Tag: Scholarly Books

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...

June 12, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Aronowitz on Mills, the iPhone, Economists Speak Out, and Rivers

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals Stanley Aronowitz Moving Data: The iPhone and the Future of Media Edited by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau The Economists’...

May 8, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Beach, Vampires & Existentialism

Our weekly list of new titles: The Beach Book: Science of the Shore Carl Hobbs The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema Jeffrey Weinstock Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context Edited by Jonathan Judaken and Robert Bernasconi Europe and China: Strategic Partners...

April 17, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A Hunger for Aesthetics and new works from Helene Cixous and Paul de Man

Our weekly list of new books. You can save 50% on all these books by using the sales code SALE in your shopping cart: A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art Michael Kelly Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical...

April 3, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Feminism, Animal Studies, and Suspicion

The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in Our Time Edited by Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? Kara Weil Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of Media Boris Groys Storytelling in World Cinemas: Forms Edited by Lina...

February 28, 2012

New Book Tuesday — Mark Taylor on Art and The Foundations of the American Century

The following titles are now available: Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy Mark C. Taylor Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations and the Rise of American Power Inderjeet Parmar Sacred Exchanges: Images in Global...

February 14, 2012

New Book Tuesday: IR, Mystery, and More

Our weekly list of new titles now available, including a great selection of books in International Relations, including: Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa Susan Williams Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience Edited...

February 9, 2012

Association of American University Presses Turns 75

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) was officially founded on February 8, 1937 (Happy Birthday). Yesterday the AAUP web published an essay by Brenna McLaughlin looking at what led university presses to form an association. (According to the AAUP,...

January 10, 2012

New Book Tuesday: The Kitchen as Laboratory, Globalectics & More

The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking Edited by Cesar Vega, Job Ubbink, and Erik van der Linden Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing Ngugi wa Thiong’o Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti Rosi...