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...author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the premise of which explains itself: the Bennet family lives in a rural English village, where their primary concerns are a) marrying off their five daughters, and b) defending themselves against wave after wave of the remorseless, relentless walking dead. Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman chatted with Grahame-Smith about the challenge of updating a classic...
...Your book points out that autism rates between 1983 and 2008 have climbed in lockstep with vaccination rates, yet childhood obesity, diabetes and even cell-phone use have soared since then, too. Why do you find causation in one and not the others? I'm not saying it's only the vaccines. But children are given so many shots from the moment they're born. They get multiple injections all at once, and if they fall behind, doctors put them on a catch-up schedule. Babies get the hepatitis B vaccine immediately after they're born and the only...
...write in your book that when your son began to emerge from the worst of his autism he said that having the condition felt like being buried alive. What's the most important thing a parent can do to help draw a child out? Just remember that there is a very alert, bright, loving sweet child in there who simply looks like he doesn't care and can't hear you. They very much know what's going on. Evan has repeated things to me that I said to him when he was three and in his worst state...
...experimenting with new ways of disseminating scholarship,” she said. Both Maco and McLaughlin emphasized the importance of expanding university presses’ digital presence. Maco said she was excited to see the Press’ first online legal journal as well as the availability of HUP books on Amazon’s wireless reading device, Kindle. She also said that because many of HUP’s books are targeted at a specific subset of academia, the Press probably has not been missing out on reaching much of its audience due to a lack of digital availability...
...Steven Biel, who are also the directors of the Humanities center at Harvard. An Emeritus professor of political philosophy at McGill University in Canada and a visiting professor of government at Harvard, Taylor spoke about theories of spirituality propounded in his most recent publication, A Secular Age. The book, printed in 2007 by Harvard University Press, centered around his ideas relating to the place of spiritual traditions in the modern world. Sandel, a professor of government at Harvard University, developed these ideas with abstract examples. He said that he thought that the book had raised awareness of the need...