University of Toronto Press has acquired Legas Publishing and its backlist of approximately 225 scholarly books on cultural studies, language arts, and social sciences. It is UTP's fourth acquisition in the past 12 months. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-10-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
For students embarking on their college journeys this fall, there’s no tool more essential than an APA style guide. Now in their seventh editions, the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and Concise Guide to APA Style remain invaluable resources for those tasked with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-08-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Alison Shaw, c.e.o. of Bristol University Press (BUP), has become the first university press c.e.o. to be elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 07:01:09 UTC ]
Soft science fiction focuses on the social sciences, is more philosophical in approach, and explores the important social issues of our time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-08-21 10:36:00 UTC ]
As its name suggests, SSAP is the go-to publisher in China for scholarly titles in the humanities and social sciences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite some gloomy predictions, the academic book remains in good health. Most academics in the humanities and social sciences are committed to it as essential to the health of their disciplines: a means of expressing complex arguments and communicating the best scholarship. But there are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Manchester University Press (MUP) has acquired 58 titles in politics and sociology which had been scheduled to appear with Bloomsbury. Earlier this year, Bloomsbury Academic announced it would no longer be commissioning books in the fields of politics, international relations or sociology as it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new European Commission-funded project will study whether or not reading digitally changes people’s comprehension of the text they consume. The Evolution of Reading in the Age of Digitisation (EREAD) research will launch next week in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and carry on until autumn 2017 at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Academic is to stop signing new book projects in politics, international relations and sociology. The publisher has written to its authors in the field, saying: "We're very proud of the work we've published in these areas since 2008 but have decided to focus our publishing energies... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
SAGE's global publishing director Ziyad Marar has been appointed to the board of The Campaign for Social Science. The CfSS is one of the leading advocates for social sciences in the UK. Marar has been active in initiating and supporting SAGE's global work in campaigning for the social sciences,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scholarly monographs, long the gold standard for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, have been in a downward spiral for some time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]