Category: Book Giveaway

April 28, 2020

Book Giveaway! Archives of Conjure: Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures, by Solimar Otero

“A poetic, fluid, and compelling book. By producing an ‘archive of conjure’ pieced together through interwoven elements of ethnography, literature, archival notations, bolero music, poetry, and other Afrolatinx inspirations, Solimar Otero provides humanities scholarship with a new, transdisciplinary technique and approach....

April 27, 2020

Book Giveaway! When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line, By Geoffrey Heal

“A must read for anyone wanting to understand the corporate world’s involvement in environmental and social issues. Geoffrey Heal argues convincingly that the corporation’s long term self interest requires that it pay attention to the environmental and social impacts of...

April 21, 2020

Book Giveaway! Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram, by Mike Chasar

“Poetry is more than a creature of voice, hand, and press, as Chasar shows with verve, wit, insight, and sparkling detail. The public life of poetry in the twentieth-century United States is also a secret history of multimedia. Each medium...

April 20, 2020

Book Giveaway! The Cinema of James Cameron: Bodies in Heroic Motion, by James Clarke

“Examines Cameron’s place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines...

April 14, 2020

Book Giveaway! Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent Problems, by Georgia Levenson Keohane

“Capital and the Common Good shows we are living in a time where financial tools can expand to solve some of the world’s most vexing problems. This book is packed with information and inspiration.” ~Robert J. Shiller, Nobel Laureate in...

April 13, 2020

Book Giveaway! Make It the Same: Poetry in the Age of Global Media, by Jacob Edmond

“Make It the Same rebuts the notion that formal word-games are a decadent first-world hobby. It is an empirically broad, thoughtfully constructed, well-written, timely book about an important subject: a technical ‘mode of production’ prominent in contemporary poetry, with its...

April 6, 2020

Book Giveaway! The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, by Mark L. Clifford

“In this well-researched and ultimately optimistic account, Mark L. Clifford makes the case that environmental policies ‘can and must be fixed’ and gives us examples of companies that have worked to find private-sector solutions. In doing so, he sheds much-needed...

April 2, 2020

Book Giveaway! Urban Affairs Association 2020

The Urban Affairs Association 2020 is still happening here at CUP. We’re beginning the tour of our booth with this giveaway! To enter our drawing, complete all required fields in the form at the bottom of this post by midnight...

April 2, 2020

Book Giveaway! Organization of American Historians 2020

This week we are bringing the Organization of American Historians (OAH) annual conference to you, starting with today’s book giveaway! Try your luck at winning one of our titles on display at our virtual booth. To enter, complete all required...

April 1, 2020

Book Giveaway! Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2020!

This week we are bringing our Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) book exhibit to you, and we’re kicking off our virtual booth events with a book giveaway! To enter our drawing, complete all required fields in the form...