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Peter Dougherty on The Global University Press

July 26, 2012 by

Peter Dougherty, director of Princeton University Press and newly appointed president of the Association of American University Presses, wrote a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education this week:

Back in the 60s, an academic in New Delhi, on being introduced to the president of Princeton, greeted him politely by asking if his employer had any connection with Princeton University Press. Such was the reputation of a single American university press and its books at a time not so long ago.

The modern world’s understanding of itself has long been shaped by university-press books—whether Albert Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity or Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Paul Samuelson’s Foundations of Economic Analysis or Carol Gilligan’s In a Different Voice, John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice or Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s The Signifying Monkey, Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae or Robert Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance. And as the India story suggests, American university-press books are good international advertisements for the universities whose logos grace their spines…

Read on…

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Peter Dougherty to lead Association of American University Presses

July 12, 2012 by

On June 20, PUP Director Peter Dougherty was elected to serve as president of the Association of American University Presses. From the AAUP:

“On June 20, 2012, Princeton University Press director Peter Dougherty assumed leadership of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). Dougherty will serve a one-year term as the Association’s president. He succeeds MaryKatherine Callaway, director of Louisiana State University Press, who will remain on the AAUP board of directors.”

He has served on the AAUP board of directors since 2009, as well as sitting on the boards for the Association of American Publishers and the Princeton Public Library Foundation. In his inaugural address at the 2012 AAUP Annual Meeting in Chicago, he described the important role technology will play in the global university press:

“In a digital culture that granulates knowledge, books synthesize it. [...] In a digital culture that disaggregates community, books catalyze it. The far-ranging discussions that careen around the web need to be structured, situated, and brought to center. Books provide this anchor.”

You can read the full announcement on the AAUP web site. Congratulations Mr. Dougherty!

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Vickie Kearn interviewed on Wild About Math

June 7, 2012 by

The Princeton University Press executive editor for mathematics Vickie Kearn was recently interviewed by Sol Lederman on Wild About Math! as part of the Inspired by Math podcast series. She discusses the changing public perception of popular math among various other fascinating topics in the world of math.

Click here to listen!

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Princeton staffers interviewed by Yahoo! News on the Press’s new Princeton Shorts ebook program

June 1, 2012 by

We were delighted to see a Q&A appear this morning on Yahoo! News with Princeton University Press staffers regarding our new Princeton Shorts ebook program. Executive Editor Rob Tempio and Associate Marketing Director Leslie Nangle were interviewed by Yahoo! News contributor Brad Sylvester on a variety of ebook topics including the Princeton Shorts, our ebook program, ebook-hardcover sales comparison, and book publishing in a digital age. It’s a very good look at how we are thinking about our ebook future.

Print Publishers Adapting to E-books and Digital Downloads

By Brad Sylvester

 

With the rising popularity of tablets, Kindles, iPads, and other capable e-reader devices, one wonders whether e-books will surpass the printed book in the same way that downloadable music has outpaced disk sales in recent years. Are publishers fighting the e-book trend or embracing it? One publisher, Princeton University Press, has a new e-book Shorts Program designed to leverage print material in the e-reader market, not by simply republishing the book in electronic form, but by using it to
create a different product for a different audience.

I recently spoke with Rob Tempio, the Executive Editor overseeing the Princeton Shorts Program and Leslie Nangle, Associate Marketing Director at Princeton University Press to discuss their new approach to e-book publishing and to find out how the advent of online content and e-books have affected the publishing business in general.

What is the Shorts Program at Princeton University Press?

Rob Tempio: The Shorts Program is an effort to extract content from our existing works and publish them as e-books. We take books that we’ve already published and extract a chapter or a set of chapters from those books and repackage them as e-book only products.

What’s your goal for the program? Is it aimed at gaining additional revenue from your existing properties directly through the e-book sales or to help market the hard-copy form of the full book?

Rob Tempio: Additional revenue is definitely one of the purposes, but it’s also to get our content out in a different format for a different audience that we think exists for the book: an audience that might be looking for a briefer version of our longer books. If
someone reads the shorter version or chapter, they might have their  appetite whetted for the whole book. That’s certainly the hope. We tie them together pretty closely. There are live links within the e-book leading to the full book. We give them new titles, but the sub-titles indicate that it’s a selection from the larger work.

Leslie Nangle: They are stand-alone chapters. You can read them and enjoy them without ever reading the full book………..

Click here for full interview

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Congratulations to the 2012 Guggenheim Fellows

April 24, 2012 by

The Guggenheim Fellowships have recently been announced. Often characterized as “midcareer” awards, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. (text from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation web site).

Apparently, they also have exceptional taste in publishers as the list reads like a who’s who of academic book publishing (see the University of Chicago Press’s congratulatory note here). We are delighted to find among their ranks several of our recently published or forthcoming authors.

 

Creative Arts – Poetry

Kathleen Graber

Kathleen Graber is an Assistant Professor of English in The Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the author of The Eternal City which was a finalist for The National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of The Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry.


Humanities – Classics

Melissa Lane

Melissa Lane is professor of politics at Princeton University and author of Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living.


Humanities – English Literature

Jonathan Lamb

Jonathan Lamb is the Andrew W. Mellon Chair of the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and author of
The Things Things Say.


Humanities – Intellectual & Cultural History

Dagmar Herzog

Dagmar Herzog is Professor of History and the Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is author of Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany which received an Honorable Mention for the 2005 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award.


Humanities – Music and Dance Research

Carol J. Oja

Carol J. Oja is William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University and is editor of Aaron Copland and His World (co-edited with Judith Tick).


Humanities – Philosophy

Stephen Yablo

Stephen Yablo is Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT and will be the author of a forthcoming book based on the Hempel Lectures he gave at Princeton in the Philosophy Dept..


Natural Sciences – Organismic Biology & Ecology

Laura Landweber

Laura Landweber is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. She is editor of Genetics and the Extinction of Species: DNA and the Conservation of Biodiversity (Co-edited with Andrew P. Dobson).


Natural Sciences – Physics

Robert P. Kirshner

Robert P. Kirshner is Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University and is author of The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos.


Natural Sciences – Science Writing

Janna Levin

Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and a writer. She is author of How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space.


Social Sciences – Anthropology & Cultural Studies

John R. Bowen

John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space, Can Islam Be French?: Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist State, and Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia. .

Kristen R. Ghodsee

Kristen Ghodsee is associate professor of gender and women’s studies at Bowdoin College. She is author of Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria which won the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe, American Anthropological Association, 2011 Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the 2011 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies Association, and the 2010 Heldt Prize for the best book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian women’s studies, Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

Bruce Grant

Bruce Grant is Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas.


Social Sciences – Economics

John H. Cochrane

John H. Cochrane is the AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and author of
Asset Pricing.


Social Sciences – European and Latin American History

Tonio Andrade

Tonio Andrade is associate professor of history at Emory University and is author of Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West.


Social Sciences – Political Science

John Aldrich

John H. Aldrich is the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke University and co-editor with Kathleen M. McGraw of Improving Public Opinion Surveys: Interdisciplinary Innovation and the American National Election Studies.


ps — I’ve tried to be as thorough as possible, but if I have missed one of our authors, please let me know (jessica_pellien@press.princeton.edu).

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Two PUP Authors on the Time 100 Most Influential People list

April 23, 2012 by

So, the annual issue of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the World is out and who appears alongside sports stars like Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow, politicians like President Barack Obama, and singer Rihanna? Well, none other than PUP authors Elinor Ostrom and Andrew Lo.

In the write up for Elinor Ostrom, Robert Johnson notes, “Virtually all the world’s most urgent problems require collective action. Be it environmental protection, the international financial system or the dimensions of inequality, Ostrom’s work sheds light on the direction society must follow to avoid misuse of shared resources, ‘the tragedy of the commons.’”

Coincidentally, Elinor’s most recent PUP Book Working Together: Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice (co-authored with Amy R. Poteete and Marco A. Janssen) looks at how collective action works in research. In the book they actually write a revised theory of collective action that includes three elements: individual decision making, microsituational conditions, and features of the broader social-ecological context. We have made a free sample available here: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9209.pdf

Rana Foroohar writes in her acknowledgment, “If Adam Smith had a mind meld with Charles Darwin, Andrew Lo might result. A professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Lo is known for his multidisciplinary approach to finance, using everything from statistical analysis to neuroscience to better understand the markets. One of his most important ideas involves the ‘adaptive markets’ theory.”

In Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, Lo turns his complete repertoire to examining and understanding how hedge funds work. The Economist praised the book saying “Anyone who is considering investing in hedge funds, or is involved in regulating the financial-services industry, should give it a go.” We agree and hope you’ll sample this free chapter.

Congratulations to our Time Top 100 authors!

 

For a fun take on the Top 100 of ALL Time, read Joel Stein: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2112269,00.html

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A report from the floor of The London Book Fair

April 18, 2012 by

Despite difficult global economic conditions, there has been strong interest in our foreign rights catalogue at the London Book Fair. Our economics and social science titles, from Justin Lin’s timely The Quest for Prosperity to James Scott’s Two Cheers for Anarchism, have received a great deal of attention, as have our popular science titles, especially Ostriker and Mitton’s Heart of Darkness and Paul Nahin’s The Logician and the Engineer. Peter Brown’s magnum opus Through the Eye of the Needle and Burger and Starbird’s The Five Elements of Effective Thinking have also proved a hit.

All in all, a very successful fair, which bodes well for the continued spread of PUP authors and ideas around the globe.

[Please note that these books are not yet available on our web site. The links here take you to the PDFs of their individual catalog pages.]
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A Glimpse Inside Princeton University Press’s Boardroom

March 22, 2012 by

The Lippincott Boardroom at Princeton University Press, photo courtesy of Mike Volk.

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New York Times profile of Robert Silvers, longtime editor of the New York Review of Books

March 21, 2012 by

We were thrilled to see this past weekenedd a wonderful article written by Charles McGrath in the New York Times on Robert Silvers, renowned editor of the New York Review of Books.  I, like many of my colleagues, have been fortunate enough to have legendary and marathon meetings and encounters with the great Mr. Silvers and always appreciate seeing continued coverage of one of America’s most important and influential publications.  Kudos, Mr. Silvers, for such a wonderful life in writing.  And, to me, it seems like the New York Review of Books is better than ever.

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P.S. They’re baaaaaaack!

March 20, 2012 by

The much-anticipated second installment of the Princeton Shorts series arrives in April with entries from Larry Bartels, James Kloppenberg, Peter Leeson, Thomas Barfield, and Jeremy Mynott.

For a peak at the behind-the-scenes selection process, check out Digital Sales Director of PUP, Priscilla Treadwell’s post on the AAUP blog.

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Peter J. Dougherty profiled in Princeton Magazine

March 19, 2012 by

Peter J. Dougherty, the Director of Princeton University Press, has been profiled in Princeton Magazine. The interviewer, Ellen Gilbert, quizzes Peter about the role of university presses, his experiences at Princeton University Press, and the future of books.

Peter, who began working at the Press as a senior economics editor in 1992 and was appointed Director in 2005, names Robert J. Shiller as a particularly influential PUP author:

There are many authors whom I’m particularly proud to have published, perhaps the most prominent of them being Yale economist Robert Shiller. In 2000, we published Shiller’s Irrational Exuberance, the book widely credited for having predicted the bursting of the stock market bubble. This spring we will be publishing Bob’s new book, Finance and the Good Society, in which he lays out the terms of a healthy and constructive relationship between Wall Street and a thriving market democracy. 

Read the rest of the Princeton Magazine interview here for other fascinating tidbits about the relationship between the Press and the University and whether we give Princeton faculty preferential treatment when it comes to publication, whether Peter owns an e-Reader and how he uses it, and the robustness of our e-publishing program.

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The long history of Nabokov’s Eugene Onegin

March 19, 2012 by

At the Paris Review, Sarah Funke Butler details the curious history of Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Eugene Onegin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin. Nabokov translated, re-translated, revised, and rerevised the English-language version of the book for almost three decades starting with translations for his classes and ending just before his death with the publication of the 1972 Bollingen edition by Princeton University Press.

Complete with lost friendships, New York Review of Books correspondence wars, and illustrations of Nabokov’s original proofs and edits, the article at the Paris Review is must read for publishers and readers.

It is good to note that Princeton University Press continues to keep this translation in print:

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Text
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Translated by Vladimir Nabokov

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