Regional / International studies Books
University of Utah Press,U.S. Sushi in Cortez: Interdisciplinary Essays on Mesa
Book SynopsisThe Mesa Verde region is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and is an area fraught with complexities, anomalies, and layers of histories. Sushi in Cortez is a collection of essays by an interdisciplinary group of academics, artists, and cultural observers that explores this diverse landscape and heritage by combining and sharing the differing perspectives provided by various disciplines. Poetry, film, environmental philosophy, nature photography, native Pueblo perspectives, and archaeology are used to touch on the common questions people ask about the value of their work and lives as well as the value of visiting ancient sites such as Mesa Verde. The authors share personal stories about the difficulties, joys, confusions, and epiphanies they experienced as they crossed the boundaries of their professional lives, coming to understand how incomplete any single rendition of place can be.Trade Review“We are brought into the world of sharing, humor, humility and exploration that transcends the traditional limitations of academic or scholarly work. Given the recent interest in interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary work, this book has the potential to fill a real niche.” —Sylvia D. Torti, dean of the Honors College and assistant research professor of biology, University of Utah “The volume would be very effective for all incoming college freshmen. It would create a platform for discussion of what happens intellectually as one trains to become a professional in any field, and for discussion of the pros and cons of this kind of professionalization.” —Shirley Powell, vice president of programs, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center “I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the joys and the challenges of truly interdisciplinary work. Sushi in Cortez is creative, provocative, and wise. It deserves a wide readership among all who care about conversations across intellectual, professional, and personal walls.” --David George Haskell, author of the Pulitzer finalist, The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch In Nature
£999.99
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Merchants of Men: How Jihadists and ISIS Turned
Book SynopsisA powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping Westerners. More recently, the destabilization of Syria and Iraq coupled with the rise of ISIS offered them new business opportunities in the Middle East, from selling Western hostages to jihadist groups to trafficking in refugees numbering in the millions.Overall, the kidnapping industry today is bigger than the illegal drug trade and worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Merchants of Men is based on exclusive access to hostage negotiators actively involved in ransom negotiations and rescue missions, counter-terrorism experts, members of security services, and former hostages, among many others. The reader will discover that the protocols of prevention and rescue change according to the type of abduction and the designated targets, and will come to know first hand the range of experiences of kidnapping victims.Will the West once again reap the benefits of the political chaos it has sown in its own backyard? From colonization to the advent of friendly dictatorial regimes, today's fast-aging European nations are buyers on the refugee market. New workers are needed, and the merchants of men are supplying them. But only skilled, highly educated refugees are wanted. As a tsunami of migrants and refugees floods Europe, new questions almost too numerous to count must be answered.
£19.96
Chicago Review Press The Dangerous Divide: Peril and Promise on the
Book Synopsis2015 International Latino Book Awards Winner for Best Political / Current Affairs Book How do we balance border security and America’s need for a vital workforce while continuing to provide access to the American dream? Since the attacks of 9/11, the United States has steadily ramped up security along the US-Mexico border, transforming America’s legendary Southwest into a frontier of fear. Veteran journalist Peter Eichstaedt roams this fabled region from Tucson, Arizona, to El Paso, Texas, meeting with migrants, border security advocates, and communities ravaged by cross-border crime. Eichstaedt finds that despite tens of thousands of border agents and the expenditure of billions of dollars, an estimated one million Mexicans and Central Americans continue to cross the border each year. These migrants fill jobs that have become the underpinnings of the US economy. Rather than building a wall, or more and better barricades, Eichstaedt argues that the United States must reform its immigration and drug laws and acknowledge that costly, counterproductive, and antiquated policies have created deadly circumstances on both sides of the border.
£14.20
Catapult Indigo: Arm Wrestling, Snake Saving, and Some
Book SynopsisThe first collection of nonfiction by one of the few truly important American writers of our time (Sam Lipsyte).Gathering pieces written during the past three decades, Indigo ranges widely in subject matter and tone, opening with “Cleve Dean,” which takes Padgett Powell to Sweden for the World Armwrestling Federation Championships, through to its closing title piece, which charts Powell’s lifelong fascination with the endangered indigo snake, “a thinking snake,” and his obsession with seeing one in the wild. “Some things in between” include an autobiographical piece about growing up in the segregated and newly integrated South and tributes to writers Powell has known, among them Donald Barthelme, who “changed the aesthetic of short fiction in America for the second half of the twentieth century,” and Peter Taylor, who briefly lived in Gainesville, Florida, where Powell taught for thirty-five years. There are also homages to other admired writers: Flannery O’Connor, “the goddesshead”; Denis Johnson, with his “hard honest comedy”; and William Trevor, whose Collected Stories provides “the most literary bang for the buck in the English world.” A throughline in many of the pieces is the American South—the college teacher who introduced Powell to Faulkner; the city of New Orleans, which “can render the improbable possible”; and the seductions of gumbo, sometimes cooked with squirrel meat. Also here is an elegy for Spode, Powell’s beloved pit bull: “I had a dog not afraid, it gave me great cheer and blustery vicarious happiness.” In addressing the craft of fiction, Powell ventures that “writing is controlled whimsy.” His idiosyncratic playfulness brings this collection to vivid life, while his boundless curiosity and respect for the truth keep it on course. As Pete Dexter writes in his foreword to Indigo, “He is still the best, even if not the best-known, writer of his generation.”
£14.41
Four Courts Press Ltd Kildare: The Irish Revolution 1912- 1923
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£32.33
Verso Books Warriors and Scribes: Essays on the History and
Book SynopsisWarriors and Scribes opens and closes using the prism of biography to question the framing of Latin American political life from both a northern, Cold War perspective and from the trivializations of postmodernism. An investigation of Jorge Castaneda's Utopia Disarmed reveals that Latin American politics are eminently transformable beyond the failed nostrums of multilateral organizations and collapsed dictatorships of the 1980s.In surveying regional relations with the USA since 1800, and taking a wry look at Hollywood's treatment of Central America under Reagan, Dunkerley points out that Anglo-America has possessed neither a uniform imperialist vocation, nor the consistent capacity to impose it. Two pieces written in the late 1990s - a reappraisal of Latin American Studies since the Cuban Revolution and a survey of the contemporary politics of Bolivia - reflect the author's concerns with a place that was 'American' for half a millennium before the 'Americanization through globalization' became a watchword.
£14.25
Allen & Unwin A Short History of China and Southeast Asia: Tribute, Trade and Influence
Book SynopsisChina, the world's most populous nation, has always exerted great influence on the traditional kingdoms and modern states of Southeast Asia. Today, history and culture continue to shape the modern relationship.In this concise volume, Martin Stuart-Fox charts the history of relations between China and Southeast Asia across two millennia, examining patterns of diplomacy, commercial networks, and migration, and explaining how these have varied over time. He shows how China's traditional world view was disrupted by the modern order of sovereign nation states, how the country struggled to adapt through its 'century of humiliation' from the opium wars to the proclamation of the People's Republic in 1949 and how, since then, China has sought to restore its standing in the world.A Short History of China and Southeast Asia is a fascinating account of imperial ambition, internal collapse and revival, cultural and commercial striving, war and revolution. Here, the 'Middle Kingdom' plays its role on the world stage, from the beginnings of its history to its growing contest with the USA for dominance of the Asian region. An important insight into the complicated history of the fastest-growing region in the world. to its growing contest with the USA for dominance of the Asian arena.A title in the series edited by Milton Osborne.
£20.79
Armenian Research Center Struggle for Justice: A Story of the American
Book Synopsis"Struggle for Justice" is a unique account of the beginning of the American Committee for Independence of Armenia, as told in the surviving papers of three accomplished Armenian-Americans from Syracuse, New York. From the inception of the "Armenian and Syrian Relief" program in the United States under President Woodrow Wilson's administration, these individuals came to serve this remarkable philanthropic effort, bringing humanitarian aid to the victims of the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire.After a lengthy involvement with the Armenian awareness movement in America and abroad, the top-level founders of this organization banded together at the close of World War I to form a new American Committee. In one of the most formidable gatherings of American and world figures ever assembled, they recruited the public support of an even more impressive group of adherents from America's most accomplished cross-section, and from among the Allied nations who joined this sociopolitical movement in the early weeks of 1919, coinciding with the later first session of the Paris Peace Conference. All confirm the highest level of attainment achieved by the Armenian awareness and independence movement in the United States.The many documents, both written and photographic, included in "The Struggle for Justice" bring the history of this organization to life. One symbolic photograph, depicting the main ACIA convention in New York, February 8, 1919, vividly documents these international post-war meetings, giving a human face to this untold story. Armenian and European historians will appreciate this one-of-a-kind volume.
£999.99
Armenian Research Center The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896: British Media
Book SynopsisBritain's proactive policy on the Armenian Question and the standpoints of the British public and political and civic organizations on the massacres of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in 1894-1896 were widely reflected in the contemporary British press and other media accounts. This volume, which contains more than fifty articles published in major British periodicals in the 1890s, including "Contemporary Review", "Nineteenth Century", "Fortnightly Review", "Blackwood's Magazine", and "Spectator", presents a snapshot of British public opinion during the height of the Armenian Crisis of the 1890s, as well as detailed factual evidence of anti-Armenian policies carried out by the Sultan's government in the Ottoman Empire and the response of the Great Powers - including Britain - to the massacres.The Armenian Massacres, 1894-1896 deliberately omits day-to-day reports from British newspapers covering the events and instead includes analytical reviews and opinions by leading British public figures, travelers, scientists, political, religious, and civic activists, journalists, and members of Parliament that were published in periodicals of differing political and social affiliations. Reprinted more than a century after their original publication, the articles are characteristic of the public attitudes in late nineteenth century Britain, including positions and perceptions of the period that are absolutely different from the principles and values applied to modern international affairs.Therefore, the articles should be considered in their historical context, which explains the negative and even insulting remarks about Muslims or Turks present in some of the articles. At the same time, this edition includes several articles that do not reflect the general positions and trends prevalent in British society, presenting different viewpoints to reflect the historical realities of the late nineteenth century in a comprehensive, objective, and impartial manner for scholars of British and Armenian history. As a result, this book is an extremely valuable resource for scholars of Armenian and European history.
£999.99
Belt Publishing Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of
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£18.00
Rutgers University Press Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the
Book SynopsisIn Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews, census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American history-telling and knowledge production. Trade Review"In this remarkably perceptive book, Trieu’s multilayered narratives of racialization in the Midwest brilliantly contextualize how belonging, representation, and resistance are negotiated." -- Linda Trinh Vo * author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community *"The stories of Asian Americans in the Midwest remain poorly recognized and understood – until now. Fighting Invisibility frames these Asian Americans’ experiences within the context of U.S. racial history and culture, revealing the power of geography in the process. The result is a thought-provoking, highly readable book that should be read from coast to coast." -- Pawan Dhingra * author of Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Introduction: Asian America in America’s Heartland 1 Who Is Midwestern Asian America? A Demographic Overview and Personal Histories of Post-1950s Midwestern Asian Americans 19 “I Only Knew It in Relation to Its Absence”: Isolated and Everyday Ethnics on Spatial Contexts, Community, and Identity 46 “Why Couldn’t I Be White?”: On the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism, and Internalized Racism in the Midwest 64 Crafting “Sharp Weapons” in the Heartland: The Making of Cultural Productions as Racialized Subjects 89 Conclusion 105 Epilogue: A Final Note on Moving Forward for Asian America 109 Appendix: Selected Characteristics of Study Participants 117 Acknowledgments 121 Notes 125 Bibliography 149 Index 000
£999.99
Epfl Press Racing Time: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
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Bohlau Verlag Frühneuzeitliche Friedensstiftung in
Book SynopsisDie Historische Friedensforschung ist angesichts der vielgestaltigen Konflikte der gegenwärtigen Staatenwelt gefragter denn je. Gerade die Epoche der Frühen Neuzeit bietet aufgrund ihrer auffällig hohen Kriegsdichte zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte zur Erforschung der Frage, wie in der Vergangenheit konkret versucht wurde, Frieden herzustellen. Zwar sind zentrale Aspekte frühneuzeitlicher Friedensstiftung, wie Friedenskongresse und -verträge, Verhandlungstechniken oder Friedensdenken, in der neueren Geschichtswissenschaft bereits intensiv analysiert worden. In zweiter Reihe stand bislang allerdings die landesgeschichtliche Verortung der erzielten Befunde. Angesichts des defizitären Forschungsstands zielt der Sammelband darauf ab, in territorial und europäisch übergreifender Weise die Potenziale einer Verbindung landesgeschichtlicher Fragestellungen mit der Historischen Friedensforschung aufzuzeigen.
£60.93
Bohlau Verlag Erinnerung an Mecklenburg: 50 Archivalien aus
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£54.89
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Albrecht Der Bar Und Konrad Von Wettin:
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£56.99
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Eu's Comprehensive Approach to Crisis
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£999.99
V&R unipress GmbH Israel's 70th Anniversary: Insights and
Book SynopsisFascinating insights into the religious, cultural and political laboratory that Israel is
£54.09
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Local Public Choice: Five Essays on Fiscal
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£31.50
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Evolution of Technological Profiles in the
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£31.50
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Rebel Parties in African Post-Conflict Elections:
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£77.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Constitutional Review in the Middle East and
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£999.99
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Rise and Fall of Kenyan Entrepreneurs: Social
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£51.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Ecuadorian Oil Era: Nature, Rent, and the
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£44.25
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Chinese Foundations and Grassroots Social
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£42.75
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Political Economy of International
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£72.00
Sexto Piso Editorial El Paseante de Cadaveres: Retratos de La China
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£999.99
Vida Publishers La Sombra Religiosa Americana: Cómo El
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£42.15
Museum Tusculanum Press National Identity Politics and Postcolonial
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£999.99
NIAS Press Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies: 2018
Book SynopsisVietnam is studied and understood in myriad ways. Even so, much of this knowledge is framed by a limited number of dominant paradigms. The concern of this volume - which applies a postmodern approach to knowledge production in area studies - is to highlight the value of knowledge diversity by challenging some of these paradigms and the myths that are shaped within them. It recognizes that myths are not simply mistakes and thus it does more than simply focus on debunking a dominant paradigmatic view of `Vietnam'. Rather, and more complexly, it aims to explore myths as dynamic yet incomplete representations of Vietnam understood as a multiplicity that can never be captured as an entirety and which will continually undergo revisions as knowledge of Vietnam develops. The purpose of this volume, thus, is twofold: first, to identify problematic axiomatic knowledge and raise alternative possibilities and, second, to highlight the value of interdisciplinarity and methodologically diverse approaches in expanding and enhancing knowledge production. The collective effort of the contributors to achieve these aims stem from their own recent and robust empirical research from a variety of disciplinary approaches and perspectives. As a collective effort their contributions present an inconclusive, unfinished and partial set of pictures of `Vietnam' that illustrates the value of multiple ways of knowing within and beyond academic knowledge making endeavours, and the risks of not doing so.
£999.99
NIAS Press Getting Published: A Companion for the Humanities
Book SynopsisThe biggest hurdle for junior scholars looking to embark on an academic career is to make the transition from PhD candidate to that first (ideally tenured) job. An imperative part of this process is getting published and yet increasingly this is becoming something harder to achieve.This book aims to guide both young and more experienced scholars through some of the pitfall s and complexities of getting published. Furthermore, the far-reaching changes affecting academic publishing (e-publishing , new printing technologies, Creative Commons licensing, the collapse of the library market, etc.) are discussed, focusing on their future effect on academic authors.Although it is in part a practical guide to navigating all stages of the publication process, Getting Published is not simply another 'how to' guide. Rather, its key concern is to give its readers an understanding of the stages, processes and pitfalls involved in getting from an idea in one's head (or indeed a PhD thesis on one's desk) to a published academic book in a colleague's hand. With better knowledge, would-be authors have greater control over their situation.Trade ReviewI recommend this book for academic authors, especially those in the humanities or social sciences, wanting an insider's view of academic book publishing in the early twenty-first century. For first-time authors, reading this book will clarify a compicated, lengthy process that is only beginnning when the manuscript is finished. Steven E. Gump, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Volume 41, Number 1, October 2009 This attractively written book takes us through the process of production of a scholarly monograph, commencing from the planning process and concluding with delivery. The book will be of great use to first-time writers and especially scholars who wish to convert their thesis into a book. For these scholars, the chapters on book-planning and thesis conversion in Getting Published are, I think, essential reading. But experienced academics will also benefit. Julian Millie, ICAS 6 Newsletter (Supplement: Choice in Academic Publishing), July 2009Table of ContentsPreface What this book will do for you * What's in a name? * A clear focus means clear advice * Have you got what it takes? * About the authors * Beyond the book * Acknowledgements 1. Behind the scenes The people inside the publishing house * The people outside the publishing house * Producing the physical books * Bringing the books to customers * The state of the book industry * The book industry and you, the author 2. Planning your book Understanding needs and desires * Success is not one thing * Questions to ask yourself * Which market? * Clarifying your focus * Mapping the book * Choosing a great title * In celebration of odd titles * Annotating and evaluating the table of contents 3. From thesis to book The pressures of junior scholarship * Why is a thesis not a book? * What to do with your thesis * Assessing your material * Getting started * Things you will need to cut * Things you will need to add 4. Producing a shorter (or collected) work Why write articles? * Reworking (or recycling) material * But is this what you really want? * Planning and writing your article * Finding the right journal * Getting your article published * Contributing a chapter to an edited volume * Editing a multi-author volume 5. Writing your book Language * Which language? * Style * Cutting the fog * Presentation * Permissions and the use of copyright material * The writing experience * Survival tips for blocked writers 6. Finding the right publisher Identifying the candidates * Connections, connections * Approaching the publisher * What if a publisher contacts you? * How to be concise * Proposal etiquette * The importance of the pitch * Waiting on tenterhooks * Where now? 7. Getting accepted Preparing and sending the text * External assessment * Typical peer review questions * New forms of peer review * Internal assessments and recommendations * Financial projections * Sources of income * Price and profitability * Decision time 8. Negotiating a contract Kinds of rights * Open Access and Creative Commons * Set in stone or open to negotiation? * Before you sign 9. Working towards publication Enter the production manager * Finalizing your manuscript * From disk to bookshelf * The editing process * Designing and typesetting your book * Backroom or Bangalore? * Producing camera-ready copy * Proofing * Indexing * Printing, binding and delivery 10. Promoting your book What is academic book marketing? * Everyday life in the marketing department * The importance of the author in promoting books * What you can do before publication * What you can do after publication * Promotional DOs and DON'Ts 11. Going it alone Making the decision * Deciding on format * Doing the work * Finding a partner * Promoting and distributing your book * Measures of success Epilogue 185 Publishing revolutions * Electronic formats * E-book readers * POD and the bookshop as content kiosk * Free Internet repositories * The content revolution * Bite-sized scholarship * Creative marketing * The book is dead, long live the book Top tips Appendix 1: Practical style and presentation issues Spelling and grammar * Document formatting * Font matters * Layout and punctuation * Quotations, notes, citations, etc. * Nontext elements * Graphic images and their formats * Other technical issues Appendix 2: Common editing and proof-reading marks Appendix 3: Compendium of publishing terms Further reading Index
£999.99
NIAS Press Getting Published: A Companion for the Humanities
Book SynopsisThe biggest hurdle for junior scholars looking to embark on an academic career is to make the transition from PhD candidate to that first (ideally tenured) job. An imperative part of this process is getting published and yet increasingly this is becoming something harder to achieve.This book aims to guide both young and more experienced scholars through some of the pitfall s and complexities of getting published. Furthermore, the far-reaching changes affecting academic publishing (e-publishing , new printing technologies, Creative Commons licensing, the collapse of the library market, etc.) are discussed, focusing on their future effect on academic authors.Although it is in part a practical guide to navigating all stages of the publication process, Getting Published is not simply another 'how to' guide. Rather, its key concern is to give its readers an understanding of the stages, processes and pitfalls involved in getting from an idea in one's head (or indeed a PhD thesis on one's desk) to a published academic book in a colleague's hand. With better knowledge, would-be authors have greater control over their situation.Trade ReviewI recommend this book for academic authors, especially those in the humanities or social sciences, wanting an insider's view of academic book publishing in the early twenty-first century. For first-time authors, reading this book will clarify a compicated, lengthy process that is only beginnning when the manuscript is finished. Journal of Scholarly Publishing Volume 41, Number 1, October 2009 This attractively written book takes us through the process of production of a scholarly monograph, commencing from the planning process and concluding with delivery. The book will be of great use to first-time writers and especially scholars who wish to convert their thesis into a book. For these scholars, the chapters on book-planning and thesis conversion in Getting Published are, I think, essential reading. But experienced academics will also benefit. Julian Millie, ICAS 6 Newsletter (Supplement: Choice in Academic Publishing), July 2009Table of ContentsPreface What this book will do for you * What's in a name? * A clear focus means clear advice * Have you got what it takes? * About the authors * Beyond the book * Acknowledgements 1. Behind the scenes The people inside the publishing house * The people outside the publishing house * Producing the physical books * Bringing the books to customers * The state of the book industry * The book industry and you, the author 2. Planning your book Understanding needs and desires * Success is not one thing * Questions to ask yourself * Which market? * Clarifying your focus * Mapping the book * Choosing a great title * In celebration of odd titles * Annotating and evaluating the table of contents 3. From thesis to book The pressures of junior scholarship * Why is a thesis not a book? * What to do with your thesis * Assessing your material * Getting started * Things you will need to cut * Things you will need to add 4. Producing a shorter (or collected) work Why write articles? * Reworking (or recycling) material * But is this what you really want? * Planning and writing your article * Finding the right journal * Getting your article published * Contributing a chapter to an edited volume * Editing a multi-author volume 5. Writing your book Language * Which language? * Style * Cutting the fog * Presentation * Permissions and the use of copyright material * The writing experience * Survival tips for blocked writers 6. Finding the right publisher Identifying the candidates * Connections, connections * Approaching the publisher * What if a publisher contacts you? * How to be concise * Proposal etiquette * The importance of the pitch * Waiting on tenterhooks * Where now? 7. Getting accepted Preparing and sending the text * External assessment * Typical peer review questions * New forms of peer review * Internal assessments and recommendations * Financial projections * Sources of income * Price and profitability * Decision time 8. Negotiating a contract Kinds of rights * Open Access and Creative Commons * Set in stone or open to negotiation? * Before you sign 9. Working towards publication Enter the production manager * Finalizing your manuscript * From disk to bookshelf * The editing process * Designing and typesetting your book * Backroom or Bangalore? * Producing camera-ready copy * Proofing * Indexing * Printing, binding and delivery 10. Promoting your book What is academic book marketing? * Everyday life in the marketing department * The importance of the author in promoting books * What you can do before publication * What you can do after publication * Promotional DOs and DON'Ts 11. Going it alone Making the decision * Deciding on format * Doing the work * Finding a partner * Promoting and distributing your book * Measures of success Epilogue 185 Publishing revolutions * Electronic formats * E-book readers * POD and the bookshop as content kiosk * Free Internet repositories * The content revolution * Bite-sized scholarship * Creative marketing * The book is dead, long live the book Top tips Appendix 1: Practical style and presentation issues Spelling and grammar * Document formatting * Font matters * Layout and punctuation * Quotations, notes, citations, etc. * Nontext elements * Graphic images and their formats * Other technical issues Appendix 2: Common editing and proof-reading marks Appendix 3: Compendium of publishing terms Further reading Index
£999.99
Kon Acad Wetenschappen Letteren Rekeningen van de kerkfabriek van de
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