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May 18, 2013
| Author: LaurenH
| Source: OUPblog
>By S. Alexander Reed
Audi now employs two generations of Spocks as spokesmen and Axe body spray hawks a space voyage sweepstakes to hormonal jocks with the promise that chicks dig astronauts. Tired of ninjas, pirates, robots, and zomb ...
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May 18, 2013
| Author: KimberlyH
| Source: OUPblog
The failures of leadership… the destructive power of beauty… the quest for fame… the plight of women… the brutality of war… Such themes have endured for over 2,700 years in Homer’s classic The Iliad — from the flight of Helen and Paris, ...
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May 18, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Joel Paris, MD
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a classification of all diagnoses given to patients by mental health professionals. Since the publication of the third edition in 1980, each edition h ...
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May 17, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
A recent review from the New Yorker—and more about the book here.
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May 17, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
This is first installment of Film Friday, a new feature that will appear in this space on a semi-weekly basis and will highlight UPM's growing list of film studies books. Today's post focuses on the latest addition to the Hollywood Lege ...
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May 17, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Michael A. Taylor
The fundamental problem with American psychiatry is American psychiatrists. It seems every few months there’s fresh news about some well-known academic psychiatrist paid boatloads to endorse a new treatment that do ...
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May 17, 2013
| Author: AnnieL
| Source: OUPblog
By Annie Leyman
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the Eurovision Song Contest has a unique appeal. Although often seen as tacky, extravagant and occasionally politically controversial, that doesn’t stop around 125 million people ...
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May 17, 2013
| Author: PennyF
| Source: OUPblog
By Eric Cline
The Trojan War may be well known thanks to movies, books, and plays around the world, but did the war that spurred so much fascination even occur? The excerpt below from The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction helps ans ...
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May 17, 2013
| Author: UH Press Marketing
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers and vendors exhibiting at this weekend’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival, May 18-19, on the Frank F. Fasi Civic Grounds next to Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: UH Press Marketing
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
UH-Hilo professor Mark Panek was interviewed by Hawaii Public Radio’s Noe Tanigawa about being named this year’s winner of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature given to an “emerging writer.” The Hawaii Literary Arts Council primarily b ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: UGA Press
| Source: News from the University of Georgia Press
The Lexington Herald Leader talks to Erik Reece and James Krupa about their new book, THE EMBATTLED WILDERNESS, which columnist Tom Eblen calls "engaging." Erik Reece will sign copies of the book at Carmichael's Bookstore in Louisville, ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: jmcardle
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
This spring, the Journal of American Folklore publishes its monumental 500th issue. As the official journal of the American Folklore Society, JAF has been published continually since the Society’s founding in 1888. That’s a very impress ...
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Notable Mentions
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May 16, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
Angelina Jolie’s New York Times op-ed announcing for the first time that she underwent a double mastectomy to reduce BRCA-related breast cancer risk was welcome news in several respects. She is very specific, for instance, regarding the ...
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A Short History of the Ford Plant by Brian McMahon is the newest title in our digital imprint, MHS Express. It examines the history of the former Ford Plant in St. Paul’s Highland Park neighborhood from 1925 to 2011.
$1.99 E-book short ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
I think it was two summers ago that I was last in Chicago for the annual Goethe Institut Helen and Kurt Wolff Translation Prize Extravaganza. (I love these gatherings. The award ceremony, the people involved with German literature, the ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: LaurenH
| Source: OUPblog
By Donald W. Black, M.D.
Those of us in the mental health professions anxiously await the release of the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). Others may ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: Kama
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
Over on Facebook, we’re giving away a chapter from Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business by Pamela Ryckman. Like AMACOM on Facebook and get a chapter from this new book launching today ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: VictoriaD
| Source: OUPblog
By Eileen Mack
I recently travelled with the band Victoire for a brief residency at the music school of a large university. As well as performing a concert, we spoke to the music majors there on the topic of “alternative career paths” ...
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May 16, 2013
| Author: Nicola
| Source: OUPblog
By Alec Ryrie
I’ve been working on the ‘lived experience’ of early modern religion: what it was actually like to be a Protestant in 16th or 17th-century Britain. And I’ve become more and more convinced there’s a crucial element of the ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
Long gone are the days when the waters of Port Aransas and Corpus Christi would see hundreds of thousands of silver-scaled tarpon swimming along its shores. Known by fisherman as the silver king, or titled by nineteenth-century writer H ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
Another favorite translator—Allison Powell—has just launched Japanese Literature in English, a website that plays to all of my databasing and list making impulses.
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
Out of the Shadow of Leprosy: The Carville Letters and Stories of the Landry Family presents a personal, first-hand account of the trauma and impact on one family facing leprosy.
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
One of the exciting new trends in publishing is the consolidation of mega-companies to create a totally misbalanced marketplace that mimics the unequal distribution of wealth in America that anyone who loves freedom obviously agrees with.
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May 15, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
NYU Press is proud to announce that Marjorie Heins has been chosen to receive the 2013 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in book publishing. She is being honored for her book, Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Fre ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Harvard University Press
| Source: Harvard University Press Publicity Blog
It’s just about cicada time here on the East Coast, when millions (billions?) of these strange, noisy creatures will make their way up through the dirt, looking for love. They’ve been waiting down there in wingless nymph form, feeding o ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: gkramer
| Source: North Philly Notes
In this blog entry, Adia Harvey Wingfield discusses the themes and examples about black masculinity that form the basis for her book No More Invisible Man. Several news headlines recently highlighted the relatively long-running tension ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Alyn Shipton
When the first Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast in 1956, the BBC was so late in entering that it missed the competition deadline, so it was first shown in my native England in 1957. Nonetheless, it seems as if this ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Chad W. Post
| Source: Three Percent
I’ve been a bit checked out the past few weeks with event upon event, travels to London and L.A. and New York (twice), final papers to grade, illnesses to overcome, soccer to geek out about, etc., etc. But now that it’s summertime (I on ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
Today is the final day of our Spring Sale and your last chance to save 50% off all our in-stock titles. If you bought books during the first week of our sale, you should come back because we've released nine...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Anatoly Liberman
I could have spent a hundred years bemoaning English spelling, but since no one is paying attention, this would have been a wasted life. Not every language can boast of useless letters; fortunately, English is one o ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: ElizabethW
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
Our American Management Association New Media Team will be doing a webcast next week with John Mattone, author of Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential. He will be discussing his unique leadership s ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman
According to the UK Centre for Economic Performance, mental illness accounts for nearly half of all ill health in the under 65s. But this begs the question: what is mental illness? How can we judge w ...
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May 15, 2013
| Author: DanP
| Source: OUPblog
By Daniel Parker
As May is International Zombie Awareness Month, I offer my bloodied hand to guide you through the five things you need to know to survive a zombie apocalypse.
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May 15, 2013
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Paul's pick for May is "How the Golem Came to Prague" by Edan Dekel and David Gantt Gurley. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue of Jewish Quarterly Review. This article examines the emergence of the Golem legend associated with...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
BY RACHAEL HANEL
Writer, university administrator, former journalist
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We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement is a new book with photos by Dick Bancroft and text by Laura Waterman Wittstock.
An exhibit based on the book opens this Thursday at Mill City Museum. Dick and L ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
Attention, lovers of mystery, history, and true crime dramas! There’s still time to enter our Goodreads book giveaway for A Death at Crooked Creek: The Case of the Cowboy, the Cigarmaker, and the Love Letter—and we’re giving away 3 *fr ...
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Today's post is from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us. Joffe is a professor in the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: AshleyP
| Source: OUPblog
By Edward Shorter
In assessing DSM-5, the fog of battle has covered the field. To go by media coverage, everything is wrong with the new DSM, from the way it classifies children with autism to its unremitting expansion of psychiatry in ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Kirk Curnutt
The build-up to the release of Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic, chromatic interpretation of The Great Gatsby was a wild ride for several of us who live and breathe F. Scott Fitzgerald daily. One minute you’re grading end-of-the ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: LaurenH
| Source: OUPblog
From the beginning of the Nazi persecution the numbers of Jews who wished to settle in Palestine rose. As the extermination policies began to unroll in the war years, they made nonsense of British attempts to restrict immigration, which ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: VictoriaD
| Source: OUPblog
By Jessica Barbour
What is it about the sounds of baseball that make them musical, and so easily romanticized? In Ken Burns’ documentary Baseball, George Plimpton says that “Baseball has these absolutely unique sounds. The sounds of sp ...
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May 14, 2013
| Author: UH Press Marketing
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Last Friday the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association announced the winners of this year’s Ka Palapala Po‘okela book awards at a ceremony at the Hawai‘i State Library. UH Press titles were recognized with seven of the twenty awards, inclu ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: UH Press Marketing
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era, edited by Christopher P. Hanscom, Walter K. Lew, and Youngju Ryu, contains translations—many appearing for the first time ...
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Food, tradition, and culture make a home. Inspired by the book Asian Flavors: Changing the Tastes of Minnesota since 1875 by Phyllis Louise Harris with Raghavan Iyer, a new thirty minute documentary co-produced by the Minnesota Historic ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
Today's Music Monday post focuses on a very specific type and year of music. George Mitchell's Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 is a collection of photographs that document Mitchell's trip to to Mississippi, where he searched for the ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: Indiana Historical Society Press
| Source: Indiana Historical Society Press Blog
The IHS Press book L. S. Ayres and Company: The Store at the Crossroads of America, written by Kenneth L. Turchi, won first place in the Midwest Regional Interest: Text category at the 23rd annual Midwest Books Awards. Ray E. Boomhower, ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
Dr. Felix D. Almaraz, Jr. should be used to being a feature story by now. Although an author of his own two books Knight Without Honor and Tragic Cavalier, Dr. Almaraz was the focus of Arnoldo De Leon’s book Tejano Epicwhich features es ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: dbennie
| Source: OU Press Blog
“Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian’s Story of Murder, Confinement and Imperfect Justice” by William E. Farr is this year’s winner of the Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize from the Center...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: AlanaP
| Source: OUPblog
What keeps you up at night? Do the effects of sleep deprivation change with age? What are risks associated with insomnia in older adults? Mr. Christopher Kaufmann and Dr. Adam Spira join us to discuss their most recent research in The J ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: ElizabethW
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
To mark its release this month, we’re giving away copies of Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business by Pamela Ryckman We want to know: who is the woman who most inspires you? … Continue ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: AshleyP
| Source: OUPblog
By Paolo Fusar-Poli and Giovanni Stanghellini
In 1913, Allgemeine Psychopathologie (General Psychopathology) was published. A guide for young students, doctors and psychologists, it had been completed two years earlier by a 28-year-old ...
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May 13, 2013
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
By Michael N. Pham, William F. McKibbin, and Todd K. Shackelford
Like candy, pornography creates an adaptive mismatch. For a moment, try to see the world not from “human eyes” but from the eyes of an animal biologist. You might think t ...
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In honor of Mother's Day and moms everywhere, where sharing a few of our favorite Mom moments in Beacon books. In these passages we've posted on the Beacon Press Scribd page, we have three varied perspectives on motherhood. Michael Patr ...
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May 12, 2013
| Author: Kirsty
| Source: OUPblog
By Kirsty Doole
In this month's Oxford World's Classics reading list, we decided to celebrate National Short Story Month by selecting some of favourite story collections. We have everything here from Gaskell to Cervantes, Fitzgerald to ...
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May 12, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Louis René Beres
It is hard to understand at first, but Israel’s survival is linked to certain core insights of the great Spanish existentialist philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Although he was speaking to abstract issues of art, ...
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May 11, 2013
| Author: sfast
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Murphy Hicks Henry is a professional banjo player and writer who founded the Women in Bluegrass newsletter and has written regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Banjo Newsletter. She answered our questions about her book Pretty Good for ...
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May 11, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
Leonard Jason, Madison Sunnquist, Suzanna So, and Sarah Callahan have created an infographic regarding the sequestration and its impacts.
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May 11, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Roger Luckhurst
There is a very specific language of Gothic and horror literature that has its roots buried deep in the history of English: doom has been around since Old English; dread carries over from Middle English; eerie, that ...
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May 10, 2013
| Author: Kaija Straumanis
| Source: Three Percent
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Rachael Daum on Intizar Husain’s Basti, which is available from New York Review Books.
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May 10, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
From Josh Cook’s review of Recalculating by Charles Bernstein, in the May issue of Bookslut:
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May 10, 2013
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt Charles R. Geisst 400 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4462-5 | $39.95 | £26.00 From the Roman Empire to the most recent financial crisis, this...
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In honor of Mother's Day and moms everywhere, where sharing a few of our favorite Mom moments in Beacon books. Today's passages illustrate two beautiful gifts the authors received from their moms: for Kevin Jennings, a love of books; fo ...
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May 10, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
UPM's latest catalog, featuring books published between September and February 2014, is now available. Download the catalog here.
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May 10, 2013
| Author: Harvard University Press
| Source: Harvard University Press Publicity Blog
Like many Americans, Mark Mizruchi had grown increasingly distressed by the state of our politics. He was unhappy with the gridlock in Washington, the inability to accomplish even the most routine tasks of government, and the intransige ...
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May 10, 2013
| Author: PennPress
| Source: Penn Press Log
Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia, by economic development consultant Gregory L. Heller, is the first biography of this charismatic but controversial figure. "Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentles ...
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May 10, 2013
| Author: Alice
| Source: OUPblog
By Caitlin Tyler-Richards
When perusing the internet for innovations in the oral history discipline, I generally seek out new voices, intuitive platforms and streamless presentations. Embarrassingly, I rarely consider the basics of ora ...
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May 9, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
From the Introduction
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May 9, 2013
| Author: sfast
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
On April 25, The Museum of Chinese in America hosted “A Night With the Dragon” honoring the life and work of Fred Ho. The musician and activist was on hand to sign copies of the University of Illinois Press book Yellow Power … Continue ...
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The Great Gatsby is on the big screen, once again reminding us of the fabulous and tragic Jazz Age–and the author who was its best-known chronicler.
Minnesotans have a special connection to this famous American author: F. Scott Fitzger ...
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Susie Bright, in addition to being a best-selling author, activist, and podcast host, is editor at large for Audible. Susie's blog, The Bright List, keeps readers and listeners apprised of new audiobooks.
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May 9, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
On Wednesday morning Susan Page, Washington Bureau Chief for USA Today, was a guest on MSNBC's The Rundown hosted by Chuck Todd. During the segment "Shameless Plugs" Page ceded her airtime to Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter ...
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May 9, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
—Andrew Guthrie Ferguson [This article originally appeared in The Atlantic online. Read it here.] A few weeks ago, the California Assembly passed legislation that for the first time would make non-citizens eligible for jury service. If ...
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May 9, 2013
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
A Q&A with Benn Schulberg, who is the son of Budd Schulberg, author of The Disenchanted, which was reissued in a University of Minnesota Press edition in September 2012. The moving, controversial novel captured both the dazzling spirit ...
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May 9, 2013
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald in September 1921
in Dellwood, Minnesota, about a month before their daughter,
Scottie, was born. Image from Creative Commons;
originates with Minnesota Historical Society.
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May 9, 2013
| Author: ElizabethW
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
Manager 3.0: A Millennial’s Guide to Rewriting the Rules of Management (June 2013) by Brad Karsh and Courtney Templin, is now available to review on NetGalley. Book reviewers, journalists, librarians, professors, booksellers, bloggers o ...
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May 8, 2013
| Author: gkramer
| Source: North Philly Notes
This week in North Philly Notes, Erich Goode, author of Justifiable Conduct, applies his knowledge about how writers neutralize their wrongdoing to the case of Lance Armstrong. Why were we so surprised? The steadfast denials. The defian ...
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If you take the time to watch one TED Talk this week, make it this one. Geoffrey Canada is an educational innovator, and in this video (part of which appeared on PBS) he makes a powerful argument for changing the way we think about publ ...
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May 8, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
We greet the spring with an annual rite, neither more nor less essential than the other invocations that usher in the season (woodpecker outside my window foxing with overzealous, semester’s-end induced sleep; big-leaved magnolia blosso ...
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May 8, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
Over at the New York Times’ Room for Debate blog, a lively discussion on sex education—and at what age it should begin—is unfolding. We asked Sinikka Elliott, author of Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teena ...
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May 8, 2013
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
Photographs by Mette Nielsen, from Minnesota's Bounty.
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May 8, 2013
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
June 3-10, 2013
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May 8, 2013
| Author: Harvard University Press
| Source: Harvard University Press Publicity Blog
Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy are the authors of The Crisis of Neoliberalism, which is new in paperback this spring. The book examines the financial crisis in the context of neoliberal globalization, arguing that repairing our econo ...
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May 8, 2013
| Author: UH Press Marketing
| Source: News from University of Hawai‘i Press
It’s a busy month on the Hawai‘i homefront, with several authors visiting from elsewhere, as well as annual events—Ka Palapala Po‘okela awards and Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival. Thursday, May 9 7:30 p.m., University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa ...
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May 7, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
Before We Loved the Buddha
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May 7, 2013
| Author: Laura Sell
| Source: Duke University Press Log
Paraguay, usually far from the front pages of American and European newspapers, has been featured in a spate of articles in the New York Times recently. Reporter Simon Romero has been in the country covering the presidential election, r ...
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May 7, 2013
| Author: nyupressblog
| Source: From the Square :: NYU Press
Greetings from NYU Press Publicity! My Instagram account is flooded with images of cherry blossoms, dogs rolling in grass, and ballpark festivities. SPRING HAS SPRUNG! To celebrate the spring season, I thought it would be fun to catch u ...
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May 7, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
The following is a guest-post from UPM Director Leila Salisbury. This article, appeared in the issue of Against the Grain. Against the Grain is a great journal for those interested in how academic libraries think and operate and how ve ...
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Towns with strict zoning are the best towns, aren't they? They're all about preserving local "character," protecting the natural environment, and maintaining attractive neighborhoods. Right?
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May 7, 2013
| Author: WebGnome
| Source: The Front Table
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Harvey, David
¤ Verso
¤ Publication Date: 2013-06-04
¤ Paperback ( 208 pages )
¤ Category: Sociology & Political Science
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May 7, 2013
| Author: WebGnome
| Source: The Front Table
A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization
McKeown, J. C.
¤ Oxford University Press, USA
¤ Publication Date: 2013-05-29
¤ Hardcover ( 304 pages )
¤ Category: History: ...
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May 7, 2013
| Author: michael
| Source: Illinois Press Book Blog
Diane Diekman’s book, Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins, will receive the Belmont Country Music Book of the Year Award given by the Mike Curb Entertainment and Music Business Program at Belmont University. The award c ...
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May 7, 2013
| Author: Kama
| Source: AMACOM Books Blog
The following is a guest post from Associate Editor & Copy Manager Erika Spelman about the impact of digital technology on research libraries. As a student in a master’s degree program, I am learning a lot about the library—especially t ...
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May 6, 2013
| Author: University of Minnesota Press:
| Source: UMP | University of Minnesota Press Blog
The St. Paul Union Depot was among the busiest and best-known places in the city—one of the largest depots in the nation and St. Paul's link to the world. Here, John W. Diers, author of St. Paul Union Depot, recounts a piece of that his ...
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May 6, 2013
| Author: Clint Kimberling
| Source: University Press of Mississippi
Do you wonder whatever happened to the University Press’s discount book sale? Do you miss coming to Jackson and nabbing unbelievable bargains on UPM titles?
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May 6, 2013
| Author: UGA Press
| Source: News from the University of Georgia Press
“Before the Braves, the Crackers were our team.”—President Jimmy Carter
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May 6, 2013
| Author: Kristi McGuire
| Source: The Chicago Blog
One of the taglines—the pithy paragraph-end to an initial piece of copy—for Dmitry Samarov’s Hack goes something like this: “And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to exper ...
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May 6, 2013
| Author: Harvard University Press
| Source: Harvard University Press Publicity Blog
After a five-year study of a flagship Midwestern public university, sociologists Elizabeth A. Armstrong and Laura T. Hamilton found that the social and academic infrastructure of the school seemed to prioritize a particular type of affl ...
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May 6, 2013
| Author: Texas A&M University Press
| Source: Texas A&M University Press Consortium
The massive influx of Mexican migrants into the United States over the past two decades has ignited fiery debate regarding immigration reform and citizenship.
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