posted 04.01.10: After its first week of sales, Obama Zombies: How the Liberal Machine Brainwashed My Generation by Jason Mattera is #30 on the New York Times Best Seller list for April 4th.
Posted 03.11.10: Diane Ravitch's The Death and Life of the Great American School System is #28 on the New York Times Best Seller list for the week of March 21st and #32 for the week of March 28th and #34 for the week of April 4th.
Posted 03.03.10: Diane Ravitch and her just published The Death and Life of the Great American School System are the subjects of a major article in today's New York Times, "Scholar's School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up Debate," and of pieces in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, American Prospect, Forbes.com, and Slate.
Posted 03.02.10: Publishers Weekly on Victor Davis Hanson (“a major commentator on war making and politics”) and his forthcoming The Father of Us All, “A masterpiece of envelope pushing, and a comprehensive and dazzling analysis of why America fights as she does…. The pieces are well written, sometimes elegantly so, and closely reasoned. They address familiar material from original and stimulating perspectives…. His critics and admirers will be pleased to have these pieces available under one cover.” Bloomsbury Press publishes in May.
Posted 02.26.10: Marc A. Thiessen's Courting Disaster returns to the New York Times Best Seller list at #34 on the extended list for the week of Feb. 28th and at #35 for the week of March 7th. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden (and former NSA director and retired four-star general) has called Courting Disaster a must-read.
Posted 02.08.10: Marc A. Thiessen's Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack is #6 on The Washington Post bestseller list, #9 on the New York Times Best Seller list, and #14 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list. Regnery published January 18th.