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UP WEEK: UPs in Popular Culture

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In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day.          UPs IN POPULAR CULTURE  Georgetown University Press – Watch Spy Shows with Georgetown University Press University Press of Kentucky – His Life on the Blacklist, or How Communists Brought Us the “Cran-stache” University Press of Mississippi – Now Playing: Walt Before Mickey University of Pennsylvania Press – University presses: Where knowledge finds a … Continue reading UP WEEK: UPs in Popular Culture

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UP WEEK: Collaboration

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In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day.          COLLABORATION University of California Press – On the Front Lines of the Ebola Epidemic by Naomi Schneider, executive editor University of Chicago Press – Turabian Teacher Collaborative by University of Chicago Press staff members working with the TTC University Press of Colorado Duke University Press – Anthropologist Eben Kirksey on collaboration at the … Continue reading UP WEEK: Collaboration

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UP WEEK: Your University Press in Pictures

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In the spirit of partnership that pervades the university press community, thirty-two presses will unite for the AAUP’s third annual blog tour during University Press Week. This tour will highlight the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Individual presses will blog on a different theme each day.          YOUR UNIVERSITY PRESS IN PICTURES  University Press of Florida Fordham University Press Indiana University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Stanford University Press Continue reading UP WEEK: Your University Press in Pictures

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NEWS AND REVIEWS

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Below are some people who have read and loved our books. Feel free to comment  if you’ve read any of these titles! Perfectly Awful By Charley Rosen Starred Booklist review: “The literature of sport usually focuses on championship teams and players. But the road to the top is littered with vanquished foes. The ‘72–’73 76ers are the ultimate vanquished foe. Great reading” — Wes Lukowsky Read an excerpt from the book. Fu-go By Ross Coen Unshelved review: “This is the kind of history that I want to know. How had I not heard of this weapon? Was it successful? For me, this ranks … Continue reading NEWS AND REVIEWS

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From the desk of Yaakov Lappin: A Caliphate State of Mind

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Yaakov Lappin is a journalist for the Jerusalem Post. His groundbreaking and exclusive coverage of jihadi activity on the Internet has appeared in the London Times, Jerusalem Post, and Ynetnews, among other media outlets. A number of the author’s reports for the London Times focused on an online declaration of war issued by notorious Islamist leaders in Britain six months before the July 7, 2005, London Underground bombings. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. His book, Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet, was published in 2011. Follow him on Twitter: @YaakovLappin. The dramatic and rapid takeover of large swaths of Iraq … Continue reading From the desk of Yaakov Lappin: A Caliphate State of Mind

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Doc Martyn’s Soul: An Athletic Book?

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The October 13 issue of Publishers Weekly included an article on the perils and possibilities of publishing sports books. Bob Minzesheimer’s article focused on the apparent disconnect between the popularity of sport in this country and the relatively small number of sports titles published and the even smaller number of those books that achieve great sales. What Minzesheimer had to say certainly caught my attention; the University of Nebraska Press has long published a relatively large number of titles in this genre. In spite of the cautious tale spun in that article, our sports titles are regularly some of the … Continue reading Doc Martyn’s Soul: An Athletic Book?