May 12, 2014

Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter Discuss Pot Smuggling on HuffPost Live

Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, coauthors of Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade, were recently on HuffPost Live to discuss their book and drug smuggling in Thailand in the 1960s and 1970s. Also joining...

May 9, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. On OUPblog, author...

May 9, 2014

Badiou and Roudinesco on Lacan's Legacy

“[T]he contemporary world is haunted by uncertainty, disorientation, and the specter of permanent crisis. And Lacan is a great thinker of disorder.” – Alain Badiou This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain...

May 9, 2014

The Ethics and Ambivalence of Motherhood — Sarah LaChance Adams

“Mothers have opportunity for great crimes and great heroism. Maternal ethics are illustrative precisely because both these options are possible; we are capable of being both better and worse than we typically imagine.”—Sarah LaChance Adams Mother’s Day is Sunday and...

May 8, 2014

More from Badiou and Roudinesco

This week our featured book is Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. Today, we are taking a look back at previous works by both Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco. We have excerpts from...

May 8, 2014

Professor Mom! An Interview with the editors of "Mothers in Academia"

With Mother’s Day right around the corner, we thought we would shed some light on those mothers who also toil in academia. The following is an interview with Mari Castañeda and Kirsten Isgro, the editors of Mothers in Academia. The...

May 7, 2014

"I Am Counting on the Tourbillon": On the Late Lacan, by Jason E. Smith

“If Lacan’s rightly celebrated Seminar VII from 1959-60 elaborates a properly psychoanalytic ethics through the intransigent figure of Antigone and her refusal to give way on her desire, Badiou and Roudinesco emphasize instead a certain ethical and tragic dimension to...

May 7, 2014

Video: Marian Harris on Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare

In the following video, Marian S. Harris discusses her new book Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare. In the book, Harris identifies the practice and policy changes required to successfully address the unequal treatment of children of color in the child...

May 6, 2014

One Master, Two Encounters, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco

Read an excerpt from “One Master, Two Encounters,” the first chapter of JACQUES LACAN, PAST AND PRESENT, by Alain Badiou and Élisabeth Roudinesco.

May 6, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Umami, the Brain, $, Wine, Atheists, and More New Books!

Our weekly list of titles now available: Umami: Unlocking the Secrets of the Fifth Taste Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk The World’s First Stock Exchange Lodewijk Petram The Custom-Made Brain: Cerebral Plasticity, Regeneration, and Enhancement Jean-Didier Vincent and Pierre-Marie...

May 5, 2014

Design Winners from the 2014 New York Book Show!

We were very excited to hear that four of our books were winners in the 2014 New York Book Show. Sponsored by the Book Industry Guild of New York, the award honors, and celebrates excellence in book production and design....

May 2, 2014

University Press Roundup

Our weekly collection of the best blog posts from the world of academic publishing.