The Marshall McLuhan Award has been given out annually since 2000, and it is open to books “on any topic related to media ecology.”What is media ecology, you ask?
In 1970, author and cultural critic Neil Postman wrote:
Media ecology looks into the matter of how media of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value; and how our interaction with media facilitates or impedes our chances of survival.The word ecology implies the study of environments: their structure, content, and impact on people.
To celebrate the publication of THE SQUAM LAKE REPORT: Fixing the Financial System, Princeton University Press and the esteemed group of author/economists held a half-day long conference announcing the recommendations this group offers in New York City, with a keynote address by the Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. The Chairman, as you can see in his speech, endorses the proposals set forth by this group.
Last Wednesday at the Italian Academy at Columbia University, journalists, CEOs, and academics gathered to listen to the groups recommendations that comprises THE SQUAM LAKE REPORT . As you can see by the included video, CNBC and Steve Liesman were all over it.
France’s New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at the Liberation. Rather, it got started earlier, in the waning years of the Third Republic and under the Vichy regime. Tracking the nation’s evolution from the 1930s through the postwar years, Nord describes how a variety of political actors–socialists, Christian democrats, technocrats, and Gaullists–had a hand in the construction of modern France.
A nuanced perspective on the French state’s postwar origins, France’s New Deal chronicles how one modern nation came into being.
Philip Nord is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His books include Paris Shopkeepers and the Politics of Resentment (Princeton), The Republican Moment: Struggles for Democracy in Nineteenth-Century France, and Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century.
Many congratulations to Princeton author Jason Dempsey, who is among the 13 outstanding men and women selected for the 2010-2011 class of White House Fellows.
The White House Fellows program, founded in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, is one of the most prestigious programs for leadership and public service, and aims to give up-and-coming American leaders “first hand, high-level experience with the workings of the Federal government, and to increase their sense of participation in national affairs.” As a Fellow, Jason Dempsey, author of Our Army: Soldiers, Politics and American Civil-Military Relations, will get to spend a year working with top-ranking government officials and participate in a rigorous education program and various service projects.
To read the official White House press release, click here.
Additional information about the White House Fellows program is available here.
The Dorothy Lee Award is among other awards given out annually by the MEA.In particular, this award has, since 2002, been bestowed upon the best book or article that focuses on “the ethnographic or intercultural analysis of communication, perception, cognition, consciousness, media, technology, material culture, and/or the natural environment.”
Many congratulations to Diego for his continued success! Codes of the Underworld is also the winner of the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Sociology & Social Work category, and it has been listed in the New Scientist blog as one of “The best books of 2009.”
For a complete list of recent award-winning Princeton University Press books, please click here.
The BOTYA are presented annually by ForeWord Reviews.Founder and Publisher Victoria Sutherland said the following at the presentation ceremony during BookExpo America in New York City:
This year more than ever before, we heard from the judges how great the finalist books were and how difficult it was to make their decisions, she said. Despite this tough economy, independent publishers are producing some of the best books out there, and we are happy to honor them today.
Congratulations Carmen and Kenneth!As we announced earlier this month, This Time is Different was also a 2010 Gold Medal Co-Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Finance/Investment/Economics category and was shortlisted for Spear’s Book Awards, Financial History of the Year.It is also a Library Journal Best of 2009 Business Books – Economics/U.S. Economy Category, an 800-CEO-READ “Business Books Awards 2009” finalist (“Best of the Rest”) in the Current Interest Category, an Honorable Mention for the 2009 PROSE Award for Excellence – Economics, one of USA Today’s “Year’s Best Business Books To Make Sense of Financial Crisis,” one of “our favorite financial-crisis books this year” by James Pressley listed on Bloomberg.com, a Runner Up on The Atlantic “Books of the Year” list, and one of the Top Ten English Business Books of 2009 in WirtschaftsBlatt.For a complete list of recent Princeton University Press award-winning books, please click here.
The Mutter Museum hosted an event with Eugene Kaplan on the subject of his new book What’s Eating You?: People and Parasites. Kaplan also sat down with museum director Robert Hicks to discuss his recent parasite scare after a trip to Africa among other things.
It happens every so often — we find a book that is not only too good to pass up, but also too good to delay another season. The result? The drop-in title.
Eager beavers might like to check out two of our drop-in books for the Fall season (the last one will follow soon).
To learn more about an author, there is no better way than to check out their blog. Our featured PUP blogging author today is Raghuram G. Rajan, author of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Get to know the blogger, the blog and his books.
Raghuram G. Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund.
The Squam Lake Report:
Fixing the Financial System By Kenneth R. French, Martin N. Baily, John Y. Campbell, John H. Cochrane, Douglas W. Diamond, Darrell Duffie, Anil K Kashyap, Frederic S. Mishkin, Raghuram G. Rajan, David S. Scharfstein, Robert J. Shiller, Hyun Song Shin, Matthew J. Slaughter, Jeremy C. Stein, and René M. Stulz
Ever count how many stars you can see at night? Generally, at night you should be able to see around 1000 stars at any given time. As the Earth rotates throughout the night and stars rise in the east and others set in the west, you can increase your count to 2000, then 2001 when the Sun rises.
In the four centuries since its invention, the telescope has transformed how humans view the universe and their place in it. But what do most of us know about telescopes themselves–their history, how they work, what they are being used for today, or what the next generation of billion-dollar telescopes will look like? In The Telescope, Geoff Andersen fills in all the details for us in an accessible, nontechnical way that will appeal to the amateur astronomer and anyone else who has been more than a little curious about this amazing instrument.
A panel composed of editors and reviewers of ForeWord Reviews, booksellers, librarians, and other industry professionals deemed The Invisible Hook the gold-standard in the Business and Economics category this year. Congratulations Peter!
The BOTYA were “established to bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors” by ForeWord Reviews.This year, 201 winners in 60 categories were recognized at a ceremony at BookExpo America in New York City.The books were judged on a variety of merits including “editorial excellence,” “intent of book met by author,” “originality of subject matter,” “accuracy,” “author credentials,” and “professional packaging.”
The Invisible Hook has also been named one of San Francisco Chronicle‘s “100 best fiction, nonfiction books of 2009,” one of (Australian) The Week’s “Books of the Year 2009″ in the international non-fiction category, and a nominee for the 2010 Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
The impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be felt in the region and around the world for a long time. The Association of American University Presses has compiled a list of books from 23 AAUP members to offer insight and understanding about the role of oil–in economic, technological, and political development, in international relations, and in global environments.
From the AAUP Press Release: Books for Understanding is a free public service of AAUP to help librarians,
journalists, educators, and interested readers find the best books on current events. The program highlights one of the highest values of university presses: to publish top research and scholarship in all fields regardless of immediate commercial potential. Often the most complete and illuminating background research and knowledge for a breaking news story is only available in scholarly books from presses committed to the public interest.
Featuring commentary and interviews from Princeton University Press authors, the PUP Blog is a highly respected, timely and indispensable source for learning, understanding and reflection.
