That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman by Mark Berresford was the given the 2011 ARSC award for Best Historical Research in Recorded Jazz. Wilbur C. Sweatman (1882–1961) is one of the most important, yet unheralded, ... [read more]

FACT: “On the night of July 7, 1937, skirmishes between Chinese and Japanese troops near Beijing’s Marco Polo Bridge broke out, marking the beginning of World War II in China. The fighting quickly spread, and by month end Japanese force ... [read more]

David Scheffer, the first US ambassador for war crimes, has recently published All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals with Princeton University Press. In the book, he discusses bringing some of the most no ... [read more]

It’s not very often that an Open Letter book is turned into a movie (in fact, aside from Duras’s The Sailor from Gibraltar and Ilf & Petrov’s The Golden Calf [which was actually made into three different movies] I don’t think any of our ... [read more]

Nearly a year has passed since the huge crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square rallied to overthrow former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Yet, the Egyptian public remains loathe to articulate a coherent vision for Egypt, and "that is the ch ... [read more]

Rattan is the common name for a diverse group of climbing palms found throughout Old World tropical forests. For centuries people have used them for binding, basketry, house construction, food, and numerous other non-market purposes; mo ... [read more]

Remembering Traditional Hanzi 2, by James W. Heisig and Timothy W. Richardson, is the second of two volumes designed to help students learn the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most frequently used traditional Chinese characters. (A par ... [read more]

Forests, as physical entities, have received considerable scholarly attention in political studies of Asia and beyond. Much less notice has been paid to the significance of forests as symbols that enable commentary on identity, aspirati ... [read more]

In this excerpt from "War! What is it Good For?" by Kimberly L. Phillips, the author discusses the antiwar activism of Langston Hughes and Nina Simone. [read more]

Congratulations to our recent award-winning authors! Paul K. Eiss has won the Mexican History Book Prize from the Conference on Latin American History for his book In the Name of El Pueblo: Place, Community, and the Politics of History ... [read more]

Today's post is from S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future. Watkins is a researcher with the MacArthur Foundation’s ini ... [read more]

In November of 2011 the movie A Dangerous Method starring Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender was released. The screenplay was adapted by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton from his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure, whi ... [read more]

The Turner Classic Movies site has published a sparkling review of John Caps’s forthcoming book Henry Mancini: Reinventing Film Music. “Caps traces Mancini’s collaborations with important directors and shows how he homed in on specific ... [read more]

Rachel Berenson Perry is the former fines arts curator at the Indiana State Museum. In addition to organizaing art exhibitions at the ISM, she is the author of numerous articles for such publications as the American Art Review, Traces o ... [read more]

By Anayo Akunne Delirium is a common but serious condition that affects many older people admitted to hospital. It is characterised by disturbed consciousness and changes in cognitive function or perception that develop over a short p ... [read more]

On Sunday, the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann made her first public appearance since pulling out of the presidential race on January 4. At a protest against abortion at the Minnesota State ... [read more]

Planning or participating in a Super Bowl potluck? Wondering what to make or take? Look no further! Rae Katherine Eighmey, one of the authors of Potluck Paradise, has created dishes specifically for the Super Bowl teams two years in a ... [read more]

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by contributing reviewer Larissa Kyzer on Jacques Poulin’s Mister Blue, which just came out from Archipelago Books in Sheila Fischman’s translation. [read more]

Kate Torrey, the first woman to serve as director of University of North Carolina Press, to retire after 20 years at the helm. [read more]

In the post on the C-word, I made two mistakes, for both of which I am sorry, though neither was due to chance. In Middle High German, the word klotze “vagina” existed, and I was going to write that, given such a noun, the verb klotzen ... [read more]

“Are the champions of the capitalist system now turning against the super-rich? And if they are, what will they now do about it? How can change be achieved without undermining the logic of capitalism?” Raghuram Rajan, author of Fault Li ... [read more]

You get a call from your  publicist with the exciting news that you’ve been invited to talk about your book on a TV show.  If this is your first interview, you’re thrilled and also probably a little nervous. Here are … Continue reading → [read more]

In a January 23, 2012, New York Times Opinionator column on digital humanities, Stanley Fish explores Stephen Ramsay’s new book Reading Machines: Toward an Algorithmic Criticism. “At times [Ramsay] argues that however alien algorithmic ... [read more]

Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4368-0 | $69.95 | £45.50... [read more]

We’ve begun this year with a number of nice honors for books we published in the last. Seems that 2011 was a particularly nice year for HUP biographies. One of them, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Noveli ... [read more]

In late November and early December of last year, some 195 national delegations met in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP-17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the late ... [read more]

The Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News and Observer call George Derek Musgrove’s RUMOR, REPRESSION, AND RACIAL POLITICS “an enlightening, scholarly, yet accessible book.” [read more]

Sandra Gutierrez shares her recipe for chile-chocolate brownies from The New Southern-Latino Table [read more]

BY GEORGE LIPSITZ Professor of black studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara [read more]

A century ago, Tanxu used his temples to establish physical links between Buddhism and Chinese nationalism. At the same time, though, he was guided by the belief that the physical world was illusory. The title of his memoir, “Recollecti ... [read more]

Are you following PUP on Google+ yet? If not, today’s the day to add us to your circle—we’re giving away a copy of Magical Mathematics by Persi Diaconis & Ron Graham, along with a Magical Mathematics deck of cards to practice your magic ... [read more]

Congratulations to Cody Marrs for winning the 2011 Hennig Cohen Prize for best essay in Melville Studies from the Melville Studies Association. Marrs’ article, “A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetic Turn,” appeared in the M ... [read more]

Downton Abbey opens with the telegram announcing that the Earl of Grantham’s heir, James Crawley, and his son Patrick, have perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Since Lady Mary was supposed to marry Patrick, the succession plans go a ... [read more]

HR.com will be hosting a webcast with Mark Royal and Tom Agnew with the Hay Group and authors of The Enemy of Engagement: Put an End to Workplace Frustration–and Get the Most from Your Employees, to help participants uncover the … Conti ... [read more]

O thou Eternal God, out of whose absolute power and in- finite intelligence the whole universe has come into being. We humbly confess that we have not loved thee with our hearts, souls and minds, and we have not loved our neigh- bors as ... [read more]

Venice Ackroyd, Peter ¤ Anchor Books ¤ Publication Date: October 2011 ¤ Paperback ( 403 pages ) ¤ Category: History: European [read more]

“Kathleen Graber, assistant professor of English in the creative writing department at Virginia Commonwealth University, won the 2011 Literary Award for Poetry for The Eternal City. Graber’s book suggests the miraculous in ordinary huma ... [read more]

Roe v. Wade was decided on January 22, 1973, making it thirty-nine years old this weekend. In today's post, Carole Joffe looks at how the abortion debate remains one of the hot-button political issues in America today. Joffe is a profes ... [read more]

The new George Lucas produced film RED TAILS reminds American audiences of the heroics of the African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program. In historian J. Todd Moye’s book FREEDOM FLYERS: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II ... [read more]

What you may have missed this week at MQUP Excerpt from A Russian Jew of Bloomsbury The Digital Apocalypse Historian brings Thomas D’Arcy McGee to life What else? A newfangled online bookstore Some of my worst friends are books Has... [read more]

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown has been named an Outstanding Academic Title list by CHOICE. [read more]

Veteran Gingrich-watchers wouldn’t have predicted the latest Newt incarnation, either, but they probably weren’t too surprised. Over the course of his long political career – he first ran for Congress almost four decades ago – Gingrich ... [read more]

By Michael Adams Belinda Webb’s futuristic, dystopian novel, A Clockwork Apple (2008), follows Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange (1962) closely in many details... [read more]

Margot Canaday's brilliant book The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America has won the 2012 Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award. [read more]

Apple released a new version of iBooks today and, as Dan Nosowitz at Popular Science notes, it’s designed to replace the textbook with the iPad: “The new version of iBooks frees the app from its prior restrictions–now it can boast … Con ... [read more]

This Day in World History As you look for wireless hot-spots to connect to the Internet, thank Guglielmo Marconi. The Italian inventor championed wireless communication at the turn of the twentieth century—and demonstrated it on Januar ... [read more]

Today's post is from Jay Michaelson, author of God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. Michaelson is a writer, scholar, and activist whose work addresses the intersections of religion, sexuality, spirituality, and law.  [read more]

"Will innocents be caught in the cross-fire? Oh, yes. But when your secret weapon is a random act of kindness, it’s only cruel to be kind to other players...." Cruel 2 B Kind is an experimental game by Ian Bogost and Jane McGonigal. Her ... [read more]