Blog — ...and hide tanning, people talking to each other about things that might not otherwise have been said.” Blaise Russell The importance of children is repeated throughout the book. As...
Blog — AU Press is joining in on the celebration of International Open Access Week, which runs from October 25 to October 31. This year’s theme, chosen by the Open Access Week...
Blog — ...the digital world. Next on our list to read… Awkward Politics: Technologies of Popfeminist Activism, a fun-looking book from McGill Queen’s University Press looks at how awkwardness can be used...
Blog — ...National Geographic Society and professor of Anthropology at UBC called George and Alice’s story, “A fascinating account of the not so distant past when two worlds came together—that of Europe,...
Blog — Happy University Press Week to everyone who is celebrating alongside the members of Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Today, members of the university press community are sharing information, stories,...
Blog — Speaking Power to Truth: Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual edited by Michael Keren and Richard Hawkins provides an analysis of the world of online discourse as it relates to...
Blog — ...Crowds “The goal for any academic should be to increase the amount of knowledge in the world, so the removal of barriers to spreading that knowledge can only be a...
Blog — On International Women’s Day (March 8), we celebrate the achievements of women and we take a hard look at what still needs to be done to achieve gender parity and...
Blog — ...in what is now being called the “post-truth world.” Keren and Hawkins search for truth and democracy in millions of online comments and in the hundreds of statements by public...
Blog — International Women’s Day is a global holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women’s rights movement. The holiday brings much-needed attention to issues such as...