In a review essay encompassing the history of the United Nations, the Wall Street Journal’s George Melloan highly praises Roger Lipsey’s new biography of the UN’s second secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld, saying ”no one has sketched his life and peacekeeping endeavors with such depth and breadth as Mr. Lipsey.” “Mr. Lipsey sees two Hammarskjölds, one a man of action taming dangerous political passions and the other a deeply introspective philosopher,” Melloan writes. “Mr. Lipsey describes a man who,…
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It may still be snowing here in Ann Arbor, but we’re still excited for spring–and new publications: Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality by Timothy Morton, an open access book, was published jointly by Michigan Publishing and Open Humanities Press. Human Figurations released 2.1, featuring new articles and book reviews. Human Figurations, a journal on sociology and other disciplines, is one of our newest publications. The Philosopher’s Imprint, the open access philosophy series, released one new paper: From Coordination to Content by Samuel Cumming. Volumes 9 and…
Publishing Production hit the ground running for 2013. Here’s what we’ve published in the first month of the new year: Feminist Studies published issue 38.3. The newest issue commemorates the scholarship of former editorial director Claire Goldberg Moses and her pioneering innovations in feminist publishing. Feminist Studies is available in its entirety to subscribers, but anyone can search or browse the journal and purchase PDFs of individual articles. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association released the Summer 2012…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the first issue of the Journal of the Southern Association for Information Systems (JSAIS), a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes scholarly articles on all aspects of information systems. JSAIS is the official publication of the Southern Association for Information Systems. The editors of JSAIS seek for the journal to be open, in all senses of the word: Accessible online at no cost to the reader Free of overly dense, academic…
Happy New Year from all of us in Publishing Production! While we’re busy prepping content and getting excited for what’s to come in 2013, take a look at what we published in the last month of 2012: The Journal of Anthropological Research released issue 68.4. This issue features new articles on topics ranging from language to identity to cultural heritage; as well as fifteen new book reviews. This publication is available in full to subscribers only,…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of the International Institute Journal, an open-access serial produced jointly by the University of Michigan’s International Institute (II) and Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS), and published online by MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library. The II Journal is published twice a year, and includes features on cultural change, language, literature, communications technology, political and economic development, human rights, and global security. It aims to be…
MPublishing is pleased to announce the availability of Music & Politics, an open-access online journal publishing since 2007. In partnership with MPublishing, the full run of Music & Politics is freely available online under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This peer-reviewed journal publishes two issues per year on topics including the impact of politics on the lives of musicians, music as a form of political discourse, and the influences of ideology on musical historiography. In addition to…
During a recent interview with Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio, Press author Andrew Herscher discussed his new book, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit, a guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit’s economic decline. Herscher describes unreal estate as “urban space that has lost economic value to the point where it can support other sorts of value,” and becomes valuable in other ways. While intense attention has been paid to Detroit…
With The Hobbit hitting theatres this week, LA Weekly, part of the Village Voice family of free papers, interviewed International Relations of Middle-earth co-author Patrick James about the book’s origins and using Tolkien to teach real-world multinational conflict. In the interview, James credited Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy with creating a “pop culture touchstone,” making the situations and themes that pervade Frodo and Sam’s journey relateable and therefor even more useful in the classroom. For professors planning…
It has been a busy and exciting fall here at MPublishing. We’ve been winding the month with some new content to share with you: digitalcuturebooks newest title: The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit by Andrew Herscher. (see here for our previous announcement) The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 18.1, the latest electronic back issue from Fall 2011. This issue includes seven new articles, which cover topics from service-learning, to linking the academy and the common reader, to…