Congratulations to author Heather Meeker, whose new book, Open (Source) for Business: A Practical Guide to Open Source Software Licensing, was the number one new release in intellectual property law on Amazon when it came out. We are very proud to have helped with this project, a substantive book for software developers, IT managers, and lawyers […]

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt Pantheon/Random House (2012), hardcover, 392 pages This book confirmed a lot of what I’ve learned from studying sociology and anthropology, but it added the dimensions of moral and evolutionary psychology to help me get a better understanding of why people […]

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War by Tony Horwitz Henry Holt (2011), Hardcover, 384 pages Tony Horwitz delivers yet another fine history. Though not iconic like Confederates in the Attic, this solid narrative gives us a detailed account of John Brown’s early life, the origins of his fervent abolitionism, […]

The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore Princeton University Press (2010), hardcover, 210 pages A review-blurb on the front cover of this book says, “Lepore is a better reporter than any historian, and a better historian than any reporter.” That short, muddled review is […]