Boston University

Books

Qais Akbar Omar, A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story book, Afghanistan, Taliban

Global

Carpet Seller, Storyteller

January 16, 2014

Boston University BU, College of Arts and Sciences CAS, Jessica Keener, Night Swim, Women in Bed Nine Stories

Alumni

CAS Alum’s Women in Bed: Evocative Stories of Love, Loneliness, Loss

September 30, 2013

Boston University BU, Barnes and Nobles, buying books, ebooks, book rentals, how to save on college textbooks

Classes

Keeping Textbook Costs Down

September 3, 2013

Nerd Nite Boston, What is a Superhero, Robin Rosenberg, psychology

Arts & Culture

Calling All Nerds

July 25, 2013

Ruha Benjamin author, People's Science Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier book, assistant professor of sociology and African American studies, Boston University College of Arts and Sciences CAS

Social Sciences

CAS Prof’s Book Explores Social Impact of Stem Cell Research

May 31, 2013

Boston University BU, cash for books, selling textbooks

Arts & Culture

Selling Back Your Books

May 8, 2013

Boston University BU, College of Communication, professor journalism, author Mitch Zuckoff, Frozen in Time, Lost in Shangri La

Faculty

Frozen in Time Recounts World War II Arctic Ordeal

April 30, 2013

Matthew Guerrieri author, The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination book, Beethoven Fifth Symphony

Arts & Culture

CFA Alum Strikes Deep Chord with First Four Notes

April 29, 2013

Caroline Apovian, Boston Medical Center Obesity Research Center, The Overnight Diet: The Proven Plan for Fast, Permanent Weight Loss book

Health & Medicine

MED Prof’s Overnight Diet: “Fast, Permanent” Weight Loss

April 26, 2013

Jeffrey Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Jeffrey Rubin, Emma Sokoloff-Rubin, Sustaining Activism; A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration

Faculty

Chronicling Brazilian Women’s Struggle for Equal Rights

February 28, 2013

The Feminine Mystique book by author Betty Friedan, 50th anniversary of Feminine Mystique

University News

Friedan’s Feminine Mystique Turns 50

February 12, 2013

Tom Lyons, New England Mobile Book Fair

Books

Crazy? The Man Bought a Bookstore

November 8, 2012

Ghosts of Boston Haunts of the Hub book by author Sam Baltrusis

Arts & Culture

Ghosts of Boston

October 31, 2012

Hanna Rosin author of The End of Men And the Rise of Women book, dominant human gender

Books

The End of Men: True or False?

October 12, 2012

Running Ransom Road Confronting the Past One Marathon at a Time book by author Caleb Daniloff, running, jogging, marathons, alcoholism

Marathon

Confronting the Past, One Marathon at a Time

October 9, 2012

Sylvia Nasar's new book details how economists developed anti-poverty strategies.

Books

Sylvia Nasar’s Grand Pursuit

September 25, 2012

how to save money on new, used, rental, ebook, digital college textbooks

Arts & Culture

How to Save on Textbooks

September 4, 2012

The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin by Elizabeth Goldsmith, College of Arts & Sciences CAS professor

Literature

17th-Century Sisters the Kardashians Might Admire

August 27, 2012

Sin the early history of an idea by Paula Fredriksen, Christian views on original sin

Books

Evolving Ideas of Sin

August 6, 2012

Stephen Prothero author of The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation book

Books

In Arguing We Trust

June 28, 2012

In Arguing We Trust