Category: Book Giveaway

March 1, 2022

Join Us in Celebrating Women’s History Month 2022

March 2022 marks the thirty-fifth annual Women’s History Month in the United States. Initially, this was a time to celebrate the achievements of women in various U.S. career fields (The Library of Congress Women’s History Month website); we’ve expanded our celebration...

February 1, 2022

Celebrate Black History Month with Columbia University Press

February marks Black History Month, and this year, Columbia University Press is excited to invite you on an exploration of the Black experience. We’ll begin with an engaging discussion about “biological race.” Then we’ll travel to the glitzy land of...

October 15, 2020

Book Giveaway! Fantastic Fossils

“This book condenses most of what you find in a college textbook on paleontology into a concise, readable handbook that explains everything from how to find and collect fossils to how to assign them scientific names. No fossil enthusiast should...

August 7, 2020

AOM Book Giveaway! The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs

It’s the first day of the Academy of Management annual meeting, and we’re kicking it off with a book giveaway!  The Power of And: Responsible Business Without Trade-Offs, by R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, and Bidhan L. Parmar, offers...

August 3, 2020

Book Giveaway! Women in Translation Month 2020

It’s Women in Translation Month and we’re celebrating with a special month-long book giveaway. Fill out the form below for a chance to win one of this month’s featured titles! There will be one winner for each title. Check Saturday’s...

July 28, 2020

Book Giveaway! Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters, by Jeff Schlegelmilch

“It is often said that the tragedy of 9/11 was rooted in a failure to imagine a disaster of that particular character and scale. Jeff Schlegelmilch reminds us once again of the continued relevance of that hard-earned lesson.” ~Tom Ridge,...

July 27, 2020

Book Giveaway! Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France, by Christy Wampole

This week’s featured title is Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France, by Christy Wampole. A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new...

July 21, 2020

Book Giveaway! Universality and Identity Politics

“McGowan shows that a genuinely emancipatory politics is intrinsically universalist, and he reveals the various ways in which identity politics inevitably serves the conservative establishment and traps us into a conception of politics as a struggle of one identity against...

July 20, 2020

Book Giveaway! Design with Nature Now

“Design with Nature Now is a timely reminder that ecology is not something to be “remedied, fixed and transformed,” as essayist James Corner puts it. . . It’s a book that brings home the urgency of taking action—and leaves this reader...

July 13, 2020

Book Giveaway: On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins

“On the Prowl is a superb book, both enjoyable and instructive. I’m greatly impressed with the huge amount of data that Hallett and Harris have collected and presented in a most readable manner. The complex evolutionary history and relationships of...

July 6, 2020

Book Giveaway! Readings of Dōgen’s “Treasury of the True Dharma Eye,” by Steven Heine

“With clarifying beams of insight, Heine deftly evinces how Dōgen’s teachings are a creative response to a range of Buddhist sutras, kōans, and Chinese and Japanese teachers. Illuminating with philosophical virtuosity the dynamic nature of Dōgen’s written teachings and erudite...

June 29, 2020

Book Giveaway! Conspiring with the Enemy: The Ethic of Cooperation in Warfare, by Yvonne Chiu

“Yvonne Chiu has written an original and important book. Conspiring with the Enemy‘s argument is strong throughout; the writing is clear and often elegant, and the historical references, illustrations, and examples make the book engaging as well as educational. Who ever...