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, ... [read more]

A recent review from the New Yorker—and more about the book here. [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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. [read more]

BY RACHAEL HANEL Writer, university administrator, former journalist [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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, ... [read more]

“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... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

From Josh Cook’s review of Recalculating by Charles Bernstein, in the May issue of Bookslut: [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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. [read more]

—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 ... [read more]

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. [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

Photographs by Mette Nielsen, from Minnesota's Bounty. [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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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 ... [read more]

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? [read more]

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: ... [read more]

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 ... [read more]

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?  [read more]

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 ... [read more]

The massive influx of Mexican migrants into the United States over the past two decades has ignited fiery debate regarding immigration reform and citizenship. [read more]