On Thursday, February 2nd, the 2012 PROSE Awards will be livestreamed from Washington D.C. Hopefully Princeton University Press will be bringing home some prizes! “The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.”
Exceptional People, a new book by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan, puts migration in a deep historical context–some 50,000 years of it. This topic isn’t going away any time soon, not with election season just around the corner, so this is one to keep an eye on.
By bringing a whole new set of evidence to the raging debate, Goldin argues that migration is not simply a problem to be fixed but rather a process to be managed and coordinating that management is the challenge currently facing the U.S. Exceptional People will be published on June 1 and to kick off his U.S. media tour, Ian Goldin was interviewed by “Patriot Games” for BlogTalkRadio.
THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES got some lovin’ Friday night from host Rachel Maddow. Many thanks to MSNBC producers for inviting Jill on the show to share her thoughts about the poaching of history by the Tea Party.
Jill Lepore and WGBH’s Callie Crossley talk tea parties, rabble rousing, and the potent symbolism of “revolutionary kitsch.” (Jill’s segment starts around the 36 minute mark.)
Less than a month until books are in! Don’t be tardy for the party. THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES pubs October 6.
At long last, the podcast for David Reznick’s April 27th interview on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show is available here!
(Three cheers for technological evolution and embedding codes.)
Reznick, a biology professor at UC Riverside, has managed to break through the glut of Darwinniversary coverage with his fresh reading of the Origin for a 21st century audience. 150 years later, we’re still talking about his book so Charles Darwin must have made good on those early ambitions to be, asReznick tells Lopate, “the Isaac Newton of Social Science.” Here’s hoping David Reznick enjoys such lasting readership with ON THE ORIGIN THEN AND NOW.
In case you were busy shoveling the latest coating of white stuff this past Friday and missed it, PUP author Catherine Manegold made her WBUR “Radio Boston” debut to field call-in questions about the buried history of slavery in the north. Check out the WBUR website to hear the fascinating podcast and view the slideshow of sites featured in the book, TEN HILLS FARM.
Black History Month has come and gone. Hard to believe since we’ve spent almost as many days out of the office as in it this February (not that we’re complaining too loudly!) so in March, let’s continue to be mindful of the forgotten past. Though the media may have moved onto more present concerns like the never ending healthcare debate and the latest in a string of blindsiding natural disasters, Catherine Manegold’s book brings tidings of great dismay to many who live under the deluded belief that the north was guilt-free when it came to owning slaves.
Though many of us blindly catapult through the holidays, steamrolling any obstacle in our way, let us pause to consider the words of PUP author Avishai Margalit: “It is our compromises that tell us who we are.” Well said, sir!
Follow the link to listen to Avishai’s interview with our friends down under.
Maybe next year his advice will save you and yours some time and energy that otherwise would have been spent on arguments and hurt feelings!
The Spring 2010 catalog features new paperback editions of some of our most popular books from 2008 and 2009 (and even one from much earlier). Unlike previous years, though, many of the covers for these books have been wholly redesigned or substantially tweaked. I asked PUP Art Director Maria Lindenfeldar and our talented designers to chime in on these new cover designs. What do you think of these new covers? Vote below.
“The first design was done by a freelancer, and it never came together as hoped. The redesign was an attempt to match the editor’s original vision more closely. The artwork for the second version was spotted by the editor in a review of the hardcover edition.”
“We wanted the paperback edition to look distinctive yet familiar. The type has been reworked to make it more playful and to integrate it more closely with the Ed Koran image. The redesign also included a promotional quote and a new background color.”
“The original jacket was gorgeous, but it didn’t reflect the content of the book. The iPod is one of the major examples Bhide uses to support his argument that technology developed abroad can have positive effects on the Western economy. Putting it on the cover just made a lot of sense.”
“The set of steps on the original jacket was a symbol of change and decline, but that image was quite abstract. For the paperback, we used “the empty suit” as a visual metaphor; it alludes to the loss of idealism that Khurana argues was originally a critical part of a business school education.”
“Simple really – this book is not just a paperback of a hardback original (we did that for this book some long time ago). This is a new edition of a paperback of a hardback original. We needed to draw attention to the fact that the book is different from the original editions. BUT the original cover design was so good, we didn’t want to try striking out with an entirely new concept. So, what we did was to simply freshen up and adapt the original by adding some color and making the skyline more identifiable as a ‘financial center’. “
“The redesign was meant to emphasize that this is a work of fiction aimed at a college-age audience. The stylized möbius strip alludes to an infinity symbol (a subject studied by the main character) and represents an intellectual and philosophical journey undertaken by the main character and his grandfather. The original jacket was a photograph of the author and his grandson. “
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Yesterday’s Fin ran a piece from Stephen Kirchner and Robert Carling of the Centre for Independent Studies, under the headline “Give austerity a chance” which was a pretty accurate summary of the contents. It’s paywalled, but for those with access the link is here. The piece relies almost exclusively on the work of Alberto Alesina […]
The resource page for last week's Caplan-Smith debate is now up, complete with full video. Here's Karl's post-debate statement. It's basically a more detailed version of his original statement. But he does introduce two new points I want to answer:1. Genetic determinism. Here's Karl:As it happened I was also debating Bryan Caplan […]
Some adult hawks can look 'juvenile-like'. Check out this Cooper's Hawk I photographed in 1999 at the Goshute Mountains in Nevada ('click' to enlarge). The barring on the underside is much less dense than a typical adult Cooper's Hawk. I have seen this on a few birds over the years, and several that I was able to see well had be […]
Let’s turn the mike over to Alex, our Alex, the Alex, etc., the one who writes for MarginalRevolution: The rags to riches to rags story of a poor, unemployed fellow who wins the lottery, blows the cash, and ends up just as poor and unemployed as he began is a common trope. (Here is a […]
That is the new book by Ben Casnocha and Reid Hoffman and the subtitle is Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career. if you are starting a career, it is an excellent book for thinking through the practical issues you will face in branding yourself in what is becoming a more […]
As the author of Theories of International Politics and Zombies, I want to make it absolutely clear that I have absolutely nothing to do with this: But, based on Al Qaeda's current capabilities, I'm beginning to think that this is their best chance for revival. […]
Ken writes: I was scouring your blog for Fyodor Dostoevsky and was surprised to see no mentions. I was just wondering your thoughts on him. Currently reading the Brothers Karamazov and it’s fantastic. Brothers Karamazov spent seven or so years as my favorite book, starting in high school. I’m not suggesting it is juvenile, only that […]
Studies of the neurochemical effects of drugs support the mind-brain identity theory over its chief rival, dualism, which claims that minds are distinct from bodies.read more […]
Hey, remember how the new Al Qaeda was going to be more networked and more capable of inspiring home-grown terrorism? Remember how today's threat enviroment was supposed to be worse than the Cold War? Bear these points in mind when considering two news items that crossed my screen today. In the first, courtesy of Micah Zenko, a Pentagon official sugg […]
1. Is there a procedural way to get to looser zoning regulations? 2. Does the Henrietta Lacks book make a lot of sense? 3. Why are poor parents worse (are they?) 4. How illegal are driverless cars?, make sure you carry a copy of this article to show the cop who pulls you over. 5. […]
