November 15, 2012

William Duggan on Strategic Intuition

With the recent publication of Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation, we wanted to revisit William Duggan’s related book, Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement. In the following video, Duggan explains some of the ideas that shaped Strategic...

November 15, 2012

University Press Week Continues to Be Great!

So much great stuff on university press blogs during university press week that it’s difficult to keep up. So, in case you missed it here’s what happened yesterday: * Scott Esposito, editor of the always worthwhile and indispensable The Quarterly...

November 14, 2012

Andrew Nathan Discusses Trends in China's Foreign Policy

In the following video, Andrew Nathan, most recently the author of China’s Search for Security discusses trends in China’s foreign policy:

November 14, 2012

Celebrating the Bookstores That Make University Press Publishing Possible

As part of university press week, we wanted to shine a light on some of the independent and campus bookstores, an integral part of the university press community. Without these stores, university presses would not be able to publish what...

November 13, 2012

New Titles This Week — William Duggan on Creative Strategy Plus Great Selections from Hong Kong UP

Creative Strategy: A Guide for Innovation William Duggan Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions Christian K. Wedemeyer The Inquisition of Climate Science (Now available in paper) James Lawrence Powell Sex and Desire in...

November 13, 2012

University Press Week Kicks Off: Anthony Grafton, Judith Jack Halberstam, and More!

In case you missed it, yesterday was the first day of university press week and the kick off of the blog tour, which included a post from Judith Jack Halberstam on the Duke University Press, arguing for the importance of...

November 12, 2012

Columbia University Press Around the World — University Press Week

Far from being confined to the walls of academia or even the streets around Morningside Heights, Columbia University Press’s influence spreads far and wide. In fact, thanks to David Ainley’s The Adélie Penguin: Bellwether of Climate Change, between where our...

November 9, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best posts from the blogs of academic publishers.

November 8, 2012

The Thursday morning panels at the 2012 Charleston Conference, Twitter-style

Our collection of the best tweets from the Thursday morning panels at the Charleston Conference 2012.

November 8, 2012

Mike Chasar on Burma-Shave Ads and Modernist Poetry

MUG AND BRUSH / OLD ADAM / HAD ’EM / IS YOUR HUSBAND / LIKE ADAM, MADAM? / BURMA-SHAVE One of the examples of the relationship between poetry and popular culture explored in Mike Chasar’s Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular...

November 8, 2012

Jonathan Kahn on Genetic Technologies and Their Impact on Society

Jonathan Kahn, author of Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, is a frequent speaker at the Tarrytown meetings, an annual meeting of the Center for Genetics and Society in which scientists...

November 7, 2012

#UPWeek Blog Tour!

For University Press Week, the blogs of 26 academic publishers are coming together to explain the importance of university presses.