tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65560413982258301872024-03-19T01:05:33.372-05:00The Page 99 Test"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you."
--Ford Madox FordUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4521125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-47210118907361681412024-03-19T01:05:00.001-05:002024-03-19T01:05:00.129-05:00Elizabeth Pearson's "Extreme Britain"Elizabeth Pearson, formerly a BBC radio journalist, is Lecturer in Criminology with the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London, and an associate fellow with the Royal United Services Institute and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. She co-authored Countering Violent Extremism: Making Gender Matter.
Pearson applied the “Page 99 Test” Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-34225552821392150782024-03-18T01:05:00.002-05:002024-03-18T01:05:00.197-05:00Kristin M. Girten's "Sensitive Witnesses"Kristin M. Girten is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Sensitive Witnesses: Feminist Materialism in the British Enlightenment, and reported the following:
On page 99 of my book Sensitive Witnesses, I present a fundamental distinction between two highly popular and influential periodicals of the eighteenth centuryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-23495864133135368632024-03-16T08:05:00.002-05:002024-03-16T08:47:37.970-05:00David L. Kirchman's "Microbes"David L. Kirchman was the Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware until he retired in 2020 and was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. Author of over 175 papers and two books, and editor of the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-41985013076742191732024-03-15T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-15T08:05:00.145-05:00Donna J. Nicol's "Black Woman on Board"Donna J. Nicol is the Associate Dean for Personnel and Curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts at California State University Long Beach (CSULB).
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action, and reported the following:
On page 99, Dr. Claudia Hampton, the California State Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-73760393650731522362024-03-14T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-14T08:05:00.139-05:00Matthieu Grandpierron's "Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War"Matthieu Grandpierron is associate professor of international relations and political science at the Catholic University of Vendée.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Nostalgic Virility as a Cause of War: How Leaders of Great Powers Cope with Status Decline, and reported the following:
Page 99 gives an overall view of how well one of the rival hypothesis to the major argument of Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-87473033965188285322024-03-13T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-13T08:05:00.129-05:00Arthur Goldwag's "The Politics of Fear"Arthur Goldwag is the author of The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right (2012), Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies (2009), Isms &; Ologies (2007), and The Beliefnet Guide to Kabbalah (2005). His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Salon, Truthout, the SPLC’s Hatewatch blog, and others.
Goldwag Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-27488029193961545852024-03-12T08:05:00.001-05:002024-03-12T08:05:00.131-05:00Anne Berg's "Empire of Rags and Bones"Anne Berg is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of On Screen and Off: Cinema and the Making of Nazi Hamburg.
Berg applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany, and reported the following:
The Page 99 Test proved to be a poor fit for my book. Page 99 provides framing and background informationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-10149544105842535942024-03-11T00:05:00.001-05:002024-03-11T00:05:00.132-05:00Guido Bonsaver's "America in Italian Culture"Guido Bonsaver is Professor of Italian Cultural History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College. He studied at the universities of Bologna and Verona, and completed his PhD while teaching at Reading University. Before arriving at Oxford in 2003, he taught at the universities of Sussex, Kent, and Royal Holloway London. In 2012 he was appointed Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-42647619754697154372024-03-09T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-09T00:05:00.136-06:00Matthew A. Sears's "Sparta and the Commemoration of War"Matthew A. Sears is Professor of Classics at the University of New Brunswick. He is the author of Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership (2013) and of Understanding Greek Warfare (2019). He is also the co-author (with C. Jacob Butera) of Battles and Battlefields of Ancient Greece: A Guide to their History, Topography, and Archaeology (2019).
Sears applied the “Page 99 Test” to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-72588562192556126692024-03-07T15:05:00.000-06:002024-03-07T15:08:55.424-06:00James Gerber's "Border Economies"James Gerber is a nonresident fellow at Rice University’s Center for the U.S. and Mexico in its Baker Institute for Public Policy and emeritus professor of economics at San Diego State University, where he also served as director of the Latin American Studies program. He is the author of A Great Deal of Ruin: Financial Crises Since 1929 and the textbook International Economics, now in its eighth Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-84208808331811118372024-03-06T13:05:00.001-06:002024-03-06T13:05:00.138-06:00Chris Haufe's "Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?"Chris Haufe is the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of How Knowledge Grows (2022) and Fruitfulness (2024).
Haufe applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?, and reported the following:
The Page 99 Test passed with flying colors.
Page Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-82128960296107744492024-03-05T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-05T00:05:00.134-06:00Alexis McGee's "From Blues to Beyoncé"Alexis McGee is Assistant Professor of Research in the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, From Blues to Beyoncé: A Century of Black Women's Generational Sonic Rhetorics, and reported the following:
You’ll find one of the key arguments of not only the third chapter but also of the whole book on page 99. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-71479358212472917232024-03-03T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-03T00:05:00.132-06:00John Eglin's "The Gambling Century"John Eglin is currently Professor of History at the University of Montana. His published work includes Venice Transfigured: The Myth of Venice in British Culture, 1660-1797 (2001), and The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath (2005). He is nearing completion of his edition of James Boswell's journals in Italy and France for the research edition of the Boswell papers published Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-22643403589376134522024-03-01T00:05:00.001-06:002024-03-01T00:05:00.286-06:00Frank L. Holt's "A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits"Frank L. Holt is Professor of History at the University of Houston. His previous books include When Money Talks: A History of Coins and Numismatics, The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man's Wealth Shaped the World, Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan, and Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. Holt is also a prolific writer for the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-26803381692595922662024-02-29T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-29T00:05:00.180-06:00Frank Trentmann's "Out of the Darkness"Frank Trentmann, author of Empire of Things, is professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Helsinki. Previously, he taught at Princeton University. He has been awarded the Whitfield Prize and a Humboldt Research Award, and he was a Moore Scholar at Caltech. Empire of Things was named the science book of the year by the Austrian government. Trentmann grew up Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-76076302226415361352024-02-27T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-27T00:05:00.138-06:00Marc-William Palen's "Pax Economica"Marc-William Palen is a historian at the University of Exeter and the author of The “Conspiracy” of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846–1896.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, and reported the following:
The Page 99 Test provides an illustrative example of what the book is aboutUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-78217034579016870672024-02-25T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-25T00:05:00.139-06:00Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's "The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It"Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is an historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-22259987964196764892024-02-23T00:05:00.001-06:002024-02-23T00:05:00.228-06:00Merry Morash's "In a Box"Merry Morash is Professor of Criminal Justice and University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She is the author of Women on Probation and Parole: A Feminist Critique of Community Programs and Services.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, In a Box: Gender-Responsive Reform, Mass Community Supervision, and Neoliberal Policies, and reported the following:
Page 99 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-86050965512839898042024-02-21T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-21T08:05:00.139-06:00Michael Sierra-Arévalo's "The Danger Imperative"Michael Sierra-Arévalo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Associate Director of the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
His new book, The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of Policing, shows how policing’s preoccupation with danger shapes police culture and violence in the United States.
Sierra-Arévalo applied the “Page 99 Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-14738325079467944952024-02-20T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-20T08:05:00.144-06:00David L. Weimer and Aidan R. Vining's "Dog Economics"David L. Weimer is Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. His contributions to public policy scholarship have been widely recognized as he has received the Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis. Aidan R. Vining is Emeritus CNABSUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-9110457656977713962024-02-19T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-19T08:05:00.224-06:00George Fisher's "Beware Euphoria"George Fisher is the Judge John Crown Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he has been teaching evidence, prosecution practice, and criminal legal history since 1995. He began practice as a Massachusetts prosecutor and later taught at Boston College Law School, Harvard Law School, and Yale Law School.
Fisher applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Beware Euphoria: The Moral Roots Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-2539552082266527752024-02-18T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-18T08:05:00.327-06:00Alexa Bankert's "When Politics Becomes Personal"Alexa Bankert is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, and Political Behavior. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Junior Scholars Award, given by the Political Psychology Section of the American Political ScienceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-48800108736338039742024-02-17T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-17T08:05:00.349-06:00Jane Ohlmeyer's "Making Empire"Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, where she served as Trinity's first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14). She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute which she directed (2015-20). She is a passionate teacher and has held Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-5679251741952734982024-02-16T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-16T08:05:00.308-06:00Troy Tassier's "The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus"Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University with additional affiliations in the Urban Studies Program and the International Political Economy and Development Program. He is a world expert in the fields of economic epidemiology and social network analysis whose comments on the Covid-19 pandemic appeared in major media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Chicago Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-44759701429124773972024-02-15T08:05:00.001-06:002024-02-15T08:05:00.302-06:00Andre Schmid's "North Korea’s Mundane Revolution"Andre Schmid is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, North Korea’s Mundane Revolution: Socialist Living and the Rise of Kim Il Sung, 1953–1965, and reported the following:
Could Ford Maddox Ford have ever imagined that his Page 99 Test would apply to a book on a place like North Korea? Not likelyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com