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Obamacare: Lessons from the North

A recent Huffington Post article reports that “one big hurdle to future sign-ups is the public’s chronically poor understanding of how key parts of Obamacare can help low- and middle-income people afford coverage. … And public opinion about the law itself is negative.” Given how there are still an estimated 54 million Americans are still uninsured, improving public understanding of the subsidies appears to be crucial...

Cambria Press New Book from the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)!

NEW from the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsylvania)! “This book represents the future of Asian studies. A thoroughly transcultural perspective that characterizes the volume sheds new lights on issues that have been studied only within the framework of East Asian modern nation states. At the same time, it demonstrates how immediately relevant the...

Cambria Press Book Launch at Wilson Center! Public policy scholar Sanchita Saxena will discuss her highly praised new book!

Cambria Press author Sanchita Saxena, (Executive Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies and Director of the Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at the University of California at Berkeley) will discuss her new book, Made in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka: The Labor Behind the Global Garments and Textiles Industries, which has earned rave reviews from leading experts, at the...

ASAL 2014 at the University of Sydney

Brigitta Olubas, author of the well-praised Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist (part of the the Cambria Australian Literature Series headed by Susan Lever) is one of the conveners for the 2014 Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) held from July 9-12 at the University of Sydney. Susan Lever, author of the highly acclaimed David Foster: The...

LASA 2014: Democracy and Memory

The theme for this year’s LASA congress–democracy and memory–is a highly important one which presses scholars to consider critical questions regarding the impact of collective memory and institutional development. From the LASA website, these questions are: Does this past, shaped by collective memories that are themselves constructed of narratives, shared experiences, and interpretations of everyday life, as well as of...

Cambria Press Book Review! Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry is “a groundbreaking study”!

Cambria Press congratulates Toby Davidson on the glowing review of his book, Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry, which JASAL has hailed for being a “groundbreaking study which speaks to those engaged in literature, religious and cultural studies and, most directly, to those exploring the interface between poetry and the sacred … A particularly pleasing feature of Christian Mysticism and Australian Poetry is...

Cambria Press Book Review! Sinophone Malaysian Literature is “exceptionally well-researched”!

Cambria Press congratulates Alison Groppe on the excellent review and recommendation of her book, Sinophone Malaysian Literature: Not Made in China, which CHOICE has praised because of how it is “exceptionally well-researched,”  as well as how “Groppe advances into a fresh exploration of the benefits and challenges of being a Sinophone author” and “discusses the burden on writers in reflecting the experience...

Cambria Press Book Review! Sexing Political Culture in the History of France is “an invaluable resource for historians”!

    Cambria Press congratulates Alison Moore on the outstanding review of her book, Sexing Political Culture in the History of France, which the Canadian Journal of History has lauded because it “offers a series of fascinating vignettes on different historical instantiations of gender and sexuality across time” and “provides an insightful overview of the kind of scholarship of gender...

Cambria Press Book Review! The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail is a “thorough overview” and a “sound guide”!

Cambria Press congratulates Michael Ackland on the outstanding review of his book, The Experimental Fiction of Murray Bail, which JASAL praised for it being a “thorough review of this major Australian artist” that fills the long-overdue need for an extended study. The review also encourages that “devotees might especially take up his newest novel, The Voyage (2012), and apply their...

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