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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: site administrator
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
In August 1803 two Russian ships set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I’s ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s strategic concerns in the north Pacific, ho ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: site administrator
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Based on extensive fieldwork, Nature’s Embrace: Japan’s Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites, by Satsuki Kawano, reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remain ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Sara
| Source: A Different Stripe
Photo of Snowdrops (Galanthus) © Gayla Trail, author of Grow Great Grub
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: DB
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Lapham's Quarterly reprints two rejection letters, illustrating the perils of publishers everywhere.
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: DB
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Mark Heineke's narration of the artistic life of German painter Gerhard Richter is now in video form as well. From YouiTube and, for higher quality, in a Quicktime version. Enjoy.
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Kathy Sletto, fiber arts maven, farmer, mother, grants writer, and now author of the new book Keeping Watch: 30 Sheep, 24 Rabbits, 2 Llamas, 1 Alpaca, and a Shepherdess with a Day Job sent us this photo of Oliver the cat and Ada the she ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Scott Christianson, author of the new book Freeing Charles: The Struggle to Free a Slave on the Eve of the Civil War, will be featured in a Book-TV segment on Saturday, March 20 at 1:00PM (ET).
From the C-Span site:
Scott Christianson ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
George Kirsch, author of the book Golf in America, was consulted by the Christian Science Monitor for its story on Tiger’s return to the Masters.
“[The Tiger scandal] raises the question specifically of what is considered appropriate o ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth's birthday.
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Lana
| Source: OUPblog
What Lana's been reading.
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As Congress takes up health care reform, the goal for the House is to pass two legislative measures: the Senate’s health care bill and a series of amendments to the Senate bill, which are going through the budget reconciliation process ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
General Electric is currently sponsoring the Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration. Regan’s relationship with GE is the subject of Thomas Evans’s recent book The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Sto ...
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
The answer to yesterday's trivia question was D. 80,000+. Today is part 2 of the March Madness edition of our trivia game: Beyond the Brink with Indiana is our ______ bestselling book of all time: A. 2nd B. 3rd C....
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Mar 19, 2010
| Author: FUPress
| Source: Fordham ImPRESSions
The New York Society Library has chosen The Hudson-Fulton Celebration: New York’s River Festival of1909 and the Making of a Metropolis by Kathleen Eagen Johnson as winner in the 2009-2010 New York City Book Awards. Founded in 1996, thes ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: site administrator
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success, by David Heenan, was recently awarded an Axiom Business Book Award bronze medal (Memoir/Biography category). The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to ex ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Soon after we publish a new edited volume we send a message to the book’s editors and contributors thanking them for their work and encouraging them to adopt the book for their college courses. The college market is a key target for uni ...
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Today's post is from Maggie Kast, whose story "Joyful Noise," appears in the anthology Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, edited by Suzanne Kamata. Kast is also the author of and The Crack betwee ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
In the latest installment of the Chicago Audio Works Podcast our Promotions Director Mark Heineke narrates the high points in the artistic life of German painter Gerhard Richter, adapted from the just-published Gerhard Richter: A Life i ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: yup.email.news@yale.edu
| Source: Yale Press Log
This week, Foreword Magazine announced the finalists for their 2009 Book of the Year Awards, which were selected from 1,400 entries in 60 categories, representing more than 360 publishers. Yale University Press picked up 10 nominations ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: matt
| Source: UNC Press Blog
Two weeks ago, I blogged here about National Women’s History Month, making the first in a series of posts about new and recent books available from UNC Press focusing on the lives of women. That entry featured books that looked at the l ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Why is infinity important?
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
The Huffington Post has published Part Two of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.” Part One has generated hundreds of comments.
“For almost forty years, the most visible rep ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: FUPress
| Source: Fordham ImPRESSions
Fordham University Press books are now available as eBooks from Barnes & Noble and Sony Reader.
Check out BarnesandNoble.com and Sony Reader to see our list of available titles.
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: DavidW
| Source: MITPressLog
That's how a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News described "Double Scramble" a 1968 painting by Frank Stella of a pair of concentric squares (above). David Rubin, who is the curator of contemporary art at the San Antonio Museum of ...
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The Obama administration and its critics are locked in a standoff over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged 9/11 conspirators in a military commission or in federal court. However, write Benjamin Wittes and Jack G ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: MRC
| Source: The SUNY Press Blog
Dustin Ells Howes, author of Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics, wrote to share some information on a couple of upcoming speaking engagements in Syracuse and Oswego, New York. Both events are open to ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: Charles Hodgson
| Source: OUPblog
The podictionary word of the week is "mascot".
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The latest Brookings Papers on Economic Activity features an essay by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan detailing his views about the recent economic crisis and the future of financial regulation. Other conference papers examine the re ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
Rather than having to wait a year or more for reviews of scholarly books, the Web has allowed for more immediate attention and discussion of scholarly books to emerge in a more shorter time. For instance, Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity ...
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
Rom Harré on the use of living things in scientific experiments throughout history.
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Mar 18, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
The answer to yesterday's trivia question was C. Haskins Prize. Today is the March Madness edition of our trivia game. Twenty-three years ago, Hoosier fans were celebrating IU's victory over Syracuse in the NCAA Championship game (who c ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: nebraskapress
| Source: University of Nebraska Press
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, University of Nebraska Press readers! Lots of things happening at the University of Nebraska Press today: First, the big news: Margaret Jacobs, author 2009 UNP title White Mother to a Dark Race has won the 2010...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
In a Book Review Bingo-safe review of Taming the Gods, Karen Long of the Cleveland Plain Dealer picks up on an element of Ian Buruma's book that has not been mentioned in previous reviews.
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Brookings Press
| Source: Brookings Press Blog
Wiki Government author Beth Noveck’s March 4 seminar at The Long Now Foundation can now be viewed at FORA.tv. A full transcript of her remarks is also available. Noveck, who serves as deputy chief technology officer for open government ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Megan Waldram
| Source: MITPressLog
The Lambda Literary Foundation unveiled the finalists for the 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards yesterday, honoring the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) authors from 2009. We are pleased to announce that Salvation Ar ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: yup.email.news@yale.edu
| Source: Yale Press Log
When, in late 1864, Charles Dickens was halfway through the writing of his last completed novel Our Mutual Friend, the romantic actor Charles Fechter gave a striking demonstration of his gratitude for all the help and advice Dickens, a ...
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The Center on the United States and Europe hosted Assistant Secretary of State and former Brookings Senior Fellow Philip Gordon for the sixth annual Sakip Sabanci Lecture. Assistant Secretary Gordon offered the Obama administration’s pe ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Ellen
| Source: UNC Press Blog
William J. Bauer Jr. (Wailacki and Concow, and an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes) is author of the new book We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
We're beginning to see a few reviews of the second edition of the Birds of Europe by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström. What's the verdict so far? Well, read for yourself:
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
Author and IU SPEA Dean John Graham explains the idea of a cross-partisan solution from his latest book, Bush on the Homefront:
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
An excerpt from The Rising.
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: SXH
| Source: The Chicago Blog
The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans books available in the United States, were announced yesterday, and the University of Chicago Press has three titles among the nomi ...
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The Walker Art Center’s seventeenth International Women with Vision Film Festival includes four documentaries by filmmakers from Minnesota. MN Docs Program 1 on March 20 screens Ida’s Story and Pride of Lions; MN Docs Program 2 on Marc ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: MRC
| Source: The SUNY Press Blog
We're happy to share with you that author Annette Dunlap set up her own author's page over at Amazon. Here's a bio she put together for the page:
When people ask me why I wrote a biography, I tell them it was on my "bucket list." Ever ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Robert Burgoyne is professor and chair of film studies at the University of St. Andrews. He is author of Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History, which was released in a revised edition in February 2010. He has been kind enough to ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Kris Bishop
| Source: University of Michigan Press Blog
University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda and University of Michigan Dean of Libraries Paul Courant speak about the digital publishing revolution and the new era of the academic monograph: ARE YOU TUNED IN? Click here to subscr ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Lana
| Source: OUPblog
For the third part of his Unpleasant People series, Anatoly Liberman discusses the recent origins of the word swindler.
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
Think about a book you’ve read over and over. You may have turned to it for advice, or chuckled at an inadvertent reference. You know that book backwards and forwards. Now stop and try to think of who the editor is. Odds are, you have n ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
Shakespeare expert Stanley Wells on how sexual behaviour was implicitly recorded by public records in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries.
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
The answer to yesterday's trivia question was A. Victorian Studies. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, today's question focuses on Henry Glassie's ethnography of a rural community in Northern Ireland, Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Which ...
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Mar 17, 2010
| Author: FUPress
| Source: Fordham ImPRESSions
The Feast of St. Patrick has its roots in traditional Christian culture in Ireland, and became an official holiday in the 1600s. In modern times, St. Patrick’s Day is more synonymous with green beer and corned beef than religion, but t ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., author of the new book BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, was interviewed March 16, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Andrew DeSio
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
Running all 64 NCAA basketball teams through 5,000 game simulations, sports statistician and PUP author Wayne Winston predicts the odds of each team through the tournament. His pick: Kansas to take it all! Check out the post on his b ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Joe Gallagher
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
In this episode of our podcast series, Blog Editor Joe Gallagher talks to Scott Melzer, author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War, about the reasons for and results of the NRA’s transformation from an advocacy group into a conserva ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: lisa
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
A blogger at The Urbana Free Library compares the fate of the wondrous library in ancient Alexandria with the squeeze being put on today’s public libraries in the wake of the global recession.
We may not be forced from our positions at ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Tony
| Source: Are you loving publishing today?
The UK branch of Dorling Kindersley produced this video for their recent sales conference, but it was so popular among publishing professionals that they decided to share it on YouTube. It's very clever, and challenges some assumptions ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Andrew DeSio
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
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The fourth installment of the Metro Monitor series reveals nascent signs of economic recovery, with job growth remaining relatively stagnant. Though some indicators show an upcoming return to robust economic activity, others point to a ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: yup.email.news@yale.edu
| Source: Yale Press Log
South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955) is best known for his stark charcoal drawings and works of animation, collage, and sculpture. In "William Kentridge: Five Themes," now on view at the Museum of Modern Art and available as ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
The New York Times has posted a video from Bloggingheads.tv featuring Mike Treder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy at CUNY and author of the forthcoming Nonsense on Sti ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: yup.email.news@yale.edu
| Source: Yale Press Log
John Cage's silent masterpiece 4'33" is one of classical music's most controversial compositions. In his new book, No Such Thing as Silence, musician and critic Kyle Gann not only explains why the piece incited such a stir but also why...
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Job recovery in America remains slow in the wake of the recession, yet there have been some encouraging signs in recent data. Today, the Senate passed the House version of a nearly $18 billion bill for new jobs and unemployment aid, thu ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Carol
| Source: JPS: Jewish Publication Society Blog!
Last weekend was my first LimmudPhilly, but not my last. I’m hooked on this kind of learning fest experience. Over 600 gathered at the Gershman Y and University of the Arts in Philadelphia for an evening and a day of conversation, learn ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty. At 4:30 p.m. at the Penn Law School, Cynthi ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Dennis Baron looks at the destabilizing technologies of communication.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Beth
| Source: UNC Press Blog
Today is the 42nd anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, certainly not a happy memory—in fact , the opposite of that—but one well worth stopping to ponder. On this day in 1968, during the Vietnam War, the massacre was carried out by United ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Julie Abraham's Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities has been announced as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Indiana Historical Society Press
| Source: Indiana Historical Society Press Blog
Three books published by the IHS Press in 2009 have been named as finalists in ForeWord Reviews 2009 Book of the Year Awards.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Rebecca
| Source: OUPblog
Elvin Lim leads us through the current political landscape.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
Congratulations to Kathryn Bond Stockton, whose book The Queer Child, or, Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, is a finalist for a 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies. The awards ceremony will be held in New ...
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
Click here to browse sale books by subject.
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Mar 16, 2010
| Author: iupress
| Source: Indiana University Press blog
The answer to yesterday's trivia question was D. Thomas Ehrlich. Today's question focuses on our journals division: Which of the following was NOT one of the first three journals published by IU Press?A. Victorian Studies B. Hypatia C. ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Jillian
| Source: JPS: Jewish Publication Society Blog!
There certainly are demographic reasons to be worried about the American Jewish community. But my experiences at Limmud and other adult Jewish education venues, and the interest in my books The Jewish Study Bible, How to Read the Bible ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
As someone who has lived through a successful PhD dissertation, I must admit that dusty old books and grand European libraries are welcome companions. Spending days perusing nineteenth-century French etiquette books in Paris’ Bibliothèq ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: FUPress
| Source: Fordham ImPRESSions
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in such far-flung places as Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney, but more than anywhere else it has become identified with New York. At least the parade has. That tradition started in colonial days, when a group o ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: SXH
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Sure, evolution explains how modern humans have come to look as we do, but can it explain how we act? What can Darwinian thought tell us about altruism and morality? This is the question posed this week by the Guardian as part of its f ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: gkramer
| Source: North Philly Notes
As part of Women’s History Month, Temple University Press author Sandra Hanson visited the laboratory, Fermilab, to talk with women scientists. She shared her thoughts in this blog entry.
A few days ago I visited Fermilab in Chicago. ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
In Everybody Have Fun: What can policymakers learn from happiness research? New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert features several books including Derek Bok's The Politics of Happiness.
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Citizens along the Red River are doggedly preparing for the eventuality of spring flooding.
From the Pioneer Press:
“We’re gearing up,” Fargo city administrator Pat Zavoral said. “It’s last year all over again in terms of us having to ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century Susan Smulyan 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4020-7 | $35.00 | £23.00 Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2111-4 | $22.50 | £15.00 Smulyan demonstrates that popular cu ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, co-editor of the Fall 2009 edition of Wicazo Sa Review, has published a portion of her paper on critical Indigenous feminism, Claiming the 'F' Word: Native Women, Feminisms, and Visions of Sovereignty, on the Fir ...
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Today's post is from Tom Hallock, Associate Publisher of Beacon Press.
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: TXM
| Source: The Chicago Blog
As James Srodes writes in his recent review of Jews in Nazi Berlin for the Washington Times "all significant historical events—even the ghastly Holocaust—tend to flatten and diminish as time draws us away from the moment they occurred." ...
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The recent introduction of devices like the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad is a reminder that the printed book will evolve in the face of new digital devices, new capabilities for users, and new business models. In some disciplines t ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
New South Wales, Australia is the first government to allow a person to register their sex as "Not Specified." Norrie, a transgendered person, tells the story to The Scavenger, saying "Those concepts, man or woman, just don't fit me, th ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Joe Gallagher
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
The New York Society Library has chosen Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx by Constance Rosenblum as a winner in the 2009-2010 New York City Book Awards. Founded in 1996, these ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture celebrates ten years of publication in 2010. Founded in 2001 by Jennifer L. Holberg (Calvin College) and Marcy Taylor (Central Michigan University) ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: MRC
| Source: The SUNY Press Blog
Annette Dunlap's recent book, Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady, is the first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and possibly most underrated, First Lady. This past weekend, Annette pa ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Columbia University Press
| Source: Columbia University Press
Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth.
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
In an essay for History News Network, historian Matthew Dennis weighs in on the controversial mail-order tobacco business run by the Seneca Nation of Indians of western New York.
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
Last night, millions of users tuned in to the first installment of HBO's new miniseries, The Pacific, which tracks the stories of three U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Virgil's Eclogues
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Jessica Pellien
| Source: Princeton University Press Blog
The New Republic hosts a symposium on Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Participants include Ravitch, PUP author Ben Wildavsky (The Great ...
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Mar 15, 2010
| Author: Erica
| Source: University of Nebraska Press
Read from the Introduction of Rooney: A Sporting Life by Rob Ruck, Maggie Jones Patterson, and Michael P. Weber: "As writers in the press box composed their epitaphs for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Art Rooney stood and headed to the elevat ...
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