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University of Nebraska Press: Great Plains in spotlight
nebraskapress.typepad.com | 6 hours 19 minutes ago
Today in the Omaha World-Herald, two new UNP books were reviewed. Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars by Hugh J. Reilly, and Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul and John...

Pete Daniel in PBS program Slavery by Another Name | Illinois Press Blog
www.press.uillinois.edu | 11 hours 4 minutes ago
Pete Daniel, author of the University of Illinois Press book The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969, explains in the documentary Slavery by Another Name why the 13th Amendment didn’t abolish slavery.

International publisher alliance shuts down piracy site | The Bookseller
www.thebookseller.com | 12 hours 19 minutes ago
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Columbia University Press » Blog Archive » Crash of Hammarskjöld’s Plane in 1961: ‘VIP planes don’t
www.cupblog.org | 14 hours 26 minutes ago
Upon publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?: The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, the Hurst Blog, published an essay by Adrian Begg, who was then a 20-year-old officer in the Northern Rhodesia Police when Dag Hammarskojld’s plane crashed in 1961. In this essay, he describes

Cupid, Take Your Quiver And Go - Harvard University Press Blog
harvardpress.typepad.com | Feb 14, 2012
Who but Ovid to read on this Valentine’s Day? Below, the fifth elegy of the second book of his Amores, from David Slavitt’s lively volume of translation, Love Poems, Letters, and Remedies of Ovid. ----- No love is worth this...

the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 February 2012 Archive
www.complete-review.com | Feb 13, 2012
the Literary Saloon at the complete review - 1 - 10 February 2012 Archive

LSU Press Blog: Fred Chappell wins North Carolina state honor
lsupress.typepad.com | Feb 9, 2012
Fred Chappell, author of dozens of collections of poetry, most recently Shadow Box, has received the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities. The award is North Carolina's highest honor in the field of humanities. Read the article linked below...

Duke University Press Log: SAQ Receives the 2011 CELJ Award for Best Special Issue
dukeupress.typepad.com | Feb 9, 2012
“Sovereignty, Indigeneity, and the Law,” edited by Eric Cheyfitz, N. Bruce Duthu, and Shari M. Huhndorf received the 2011 Best Special Issue award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for Best Special Issue. The award was announced...

Victor Rios: From gang member to PhD | From the Square | NYU Press blog
www.fromthesquare.org | Feb 3, 2012
Yesterday, PBS NewsHour featured a fantastic piece on Victors Rios, author of Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys and former gang member/high school dropout. The video below chronicles the inspiring transformation of Rios’ life, as he went from … <a

EBook Buzz: University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon
infotoday.com | Feb 1, 2012
EBook Buzz, ONLINE’s newest column, will discuss and debate the advances of ebooks in libraries and scholarly publishing. This inaugural column explores the transformation to ebooks by university presses.