#university press

[virgin-martyr]

2022 Holiday Discounts from University Press

Princeton University Press

This is not holiday-specific, but you get a 40% discount on any in-print book as well as 2 free epubs if you sign up for the Princeton University Press newsletter.

Yale University Press

30% + Free Shipping on select titles with discount code Y22GIFT 

University of Texas Press

Get 40% off any book with discount code UTXGIFTS. More information here.

University of Chicago Press

30% off with discount code AD1979. More information here.

University of Notre Dame Press

50% off with discount count 14GIVEBKS. More information here.

Northwestern University Press

40% off with discount code HOLIDAYS. More information here.

University Press of Colorado

50% off with discount code UPCHOLIDAYS22. More information here.

University of Washington Press

40% + Free Shipping with discount code WINTER22. More information here.

Other Discounts

University of North Carolina Press, Wayne State University Press, Ohio University Press, and 30% off if you sign up for the University of Pittsburgh Press Newsletter

#literature #book sale #university press

[randomconfessions]

Campus journ page? or university public relations page?

#campus journalism #university press

[econrenuka]

How to find good books in economics

I was watching this video by Market Power on youtube to see where I could find more interesting economics books. I'm currently reading through the old canon, but honestly I do want to read some books there are a bit more specific to my tastes as a PhD student interested in health economics.

To my surprise, he suggested that people really interested in academic nonfiction subscribe to university press newsletters. What a fantastic suggestion!

I immediately went to the Harvard and Yale University Press websites just to see what was there and I found a fascinating list of books. I decided to make a quick list of the books that might be most interesting to health economists (and as a future reference for myself!)

Obviously, these are just some of the initial ones I found interesting from the two press websites i visited, so I highly recommend anyone reading this to go take a look for yourself and find something specific to your interests! I'll definitely continue keeping tabs!

Harvard University Press

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant

The Cigarette: A Political History by Sarah Milov

The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright

Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat by Ai Hisano

Ancestral Genomics: African American Health in the Age of Precision Medicine by Constance B. Hilliard

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well by Allen, Joseph G. and Macomber, John D.

Yale University Press

Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It by Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman

Diabetes: A History of Race and Disease by Arleen Marcia Tuchman

Disorder: A History of Reform, Reaction, and Money in American Medicine by Peter A. Swenson

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 by John Fabian Witt

Dangerous Medicine: The Story behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis by Sydney A. Halpern

#economics #book list #university press #health econ #health economics

[viljaangelica]

The link: Had to remove a bit of its tail to open it but this should get you all the way...

All I can do is state the obvious fact that finance & super wealth combined with educational institutions are a dangerous combination and that the deal the Australian Labour government has made with connecting their Universities with business and finance is a very bad idea!

#dna #rna #artifial dna #research #in vivo #in vitro #geographical #worldwide #world domination #population control #knowledge #politics #university press #university memes

[mohawkmind]

#writing and writers #books #literature #publishing #university press

[infactforgetthepark]

[Free eBook] Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home by Mark L. Hineline [DIY Ecology Conservation & Science History]

Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home by Mark L. Hineline, an instructor in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science at Michigan State University, is a science history and advocacy book, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher the University of Chicago Press.

This is their featured Free eBook of the Month selection for August, and is an accessibly written natural history and DIY guide, with tips on how to keep track on the various flora and fauna in your local neighbourhood by recording everyday observations, as well as a philosophical meditation on the connections between the seasons and climate change and a primer on the history of phenology, which studies natural events and their timing. There's also a brief Q&A with the author about this book on the UCP blog.

Offered worldwide through the month of August, available directly from the publisher's website.

Currently free @ the university press' dedicated promo page (ePub available with options of both Adobe Digital Editions and Readium DRM, follow instructions on the supplied redemption link to download, requires newsletter signup with valid email) and you can read more about the book on its regular catalogue page.

Description Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What plants are in the vicinity, and in what ways are they growing? What shape are the rocks, what texture is the dirt, and what color are the bodies of water? Does the air feel hot or cold, wet or dry, windy or still? Everything you notice, write it all down.

We know that the Earth’s climate is changing, and that the magnitude of this change is colossal. At the same time, the world outside is still a natural world, and one we can experience on a granular level every day. Ground Truth is a guide to living in this condition of changing nature, to paying attention instead of turning away, and to gathering facts from which a fuller understanding of the natural world can emerge over time.

Featuring detailed guidance for keeping records of the plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, and mammals in your neighborhood, this book also ponders the value of everyday observations, probes the connections between seasons and climate change, and traces the history of phenology—the study and timing of natural events—and the uses to which it can be put. An expansive yet accessible book, Ground Truth invites readers to help lay the groundwork for a better understanding of the nature of change itself.

#free ebook #mark l. hineline #phenology #science #ecology #natural history #climate change #nature #diy #university press

[spookberry]

Uncle Iroh and Rose Quartz are very similar characters from similar backgrounds and follow similar journeys, but the people arent ready for that conversation

#i know this cuz i left a comment about them being similar on tiktok and everyones real pressed about it lol #god forbid women do anything amiright #but its okay for the silly old man #i also think the lack of scenes Showing iroh's tyranny shifts the scales in his favor a lot #atla #steven universe

[chaoswarfare]

dp x dc prompt #54

When Danny was first given the opportunity to make a public persona when he came to live in Gotham, he was a little bit concerned. How was he supposed to come up with an entire elaborate character to act as all the time. Then he remembered the time that Vlad called him a rabid badger when he got especially angry and a genius idea came into existence.

When the press gathered around to interview and write about the newest Wayne adoption, they thought they had seen it all already. The last new child had tried to skewer one of the unsuspecting interns after all. When the teenager didn’t even get all the way out of the car before punching someone standing too close and snarling at him, several considered filing their resignation letters on the spot. The pay wasn’t worth this.

#dp x dc #danny phantom #danny fenton #dc x dp #crossover #dc universe #dp x dc crossover #writing prompt #writing #funny #batpham #danny decides to go feral #who would ever think that the well mannered ghost bat and this absolute monster were the same person #danny gets an idea #alfred was the only one informed ahead of time #the press didn’t think it could get worse than jason or damian #now they get someone worse than both of them combined #danny can and will bite anyone that gets close #dick totally just cheers him on #one time danny definitely gets into the vent ducts and cackles menacingly at people just trying to get through their meeting #absolute gremlin #they have tried bribery blackmail and duct tape and he still won’t sit still for a picture #that’s totally why they all come out weird #no other reason #mans would absolutely go crazy to be able to embarrass the entire 1% as a whole with his behavior #excepting his family and sam ain’t no rich person getting off scot free #people totally think he’s the newest rogue and bruce is just oblivious lmao #danny phantom: scaring the city as a whole from appearance 1 #:))

[driftsart]

I've seen so many bishoujo Starscream drawings these days so why not make a possible human design for my Starscream instead lmfao

I should do this for my other designs

#I pressed the comment thingy on the poll so that way I could see the results 👍 #au #digitalart #transformers #art #photoshop #character design #decepticons #starscream #redesign #humanformers #holoform #original design #drawing #alternate universe #old fart starscream lmfao #im dying kahsjshsjsjss #guys hes so babygirl #hes a twig Soundwave can snap him in half

[celestial-sphere-press]

Fanbinding: Like a Wildfire Burning by @werewolves-are-real

It's illogical to deprive the body of necessary nutrition, but old habits can be hard to break.

Before I left for the holidays back in Dec, I made a whole bunch of books, and four of them were for and in-person meet-up for a class with other Renegaders!

I bound "Like a Wildfire Burning" (on Ao3) for @pleasantboatpress since they love Star Trek & Spock. It's a Spock-centric fic, focused on his struggle with an eating disorder and being caught between two cultures.

For design, I researched to translate "Wildfire burning" into Vulcan and then how to write it in Vulcan calligraphy (back). The fabric is Colibri copper, and the endpapers are a chiyogami I picked up down in Kyoto. I found a great smoke vector that I was able to play with for the title and first pages. I went for a gold splatter on the edges.

Honestly though the best part of making this book has been being able to meet and hang out with manda in person!!

#fanbinding #celestial sphere press #ficbinding #star trek #spock #spirk #star trekking across the universe #renegade greece trip 1.0

[libr-0-cubicularist]

Doodled The Guys instead of facing responsibility. Ya know. The usual.

#shit now I gotta tag #awh my cat came and sat on my lap :D #wait #no #tagging #right. #..she’s purrin’ :3 #shut up I’ll tag now #linked universe #lu four #lu shadow #shadow link #lu red #lu green #lu blue #lu vio #lu colors #pencil sketch #my art #pressed some flowers too :D #traditional art #I know it’s messy I’m tryna get less perfectionist about what I post #I love my cat <3

[zer0point5ive]

it’s the picture of diana in lawrence’s wallet with her arms wrapped around a dog, it’s the horse riding awards in her bedroom and and the snake toy she has draped over her headboard .. it’s adam who wanted so badly to be a vet, adam who loves cats and brings them saucers of milk despite there being barely anything in his fridge .. it’s them bonding over their love of animals, diana showing adam her amazing animal facts book and adam asking for one every time he sees her, it’s adam saving up his own money so he can surprise her with a trip to the zoo for their next adam-and-diana day when lawrence and alison are at work and need someone to watch her, it’s him taking his camera, getting pictures of her with her favorite animals and developing them, it’s diana telling adam she wants to be a vet when she grows up and him getting excited, grabbing lawrence’s stethoscope when diana says she wants to play vets and taking his job oh so seriously when diana says that he’s gotta be her assistant, it’s .. its ..

#sorry for getting a little sick in the head about adam being the best stepdad ever as if its my fault #ohhhhhhhhhhh. its all a little too much for me #starts sobbing in a terrible nd agonising sort of way right after pressing post #good god man. talking to self #get a grip #chainshipping #diana gordon #adam faulkner stanheight #📹 #no way in hell lawrence dr gordon md has a dog they do not have pets. maybe hed be ok w a rabbit #uhoh motifs cant stop wont stop #that dog is definitely an uncles or an aunts i just dont see in any universe lawrence having a dog or even a cat unless adam is involved #unless in some sort of fun au lawence finds a cat nd takes it to vet adam for the plot but otherwise no #n e way ! #amazing animal facts was published in 2003 so it checks out actually #i checked for the post nd everything i take this all very seriously you know

[screwpinecaprice]

Reposting a connverse I made in 2021. Well, specifically posting this again after editing a few stuff.

I had been so bothered with how I kept editing Steven until I made his silhouette floppy-looking. So I fixed it a bit.

And that this was suppose to be flipped in the first place (which was why Connie's nose piercing was on the right side on the original.)

#I think I chose to keep it flipped then because I recognized Connie's silhouette was much stronger and sometimes I wanted my stronger parts #on the left side of the image. #connverse #Steven Quartz Universe #Connie Maheswaran #SU #my shiz #repostober #I'll be deleting my uploads for repostober by the end of the year except this one. #Editing it despite me saying I am not going to do anything two years ago. #I saved a speed paint of this on Youtube and you can clearly see I kept editing Steven worse and worse. 😵 #I got his legs fixxed into a better stance at least. #What I specifically had a problem now is Steven's arm and jacket. #Like I think I can make his torso look more sturdy. #But I don't wanna dwell on it too much. #Steven Universe #Eugh this was suppose to be a scheduled post. and it just disappeared while editing it. I'm guessing I accidentally pressed the 'post now' #button? #teal

[fanfican]

An Important Lesson from the Authors Who Came Before Us

We all know the story of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Childhood friends, high school sweethearts, and university rivals.

They showed up at Cambridge with trunks full of typewritten stories featuring talking lions, magical rings, a demon named Screwtape, and a dragon named Smog.

Their Creative Writing professor, James Joyce, famously suffered a fit of apoplexy when he first read their writing. He was so furious over their whimsical stories that he banished them from his classroom and forced them to work as unpaid innkeepers at his pub. He told them they could only come back once they proved they'd learned enough about the "real world" to write stories about "real things, like eagles and children."

Professor Joyce was forced to admit them back into his classroom when Tolkien wrote his eagles into Middle Earth and Lewis created the Pevensie children to visit Narnia. Their contemporary, Bede Griffiths, alleges that Joyce could be heard raging and screeching about how the clever young authors had willfully misinterpreted his assignment as far away as Gertrude Stein's Edinburgh apartment!

I remember this moment in history every time my professors tell me that I need to change my writing--when they try to get me to conform to a dying format. When they tell me that my Land Before Time fanfiction isn't appropriate for a class on Immigration Stories and Travel Narratives. When they tell me that my Babe fics "can't" be considered an essay on Orwell's Animal Farm.

Won't they feel silly in a few decades, when there will be sold-out university courses focused on studying work like mine.

There's a reason James Joyce's work has never been turned into movies. There's a reason his fandom is practically nonexistent.

The only reason we know his name is because he was a footnote in the intertwined heroes' journeys of authors who weren't afraid to try something new.

#c.s. lewis #j.r.r. tolkien #the chronicles of narnia #lord of the rings #lotr fandom #fanfiction #ao3 #history #england #james joyce #cambridge university press

[eleonorpiteira]

Celestacean I painted for Hit Point Press 🐋

#Celestacean #hit point press #illustration #space whale #space art #digital illustration #digital art #art only tag #I spent so many hours just making sure those clouds/nebula dust/whatever had the right flow #😭 #'space whales' are probably one of the most cliché things on the universe but it was fun having a go at it! #plus: STARS!!! #AND A BABY WHALE

[uwmspeccoll]

(Decolonizing) Science Saturday 

This Saturday we are sharing some illustrations from our first edition copy of Wendy Makoons Geniusz’s book, Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings. The botanical illustrations are provided by the author’s sister, Annmarie Geniusz. Published in 2009 by Syracuse University Press, the book is part of their series The Iroquois and Their Neighbors. Established by the press in 1975, the publication series’ primary scope is Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) scholarship, but it also focuses on uplifting the voice of Indigenous scholars’ work in contemplating their own culture. 

As an academic raised in the Anishinaabe culture, Geniusz is particularly well suited to critically examine the Western scientific lens through which Indigenous botanical knowledge is often presented in the Academy. Genuisz, who got her undergraduate degree here at UWM, is the former director of the American Indian Studies program at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and currently teaches Ojibwe language there. 

View more of our Science Saturday posts here. 

You can find more posts on our Native American Literature Collection here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#Science Saturday #Our Knowledge is Not Primitive #Wendy Makoons Geniusz #Wendy Geniusz #Annmarie Geniusz #Anishinaabe #Ethnobotony #Decolonization #Syracuse University Press #The Iroquois and Their Neighbors #Indigenous Scholars #Anishinaabe-gikendaasowin #Native American Literature Collection #olivia