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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
David Price, author of Anthropological Intelligence (2008) and Threatening Anthropology (2004), appears on Democracy Now today, discussing how the U.S. intelligence community has established academic outposts at twenty-two U.S. universi ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
How to use twitter to your advantage.
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Boydell and Brewer
| Source: From Beyond the Stave
Some years ago we published an account of life on the road with a chamber music ensemble: Beyond the Notes. Pianist Susan Tomes’ diary of her time with Domus and the beginnings of the Florestan Trio captured the imagination of music lov ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Almost two months ago, author Waleed Hazbun wrote a provocative piece on this blog about the current economic climate of Dubai. At the time, the article came on the heels of the news that Dubai's state-owned real estate firm, Nakheel, w ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: rohn
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Mammoth had a piece last week about the intersection between book design and architecture in the form of the Large Higgs Field Galactic Archive. Less a library than a holographic depiction of everything in the galaxy ever, the LHFGA is ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Think food fraud is a relatively small potatoes (I swear there was no pub intended when I wrote this, but there it is) compared to other crime? Here, from Newsweek.com:
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Elvin Lim's weekly column looks at Reagan and Sarah Palin.
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
This past weekend, Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, author of Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective, talked about the malaise in the post-1967 Arab world on ABC radio.
Kassab argues that geopolitical events c ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Tony
| Source: Are you loving publishing today?
I assume this is what it says on the tin, but I'm not going to order one to confirm it. Because I can see why it would be there. They need to test their database just like anyone else. What cracks me up about this Amazon listing is the ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: site administrator
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Livia Kohn, author of Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin, will lead “Daoist Immersion,” a week-long workshop that explores how living a Daoist life can make a difference in the world today. The workshop will be held in B ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: site administrator
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Author, historian, and journalist Bob Dye passed away on February 5, 2010.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next eight days, we’ll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist. Click here for all past write-ups.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Australian sex worker Elena Jeffreys has written a review essay for Intersections about four books written by non-sex workers about sex work. She features Tiantian Zheng's Red Lights:
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Carbondale’s PBS affiliate WSIU featured Joe McFarland, co-author of the recent book Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide, in a segment on hunting oyster mushrooms in southern Illinois.
Oy ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Reviews
| Source: The Front Table
Swell by Ioanna Karystiani; trans. by Konstantine Matsoukas
In Swell, Ioanna Karystiani’s novel of modern Greece and its relationship with the sea, we follow the path of the container ship Athos III thousands of miles from the Mediterr ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
The Press’ Journals department shows off its collective green thumb in advance of the coming snow storm.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Listen to the latest Penn Press podcast to hear David Zaring of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania discuss Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy. Zaring teaches legal studies and business ethics an ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: MRC
| Source: The SUNY Press Blog
Eve Pell (above, left), author of We Used to Own the Bronx, was recently interviewed at Boca Grande Talk, the online home of Florida's Gasparilla Gazette. Eve was in town to visit former roommate Alice Gorman (above, right), a Boca Gran ...
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The tragic deaths of Lawrence King (age 13), Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover (age 11), and Jaheem Herrera (age 11)—all victims of school-based homophobia—serve as stark reminders that American schools remain unsafe for many young people who p ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
Attention fans of the Olle Hotel in Flatonia (Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler's Guide author Liz Carmack is a BIG one.) The owners will be unveiling the hotel's recently acquired Texas historical marker at 4 p.m., Sat., Feb. 13. Fo ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Sarah Caldwell
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Our friends over at The Rumpus (for those who don't know, it's an online magazine taking the pop out of culture and offering insight on what really matters. For the full 411 check it out here!) have posted a hilarious and oh-so-true p ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Joe Gallagher
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
In a perfect follow-up to our video podcast posted on Friday, Lake Lambert III pens a major op-ed in USA Today’s Monday religion section.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Gordon Thompson on February 1965.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
We are pleased to announce that the University of Chicago Press was the recipient of eleven PROSE awards at this year's Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing conference in Washington, D.C., including t ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
In The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression, an article just published on the History News Network, Robert E. Wright, editor of Bailouts: Public Money, Profit, argues that policymakers’ and schol ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Alice
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
Stand By Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men was selected by Library Journal as one of the Best Consumer Health Books of 2009.
Library Journal explained: “Anderson filled a gap in the breast cancer (BC) literature with this guide for me ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Erica
| Source: University of Nebraska Press
Read from Chapter One, "Pronghorns on the Powder" from In Trace of TR: A Montana Hunter's Journey by Dan Aadland: "“Hold on, horses,” she cried, but, of course, they couldn’t hear her and in any case they lacked the tools...
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When it comes to infrastructure, President Obama faces a tricky balancing act. On one side he needs to invest in the kind of infrastructure that the nation needs to remain competitive and put us on the path to a low-carbon future. On th ...
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Feb 7, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next nine days, we’ll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist. Click here for all past write-ups.
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Feb 7, 2010
| Author: matt
| Source: UNC Press Blog
The Haitian Coat of Arms
As we all know, events in recent weeks have been difficult for the people of Haiti. Victories have been few, and all accounts suggest the nightmare is far from over. Today, though, is an important day in Haiti, ...
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Feb 6, 2010
| Author: Front Table
| Source: The Front Table
The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
Abelmann, Nancy
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Feb 6, 2010
| Author: Front Table
| Source: The Front Table
The Signature of All Things: On Method
Agamben, Giorgio ; Santo, Luca di ; Atell, Kevin
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Feb 6, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next ten days, we’ll be highlighting a book a day from the Best Translated Book Award fiction longlist. Click here for all past write-ups.
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Joe Gallagher
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
Lake Lambert, author of Spirituality, Inc., talked to NYU Press editor Jennifer Hammer about Religion in the American Workplace.
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Beth
| Source: UNC Press Blog
AND NOW . . . the story of a regular man whose job is to find the Big Ideas peeking out from the small foibles and successes of our everyday lives . . . the story of a man who helps us not only to hear them, but also to feel them.
Act ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a profile of one of the most consistently interesting academics today, Mark C. Taylor, chair of the religion department at Columbia University and a prolific author, having published ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
AMPATH, the more than 20-year-old partnership between Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine to fight HIV/AIDS in Kenya, has received a three-year, $5 million USAID grant. According to the IU Home Pa ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
The January 22, 2010, edition of the Times Literary Supplement includes a review of Robert E. Norton’s new English translation of Ernst Bertram’s classic Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology.
Ernst Bertram’s seminal work … not only highli ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Seal Press
| Source: Seal Press
Do you think you might have a gambling addiction…or do you fear that someone close to you might have one? Visit the new website for She Bets Her Life, Mary Sojourner’s hard-hitting confessional memoir about her journey to the bottom and ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
Book review of American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Clare
| Source: Laurier Press Blog
We continue to grow the Laurier Poetry series with the latest volume, Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009, selected with an introduction by Darren Wershler. Here’s a sample. Please ask for the book in y ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: nebraskapress
| Source: University of Nebraska Press
Valentine’s Day is less than two weeks away. And to celebrate the University of Nebraska Press is offering a discount on Ted Kooser’s poetry collection Valentines through next Friday, February 12. You may already know how Ted came to wr ...
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A country at war. Nationwide concerns about conserving fuel. A big push for eating locally produced foods that are lower on the food chain.
Sound familiar? It all happened almost a century ago.
In an insightful interview in AgriNews, ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
In a recent essay for Rorotoko, Gary Francione writes about his book Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation.
His essay explains his rejection of conventional animal welfare reform and his belief in the aboli ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
When we were launching the Reading the World podcast the other day, iTunes was all jacked and couldn’t accept our feed, etc., etc. (It just works! Sometimes. I suspect Apple IT employees were too busy watching TV on their souped-up iPad ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Larissa Kyzer on Tales of a Finnish Tupa, adapted by James Cloyd Bowman and Margery Bianco from a translation by Aili Kolehmainen with illustrations by Laura Bannon.
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
An excerpt from Erotic City.
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
The film A Single Man, which releases today in an expanded number of theaters upon Colin Firth's Oscar nod, has been the subject of much analysis in the media recently. Has it been snubbed in a handful of deserving Oscar categories? Did ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
In his column for today's New York Times, David Brooks mentions our new collection Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University, edited by Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben. I particular Brooks singles out the ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Alice
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
One of our new titles, The Black-White Achievement Gap: Why Closing It Is the Greatest Civil Rights Issue of Our Time by former U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Rod Paige and Elaine Witty, Ed.D., has been attracting some early trade buzz ...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report for January contains mixed signals about the job market’s emergence from the recession. The household survey showed a sizeable drop in unemployment. Gary Burtless believes that the fall i ...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
What Kirsty in Oxford has been reading this week.
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
Good luck to the Colts this weekend (sorry Saints fans, but I must root for my home team)! In honor of Sunday's game, here are two football-inspired poems from author Norbert Krapf: Prayer to Peyton Manning Hey, hey, Peyton Manning,...
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Feb 5, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
5 IU Press books are reviewed by CHOICE Magazine
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Today's post is from David W. Moore and George F. Bishop. Moore is a Senior Fellow with the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. He is a former Vice President of the Gallup Organization and was a senior editor with the G ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: FUPress
| Source: Fordham ImPRESSions
What’s in a name? Plenty, according to Mark Redfield: in his book The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror he writes about the impact that the events of September 11, 2001 had not only physically, but culturally ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: nebraskapress
| Source: University of Nebraska Press
It’s been quite a week at the University of Nebraska Press, as all sorts of our authors are all over the Web this week. I’ll cut right to the chase: A review of Taste of Cherry (winner of the Prairie...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Adrian Johns, author of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates was recently interviewed by Serena Golden of Inside Higher Ed. In a series of questions that highlight several of the current hot-button issues in th ...
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In recent Hill testimony, directors of U.S. intelligence agencies stated a new terrorist attack against the United States is possible in the next six months. Although groups like al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula are rightly claiming t ...
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In recent Hill testimony, directors of U.S. intelligence agencies stated a new terrorist attack against the United States is possible in the next six months. In response to this forecast, Bruce Riedel explains why the Obama administrat ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
Author Nancy Hiller (The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History) appears on WTIU's The Weekly Special tonight at 8 p.m. to discuss IU Press's re-release of Rachel Peden's trilogy of books concerning American farm life. Hiller wrote the fore ...
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President Obama's decision not to seek additional legislative authority for Guantánamo detentions, along with Congress's lack of interest in taking on the subject, means that judges must write the rules governing military detentions of ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: noreply@blogger.com
| Source: News from the University of Georgia Press
Christine Keiner details the root conflicts of Maryland's "hell on the half shell" in an interview on THE OYSTER QUESTION on WYPR's Maryland Morning. Listen here.
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
In honor of Black History Month, we offer the following reading selections: Travels with Mae Scenes from a New Orleans Girlhood Eileen M. Julien With a series of lyrical vignettes Eileen M. Julien traces her life as an African American...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Recommended interim steps to be implemented in patent prosecution involving business-related and computer-related inventions in order to minimize risk for the future and increase the likelihood of a patent issuing and ultimately being e ...
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I’m sure most of you by now have read all about the Amazon-Macmillan face-off that happened over this past week. If not, I shall summarize.
On Friday afternoon, after months of debates over e-book pricing, Amazon drastically pulled ...
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Writing on his Fast Company blog, Lives Per Gallon author Terry Tamminen writes:
Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled that publicly-held companies must disclose their exposure to potential losses from climate c ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
Toyota and its massive recall has been very much in the news lately but what can be learned from their experience? This is the question that Edward D. Hess takes up in a recent piece in Forbes, entitled Bigger Is Not Always Better: What ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Alice
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
One of our new titles, Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Educational System That’s Leaving Them Behind by Richard Whitmire, has been attracting some early trade buzz that we wanted to share with you.
“Sound advice—recommended for ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: yup.email.news@yale.edu
| Source: Yale Press Log
Tuesday's episode of NPR's Planet Money features an extended piece on the booming spice economy of the Middle Ages, which seems to hold some of the earliest lessons in global economics. Always in high demand in the West, spices were...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Over at EconLog, Arnold Kling has excerpted a series of paragraphs from Capitalism and the Jews. Head over there to read them all, but here's the one that surprised me the most:
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Charles Hodgson
| Source: OUPblog
The podictionary word of the week is "geisha".
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
IU Press is co-hosting a reception to celebrate the publication of Eileen Julien's book Travels with Mae February 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Lilly Library, located on the IU-Bloomington campus. At 4:30 Sandra Zagarell from the Departmen ...
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Because of its fragile nature and the fact that it is small and poor, Somalia has been grossly underestimated in its capacity to destabilize its surrounding region and to engage in extremely costly activities to the international commun ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
Professor Richard Swinburne examines the philosophical argument to believe in God.
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: Shawnee Baughman
| Source: Stanford University Press Blog
Do film and photography affect your life? Do you ever consider these forms of artistic expression to be an essential part of your existence? While many people may tend to regard these types of art as background in our lives,...
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Jane Jeong Trenka, author of the memoir The Language of Blood, is interviewed by Amy Goetzman in MinnPost for an interesting take on the Haitian adoption issue. Trenka, who was adopted by an American family, found out as an adult that ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: matt
| Source: UNC Press Blog
When it comes to public figures who bring their ‘A’ game, few will argue that television host Stephen Colbert is not near the top of the list. For proof, just look to the Emmy, Grammy, and Peabody awards that adorn the mantle on the set ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Sarah Caldwell
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
And here's how! Ever wondered how the work horses of the publishing industry (read: publicists) keep up with the trends of the day? We stay on top of our media contacts but most importantly, we read. Lots. Magazines, newspapers, goss ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
Paul Martin Lester is the author of On Floods and Photo-Ops: How Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush Exploited Catastrophes.
Lester is a professor of communications at California State University, Fullerton. He is the author of Visual C ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
"Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinea Revolution offer[s] historians and cultural critics alike provacative points of entry into a fascinating range of stories and meanings." —Mairi MacDonald, African Studies Review (requires subscription)
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: templepress
| Source: North Philly Notes
John A. Garcia, co-author of Latino Lives in America reflects on understanding Latino politics and writing his book.
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Offering some fascinating insights on one of the most contentious issues in publishing right now, a review of Adrian John's Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates appeared in the January 21 edition of Abu Dhabi's ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
"This reference work is valuable for researchers, but it is also accessible to high school students. It provides undeniable evidence about the purpose of these sites in essays, images (192 photographs and 23 maps) and personal testimoni ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Richard Kaeuper, author of Holy Warriors: The Religious Ideology of Chivalry, speaks to Chivalry Today's Scott Farrell about the spiritual side of chivalry in the middle ages. Farrell calls Professor Kaeuper "something of a rock star in ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Sharon Irish, an art and architecture historian who works at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Suzanne Lacy is the recipient of this year's College Art Association Lifetime Achievem ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
I'm finding this a bit late, but Portfolios of the Poor ("I don’t remember learning more from a single book, well, probably ever") makes Rachel Strohm's list of "Eight books on development for the interested generalist". She has loads o ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Ethan Watters at The Rumpus on 10 Things You Should Know Before going on The Daily Show.
3. You will only see the set 30 seconds before you walk on. When they need you, a production assistant will lead you down a series of grim hallway ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Joe Gallagher
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
The Boston Globe takes a look at the comedy sprouting from Scott Brown’s improbably election to the Senate last month. In doing so, they consult the editors of our book, Satire TV.
Jonathan Gray, coauthor of the book, “Satire TV: Pol ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Jessica Brown
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
A review of "Stillness & Light: The Silent Eloquence of Shaker Architecture" from the Library Journal.
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard.
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Upon yesterday's announcement of the Oscar nomination for A Single Man, WCCO reporter Darcy Pohland stopped by our office in downtown Minneapolis. Check out the news footage, which includes info about all of Minnesota's ties to the Osca ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Alice
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
We received our first ever comic strip book review yesterday from M and MX at Chinese Comics Online! It was a one sentence book review of Chocolate Fortunes: The Battle for the Hearts, Minds, and Wallets of China’s Consumers by Lawrence ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
"Realtors were trying to show me places with landing strips and big fancy houses, and I said, 'You got me all wrong. I'm not interested in this kind of stuff. I want something nobody else wants. I want something that has been so beat up ...
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Feb 2, 2010
| Author: MRC
| Source: The SUNY Press Blog
Our boxing week continues. Today we have a review of Binnie Klein's book to share, courtesy of Joseph Roche at The Examiner. Here's an excerpt:
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Feb 2, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Yesterday, counterterrorism expert Marc Sageman appeared in a PBS Newshour interview with Margaret Warner. You can watch the interview here in its entirety. Marc Sageman is the author of Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-F ...
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Feb 2, 2010
| Author: Jenie
| Source: A Different Stripe
Four publishing pros--including our own editor, Edwin Frank, will share their vision for the future of works in translation.
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Feb 2, 2010
| Author: Andrew DeSio
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Our author Steven Strogatz (THE CALCULUS OF FRIENDSHIP: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math) will be blogging about math on the NYTimes.com's blog "Opinionator." He'll be doing this for a coup ...
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Feb 2, 2010
| Author: Brookings Press
| Source: Brookings Press Blog
Vanda Felbab-Brown recently warned about the risks associated with reaching out to the Taliban in a conversation with “To the Point” host Warren Olney. "There is real danger for the [Obama] administration to signal that they do not beli ...
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