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The Chicago Sun-Times answers the question “what’s that pig outdoors?”
The August 29, 2010, edition of the Chicago Sun-Times profiled the University of Illinois Press reissue of What’s That Pig Outdoors? A Memoir of Deafness by Henry Kisor. “Henry’s Norman Rockwell upbringing (in Evanston, where he still l ... [read more]
Jonthan Franzen, Political Scientist?
For those geeked on all things IT or your favorite '90s aficionado, the big news is that 90210 Day has finally arrived—but we're busy ringing in 09-02-10 at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting. A big part of scho ... [read more]
Short Takes: Could Be Unstoppable
Natasha Trethewey's BEYOND KATRINA reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered by W. Ralph Eubanks: "What makes Beyond Katrina stand out in the crowded landscape of post-Katrina literature is the raw, personal nature of the story Trethewey ... [read more]
Royko in Love on FOX Chicago News
As promised yesterday, here is David Royko's appearance last night on FOX Chicago News talking about Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol: [read more]
The Record Opens Today!
After a successful preview week, the much-anticipated exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl opens today at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The exhibition features work by 41 artists from around the world, from t ... [read more]
How will you celebrate National Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month?
Didn't know September was National Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month? Well, read here for more information and then send a card or note to your favorite editor or writer -- you might want to start with our Princeton Global Science ed ... [read more]
Jill Lepore and Callie Crossley talk tea parties
Jill Lepore and WGBH's Callie Crossley talk tea parties, rabble rousing, and the potent symbolism of "revolutionary kitsch." (Jill's segment starts around the 36 minute mark.) [read more]
FILI Editors' Trip [1]
Last week I had the opportunity to travel to Helsinki, Finland at the invitation of the Finnish Literature Exchange. FILI invited fourteen editors, from Tawain to the UK to the US, to attend a few lectures on the Finnish Publishing scen ... [read more]
Guest Post: Lia Tiahjana, Paul Dwyer, PMP and Mohsin Habib, Ph.D. on Escalation
The following is a guest post from Lia Tjahjana, Paul Dwyer, PMP, and Mohsin Habib, Ph.D. authors of The Program Management Office Advantage. An Escalation Model A part of the program control is project issues escalation, a process wher ... [read more]
Islamophobia and Our Love of Shopping
We welcome a guest post today from Susan Nance, author of How the Arabian Nights Inspired the American Dream, 1790-1835. Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the “East,” such as the stories ... [read more]
Book excerpt: Albee in Performance
Rakesh H. Solomon's new book, Albee in Performance, details Albee's directorial vision and how that vision animates his plays. Having had extraordinary access to Albee as director, Solomon reveals how Albee has shaped his plays in perfo ... [read more]
George Martin Goes Independent, 2 Sept 1965
By Gordon Thompson When George Martin first entered the recording industry in the early 1950s, assisting Oscar Preuss at EMI’s Parlophone, he encountered the end of the mechanical era. The company’s facilities on Abbey Road in genteel ... [read more]
Summer Reading from The Immanent Frame
The Immanent Frame, a blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere hosted on the Social Science Research Council’s site, recently asked some of its contributors what they had read and liked over the summer. It is a great list and ... [read more]
Corporate science: The good, the bad, and those in between
By Roderick D. Buchanan The corporate corruption of science is a familiar theme to anyone whose reading stretches beyond celebrity tattle-tale. The well-documented venality of Big Tobacco and Big Pharma have become cautionary fairy tal ... [read more]
PGS Exclusive: “A Solar Warning” by Stuart Clark
In recent weeks, we have witnessed a solar tsunami that allowed sky-gazers to glimpse the Northern Lights far to the south. While this was an awe-inspiring sight, it is also a reminder of how easily the Earth can be affected by cosmic e ... [read more]
Announcing Princeton Global Science, a letter from the director
Dear Readers, [read more]
Nancy Drew needs you!
Last night my wife, as she often does, was reading an old Nancy Drew mystery, The Invisible Intruder (1969), when she started laughing. "Nancy's investigating the theft of a shell collection," she said, "and every single person she meet ... [read more]
America’s Real School-Safety Problem
Salon.com sat down with Aaron Kupchik, the author of Homeroom Security: School Discipline in an Age of Fear. The author was also featured on WAMC’s The Roundtable – download the podcast here. You spent a lot of time in each of the fo ... [read more]
Following Mordecai Richler's Staggering Footsteps
It is pretty difficult not to notice the amount of students beginning, or returning to university across North America right now. If you haven't already, no doubt you'll see and hear more when the Frosh activities reach their peak, befo ... [read more]
CMOS 16 in the News
The reviews are in, and they're all raves! One day after the official publication date of The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, the Chicago Tribune weighed in with a feature-length story about the new edition and the readers who lo ... [read more]
Remembering the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship winner (2008), Builder Levy has photographed in New York City’s inner city communities where he was a New York City teacher of at-risk adolescents for 35 years; at civil rights and pe ... [read more]
Best Ed Books of the Decade at Education Next
Education Next is running a poll to identify the best education books of the last decade. Two PUP titles are featured: [read more]
Michael Horowitz book event at Foreign Policy Research Institute Library, Philadelphia, PA
The Foreign Policy Research Institute will host a discussion with Michael Horowitz, author of The Diffusion of Military Power. Details below. [read more]
UNP celebrating September with two sales
Here in Lincoln on this first day of September it’s rainy and cool enough that I’ve seen several people wearing scarves (myself included). School is back in session, our fall student workers are getting acquainted with their new gigs, a ... [read more]
Royko on TV
Royko in Love: Mike's Letters to Carol, the newest edition to the Press's collection of works by the award winning journalist, offers a rare look into the personal life of one of Chicago's most beloved public icons. Through his writing ... [read more]
PGS Editors: Vickie Kearn, Executive Editor in Mathematics, reflects on the acquisition of The Calculus of Friendship by Steve Strogatz
"Have you ever taken a moment to thank a teacher or someone else who has helped you become what you are today? I haven’t, but I really wish I could," says mathematics editor Vickie Kearn. [read more]
PGS Exclusive: Explore the beauty of Seeds of Amazonian Plants
One might wonder, "Why a field guide to Seeds of Amazonian Plants?" [read more]
PGS Authors: Elinor Ostrom, Amy R. Poteete, and Marco A. Janssen reflect on Working Together
In this exclusive Princeton Global Science article, Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, and Amy R. Poteete reflect on the research that they conducted prior to writing Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods ... [read more]
September's free e-book brings the Manual's past into the present
With the release of the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style the publishing world has reached another landmark. Though its predecessor, the fifteenth edition, was released but seven short years ago, technological innovations in p ... [read more]
Summer's End
As summer winds to an end, I’ll miss warm weather, swimming, and summer barbecues. However, I’m glad the pressure is off. This summer, I decided to learn how to cook. Perhaps it was brought on by that fateful viewing of Julie & Julia, o ... [read more]
PGS Series: Princeton Frontiers in Physics Series
Princeton University Press publishes an amazing number and variety of book series. Here, Ingrid Gnerlich, Senior Editor in Physical Sciences describes the rationale behind the series Princeton Frontiers in Physics and the types of bo ... [read more]
PGS History, The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein
This is the first in a series of entries into Princeton Global Science that will consider important science books published during the first 100 years of Princeton University Press's publishing program. Our current authors and books sta ... [read more]
PGS Editors: Professor’s soul-searching reinvention of “Physics for Poets” captures the hearts and minds of students
Berkeley physics professor, Richard Muller, speaks out about the need to revolutionize the way physics is taught to non-science students – by respecting students’ intelligence and passion to learn and by being unafraid to crash through ... [read more]
A New Penn Press Podcast--Howard Gillette and the History of Urban Planning
In the September Penn Press podcast, urban historian Howard Gillette, Jr. discusses the aspirations and realities of twentieth century urban planning in America. Gillette's latest book, Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, fr ... [read more]
Seven Myths That Cloud Immigration Debate
Darrell West argues that the United States is irrational in the way it handles immigration. Unlike other nations that strategically use immigration to pursue national goals, he says, we focus on concerns about border security, illegal i ... [read more]
New Issue of World Literature Today
The September/October issue of World Literature Today is apparently now available. (Stealing from Michael Orthofer’s playbook, I say apparently because I actually subscribed to WLT a couple years ago and received exactly one issue . . . ... [read more]
Behind the Scenes with Deborah Morse-Kahn
Deborah Morse-Kahn, author of The Historic St. Croix Valley: A Guide, recently sat down with us to answer some questions we had about her experience in writing her new book. How did this travel guide book come to be written? I had wri ... [read more]
Reading the World #6: Forrest Gander
This month we talk with poet and translator Forrest Gander about approaches to translating poetry and his forthcoming translation “Watchword” by Pura López Colomé. [read more]
Sport, Religion, and Native Identity
Michael Zogry, author of Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity guest blogs over at First Peoples, New Directions today about anetso, the precursor to field lacrosse which blends sport, religious ritual, ... [read more]
Champaign Public Library to institute new fee for some out-of-town users
Our local newspaper, The News-Gazette, reports today that the Champaign Public Library plans to charge patrons from two adjoining towns—Savoy (part of the Tolono Library district) and Mahomet—$200 per year to check out books. Also, CPL ... [read more]
Triple Canopy and the History-Future of Online Publishing
I’ve only begun to explore the contents, but the new issue of Triple Canopy — subtitled “Unplaced Movements” — looks incredible. And right in the wheelhouse of my obsessions . . . [read more]
Guest Post: Tom Kendrick on Dealing with Budget Cuts
The following is a guest post by Tom Kendrick, author of the upcoming 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them. How does a project manager effectively deal with mid-project budget cuts? Even if you begin your project with … ... [read more]
New series by Laurie Hertzel: When I Was ...
Today the UMP blog is kicking off a monthlong series by Star Tribune books editor and author Laurie Hertzel. The series, When I Was ..., will move chronologically through Hertzel's early years and adventures in writing and while on assi ... [read more]
Lessons of the Masters
As we approach the official publication date of Tully Potter's long-awaited life and times of Adolf Busch, here are two short extracts which demonstrate how Adolf and his brother Fritz were willing to learn from others. First, we join t ... [read more]
How Old is the Parasite “Like”?
By Anatoly Liberman When did people begin to say: “I will, like, come tomorrow” and why do they say so? It may seem that the filler "like", along with its twin "you know", are of recent date, but this impression is wrong. It is, howe ... [read more]
UH Press Anniversary Sale On Now
From September 1–7 (Hawai‘i Dateline), take 40% off EVERYTHING at our web site: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. Only prepaid orders taken at the UH Press web site will receive the 40% discount, which appears at checkout. All sales are final; no ... [read more]
Q&A with David Schoem, author of College Knowledge for the Jewish Student: 101 Tips
It is critical for the individual Jewish student who enters college to come intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually prepared for the academic and social experience that awaits. College is a qualitatively different experience than h ... [read more]
Interview with Ami Pedahzur — The Israeli Secret Services & The Struggle Against Terrorism
The following is a reprint of an interview with Ami Pedahzur, author of The Israeli Secret Services and the Struggle Against Terrorism. The book is now available in paperback: Q: Have you ever worked for the Mossad or any other intelli ... [read more]
New releases for September
Expanded Edition Twilight of the Great Trains Fred W. Frailey "Fred Frailey is by far one of the best writers in the railroad book business." —William D. Middleton, Jr., co-editor of The Encyclopedia of North American Railroads Albee in ... [read more]
New Series – Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails
A four-volume history by award-winning author Will Bagley. The great nineteenth-century westward migration remains an enduring American legacy. From the moment the first organized party set out from Independence, Missouri, in 1841, over ... [read more]
Staying Power: The U.S. Mission in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
As questions and doubts continue to mount around the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, Michael O'Hanlon explains why the United States should and will maintain a major presence in the country for years to come. [read more]
Facebook says, “All your face are belong to us.”
By Dennis Baron Facebook wants to trademark the word "face." The social networker which connects more than 500 million users has already shown how we can all live together as one big happy set of FBF's by forcing other sites to drop "b ... [read more]
Cornelia Street Cafe to Feature Janet Kaplan
Janet Kaplan will give a poetry performance at the Cornelia Street Cafe tonight at 6pm.  The evening will also include poetry performances featuring Alexandra van de Kamp, Joanne McFarland, and Steve Caratzas. The Fabian Almazan Trio ... [read more]
The Story of Service, Part 4: Black Wall Street
On July 26, a mural named SERVICE was dedicated at UNC’s School of Government in the Knapp-Sanders Building. The mural depicts a gathering of African-American leaders at the counter of a diner, painted by Colin Quashie as a creative int ... [read more]
The United States's changing role in the "higher education ecosystem"
For much of the last century American universities have held their place as global leaders in higher education, but recently, with the United State's economic dominance increasingly jeopardized by rising world powers such as China, and ... [read more]
PW's Indie Sleepers . . . Including "Zone"
I feel like this is a week of individual themed days . . . Yesterday was all Japanese literature and Michael Emmerich, today is all Zone . . . [read more]
Eggs and Agencies
You might want to finish your bibimbap before reading this post. The salmonella outbreak that led to the largest egg recall in American history has now led to a disturbing Food and Drug Administration report about conditions on the Iowa ... [read more]
With B&N Closing a Store in NYC, Will Literary Culture Change?
New York Daily News reported today that Barnes & Noble will be closing its 15-year old Broadway store due to rising rent costs. With more customers turning to online outlets for books, brick-and-mortar bookstores, especially independent ... [read more]
The Kids Are All Right
Amie Klempnauer Miller is the author of She Looks Just Like You: A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood. Miller works as a development consultant to the public media industry and lives with her partner and daughter in St. Paul ... [read more]
Stolen Horses reviewed on NPR's All Things Considered
Stolen Horses, by Dan O’Brien, is an old-fashioned Western novel in some ways. The fictional setting – McDermot, Nebraska – is a place where cowboys still live on the ranch homesteads settled by great-great-grandparents, where everyone ... [read more]
Shelf Awareness features NEWS TO ME trailer
Check out Shelf Awareness's book trailer of the day: [read more]
Remembering Octavius Catto, Civil Rights pioneer of the Civil War Era
In this Q&A, Temple University authors Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin discuss Octavius Catto, the subject of their new book Tasting Freedom. Q: Octavius Catto was a pioneer of the Civil Rights movement in the Civil War era. Where did yo ... [read more]
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
While its hard to imagine otherwise, Italians have not always embraced the tomato as part of their national cuisine. In a late summer love letter to the tomato the New York Post describes the history of the tomato in Italy as told by Da ... [read more]
‘Confederate Minds’ and the Page 99 Test
We’ve previously mentioned the “Page 99 Test,” with which one can “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you,” according to Ford Madox Ford. Marshal Zeringue edits a blog that follo ... [read more]
Guest Post: David Hillson on Risk Identification
The following is a guest post by David Hillson, Ph.D., PMP, FAPM, FIRM of Risk Doctor & Partners, who contributed the essay “Risk Management in Practice” to The AMA Handbook of Project Management, Third Edition, edited by Paul Dinsmore, ... [read more]
The Secret Behind Glenn Beck’s Magic
By Elvin Lim Nolstalgia is the selective invocation of the past. It is probably the worst kind of historical reasoning used by romantics who glorify what we remember to be good (Mom and pie) and conveniently forget all that was bad (Ji ... [read more]
The Value of Hawai‘i Events in September
The Value of Hawai‘i Contributors on Tourism and Historic Preservation Wednesday, September 2, 7:00 am, AM 940 Tune in to Nā ‘Ōiwi ‘Ōlino on KINE 940 AM to listen to Ramsay Remigius Mahealani Taum and Sara Collins. Rebroadcast at 5 pm, ... [read more]
Time and again: Burton, Fukuoka, and taking a break
Last week, the Déja Vu blog of Lapham's Quarterly ("Bringing an historical perspective to today's news") made a connection between a new study showing that the mind needs periods of rest in order to process and retain all the informatio ... [read more]
Literary Lives on Display
Fans of National Book Award–winning novelist Shirley Hazzard and her late husband, Francis Steegmuller, a literary critic, translator, and biographer, are in for a treat if they can make it to New York before January 31st: the New York ... [read more]
Keeping Glenn Beck Segregated from History
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes – released this month in paperback – responded to Glenn Beck’s “March on Washington” last weekend. This op-ed originally appeared in the Huffington Post. [read more]
Taylor Bell on WGN-TV
  Taylor Bell, author of the new book Dusty, Deek, and Mr. Do-Right: High School Football in Illinois, was interviewed August 27, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. [read more]
Remember, Remember, the First of September
The University of Hawai‘i Press 63rd Anniversary Sale is just around the corner! From September 1–7 (Hawai‘i Dateline), take 40% off EVERYTHING at our web site: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. Only prepaid orders taken at the UH Press web site ... [read more]
Gift Certificate Winners – Week Four
We are nearing the end of our gift certificate giveaway and we’d like to welcome all our new fans! We’ve had a great response over the past four weeks and would love for you to invite your friends to join us on Twitter and our... [read more]
It’s That Time Again!
Hard to believe we’ve come to the end of summer vacation. A university campus in the summer is a sleepy place on the surface. Although lots of work goes on behind the scenes, and construction projects are in full swing, it just isn’t th ... [read more]
Missing sleep can make you fat, sad, and stupid
A new school year is about to start, and we all know how sleep-deprived students can be. Parents and teachers may sound like broken records, but Dr. Rosalind Cartwright can tell you that good sleeping habits are nothing to roll your eye ... [read more]
Then and Now: "Old Gray Heads," part two -- Elizabeth Close
"Then and Now" is a series by Alan K. Lathrop, curator of the Manuscripts Division at the University of Minnesota Libraries from 1970 to 2008. He is author of Minnesota Architects and Churches of Minnesota. [read more]
Purgatory and Redemption
Poet Raúl Zurita was a 24-year old student in Valparaiso, Chile on the day of Augusto Pinochet’s coup in 1973, and lived for  17 years under the military dictatorship. In Purgatory, he records the pain and suffering he and the Chilean p ... [read more]
So Many Books, So Little Time!
If you’re like me, you started your summer with an overly ambitious reading list that’s been (mostly) neglected. Here are some ideas for last minute summer reads. [read more]
“Mama Dip is a blessing.”
That’s what employee–and prison inmate–Paul Scott says. Scott is one of the many inmates who have worked their way through Mama Dip’s Kitchen through a work-release program as they prepare to re-enter society upon completing prison sent ... [read more]
The State of New Orleans Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
In the five years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the Gulf region has also endured the economic downturn and the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Yet the New Orleans metro region has demonstrated resilienc ... [read more]
Trend Watching
One of the best things about being a bookseller (and there are many, many great things) is being able to easily keep tabs on publishing trends. You get your eyes on everything. What’s being written about, what’s being read, trends... [read more]
Donald Kohn, Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman, to Join Brookings
Donald Kohn, former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman and an expert on monetary policy, financial regulation and macroeconomics, will join the Brookings Institution as a senior fellow in mid-September. [read more]
Metropolitan Building Demolition Video
  =player_embedded The destruction of the Metropolitan Building in downtown Minneapolis in the early 1960s has become an icon of the excesses of urban renewal. This film, produced by graduate students at the University of Minnesota in ... [read more]
Books for Project Management Problem Solving
Signs of an improving economy are reason to celebrate. But the arduous journey to the economy of yesteryear has only just begun, which means many are still dealing with smaller staffs and more responsibility in the workplace. This espec ... [read more]
The Velvet Lounge – Great Chicago Jazz Reads
The Chicago Tribune book blog Printers Row recently posted a round-up of the greatest books about the Chicago jazz scene. Printers Row called out for its jazz-like prose Gerald Majer’s The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz. The book ... [read more]
Link Roundup: Market-Driven Medicine, Judges Who Think, and Feminism and Conservatism
It has been a tremendously busy summer for our authors. The following are just a few of their major achievements from this week: [read more]
In Case You Missed It: Tech & Social Media
It might just be me (and it often times is), but I could hardly blink this weekend without seeing yet another article announcing, discussing, or otherwise pointing to a big development in the world of technology/social media. So - since ... [read more]
Off the Shelf: The John Lardner Reader edited and with an introduction by John Schulian
Read the beginning of the Introduction from The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting, edited and with an introduction by John Schulian: "Since TV and talk radio started throwing crazy money at them, more and m ... [read more]
Avoid Glenn Beck Rally Attendance: Stop by Our Booth at the 2010 American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C.
The University of Michigan Press will be hosting our annual book display at the American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C. at booth #210. If you're into that sort of thing, you should stop by and check out some o ... [read more]
Webcast: Management? It’s Not What You Think! A Conversation with Henry Mintzberg
Our American Management Association New Media Team will be doing a webcast with Henry Mintzberg, author of Management? It’s Not What You Think, next month. He will be sharing the truth about management and how it has changed over the … ... [read more]
Beck, King, and Nonviolence
From the Washington Post's Political Bookworm Blog: [read more]
Save Big on the Atlas of Hawaii
Get the hardcover/cloth edition of the award-winning Atlas of Hawai‘i: Third Edition for more than 30% off while supplies last! This essential reference, edited by Sonia P. Juvik, James O. Juvik, and Thomas R. Paradise, is now $51.99. “ ... [read more]
Praise for Robert Camuto's Palmento (and Corkscrewed, too!)
Eric Asimov writes about wine for the New York Times – wine trends, wine regions, individual wines, wine culture, etc. Wine blog The Daily Sip posted this Q&A with Asimov yesterday, in which Asimov writes about his wine writing philosop ... [read more]
A parting
On the Chicago blog, we usually stick to news of our books and authors—that, after all, is what a publisher's blog is for. Today, however, we'd like to break from that for a moment to offer thanks and good wishes to the colleague who ha ... [read more]
The Unbearable Lightness of Reading
John Simon is off and running in the New York Times with a review of Czech novelist-in-exile-now-French-citizen and perpetually rumored Nobel Prize nominee Milan Kundera's new "essayistic" book Encounter. The collection of 26 pieces, ra ... [read more]
A window into the architectural process
Contemporary architecture has undergone some radical transformations alongside advancements in technology that allow architects and engineers to design and construct buildings that were impossible just a few years ago. Viewing the finis ... [read more]
TURNING FIVE
People think it’s easy being the PressLog. [read more]
Boston Globe on Celebrity Genealogy
A review of Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. appeared in The Boston Globe. The central lesson of genealogy is both banal and profound: We are all related. The human race is ... [read more]
For Once, Hope in the Middle East
This week, as President Barack Obama presides over the start of a new round of direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, Martin Indyk says the external environment is better suited to peacemaking than it has been in the ... [read more]
Benching Jim Crow on NPR’s Only a Game
On Saturday, August 28, University of Illinois Press author Charles Martin will be interviewed about his new book Benching Jim Crow: The Rise and Fall of the Color Line in Southern College Sports, 1890-1980 by host Bill Littlefield on N ... [read more]