3D Cover of Out of the Ballpark by David M. Henkin
Why does baseball matter? Because it holds more than box scores—it carries memory, myth, and quiet ritual. Explore the brilliance of the game and the stories that shine beyond the diamond. For fans and newcomers alike.
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#Skystorians #BallparkReads #BaseballLife
The Meaning of It All
Discover another way of looking at the ultimate question with Rivka Weinberg's "The Meaning of It All" 💡: oxford.ly/4bgQkMC
An arresting excerpt from Rivka Weinberg's THE MEANING OF IT ALL in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy today
A vertical graphic with a large baseball in the center, surrounded by the text “Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball by David M. Henkin” and a Goodreads giveaway announcement from Oxford University Press.
⚾️ Batter up. Spring Training is officially on deck, so let’s celebrate with something special…
'Out of the Ballpark' is about to change the way you see the game forever.
Want to snag your own copy before publication day? Enter on Goodreads for a chance to win! oxford.ly/4qPf0Ai
In Conversation: An OUP Podcast with by David M. Henkin author of "Out of the Ballpark"
Baseball is more than a game; it’s a global language. 🌏⚾
Historian David M. Henkin discusses baseball's global history, labor struggles, rituals, media, and community, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Listen 🎧 oxford.ly/4s27lj0
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Consider this a book publisher's very important contribution to the ongoing font discourse #FontDebate
Delighted to hold the latest #veryshortintroduction in my hands, and it's a terrific one: Douglas Boyd's ORAL HISTORY. Loads to learn here, drawing on interviews with bourbon makers, WWII soliders-- even Shirley Manson and Steve Zahn, of all people. Enjoy! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Oxford Intersections: Gender Justice invites abstracts for new articles
🚨 Oxford Intersections: Gender Studies invites abstracts for new articles that explore how gender intersects with all aspects of life through interdisciplinary research.
🗓️ Deadline: 11 Aug 2025
📩 Submit: oxford.ly/44JrIYj
Latest Philosophy Bites. Bob is back!
“The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power,” writes Jennifer Frey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa.
Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
Fantastic to see What to Save and Why reviewed in the New York Review of Books! #philsky
more like luckiest editor! :)
Can we ban "Quick Question" and "My Book" as subject lines? 🙃
Happy to see Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage continue to get its flowers. Still "timely" after a few years! choiceconnect.org/webclipping/...
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History! Combee: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War by Edda Fields-Black
Our most enthusiastic congratulations to Edda Fields-Black and everyone who helped bring COMBEE to life!
The 2025 Pulitzer committee called it "a richly-textured and revelatory account of a slave rebellion": https://oxford.ly/44XGZX4 #History
Oxford Academic is on Bluesky!
Hi Bluesky! 👋
We're the Academic division of Oxford University Press and we're excited to join this vibrant community, full of academics, thinkers, and those that are curious about the world around them.
#19C women philosophers are touring the world! @dalianassar.bluesky.social and my edited volume is already out in English and Norwegian. The Arab translation is going to print today -
@lucyrandall802.bsky.social
#philsky #booksky #women #feminism
...and if you want to browse and order online please see our conference booklist at www.oup.com/conf/exapap25 and use conference code EXAPAP25 until May 4th (2/2) #APAPacific25
If you're at the #APAPacific25, please stop by the Oxford table tomorrow morning through Saturday morning and explore our new offerings! (1/2)
"Supported projects have included more than 9,000 books (including 20 that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes) and more than 500 film and radio programs, including Ken Burns’s landmark 1990 documentary 'The Civil War'..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...
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Donald Trump doesn’t need to destroy the court system to get his way, Aziz Huq writes. He just needs to create a shadow zone where the law no longer applies. Welcome to America’s “prerogative state”:
the hair is also on point
Terrific interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social by Hawkeye himself! He clearly read and got a lot of out of The AI Mirror podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
One of favorite books / metaphors lately is 'The AI Mirror' — thanks to Shannon Vallor for reflecting on it with me for this year's AI20 😬🪞🤖 www.fastcompany.com/91240425/how...
Very cool to see the AI Mirror in the Guardian’s authors’ picks for best book gifts for the holidays!
Grateful to Tessa Hadley for the kind words.
