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Cambria Press Book Review: Digital Media in East Asia is “well-researched and presented” and “highly recommended”!

Cambria Press congratulates Carin Holroyd and Ken Coates on the outstanding journal review of their book, Digital Media in East Asia: National Innovation and the Transformation of a Region, by Pacific Affairs. The review praises the book for not just being “well-researched and presented” and making “timely and valuable confirmations of this new trend” but also for being “an accessible book...

Cambria Press highlights Sex, Love, and Fidelity on Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day from Cambria Press! On this day when many would like to feel special, Kassia Wosick’s book Sex, Love, and Fidelity is one to read to understand how contemporary relationships succeed (and fail). This fascinating study illuminates how “fidelity is the ultimate catalyst for feeling special and making one’s partner(s) feel significant. In other words, fidelity (rather than...

Cambria Press Book ACSP Honorable Mention: Immigrants and the Revitalization of Los Angeles!

Cambria Press congratulates Gerardo Sandoval for the Paul Davidoff Book Award 2013 Honorable Mention by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The Paul Davidoff Award is one of the most prestigious awards in the academic planning field and is presented biennially by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The award recognizes an outstanding book promoting participatory planning and...

Cambria Press Book Review: Literary Review of Canada recommends Human Evolution and Male Aggression for university curricula

Cambria Press congratulates Anne Innis Dagg and Lee E. Harding on the glowing review of their book in Literary Review of Canada by Dr. Walter S. DeKeseredy, the Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences at West Virginia University. The book review commends Human Evolution and Male Aggression: Debunking the Myth of Man and Ape because it is a...

Cambria Press Book Highlight in Honor of Spirit Day! Go Purple!

Cambria Press is going purple with GLAAD today in honor of Spirit Day! Cambria Press is also very proud to highlight Gay Drama Now by John Clum (Duke University), which “signal a daring and uncompromising next wave in gay drama for the twenty-first century,” according to Professor Robert Vorlicky, Director of Theatre Studies, Department of Drama, New York University. Professor Shane...

Cambria Press director Toni Tan will be the keynote speaker for RMMLA Women’s Caucus Meeting

  Toni Tan, director of Cambria Press, will be the keynote speaker at the RMMLA Women’s Caucus Meeting. She will be speaking on sexuality and globalization. Be sure to check out the Cambria Press display booth and don’t miss the Cambria Press RMMLA special promotion! * * * * * * * * STAY POSTED! LIKE Cambria Press on Facebook,...

Cambria Press Book Review: Disability and Health Journal praises Grounded Theory and Disability Studies

Cambria Press congratulates Simon Hayhoe on the positive review of his book Grounded Theory and Disability Studies: An Investigation Into Legacies of Blindness by the Disability and Health Journal, which praises it because “the book is a strong representation of many of the real life issues faced by researchers conducting in-depth qualitative research.” There are affordable Cambria Press e-book versions...

Landmines do not know the difference between war and peace

A recent article in The Economist reports that southeastern Myanmar is “one of the most mine-ridden regions in the world”, where “over 5m Burmese people live in areas contaminated by landmines, most of which are concentrated on the long border with Thailand.”  In spite of the lethal consequences of landmines, demining has been out of the question because “ ‘they...

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