Taking a good idea from our colleagues at Columbia University Press, we thought you’d enjoy a roundup of what we’re reading from other social university presses and what goes on in our corner of the publishing world. Dare we ask the question: SUP friends? And be sure to check out the new What SUP? column on the Yale Press Log to catch up on all the news you’ve missed!

October is national anti-bullying awareness month, and New York University Press takes note of this by considering bullying as an everyday reality rather than as an occasional occurrence.

Princeton University Press takes a close look at the most selective public schools in the U.S. in the “first-ever close-up look at this small, sometimes controversial, yet crucial segment of American public education.”

In a postmodern age, aestheticism can be used to survey any element of life. How people process the world around them and the aesthetic categories they use to do so is what Harvard University Press wants to know.

In an age when the debate over same-sex marriage has become an integral part of the public discourse, Penn University Press argues that marriage must now be viewed as not only a religious and cultural institution, but also a political one.

Oxford University Press explores how financial crises come about, demonstrating that they are an inherent and inevitable part of a financial system rather than haphazard, idiosyncratic occurrences.

Human sexuality and desire in inter-war Britain are the focus of Temple University Press as it attempts to trace how the British readership embraced a range of popular media to better understand the sexual dimension of its existence.

Understanding China’s security concerns is key to grasping its foreign policy, according to Columbia University Press. CUP analyzes China’s relationship with its rivals and foes as well as its place in world politics.