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What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, June 5th, 2015

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we found conversations on FIFA, flooding, and how a Beyoncé fan

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What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, May 22, 2015

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we found conversations on revolutionary blackness and American higher education as well as

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Tolerating Intolerance: Fanaticism and Free Speech

Stephen Eric Bronner— An old friend once told me that being a decent person means having a guilty conscience. And there was enough to feel guilty about as 2015 unfolded. Ethical uncertainty over how a liberal society should deal with the intolerant has become strikingly evident following the murders of four French

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What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, May 15, 2015

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we found conversations on de-extinct Mammoths, bicycle designs and elite

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Graduation Gifts: Books for Life After College

It’s that time of the year again when seniors all across the country are getting ready to put their graduation caps on. With nostalgia and memories of their college years, there is also excitement and anticipation in the air for the next chapter of their lives. Do you have a loved one graduating

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Technology and Wages: A Conversation with James Bessen

James Bessen is an economist and lecturer at Boston University Law School. He is the author of Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth. In a recent conversation, we had the chance to talk about the effect technology has on wages and job availability. Yale University Press: In your

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Spring Cleaning at Yale Press: Do You Know What is Hiding Behind Your Desk?

Some of you might remember last year’s blog post about the weird things we found in our desks on our annual clean-up day. It was with no small amount of trepidation that I approached this year’s clean-up day: what if we didn’t find anything odd? What if we found all

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What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, May 7, 2015

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we found timely conversations on Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day,

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Books for Mother’s Day

The very first Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 in Grafton, West Virginia when Anna Jarvis’s held a memorial for her late mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, who had died in 1905. Her campaign to make Mother’s Day a recognized holiday in the United States found success years later when Woodrow Wilson signed a

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What SUP From Your Favorite University Presses, May 1, 2015

Welcome to our weekly roundup of news from university presses! Once again, there is a lot to share this week from our fellow academic publishing houses and much to learn on What SUP at the social university presses. This week, we found conversations on online bullying, digital militarism, and sexting as well

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