Happy New Year from Cambria Press!
A great start to a fabulous year! Wishing you and yours a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2015!
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#MLA15 Look for This Banner in the Exhibit Hall
MLA attendees, look for this banner when you are in the book exhibit hall. It will be right in front, near the entrance, and it will take you to the Cambria Press booth 402 where you can browse our books and take part in our #MLA15 book giveaway draw. Simply:…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | Literature | MLA | New Scholarly Books | Performing Arts | Theatre | Women's Studies
Arthur Laurents – Leftist, Gender, and Gay Politics on Stage
Arthur Laurents is best remembered for his collaborations with Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins on the groundbreaking musical, West Side Story, and with Sondheim, Robbins and Jule Styne on Gypsy, one of the most celebrated and most often revived works of musical theatre. In addition to his musicals,…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | African Studies | Africana Studies | Communication | International Studies | Political Science
Africa’s Digital Economy
“Ten years ago any conversation about the digital-content sector in Africa would have been short, focusing on the false promises of the Internet, low levels of connectivity, and high charges. The fast-growing wireless sector on the continent has, however, changed the situation dramatically. This is beginning to change as Liquid…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | African Studies | Africana Studies | History | International Studies | Latin American Studies
#ASA2014 Featured Author: Ana Lucia Araujo
Ana Lucia Araujo, professor of history and director of graduate studies at Howard University, has published highly acclaimed books on slavery. Two of these books, Public Memory of Slavery and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade are the perfect studies for this year’s African Studies Association annual meeting theme. Her…
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Veterans Day Salute: Language and Gender in the Military
Happy Veterans Day to America’s heroes! Highlighted today is Lt. Col. Edith Disler’s book Language and Gender in the Military. From the preface: “American military identity is part of American identity in that it influences the American masculine construct and has affected 26 million veterans and their families, as…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | American Politics | CHOICE Recommendation | Political Science
Election Day: “Vote the PARTY, not the person” – Anthony Gierzynski, Saving American Elections
Political scientist Anthony Gierzynski (University of Vermont) fully recognizes that “the petty, superficial, and distorted nature of partisan debate leaves voters without a sense of what the candidates and their parties represent.” (Saving American Elections, p. 83) and that “elections require that voters pay attention, gather enough information to…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | African Studies | Africana Studies | ASA: African Studies Association | History | International Studies | Political Science
Outstanding Book Review: The Nigeria-Biafra War by Chima Korieh is “worthy and invaluable.”
The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory by Chima J. Korieh (who also coedited Minorities and the State in Africa) has been praised by the Journal of Asian and African Studies for being “worthy and invaluable.” The book review stated that “Korieh’s research disclosed hard documentary evidence showing…
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Halloween Highlight: “In the new zombie-infested world, former orders and systems of knowledge collapse …” – Andrea Wood
In Unnatural Reproductions and Monstrosity: The Birth of the Monster in Literature, Film, and Media Andrea Wood explained that “in the new zombie-infested world, former orders and systems of knowledge collapse and crumble overnight as survivors are left in a time and place where the familiar has become irreconcilably…
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Academic Libraries Book Recommendations | African Studies | Africana Studies | ASA: African Studies Association | History | International Studies | Political Science | Sociology
Why is Africa important to the rest of the world?
President Barack Obama recently declared that the future stability of the world depends on African nations’ prosperity and self-reliance. Reinforcing this is Toyin Falola, leading authority in African studies, who stated that “scholars and policy makers have the obligation to show Africa and the world how to succeed.” This is…