Cambria Press LASA 2013: ¡Grandes cosas están sucediendo!
Cambria Press is with the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in the exciting countdown to the 31st LASA International Congress! ¡Grandes cosas están sucediendo!
Please come meet us at the Cambria Press booth (#807) and browse our titles; pick up a beautiful, complimentary tote bag (while supplies last); and take advantage of the Cambria Press booth sale special ($40 for any title purchased at the Cambria Press booth).
One of our series editors, Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo (Howard University), whose publications include the highly praised Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic and Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images (see the book review by the Journal of Latin American Studies at this Cambria Press blog post!) will be participating in the session “Representing African, Afro-American, and Amerindian Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic.”
“A path-breaking work of original research” – The Public Historian
Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo at the Cambria Press Booth at the African Studies Association annual meeting.
“Araujo and her contributors deserve praise for putting together this exciting collection, as does Cambria Press for producing it as an attractively designed and well-laid-out volume.” – Journal of Latin American Studies)
Dr. Araujo heads up the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present book series. We welcome proposals for this series as well as for the Contemporary Global Performing Arts book series headed by Dr. John Clum (Duke University).
See you in Washington D.C.!
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Cambria Press Book Highlight: Rave Review by the Journal of Latin American Studies for Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade!
Cambria Press is pleased to highlight another rave review for one of Ana Lucia Araujo’s books, Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Interactions, Identities, and Images. The Journal of Latin American Studies lauds the book because “the scholarly quality of the dozen essays included here is uniformly high” and because “the quality and variety of the contributions make this book a desirable purchase for research libraries.”
The journal review goes on to state that “Araujo and her contributors deserve praise for putting together this exciting collection, as does Cambria Press for producing it as an attractively designed and well-laid-out volume.”
The book has also been commended by Itinerario because it “sheds light,” “offers a diverse range of perspectives,” and “provides insight.”
See this book next week at the Cambria Press LASA booth! See also Ana Lucia Araujo’s other book Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic which has also earned great journal reviews, and check out the series that Dr. Araujo heads up–the Cambria Studies in Slavery: Past and Present book series.
Cambria Press: Paths of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Recommend this Cambria Press book with so many excellent reviews to your library today!
There are also affordable Cambria Press e-book versions of this title for those who like easy access to it on their Kindle, iPad, Nook, and other e-readers.
Professors, if you would like to use this for your class, refer your librarian to the Cambria Press Desk Copy Plus Program that helps you get free versions for your students!
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Fascinating TV Interview with Dr. Adams Bodomo on Africans in China + Talks at Shanghai Normal University and Tsinghua University
Cambria Press is very proud to note that Dr. Adams Bodomo–as the author of Africans in China, the first book to study this growing phenomenon (as opposed to what is usually covered: Chinese in Africa)–is now the expert to consult on this fascinating topic. His expertise comes not only from his extensive study but also his own experience from living there for a decade. His book, which was published last year, has been hailed as “essential reading for scholars in the field” by The China Quarterly.
With many taking note of this important publication, Dr. Bodomo is now the regular go-to consultant when it comes to analyzing and discussing issues related to Africans in China. He was recently on NPR to discuss the analysis of cash flows of the African diaspora, during which he revealed that Africans living outside the continent send more money home to their families than is sent by traditional Western aid donors in what is called Official Development Assistance (ODA).
In addition to being sought after by media outlets for his expert opinion, Dr. Bodomo also will giving talks at various universities–two upcoming ones are at the Africa – China Centre, Shanghai Normal University (May 25) and at the School of International Studies, Tsinghua University (June 17).
For those who will not be able to make it to these talks, a recent TV interview with Dr. Adams Bodomo can be seen here!
Add New Cambria Press – Africans in China
Recommend this Cambria Press book with so many excellent reviews to your library today!
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Yet Another Fantastic Journal Review for Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist!
Cambria Press congratulates Brigitta Olubas on the outstanding review by JASAL on her book Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist, which reinforces what an important book this is for scholars in contemporary literature.
Already hailed for being “scrupulously scholarly” in another review, JASAL praises the book because it “demonstrates what a gift intelligent, passionately engaged and theoretically attuned literary criticism can be.” The review also lauds the work because “Olubas helps us to grasp the warp and weft of Hazzard’s ethical concerns, channelled through her commitment to the word and to her art, in her historical context and development over time. She shows us how these threads are intricately woven together, at every stage, in the realisation of what now appears as an astonishingly imaginative fictional universe, one that also makes its urgent address to the concerns of the contemporary world.”
This book is in the Cambria Studies in Australian Literature, headed by Dr. Susan Lever, author of David Foster: The Satirist of Australia.
Cambria Press Book Review: Shirley Hazzard
Recommend this Cambria Press book with so many excellent reviews to your library today!
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Excellent Cambria Press Book Review! Archives of Women’s Mental Health lauds Childbirth in a Technocratic Age!
Cambria Press congratulates Elizabeth Soliday on the excellent review by Archives of Women’s Mental Health on her book Childbirth in a Technocratic Age: The Documentation of Women’s Expectations and Experiences! It is a fitting coincidence that this review came in the day after Mother’s Day!
The journal commends the book because it is “a very organized and readable book” and makes a further recommendation that “healthcare providers from various disciplines would likely benefit from reading Elizabeth Soliday’s compassionate book in which she advocates for mothers by emphasizing the many factors, most important of which is patient autonomy, that contribute to maternal satisfaction in the labor and delivery process.”
You can read Dr. Soliday’s Q&A about her research for the book here at the Cambria Press blog.
Cambria Press Book Review: Childbirth in a Technocratic Age
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Cambria Press New Book! Gay Drama Now: An Anthology by John M. Clum
Cambria Press is very proud to announce that Gay Drama Now: An Anthology by Professor John M. Clum (Duke University), general editor of the Cambria Studies in Contemporary Global Performing Arts series, is now available!
This collection written by some of the most celebrated playwrights working today, from veteran playwrights like Jose Rivera and Neal Bell to younger writers like Stephen Karam and Robert O’Hara, Gay Drama Now offers a sampling of the best of contemporary drama about the gay experience in America. Other playwrights whose works are featured in this anthology spanning more than 600 pages are David Zellnik, Jon Marans, and Guillermo Reyes.
Professor Shane Vogel (Indiana University) lauds the collection, stating: “Offering a refreshingly diverse range of voices and styles, these works transform traditions of gay male theatricality and fabulousness into resources for social change in the twenty-first century, Gay Drama Now deserves a standing ovation.”
Cambria Press New Book! Gay Drama Now: An Anthology
Recommend this Cambria Press book today to your colleagues and libraries!
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China and Beyond by Victor Mair – Cambria Press Special Offer Ends THIS Saturday (May 4)!
Victor Mair and Toni Tan (Cambria Press, AAS 2013, San Diego).
Victor Mair and Toni Tan (Cambria Press, AAS 2013, San Diego). Victor Mair is holding his book China and Beyond that was published in time for the AAS 2013 conference and in honor of his 70th birthday.
Cambria Press Special Promotion! The special offer for China and Beyond by Victor H. Mair ends this Saturday (May 4)! The regular list price for this massive 532-page tome is $134.99, but it is being offered at a special price of only $49 if you order it online from Cambria Press (http://www.cambriapress.com/books/9781604978902.cfm) and enter the web coupon code vmair70.
Don’t miss the great offer on this rare and unprecedented collection! This is is an essential resource––a definite must-read title––for scholars not only for the illuminating essays but also because it stands out as an extraordinary example of how one scholar has successfully crossed over different fields and seamlessly interwoven them.
Cambria Press: China and Beyond by Victor H. Mair
More pictures from th AAS 2013 Cambria Press Sinophone World Series reception!
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Cambria Press New Book! Battle for Control: The Future of the Internet V by Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie
Cambria Press New Book! Battle for Control, the fifth book in The Future of the Internet series by Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainie, is a comprehensive compilation of results from eight major research reports released in 2012 by the Pew Research Center and Elon University.
Among the trends identified in the preface, Janna Quitney Anderson noted that frighteningly complex changes in financial systems, heightened terror and criminal threat levels, and other concerns are leading more people to say that the security and trust necessary for public exchange of goods and services and for public safety might require that all individuals establish real IDs online, abolishing the potential for anonymity.
Although the book was written prior to the Boston marathon bombing, Anderson also uncannily pointed out the critical role of social media in public safety in her preface, stating that “[w]e are on the verge of even more immersive and mesmerizing, life-enhancing, rights-threatening, criminal- and terrorist-enabling, politically challenging, disruptive networked communications. Such complexity challenges our ability to detect, project, and respond to looming issues.”
At 548 pages, this book is a comprehensive compilation of results from eight major research reports released in 2012 by the Pew Research Center and Elon University. In The Future of the Internet Survey V, more than 1,000 experts shared their views as they imagined the future of the Internet and:
- The always-on, hyperconnected generation who will be in their teens-to-20s by 2020
- The evolution of the mobile Web, HTML5 and native apps
- E-money, “mobile wallets” and financial transactions through near-field communication
- Gamification – the influence of game mechanics implemented for interactivity and engagement
- “Smart systems” and the evolution of more efficient homes
- Corporate responsibility in the digital age
- The influence of “Big Data” in the cloud
- The future of higher education
Cambria Press New Book! Battle for Control: Future of the Internet V by Janna Quitney Anderson (Elon University) and Lee Rainie (Pew Research Center)
Recommend this Cambria Press book today! There are affordable Cambria Press e-book versions of this title.
Professors, if you would like to use this for your class, refer your librarian to the Cambria Press Desk Copy Plus Program that helps you get free versions for your students!
Be sure to check out these titles too from the The Future of the Internet Series!
Up for Grabs: The Future of the Internet, Volume 1
Hopes and Fears: The Future of the Internet, Volume 2
Ubiquity, Mobility, Security: The Future of the Internet, Volume 3
Challenges and Opportunities: The Future of the Internet, Volume 4
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Cambria Press Forthcoming Titles!
- Perspectives on Contemporary Dance History: Revisiting Impulse, 1950–1970
- Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies
- Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiographies, 1820–1848
- The Male Empire Under the Female Gaze: The British Raj and the Memsahib
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Cambria Press New Book! Author Q&A Session on The Avant-Garde Imperative: The Visionary Quest for a New Language
Cambria Press is pleased to present the following Q&A session with Professor Willard Bohn on his recently published book, The Avant-Garde Imperative: The Visionary Quest for a New Language.
Cambria Press New Book! The Avant-Garde Imperative: The Visionary Quest for a New Language
Question: Why did you decide to write this book?
Willard Bohn: The first half of the twentieth century witnessed an unbelievable amount of creative activity in literature and the arts. More than anything, avant-garde painters and poets sought to convey the complexities of contemporary existence, which, thanks to recent technological developments, was steadily becoming more complicated. There was a growing sense, among other things, that realistic themes and realistic techniques were inadequate to address the human condition. Accordingly, artists and writers sought to develop a language that would express the complexity of the modern world while revolutionizing traditional aesthetics. So important were vision and expression to the vanguard enterprise that this double quest soon became obligatory–an avant-garde imperative. In order to shed some light on these complementary processes, I wanted to examine four very different movements: cubism, metaphysical art, surrealism, and futurism. While I hoped to make an important contribution to each of the individual subjects, I wanted to relate them to each other as well. Despite the tremendous differences separating them, the movements all belonged to the international avant-garde. The challenge was to discover what they had in common. In particular, I thought it would be instructive to examine the different strategies they adopted in order to implement the avant-garde imperative.
Question: What do you hope your readers will take away from your book?
Willard Bohn: I hope readers will come to appreciate the incredible creativity that characterized the avantgarde from the very beginning. While specialists will hopefully benefit from my discussions of cubism, metaphysical art, surrealism, and futurism, I hope non-specialists will benefit as well. I hope they will develop a new respect for avant-garde artists and writers together with a greater understanding of some of the issues that were involved. Although avant-garde compositions often appeared to be nonsense, they were usually quite sophisticated. As readers will hopefully discover, poets and painters sought to create a brand new vision of contemporary existence and a brand new language in which to communicate it. I hope readers will realize that these two activities were not simply parallel but also reciprocal.
Question: What other research do you believe is needed on this topic?
Willard Bohn: The international avant-garde included hundreds of individuals—not only poets and painters but dancers, choreographers, musicians, composers, film makers, theater directors, scenographers, art dealers, playwrights, actors, critics, and publishers. For this reason, the subject will not be exhausted for many years to come. Although much has been written about the avant-garde, much more research remains to be carried out. Scholars need to study the contributions of minor figures, for example, whose lives and works are largely unknown. At the same time, major figures such as Pablo Picasso or Marcel Duchamp need to be continually reevaluated in the light of recent scholarship. Finally, the avant-garde itself begs to be studied in more detail. We need a comprehensive volume that will survey avant-garde practice in general, identify its various goals, and compare the different strategies that were devised to attain them.
Recommend this Cambria Press book today! There are affordable Cambria Press e-book versions of this title. Professors, if you would like to use this for your class, refer your librarian to the Cambria Press Desk Copy Plus Program that helps you get free versions for your students!
If you are interested in this book, see also Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation by Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian (translated by Mabel Lee).
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