tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65560413982258301872012-01-28T01:06:47.466-06:00The 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 FordMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comBlogger12271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-65877000205738681182012-01-27T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-27T00:34:00.386-06:00William J. Cook's "In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman"William Cook is a professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation, and reported the following:
Any mathematician will tell you that coincidences are not as rare as we might think. So Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-41183173637162191312012-01-26T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-26T10:08:17.247-06:00Eben Miller's "Born along the Color Line"Eben Miller teaches at Southern Maine Community College and lives in Lewiston, Maine.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Born along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement, and reported the following:
From Page 99:
Recently plagued by symptoms of fatigue, [Abram] Harris had received a medical checkup that revealed startling but Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-496905753440353762012-01-24T08:08:00.000-06:002012-01-24T08:08:00.065-06:00Hendrik Hartog's "Someday All This Will Be Yours"Hendrik Hartog is Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty at Princeton University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age, and reported the following:
Someday All This Will Be Yours explores how family members solicited and produced old age care in the generations before World WarMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-42606746130965209682012-01-23T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-23T06:33:19.078-06:00A. W. Moore's "The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics"A. W. Moore is Professor of Philosophy and Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things, and reported the following:
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Its subtitle, Making Sense of Things, reflects the definition of Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-76816812289129728542012-01-21T01:11:00.000-06:002012-01-21T01:11:00.756-06:00Paul M. Barrett's "Glock"Paul M. Barrett is an assistant managing editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion and The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America.
Barrett applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun describes the early commercial Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-28412028094864002572012-01-19T14:34:00.000-06:002012-01-19T14:34:00.477-06:00Ronald Weitzer's "Legalizing Prostitution"Ronald Weitzer is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author or editor of many books, including Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry, Second Edition.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business, and reported the following:On page 99 of my new book, Legalizing Prostitution, I discuss Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-1741473750883239072012-01-18T13:23:00.000-06:002012-01-18T13:23:00.239-06:00Wesley Moody's "Demon of the Lost Cause"Wesley Moody is Professor of History at Florida State College.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Demon of the Lost Cause: Sherman and Civil War History, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Demon of the Lost Cause begins by naming a few of the major events of 1891, the year General William T. Sherman died in his New York City home. The general had died several pages earlier. Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-10200956581948972882012-01-17T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-17T07:21:34.834-06:00Michael R. Powers's "Acts of God and Man"Michael R. Powers is professor of risk management and insurance at Temple University's Fox School of Business and distinguished visiting professor of finance at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management. He serves as chief editor of the Journal of Risk Finance and the Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, and has coedited two books: Global Risk Management: Financial, Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-19148476378949289752012-01-15T01:11:00.000-06:002012-01-15T01:11:00.082-06:00Steven Mock's "Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity"Steven J. Mock teaches political science at the University of Waterloo.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity raises a point that, though not original, must be stressed before one embarks on study whose primary source material is Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-60896120427483654752012-01-13T10:01:00.000-06:002012-01-13T10:01:00.736-06:00Lea Ypi's "Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency"Lea Ypi is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics, and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Before joining the LSE, she was a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College (Oxford) and a researcher at the European University Institute where she obtained her PhD.
Ypi Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-31507003982496220712012-01-12T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-12T00:34:00.884-06:00Jonathan Lyons’s "Islam Through Western Eyes"Author and independent scholar Jonathan Lyons has spent his professional life surveying the shifting boundaries between East and West. For more than two decades he was a foreign correspondent and editor for Reuters, much of it in the Islamic world. His previous publications include The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization and Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-55483549567136985962012-01-10T14:34:00.000-06:002012-01-10T14:34:00.039-06:00James Clay Moltz's "Asia’s Space Race"James Clay Moltz holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of National Security Affairs and in the Space Systems Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is the author of The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests and has served as a consultant to the NASA Ames Research Center.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-90913280794713638832012-01-09T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-09T00:34:00.207-06:00Maxwell Boykoff's "Who Speaks for the Climate?"Maxwell T. Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Science and Technology Policy, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He teaches in the Environmental Studies program and is Adjunct faculty in the Geography Department. In addition, Boykoff is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-79059066715188069352012-01-07T00:34:00.000-06:002012-01-07T00:34:00.493-06:00Lawrence Peskin and Edmund Wehrle's "America and the World"Lawrence A. Peskin is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University and author of Manufacturing Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Early American Industry and Captives and Countrymen: Barbary Slavery and the American Public, 1785-1816. Edmund F. Wehrle is an associate professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and author of Between a River and a Mountain: The AFL-CIO Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-50621856130262450872012-01-05T15:33:00.000-06:002012-01-05T15:33:00.125-06:00Aaron Herald Skabelund's "Empire of Dogs"Aaron Herald Skabelund is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World, and reported the following:
If we humans currently live on an “Animal Planet,” as one astute observer has suggested, with TV programming and even cable networks completely devoted to Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-26421313410529916272012-01-04T15:03:00.000-06:002012-01-04T15:03:00.156-06:00Jonathan M. Ladd's "Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters"Jonathan M. Ladd is assistant professor of government and public policy at Georgetown University. He received his PhD in politics from Princeton University.
Ladd applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters, and reported the following:With all the changes to the news media landscape over the past few years, it is hard to know how people learn Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-27200638187359985532012-01-03T14:34:00.000-06:002012-01-03T14:34:01.299-06:00Daniel Berkowitz & Karen Clay's "The Evolution of a Nation"Daniel Berkowitz is professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. Karen B. Clay is associate professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University.
They applied the “Page 99 Test” to their new book, The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States, and reported the following:The Evolution of a Nation argues that geography and colonial legal conditions played Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-9104475996634773152012-01-02T14:34:00.000-06:002012-01-02T14:34:01.737-06:00Randy Roberts's "A Team for America"Randy Roberts is a Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. His books include John Wayne: American (coauthored with James Olson), Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, and Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes among others.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation, and reported the following:
Smart man that Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-13145439124585666832012-01-01T01:11:00.000-06:002012-01-01T01:11:00.131-06:00Patrick Lee's "Deep Sky"Patrick Lee's first novel, The Breach, hit the world at the beginning of 2010. It was followed by a sequel, Ghost Country, and the final volume of the trilogy, Deep Sky, was released last week. The series tells the story of Travis Chase, a man who finds himself caught up in the chain of events surrounding the world's most violently kept secret.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to Deep Sky and Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-57525224305342601902011-12-30T00:34:00.000-06:002011-12-30T06:17:35.621-06:00Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's "Zoopolis"Sue Donaldson is an independent researcher and author from Kingston, Ontario. Her books include Foods that Don't Bite Back (Arsenal Pulp, 2003).
Will Kymlicka is the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University. His books include Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction, Multicultural Citizenship, and Multicultural Odysseys.
They applied the “Page 99 Test” to Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-29577979787297958562011-12-28T14:34:00.000-06:002011-12-28T14:34:00.512-06:00William Monter's "The Rise of Female Kings in Europe"William Monter is professor emeritus of history, Northwestern University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800, and reported the following:This book is relatively short, and a reader is almost halfway through it by the time (s)he reaches page 99. Once past the second chapter, which attempts a general overview of the subject, it’s probably Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-22598744432156821732011-12-27T03:45:00.000-06:002011-12-27T03:45:00.509-06:00John Gribbin's "Alone in the Universe"John Gribbin is one of today's greatest writers of popular science and the author of bestselling books including In Search of the Multiverse, In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, and Science: A History. He trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University and is now Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Alone in the Universe: Why Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-26595440308080804502011-12-26T03:33:00.000-06:002011-12-26T03:33:00.219-06:00Rudy Rucker's "Nested Scrolls"Rudy Rucker lives in Los Gatos, California. He has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award.
Here's the whole of page 99 of his autobiography, Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker, with little bit added from page 98 and from page 100:
What else did I learn at college? A little about modern painting and architecture. And I took a German literature class where we read Kafka’s Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-84028018407020212912011-12-24T10:01:00.001-06:002011-12-24T10:01:02.169-06:00Eric Anderson’s "The Monogamy Gap"Eric Anderson is an American sociologist at the University of Winchester known for his research on sport, masculinities, sexualities and homophobia. He shows an increasingly positive relationship between gay male athletes and sports, as well as a growing movement of young heterosexual men’s masculinity becoming softer and more inclusive. Anderson also researches matters related to men’s monogamy,Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59245550174812478332011-12-22T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-22T14:34:01.632-06:00Ruth W. Grant's "Strings Attached"Ruth W. Grant is professor of political science and philosophy and a senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. She is the author of John Locke's Liberalism and Hypocrisy and Integrity.
Grant applied the “Page 99 Test” to her most recent book, Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives, and reported the following:
If you open Strings Attached to p. 99, you Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-29963470227375748912011-12-21T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-21T14:34:00.075-06:00Jason Morgan Ward's "Defending White Democracy"Jason Morgan Ward is assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965, and reported the following:My book, Defending White Democracy, traces the emergence of a self-consciously “segregationist” movement in the 1950s back Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-2194107698843580972011-12-20T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-20T14:34:00.429-06:00Markus Krajewski's "Paper Machines"Markus Krajewski is Associate Professor of Media History at the Bauhaus University, Weimar, and a developer of the bibliographic software Synapsen: A Hypertextual Card Index.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929, and reported the following:
A book is usually not considered as a machine, though it is common to use paper as one of the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-84247509065581035372011-12-19T09:11:00.002-06:002011-12-19T16:57:20.486-06:00Michael Broyles's "Beethoven in America"Michael Broyles is Professor of Music at Florida State University and former Distinguished Professor of Music and Professor of American History at Pennsylvania State University. His book, Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices, written with Denise Von Glahn, won the Irving Lowens Prize in 2007.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Beethoven in America, and reported the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-29350568624359883292011-12-17T14:34:00.002-06:002011-12-17T14:34:00.711-06:00Bruce N. Waller's "Against Moral Responsibility"Bruce N. Waller is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Youngstown State University. He is the author of The Natural Selection of Autonomy, Consider Ethics: Theory, Readings, and Contemporary Issues, and other books.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Against Moral Responsibility, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Against Moral Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-40309118252252999342011-12-16T09:11:00.001-06:002011-12-16T09:11:00.106-06:00Joe Sutliff Sanders's "Disciplining Girls"Joe Sutliff Sanders is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story, and reported the following:
This was a fun exercise—thanks for asking me to play. The 99th page of Disciplining Girls is half excellent representative, half tantalizing (or so I tell Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-83722378428763316132011-12-15T09:11:00.001-06:002011-12-15T09:11:00.274-06:00Kristen Monroe's "Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide"Kristen Monroe’s books include the prize-winning The Heart of Altruism (1996) and The Hand of Compassion (2004). Professor of Political Science and Director of the UC Irvine Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, Monroe has served as President of the International Society of Political Psychology and has received numerous awards for her work on ethics, political Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-11896353777490606392011-12-14T09:11:00.001-06:002011-12-14T09:11:00.481-06:00Brad S. Gregory's "The Unintended Reformation"Brad S. Gregory is Dorothy G. Griffin Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society, and reported the following:My book, The Unintended Reformation, is about the complex ways in which North American and European life in the early twenty-first century is the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-80675352910320172262011-12-13T09:09:00.001-06:002011-12-13T09:09:00.366-06:00David Satter's "It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway"David Satter is senior fellow, Hudson Institute, and fellow, Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He was Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times from 1976 to 1982, then a special correspondent on Soviet affairs for the Wall Street Journal. His books include Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union and Darkness at Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-55446431214287038872011-12-12T00:12:00.001-06:002011-12-12T00:12:00.637-06:00T. Bruneau et al, eds., "Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America"Thomas C. Bruneau is Distinguished Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School; Lucía Dammert is Executive Director of the Global Consortium on Security Transformation; Elizabeth Skinner is the think tank coordinator at NATO's Allied Command Transformation. They applied the “Page 99 Test” to their new book, Maras: Gang Violence and Security in Central America, and Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-17960961273838171662011-12-10T00:34:00.001-06:002011-12-10T00:34:00.052-06:00Christopher P. Loss's "Between Citizens and the State"Christopher P. Loss is assistant professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century, and reported the following:Is a picture really worth a thousand words? If it is, then I’m in trouble, because there’s a picture on page 99 of my bookMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-39501280187022263842011-12-08T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-08T14:34:00.513-06:00Arthur J. Magida's "The Nazi Seance"Arthur J. Magida is writer-in-residence at the University of Baltimore, a journalism professor at Georgetown University and recipient of multiple awards in journalism and the humanities, including the Simon Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association, the A.D. Emmart Award and the Smolar Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism. His books include The Rabbi and The Hit Man, Prophet Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-34800837763095547282011-12-07T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-07T14:34:00.774-06:00Nico Slate's "Colored Cosmopolitanism"Nico Slate is Assistant Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India, and reported the following:
What did Rabindranath Tagore and W.E.B. Du Bois talk about when they met in New York City in 1930? According to Du Bois, the Nobel Prize-winning Indian poet Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-69582473695043278152011-12-06T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-06T14:34:00.226-06:00Sarah S. Elkind's "How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy"Sarah S. Elkind is associate professor of history and director of environmental studies at San Diego State University. She is author of Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland, which won the Abel Wolman Prize from the Public Works Historical Society.
Elkind applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-83498543679939984192011-12-05T13:01:00.000-06:002011-12-05T13:01:00.379-06:00Douglas W. Allen's "The Institutional Revolution"Douglas W. Allen is the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada. He is the author of numerous books, including The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World, and reported the following:
Travel backMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-32774165261298963302011-12-04T10:01:00.001-06:002011-12-04T10:01:01.167-06:00William deBuys's "A Great Aridness"William deBuys's books include River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction in 1991; Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008), and Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California. An activeMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-34209409392045468132011-12-02T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-02T14:34:00.129-06:00Julia A. Ericksen's "Dance With Me"Julia A. Ericksen is Professor of Sociology at Temple University and author of Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century and Taking Charge of Breast Cancer.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Dance With Me: Ballroom Dancing and the Promise of Instant Intimacy, and reported the following:
Page 99 in Dance with Me passes the Ford Madox Ford test. The page appears at the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-7089665550458464682011-12-01T14:34:00.001-06:002011-12-01T14:34:00.168-06:00Timothy Matovina's "Latino Catholicism"Timothy Matovina is professor of theology and the William and Anna Jean Cushwa Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present and Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in U.S. Catholicism.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-37997224058982386742011-11-30T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-30T14:34:00.473-06:00Robert Wuthnow's "Red-State Religion"Robert Wuthnow, a native of Kansas, teaches sociology and directs the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of many books about American religion and culture, most recently Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America's Heartland, and reported the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-24326944002848071632011-11-29T13:11:00.001-06:002011-11-29T13:11:00.172-06:00Nigel Cliff's "Holy War"Nigel Cliff is a historian, biographer, and critic. He was educated at Oxford University, where he was awarded the Beddington Prize for English Literature. He is a former theater and film critic for the London Times and a contributor to the Economist and other publications. His first book, The Shakespeare Riots, was a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing and was selected as one of theMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-70865943270971076022011-11-28T13:01:00.000-06:002011-11-28T13:01:00.191-06:00Paul North's "The Problem of Distraction"Paul North is Assistant Professor of German at Yale University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Problem of Distraction, and reported the following:
A pause in one flight of thoughts, beginning of another, a transition, a good example because a bad example, signs pointing in many directions—Kafka’s critique of Max Brod’s fledgling aesthetic theory; Kafka’s theorization of “Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59314958878198561562011-11-27T09:09:00.001-06:002011-11-27T09:09:00.037-06:00Susanna Paasonen's "Carnal Resonance"Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, Finland. Her scholarship includes Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women, and Cyberdiscourse.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography, and reported the following:
Carnal Resonance explores the modalities and dynamics of online pornography in an attempt to tackle some of theMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-33276428527836413632011-11-25T11:11:00.001-06:002011-11-25T11:11:00.975-06:00Eliot A. Cohen's "Conquered into Liberty"Eliot Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He directs the strategic studies program at SAIS and the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, which he founded. His books include the prize-winning Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (2002), Commandos and Politicians (1978), Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-58123232824897030652011-11-23T15:03:00.001-06:002011-11-23T15:03:00.205-06:00Robert Brenneman's "Homies and Hermanos"Robert Brenneman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. He is the author of Faith and the Foreigner.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America, and reported the following:
It's appropriate that JJ speaks on page 99 of my book Homies and Hermanos. JJ is one of the sixty-three former gang Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-21823946374684486182011-11-22T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-22T14:34:00.481-06:00David Rothenberg's "Survival of the Beautiful"David Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
He has written and performed on the relationship between humanity and nature for many years. His books include Why Birds Sing, on making music with birds, and Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales. Other books include Sudden Music, Blue Cliff Record, Hand’s End, and Always the MountainsMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-1888657194454456242011-11-21T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-21T14:34:00.101-06:00Susan Herman's "Taking Liberties"Susan N. Herman became president of the American Civil Liberties Union in 2008 after serving on its national board for twenty years. A constitutional scholar and chaired professor at Brooklyn Law School, she is the co-editor (with Paul Finkelman) of Terrorism, Government, and Law and the author of The Right to a Speedy and Public Trial.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Taking Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-62563191454473330572011-11-20T00:34:00.001-06:002011-11-20T00:34:00.789-06:00Wendy Pearlman's "Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement"Wendy Pearlman is Assistant Professor of Political Science and the Crown Junior Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement, and reported the following:
My book, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement, argues that self-determination movements must be Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-34543878106898251292011-11-18T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-18T14:34:00.179-06:00Charles Lemert's "Why Niebuhr Matters"Charles Lemert is Senior Fellow at Yale's Center for Comparative Research. His recent books include The Structural Lie: Small Clues to Globalization (Paradigm, 2011) as well as Why Niebuhr Matters (Yale University Press, 2011).
When he applied the “Page 99 Test” to the new book on Reinhold Niebuhr, he found the following:
Even though page 99 of Why Niebuhr Matters is but a chapter ending Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-43167666951020681332011-11-17T14:34:00.002-06:002011-11-17T14:34:00.608-06:00Tonio Andrade's "Lost Colony"Tonio Andrade is associate professor of history at Emory University. He is the author of How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory over the West, and reported the following:
On p. 99 of Lost Colony, the Chinese protagonist of the book, the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-49575553105257899902011-11-16T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-16T14:34:00.948-06:00Franklin E. Zimring's "The City that Became Safe"Franklin E. Zimring is the William G. Simon Professor of Law and chair of the Criminal Justice Research Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2005, he has been the first Wolfen Distinguished Scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law. Zimring's recent books include The Great American Crime Decline and (with David T. Johnson) The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-80661643789383002112011-11-15T14:34:00.001-06:002011-11-15T14:34:00.109-06:00Roger E. Backhouse & Bradley W. Bateman's "Capitalist Revolutionary"Roger E. Backhouse is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics at the University of Birmingham. Bradley W. Bateman is Provost and Professor of Economics, Denison University.
They applied the “Page 99 Test” to their new book, Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes, and reported the following:
Our book is about John Maynard Keynes, the economist who suddenly entered the news Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59952407522252961082011-11-14T14:34:00.003-06:002011-11-14T14:37:49.039-06:00Emrys Westacott's "The Virtues of Our Vices"Emrys Westacott is Professor of Philosophy at Alfred University, Alfred, New York.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits, and reported the following:
The Virtues of Our Vices contains five linked studies in everyday ethics. The topics of the essays are: gossiping, rudeness, snobbery, humor, and Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-72072675830141550192011-11-13T10:10:00.001-06:002011-11-13T10:10:00.614-06:00David O. Stewart's "American Emperor"David O. Stewart's books include the highly acclaimed The Summer of 1787, the bestselling account of the writing of the Constitution, and Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy. He has practiced law in Washington, D.C., for more than a quarter of a century, defending accused criminals and challenging government actions as unconstitutional. Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-2347781637726568582011-11-11T11:11:00.001-06:002011-11-11T11:11:03.097-06:00Gernot Wagner's "But Will the Planet Notice?"Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He teaches at Columbia and graduated from both Harvard and Stanford. He doesn’t eat meat, doesn’t drive, and knows full well the futility of his personal choices.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World, and reported the following:
But Will the Planet Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-60879872519139049722011-11-10T09:11:00.001-06:002011-11-10T09:11:00.348-06:00Jena Pincott's "Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?"Jena Pincott writes about the quirky, hidden side of science — the shocking, subconscious, under-the-radar stuff. Her book Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?, on the science of love and attraction, is being translated in 17 languages.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy, and reported the following:
Page Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-78555817913813795862011-11-09T09:11:00.002-06:002011-11-09T10:04:38.397-06:00Gershom Gorenberg's "The Unmaking of Israel"Gershom Gorenberg is an Israeli historian and journalist. His previous books are The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Unmaking of Israel, and reported the following:
On an autumn day in 2009, at the height of the West Bank olive Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-6674792397465651262011-11-08T09:09:00.002-06:002011-11-08T11:34:44.987-06:00Jonathan M. Hansen's "Guantánamo: An American History"Jonathan M. Hansen, a historian at Harvard University, is the author of The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Guantánamo: An American History, and reported the following:
Page 99:
...barked a century and a half earlier. Huntington described the clearing in his official report to the marine commandant. “The ridge Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-31973909604604472192011-11-07T00:34:00.001-06:002011-11-07T00:34:01.159-06:00Dean Falk's "The Fossil Chronicles"Dean Falk is a Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her books include Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origin of Language and Braindance, Revised and Expanded Edition: New Discoveries about Human Origins and Brain Evolution.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, The Fossil Chronicles: How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-2555141116193065062011-11-05T01:11:00.002-05:002011-11-05T01:11:00.366-05:00Julian Go's "Patterns of Empire"Julian Go is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University, where is also a Faculty Affiliate in Asian Studies and the American Studies and New England Studies program.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Patterns of Empire refers to the rising class of educated Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-58036985586903603442011-11-03T12:34:00.001-05:002011-11-03T14:37:51.729-05:00Mia Bloom's "Bombshell: Women and Terrorism"Mia Bloom is Associate Professor of International Studies and Women’s Studies at Penn State. She is a leading expert on suicide terrorism and is the author of Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror (2005). In addition to her research on terrorism, Bloom conducts research on ethnic conflict, the strategic use of rape in war, and child soldiers.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her mostMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-427067707648397182011-11-02T09:09:00.001-05:002011-11-02T09:09:00.077-05:00Barron H. Lerner's "One for the Road: Drunk Driving Since 1900"Barron H. Lerner is a physician, historian, and professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University. He is the author of Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis along the Skid Road, When Illness Goes Public, and The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-Century America, winner of the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for theMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-28358387340444553402011-11-01T09:09:00.001-05:002011-11-01T09:09:00.056-05:00John Perry's "The Pretenses of Loyalty"John Perry is McDonald Fellow for Christian Ethics & Public Life at the University of Oxford. His Ph.D. is from the University of Notre Dame and he has published articles in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and Scottish Journal of Theology, and elsewhere.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, The Pretenses of Loyalty: Locke, Liberal Theory,Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-44470729916998643362011-10-31T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-31T09:09:01.122-05:00Lisa A. Keister's "Faith and Money"Lisa A. Keister is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Markets and Management Studies Program at Duke University.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Faith and Money represents the book remarkably well.
In this book, I ask: how are religion and personal Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-78445277476943938762011-10-29T13:23:00.001-05:002011-10-29T13:23:00.509-05:00Ken Ballen's "Terrorists in Love"Kenneth Ballen is President and founder of Terror Free Tomorrow, a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, which investigates the causes of extremism. Since 2004, Terror Free Tomorrow's research has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CBS, NBC, and cited by Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, among others. Ballen has spent two decades on the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-23781599170553040682011-10-28T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-28T11:41:19.807-05:00James S. Bielo's "Emerging Evangelicals"James S. Bielo is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Miami University. His books include Words Upon the Word: an ethnography of Evangelical group Bible study (NYU, 2009) and The Social Life of Scriptures: cross-cultural perspectives on Biblicism (Rutgers, 2009).
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity,Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-90154838160500960902011-10-27T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-27T09:09:00.124-05:00William G. Thomas's "The Iron Way"William G. Thomas is professor of history and the John and Catherine Angle Chair in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America, and reported the following:
On page 99 of The Iron Way, you will find a 3/4 page map of the Shenandoah Valley in 1862. The map features theMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-80780080711308064902011-10-26T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-26T09:09:00.608-05:00Joseph A. McCartin's "Collision Course"Joseph A. McCartin is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University and Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. His books include Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, which won the 1999 Philip Taft Prize for best book in American labor history.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-55477201814012226112011-10-25T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-25T09:09:00.069-05:00David Welky's "The Thousand-Year Flood"David Welky was born and raised in St. Louis, the consummate Midwestern river town. He received a BA in history from Truman State University in Missouri and a MA and PhD, both in history, from Purdue University. He has written widely on American culture and society in the interwar era and is the author of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression and The Moguls and Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-62037902322967146022011-10-24T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-24T09:09:00.545-05:00Teofilo F. Ruiz's "The Terror of History"Teofilo F. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor of History and of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA. His many books include Spain's Centuries of Crisis and From Heaven to Earth. In 2007, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and selected as one of UCLA's Distinguished Teachers.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization, Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-40124929629439141922011-10-23T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-23T13:07:27.726-05:00William Ian Miller's "Losing It"William Ian Miller is Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. His books include The Anatomy of Disgust, which was named 1997 best book in anthropology/sociology by the Association of American Publishers.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Losing It, in which an aging professor laments his shrinking brain, which he flatters himself formerly did him noble Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-58022750843253290362011-10-22T09:09:00.003-05:002011-10-22T16:28:15.955-05:00Robert H. Frank's "The Darwin Economy"Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a regular "Economic View" columnist for the New York Times, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have been translated into 22 languages, include The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip Cook), The Economic Naturalist, Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, and Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-38221929474093546792011-10-21T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-21T09:09:00.308-05:00Robert Douglas-Fairhurst's "Becoming Dickens"Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Fellow and Tutor in English, Magdalen College, Oxford.
His media work includes writing arts features and reviews for the Daily Telegraph, contributing to UK and US radio and television programs, and acting as the historical advisor on recent BBC adaptations of Jane Eyre (2006) and Emma (2009).
Douglas-Fairhurst applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Becoming Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-59016127880572663012011-10-20T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T10:59:21.159-05:00Steven Nadler's "A Book Forged in Hell"Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Rembrandt's Jews, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Spinoza: A Life, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award; and The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, A Book ForgedMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-28948262880878785422011-10-19T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T10:59:42.896-05:00Denise Gigante's "The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George"Denise Gigante is Professor of English at Stanford University.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George, and reported the following:
Autumn, 1817.
The early life of the Keats brothers: three orphans, living in London.
Their mother, Frances Keats, dead of consumption (tuberculosis), having never recovered from the tragic accident that took Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-68565353088276751062011-10-18T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:00:06.159-05:00Jean-Vincent Blanchard's "Éminence: Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France"Jean-Vincent Blanchard is Associate Professor of French Studies at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Born in Canada and raised in Europe, he earned his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1997. He is a specialist on pre-revolutionary France, with particular emphasis on the seventeenth century, and has published on a broad range of subjects in politics, history, religion, philosophy, and the arts.Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-75067833032944307442011-10-17T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:00:31.875-05:00Mark D. Steinberg's "Petersburg Fin de Siècle"Mark Steinberg is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of the journal Slavic Review. He is the author of The Fall of the Romanovs and Voices of Revolution, 1917, both published by Yale University Press, and of Proletarian Imagination: Self, Modernity, and the Sacred in Russia, 1910–1925.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Petersburg Fin de Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-90841342322369759252011-10-16T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:00:56.147-05:00Michael Bowen's "The Roots of Modern Conservatism"Mike Bowen received his Ph.D. in American History in 2006 from the University of Florida under the direction of Brian Ward. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Westminster College and previously served as assistant director of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida. He specializes in political and cultural history.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to hisMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-75199882994859228432011-10-15T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:01:19.274-05:00Richard Noll's "American Madness"Richard Noll is Associate Professor of Psychology at DeSales University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox, and reported the following:
From Page 99:
Two things immediately strike the reader of Noble’s paper. The first is that he does not regard the fact as troubling that he is finding more dementia praecox at his Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-45380822355790225392011-10-14T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:01:48.768-05:00Philip Kitcher's "The Ethical Project"Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University.
He applied the “Page 99 Test” to his latest book, The Ethical Project, and reported the following:
The Ethical Project attempts to offer a novel understanding of ethics, one that questions the idea of ethical expertise and proposes that ethics is something people have worked out, and continue to work out, together.Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-33429772698539490272011-10-13T09:09:00.002-05:002011-10-20T11:02:11.475-05:00Dava Sobel's "A More Perfect Heaven"Dava Sobel is the bestselling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets, coauthor of The Illustrated Longitude, and editor of Letters to Father. She lives in East Hampton, New York.
She applied the “Page 99 Test” to her latest book, A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos, and reported the following:
Before I knew that Ford Madox Ford endorsed this method Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-45272352158787897052011-10-12T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-12T09:09:00.259-05:00Peter Van Buren's "We Meant Well"Peter Van Buren has served with the Foreign Service for over 23 years. He received a Meritorious Honor Award for assistance to Americans following the Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, a Superior Honor Award for helping an American rape victim in Japan, and another award for work in the tsunami relief efforts in Thailand. Previous assignments include Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the UK and Hong Kong. He Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-62428193881072741922011-10-11T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-11T09:09:00.100-05:00Lloyd J. Dumas's "The Peacekeeping Economy"Lloyd J. Dumas is Professor of Political Economy, Economics and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dumas has published eight books and over 120 articles in 11 languages in books and journals of 7 different disciplines. He has discussed the policy implications of his work on more than 300 TV and radio programs in the U.S., China, Russia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-66152405632868155292011-10-10T00:34:00.001-05:002011-10-10T00:34:00.123-05:00Sylvia Longmire's "Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico’s Drug Wars"Sylvia Longmire was a Special Agent in the Air Force and a senior intelligence analyst for the state of California. She has been interviewed on Geraldo at Large, CNN and CNN International, BBC World Radio, and her writing is regularly featured in Homeland Security Today magazine. Currently, Longmire is an independent consultant, and testifies as an expert witness on U.S. asylum cases.
She Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-10929971542232913572011-10-08T11:11:00.001-05:002011-10-08T11:11:00.243-05:00David King's "Death in the City of Light"David King's books include Finding Atlantis and Vienna 1814.
A Fulbright Scholar with a master's degree from Cambridge University, King taught European history at the University of Kentucky before becoming a full-time writer. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife and children.
He applied “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied ParisMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-73325935958170807872011-10-07T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-07T09:09:00.025-05:00Paul R. Pillar's "Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy"Paul R. Pillar is visiting professor and director of studies in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He served in several senior positions with the CIA and the National Intelligence Council and is a retired army reserve officer. He is the author of Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy and Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-25648675082650794392011-10-06T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-06T09:09:00.144-05:00Graham Jones's "Trade of the Tricks"Graham M. Jones is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He applied “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Trade of the Tricks: Inside the Magician's Craft, and reported the following:
This is a book about secrets. Magicians use secret procedures, concealed maneuvers and veiled intentions to create illusions. A part of the thrill of a magic show is the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-20031871365327117032011-10-05T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-05T09:09:00.733-05:00Patricia J. Fanning's "Influenza and Inequality"Patricia J. Fanning is professor and chairperson of the Department of Sociology at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and the author of Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day.
She applied “Page 99 Test” to her latest book, Influenza and Inequality: One Town’s Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918, and reported the following:
The US Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-25881086488215708782011-10-04T09:09:00.001-05:002011-10-04T09:09:00.130-05:00Adam Winkler's "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America"Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been featured on CNN and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.
He applied “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America, and reported the following:
On page 99 of Gunfight, you’ll find this sentence: “Those who looked intoMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-51223253208958063662011-10-03T00:34:00.001-05:002011-10-03T00:34:00.599-05:00David Abulafia's "The Great Sea"David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University.
He applied “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, and reported the following:
My own page 99 occurs at the end of a chapter, so it is only half a page. But it concerns themes that run right through the book, which begins in 22,000 BC and ends in AD 2010. The history of Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-38799145487397021252011-10-01T10:01:00.001-05:002011-10-01T10:01:00.834-05:00Michael Kazin's "American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation"Michael Kazin is professor of history at Georgetown University. His books include America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (with M. Isserman), The Populist Persuasion: An American History, Barons of Labor, and A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan. He is coeditor of Dissent, a frequent contributor to numerous publications, including The New York Times and The Nation, and the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-87832863048505437632011-09-30T09:09:00.001-05:002011-09-30T09:09:00.058-05:00Amy Smithson's "Germ Gambits"Amy Smithson is a Senior Fellow at the Washington, D.C. Office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies where she researches issues related to chemical and biological weapons proliferation, threat reduction mechanisms, and homeland security. Before joining the James Martin Center, she worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Henry L. Stimson Center—whereMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-34968157377461832622011-09-29T09:09:00.001-05:002011-09-29T09:09:00.527-05:00Jeanne Guillemin's "American Anthrax"Jeanne Guillemin is a senior fellow in the Security Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Center for International Studies. She is the author of Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak and Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism.
She applied “Page 99 Test” to her latest book, American Anthrax: Fear, Crime,Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-53869128797754122662011-09-28T09:09:00.001-05:002011-09-28T09:09:00.613-05:00Lucia Greenhouse’s "fathermothergod"Lucia Greenhouse, a graduate of the Emma Willard School and Brown University, lives with her husband and four children in Westchester County, New York.
She applied “Page 99 Test” to fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science, her first book, and reported the following:
I was skeptical about the Page 99 test, and then, before I even snuck a peak at my most important (my only) page 99, IMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-90495051156250540432011-09-27T09:09:00.001-05:002011-09-27T09:09:00.301-05:00Jenny Diski's "What I Don't Know About Animals"Jenny Diski was born in London, where she has lived most of her life. She is the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories. Her journalism has appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, among other publications.
She applied “Page 99 Test” to her latest book, What I Don't Know About Animals, andMarshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-62768677158011863212011-09-26T09:09:00.000-05:002011-09-26T09:09:00.366-05:00Donna Hicks's "Dignity: The Essential Role it Plays in Resolving Conflict"Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. She also works as a consultant to corporations and organizations, applying her dignity model to everyday business and relational situations.
She applied “Page 99 Test” to her new book, Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict in Our Lives and Relationships, and reported the Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6556041398225830187.post-46766825373482028122011-09-24T14:34:00.001-05:002011-09-24T14:34:00.491-05:00Craig Harline’s "Conversions"Craig Harline is the author of Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl, and several other books from Yale University Press. He is Professor of History in the Department of History at Brigham Young University.
Harline applied “Page 99 Test” to his new book, Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America, and reported the following:
Page 99 of Marshal Zeringuenoreply@blogger.com