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What SUP from Your Favorite University Presses, March 14, 2014

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 continue to celebrate Women’s History Month, contemplate the current

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What SUP from Your Favorite University Presses, February 28, 2014

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, the presses are featuring posts inspired by Black History Month,

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Editor Phoebe Clapham on Political Economy Books

Phoebe Clapham— As I discovered on becoming the politics and economics editor at Yale University Press’s London office, ‘political economy’ is a phrase that means very different things to different people. Before the twentieth century it was generally used where now we say ‘economic policy’, to describe how a state

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September Theme: Political Economy

Right on time for this year’s election season, the Yale Press Log is covering a swath of new books on “political economy”, specifically what’s at stake to effect change in today’s world of intertwined social, political, and economic concerns, and how people participate globally in the determination of their own

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What SUP from Your Favorite University Presses, June 15, 2012

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

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What SUP from Your Favorite University Presses, June 8, 2012

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

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John Baldessari Cometh

Introduction for a man who needs no introduction We are excited to share the news that the gorgeous, monumental Volume One of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, featuring 500 color illustrations of work from the early, formative years of the artist’s career, is on the verge of being released.  And though

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Intelligent Design

This year, four of Yale University Press’s art & architecture books have been honored by the Association of American University Presses (AAUP)’s Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, tying with the number of YUP art & architecture books featured in last year’s AAUP Show. Judging for the 2012 AAUP Book, Jacket

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The Art and Letters of Josef Stalin

A little over a month ago, newspapers announced the passing of Lana Peters.  Born Svetlana Stalina, Peters was the only daughter of infamous Russian dictator Josef Stalin.  After defecting to the United States in 1967, Peters wrote several memoirs about her experience living in the shadow of her father, a

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World of Letters: Yale’s History with A Little History

In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the twenty-six-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance in Viennato attempt to write a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and the book,

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