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November 7, 2019

AUP Week, Day 4: Making the World a Better Place

For day 4 of University Press Week, Mike Baccam (University of Washington), Elspeth Menzies and Harriet McInerney (University of New South Wales Press) discuss how university presses can highlight issues that have been erased from history or neglected in academia. The works...

November 7, 2019

Book Excerpt! Amboina.1623, by Adam Clulow (introduction)

“A true model of globally minded historical scholarship, Clulow’s brilliant new study combines insights derived from his cutting-edge work in the digital humanities with the best traditions of archival research and interpretation. Carefully exploring the Asian context in which the...

November 6, 2019

AUP Week, Day 3: Transformative Work

University presses have the unique opportunity to create transformative and peer reviewed work that can change entire fields of study based on local values. This work is spread to a wide audience through mediums and forms that allow the work...

November 6, 2019

Enacting Environmental Stewardship by Acting Locally

“Talking the environmental talk is one thing, but if you want to walk the walk, too, Karl Coplan’s book will tell you how to do it and how to do it happily.” ~Colin Beavan, author of How To Be Alive...

November 6, 2019

Why Waterboarding Won’t Die

“In a gripping story about fear and loathing in Amboina, Adam Clulow probes a pivotal event in world history to offer fresh insights about the entanglements of European empires in Asia. Meticulously researched and engagingly told, Amboina, 1623 is that...

November 5, 2019

AUP Week, Day 2: New Knowledge and Scholarship

For the second day of University Press Week, Mary Francis, from University of Pennsylvania Press and Kaixuan Yao, intern at Amsterdam University Press, discuss the value of the work being done by university presses. Assisting researchers, professors, artists and so...

November 5, 2019

New Book Tuesday! A Couple of Soles, Fearing the Worst and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! From the Woodrow Wilson Center Series Fearing the Worst How Korea Transformed the Cold War Samuel F. Wells Jr. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between...

November 4, 2019

AUP Week, Day 1: Read. Think. Act.

 Today marks the start of University Press Week 2019 with the theme “Read. Think. Act”. Josh Shanholtzer (University of Pittsburgh Press) breaks down this theme and expands on the importance of each individual word. Our Science editor, Miranda Martin,...

October 31, 2019

Book Excerpt! The Politics of Secularism (preface)

“Murat Akan has given us an incredibly thorough account of how ideas about secularism have traveled between France and Turkey and how to relate these ideas to broader understandings of the relation between religion and society. His sophisticated theoretical approach...

October 30, 2019

New from Barbara Budrich!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century Trends, Challenges and New Directions Edited by Marta Kowalczuk-Walędziak, Alicja Korzeniecka-Bondar, and Wioleta Danilewicz Gao Village Revisited is a close study of Gao village...

October 30, 2019

Q&A: Murat Akan on The Politics of Secularism

“Murat Akan has given us an incredibly thorough account of how ideas about secularism have traveled between France and Turkey and how to relate these ideas to broader understandings of the relation between religion and society. His sophisticated theoretical approach...

October 29, 2019

New Book Tuesday! Mag Men, Extraordinary Justice, The Brain in Context and more!

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Mag Men Fifty Years of Making Magazines Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser; foreword by Gloria Steinem For more than fifty years, Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser have revolutionized the look of...

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