Book cover of I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The New Cultures of Customer Service by Diane Negra
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way by Diane Negra is about how twenty-first century capitalism is re-making the roles of customer and customer service provider, shedding light on why consumer capitalism has come to feel so punishing for so many.
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In recognition of National Library Week, Publishers Weekly spoke to Sarah Lamdan, the executive director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.
"I want to work with organizations and library workers to carry the torch of intellectual freedom."
@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.
Photo of the Stanford University Press display table at the OAH conference, featuring advance copies of the revised editions of both volumes of The American Yawp.
#OAH folk - we're super excited to be able to share advance copies of the revised edition of The American Yawp - limited quantities at our booth, so please come by to check them out! (Plus some snazzy buttons!) Books will be in our warehouse shortly - ready for Fall semester orders.
Photo of the SUP booth at OAH 2026
Hello #OAH2026! We hope to see you at our booth
@oah.org #ReadUP #history #USHistory
Enduring Hostility author @dassakaye.bsky.social was interviewed on @cnn.com about the Iran war ceasefire talks.
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The Arms Control Paradox is now available for preorder here:
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Out September 15 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Tomorrow (4/9), 4 PM CT— Join katrina quisumbing king at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for a discussion of her new book Enduring Empire. She will be joined in conversation by Marco Garrido. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
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Book cover of Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran by Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani
Between the late 1940s and the end of the 20th century, natural gas became Iran's bedrock energy source. Tracing the transformation of gas from a waste product into a vital resource, Accelerant offers a history of anticolonial developmentalism in Iran
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An exciting opportunity to join the editorial team at @stanfordpress.bsky.social and to gain a foundation in the world of scholarly acquisitions.
The Association of American Publishers has announced the four winners of its 50th annual PROSE Awards for Excellence, which honor scholarly works published in 2025, as well as the recipient of its Hawkins Award.
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
I wish we were all heading home to watch Sharknado together online instead whatever it is we’re doing tonight.
I have half an onion...
Schlüsselfummelei. But by coincidence, I sat in tortured silence for five minutes watching my son experience this struggle yesterday - just wanting to rip them out of his hands and do it myself.
A square with the following elements: In the center near the bottom of the square is an illustration of a woman and a man, the woman is giving the man a copy of Vol. 9 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche with a red gift bow on top of the book. She is saying: "Behold, man! Volume 9 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche." He replies: "Ecce Homo AND Twilight of the Idols! Honey, you spoil me." On the top side of the square is the following text: Have a heart, give books this Valentine's Day. 30% off sitewide, 2/11 - 2/18, Some exceptions apply; visit sup dot org for details
ICYMI: We are having a Valentine's Day sale! 💝
Discover captivating titles you can truly commit to. Enjoy 30% off all in-stock print & ebooks site-wide*
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"In 2025, the average length of stay in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody quadrupled to 117 days; Guatemalan children now make up roughly 35 percent of all detained minors."
@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social wrote about deportation from the US and Guatemalan children on the SUP blog
📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
This week is the official release date of White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice. The timing is painful but perhaps important. (more in comments)
TO ORDER: www.sup.org/books/sociol...
All royalties go to Black Leadership Action Coalition of Kentucky: kyblack.org
Book cover of White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice by Chandra Russo
White Flank by Chandra Russo is out now!
"Russo's White Flank is an incisive examination of what anti-racist organizing is, isn't, and has the potential to be in the U.S"
—Deva Woodly, Brown University
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I can’t wait till a contestant puts something in the meecrowaav.
🗓️ January 28 @ noon, in person
Join APARC's Gi-Wook Shin as he discusses his recent @stanfordpress.bsky.social book, THE FOUR TALENT GIANTS, offering timely insights from Japan, Australia, China, and India into the links between talent and economic development in the AI era.
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Here are 8 successful *proposals* for academic books/monographs. I am hoping that these help someone who is starting out trying to write one and wants to see what worked for me. They are provided as examples, rather than exemplars. A lot of it was just finding my own way eve.gd/2026/01/16/s...
Check out @profmarycollier.bsky.social's new book, part of @stanfordpress.bsky.social's joint monograph series with APARC > www.sup.org/books/sociol...
The Order of Canada insignia: a white, six-pointed snowflake-shaped medal with gold edges, a red maple leaf at the center, and a crown above it, with the words ‘The Order of Canada’ displayed above the emblem.
🎆 What a way to close out 2025 as we celebrate PKP's Founder, John Willinsky, and his appointment to the Order of Canada for more than 25 years of dedication to #OpenAccess and #PublicKnowledge!
-> www.gg.ca/en/media/new...
Image from Muttercraig CC BY-SA at uottawa-mpsp.fandom.com/wiki/Order_o...
Make a Bond movie academic
Diamond Open Access is Forever
Feral Atlas edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou
Winner of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.
Thank you Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar for mentioning The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping in @wsj.com's Who Read What in 2025
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
