Podcast The Balanced Brain January 06, 2025 There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific developments that are revolutionising the way we think about mental health, showing why and how events鈥攁nd treatments鈥攃an affect people in such different ways. Read More
Podcast Our Money January 06, 2025 In Our Money, Leah Downey makes a principled case against central bank independence (CBI) by both challenging the economic theory behind it and developing a democratic rationale for sustaining the power of the legislature to determine who can create money and on what terms. Read More
Interview David Thomas on The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands January 06, 2025 David Thomas discusses deserts and drylands鈥攅cosystems which account for more than 40 percent of land on our planet. Read More
Essay On building community in scholarly publishing January 02, 2025 Community ecology, to which many university presses have contributed books and journal articles, teaches us much about the organization and functioning of communities Read More
Video In Dialogue: Joseph Luzzi on Dante December 12, 2024 Joseph Luzzi discusses the reception of Dante Alighieri鈥檚 鈥淒ivine Comedy鈥� over time, and lets us in on which is his favorite circle of Hell. Read More
Essay Race and American sculpture December 12, 2024 As monuments representing painful histories are dislodged from their pedestals, it is impossible to obfuscate the relationship between sculpture, race, and power in the United States. Read More
Interview Jennifer Ngaire Heuer on The Soldier鈥檚 Reward December 10, 2024 Jennifer Ngaire Heuer discusses why she became interested in love and war in the era of the French Revolution, and shares insights into how people experienced warfare that lasted more than two decades. Read More
Podcast Fragmentary Forms December 10, 2024 While the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE. Read More
Podcast The Impeachment Power December 04, 2024 In this week鈥檚 episode we step into conversation with Keith Whittington about his new book, The Impeachment Power, as we explore the historical and constitutional dimensions of impeachment in American politics. Read More
Podcast Raised to Obey December 03, 2024 Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all children in the first place? Read More
Essay PUP Life: 37 years and nine lives at the Press December 02, 2024 I am often asked how long I have worked at 91桃色. When I respond, 鈥�37 years,鈥� the reaction is sometimes one of surprise. But in many ways, I have not really worked at the 鈥渟ame place鈥� for all this time as PUP has gone through many evolutions since I first joined in January of 1987. Read More
Interview Camilla Nord on The Balanced Brain December 02, 2024 Camilla Nord discusses what motivated her to write 鈥淭he Balanced Brain鈥� and why our concept of mental health needs to include both the brain and the wider body. Read More
Podcast Consider the Turkey November 26, 2024 A turkey is the centerpiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today鈥檚 specially bred, commercially produced birds. Read More
Essay How the far right moved from the margins November 25, 2024 Despite the fact the global imaginary seems to be saturated with the image of far-right supporters, we have little knowledge on what makes the far-right offer so attractive to a growing number of people. Read More
Interview Brianna Nofil on The Migrant鈥檚 Jail November 25, 2024 Brianna Nofil examines how a century of political, ideological, and economic exchange between the U.S. immigration bureaucracy and the criminal justice system gave rise to the world鈥檚 largest system of migrant incarceration. Read More
