The Washington Post on DRM-free e-books
The April 8, 2011, issue of The Washington Post includes Rob Pegoraro’s Fast Forward column on the virtues of DRM-free books. The e-book business seems determined to repeat the early mistakes […]
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Illini Loyalty Book Launch
The University of Illinois Press and the Larry Kanfer Gallery invite you to celebrate the publication of Illini Loyalty: The University of Illinois. Photographs by Larry Kanfer Text by Alaina […]
National Women’s Studies Association & University of Illinois Press First Book Prize
Deadline to Apply: June 1, 2011 The National Women’s Studies Association and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce a new competition for the best dissertation or first […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education reviews Woody Guthrie, American Radical
The April 3, 2011, issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education includes a profile of Will Kaufman’s new book Woody Guthrie, American Radical. “Yes, there have been two major biographies—Joe Klein’s […]
The Journal of Animal Ethics
From the press release: A ground-breaking new journal covering the issue of animal ethics has been launched by a US and UK academic partnership with the goal of widening international […]
Strahov Monastery Library
The media geniuses at 360Cities have produced a 40 gigapixel image of the Strahov Monastery Library in the Czech Republic. Link to the 360Cities image. Via Boing Boing. […]
George Kirsch: Opinionator
George Kirsch, author of the University of Illinois Press titles Golf in America and Baseball and Cricket: The Creation of American Team Sports, 1838-72, contributed an Opinionator column this week […]
Spring Book Sale – 55% off
The University of Illinois Press is having a sale on select books. 55% off plus free shipping. Click here for details and a full list of titles. […]
The Sound of the 2012 Presidential Candidates
Finished copies of Greg Goodale’s new book Sonic Persuasion: Reading Sound in the Recorded Age just arrived from the printer for an April 25 publication date. The first book in […]
What makes a presidential campaign “good”? by Michele P. Claibourn
The 2012 presidential campaign has arrived, mostly. At least, one of the Republicans you’ve heard of has almost announced his candidacy for the presidency (Newt Gingrich, I’m sure you’ve heard […]
AJP in The New Yorker
In the March 14 issue of The New Yorker, Jill Lepore cites The American Journal of Psychology in the opening paragraph of her article about G. Stanley Hall and the […]
Black Colleges and the NCAA Basketball Tournament by Charles Martin
Basketball fans around the country are being swept up this week in the annual “March Madness.” The first week of competition in the NCAA men’s tournament includes the infamous one-sided […]