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We’re getting started a bit late because we had our sales conference for the Spring 2013 catalog yesterday, but this week is officially University Press Week, sponsored by the AAUP. This is a chance for all of us to celebrate what is unique and special about university press publishing and Princeton University Press is participating in a week-long blog tour. Here is the complete schedule. More to come.
Harvard University Press kicked off the Blog Tour with a terrific post from Anthony Grafton, past president of the American Historical Association and longtime HUP-author, in which he recalls how university press books introduced him to a world of discovery and argument as a young man, and explains how the importance of UPs in that process of discovery has only grown.
In our post-optimistic, pre-revolutionary, ante-Apocalyptic, late pollution, early warning signs, post-election end times as we try to determine what is wrong with politics as know it and imagine life in a different time zone, one that is not marked by lost hopes, disappointments, resentment, regret and anger but instead finds different things to believe in and different ways of making those things become reality, it is as good a time as any to think about how radical knowledge emerges, circulates and lives on.
Two words: university presses.
Stanford University Press continues the fun with an article from Steve Levingston, the book review editor at the Washington Post who is a staunch supporter and promoter of university press books. His point that university press books touch upon so much of the news of the day (or past days if you peruse the archives of the Political BookWorm) is well-made.
University of Georgia Press addresses one of the familiar criticisms of university press publishing — its sustainability. Guest blogger Claire Bond Potter argues that smaller is better and, more importantly, sustainable:
…small publishing houses are where innovative books grow. In a media world where big is not always better, a small press offers sustainability and quality, reaching out to wonderful writers who can’t guarantee mass sales. Furthermore, small presses are conserving publishing’s original economic model. They produce beautiful books in small runs. They have the occasional best seller that allows them to lose money on other worthy books. They assemble and retain staffs that are committed to the author, to the reader and to ideas.
That’s a model that university presses never abandoned. It works. And we love making it work.
And the last stop on Day 1 of the tour is University of Missouri Press where they tackle the overarching question hovering over University Press Week–Why Do We Need University Presses? The post there by Ned Stuckey-French and sales representative Bruce Miller is particularly important and inspirational given their roles in the recent dismantling of and reinstatement of the University of Missouri Press. They worked tirelessly to marshal information, resources, and people and mobilize the ultimately successful campaign to save the University of Missouri Press. Their 5 point list includes:
1. University presses preserve and disseminate knowledge.
2. University presses are defenders of free speech, academic freedom, and spirited discussion
3. University presses serve a readership outside the university.
4. University presses have a special role in land-grant institutions.
5. University presses play an essential role in developing and evaluating faculty.
Particularly touching is their assertion that, “If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, university presses are the uncelebrated record-keepers of world history and culture.”
So, this week is a week to bring our activities to the fore and to celebrate these “record-keepers”. Join in the fun by checking out the various activities and initiatives here: http://universitypressweek.org.
For a complete schedule of the Blog Tour events, please click here.
Title: General Editorial Intern
Department: Editorial
College Major: Majoring in English with a minor in Spanish
Year: Senior
1.) What does your list of duties for the Princeton University Press include?
I help the editorial assistants with any tasks they need/ask me to complete. The most common ones are compiling image permissions logs, submitting shipping orders, and creating contact lists. I’ve been working on two long-term projects: re-clearing image permissions for an upcoming e-book version of a 2007 book (which means finding and communicating with the various rights holders and keeping track of their responses) and researching courses that could potentially adopt a specific textbook. I also get to attend some editorial meetings.
2.) Are there any special qualifications, skills, or training that you have brought with you to the internship?
I’ve been a writer and copy editor at my college’s newspaper, a file clerk at a law firm, and an intern at another publishing house. So I’d say my training has given me organizational skills—but with creativity mixed in. As an English major (and college student in general), I’ve brought an appreciation for a wide variety of literature and books.
3.) What aspect(s) do you enjoy most about your internship with the Princeton University Press?
I’ve learned a lot by attending the editorial meetings here, so I’m grateful to be able to do that. I also love seeing my long-term projects bear results. And everyone has been very friendly and welcoming, so I’ve enjoyed getting to know people!
4.) In what ways do you think this internship will help you in future job endeavors?
Working at a prestigious university press looks great on a resume, of course, but perhaps more importantly, I think I’ve acquired a lot of foundational skills that I would need to eventually start working in publishing/editorial full time.
5.) What job skill(s) learned at the Press do you feel are most vital to your overall career success?
I have learned a lot about permissions, and I think a basic working knowledge in that area is great for any publishing industry hopeful. The editorial assistants also make a point to keep the editorial interns in the loop regarding the details of new and upcoming books PUP is publishing, so I feel that I’m gaining an understanding of the acquisition-to-manuscript-to-book process (so many hyphens, sorry) that’s beyond just the projects and tasks I complete as an intern.
6.) Would you recommend this internship to others?
Yes!
7.) Is there any advice you can give to those applying for internships, looking for jobs in your field, or ways to maximize one’s chance of getting an internship with the Princeton University Press?
For those applying to internships, I’d say emphasize whatever it is that makes you stand out. I included the link to my study abroad blog in my cover letter, and when I had my interview with PUP (via Skype, from Spain) I found out that the people interviewing me had read through it! I can’t say that’s what got me the internship, but it didn’t hurt. On a related note, I think a great cover letter is important, since it’s more personal than a resume. Also, keep an open mind; I wouldn’t have necessarily sought an internship at a university press (as opposed to a private textbook or trade publisher) initially, but I found PUP on my school’s online recruiting network, and I’m glad I ended up here. In terms of looking for jobs…I’ll be checking out the other interns’ answers for tips, since I’ll be doing that soon!
Closing Remarks:
“I’ve found that PUP is a great place to have an internship, because the experience is clearly intended to expose the intern to what publishing at a university press is like and how it works.”
Title: Editorial Reference Intern
Department: Editorial
College Major: Double majoring in Italian and European Studies with a minor in Organizational Leadership
Year: Senior
1.) What does your list of duties for the Princeton University Press include?
CPFS orders, Shipping/Mailing orders, Proofing PUP shorts & other minor publications, Research for editorial assistants such as address look-ups, phone numbers, potential blurbers for publications, etc., Image searches for publications (high resolution copies of images wanted for publications, but not provided by the author/contributor), Contacting sources for image permissions, Data entry, Contract entries, attending various Editorial meetings (Project Review, Hit, etc.) with editorial assistants.
2.) Are there any special qualifications, skills, or training that you have brought with you to the internship?
I worked last fall as an intern with Rutgers University Student Life in an office setting. I was responsible for a lot of email communication and general office work like printing, scanning, photocopying, etc.
3.) What aspect(s) do you enjoy most about your internship with the Princeton University Press?
I like the variety. Sometimes I do get stuck on really lengthy projects, but I like when I do a lot of little things for a bunch of projects in one day. It really gives you an idea of how many different projects each editor is working on at one time. The meetings are also really good to gage how many projects are run at the same time here. I also like the continuity. One day I might be working on address look-ups for a whole bunch of people, and the next week I could be sending books to those addresses for review. It’s nice to see how some of my work is used later on in the process.
4.) In what ways do you think this internship will help you in future job endeavors?
I would like to have a career in publishing (specifically in editing), so this internship is really helpful as experience for job applications. Although I do want to work in fiction for a large publishing company, I’m sure many of the skills that I’ve learned here will transfer or at least serve as a good basis for working elsewhere.
5.) What job skill(s) learned at the Press do you feel are most vital to your overall career success?
I think knowing the process of book publication will be really helpful to my career success since I want to get into publishing. Of course it might not be quite the same for non-academic publishing, but it’s a start. Knowing how to complete mailings, etc. is another skill that I learned at this job and while another publishing company might use another type of database, it’s helpful to know for the future.
6.) Would you recommend this internship to others?
Yes!
7.) Is there any advice you can give to those applying for internships, looking for jobs in your field, or ways to maximize one’s chance of getting an internship with the Princeton University Press?
I think just getting out there an applying is an important step. You may not get every internship you apply for, but that’s why you need to apply to a few. I used my university’s career networking site where different companies post job offerings to find this internship, but if you are looking for an internship in a specific field, sometimes it is helpful to just look on a couple of company websites for information. I’m currently looking for an editorial internship with a large publishing house for next semester and my university’s career site is limited, so I’ve started researching a few prominent publishing houses in NYC and looking for internships at those individual companies.
Closing Remarks:
“The other editorial intern (Juliana) and I both studied abroad last semester in Europe. While it was difficult to find companies willing to interview me via phone or on Skype, PUP was more than willing. They have great communication technology here and they actually use it quite often for meetings with the PUP office in the UK, which I think is really great. It was a really different experience interviewing online that I don’t think many people have. I thought it was really interesting that studying abroad actually helped me get this internship rather than hurt my chances because some companies either don’t have the technology or were unwilling to communicate online or via phone with me.”
Title: Textbook Promotions Intern
Department: Marketing
College Major: Majoring in English with a minor in Interactive Multimedia
Year: Senior
1.) What does your list of duties for the Princeton University Press include?
My job is focused on finding comparable textbooks to the ones we publish and pulling up reports on what universities and professors are using them for what courses so that I can find the professor’s contact information to inform them of the texts we publish. In addition to this, I pull reports on books that we publish to see how they are doing and I help prepare the launch of text books with mail outs and other details.
2.) Are there any special qualifications, skills, or training that you have brought with you to the internship?
There is a lot of research involved in this position, navigating through university websites and textbook distributers like Amazon. So I think research skills were important to have coming into the position, as well as some knowledge of Excel.
3.) What aspect(s) do you enjoy most about your internship with the Princeton University Press?
I love how interns are not only allowed, but encouraged to attend various meetings at the press. As an intern, you’re really focused on your department and what you need to do for your specific jobs, but the meetings provide a wider scope of what exactly this organization does.
4.) In what ways do you think this internship will help you in future job endeavors?
I think there are skills and practices that I have learned here that will translate well to other positions, and I also think there is an impressiveness to working at Princeton University Press that other employers will see.
5.) What job skill(s) learned at the Press do you feel are most vital to your overall career success?
For me, though I feel I have learned some skills here, it is more about the knowledge that I have gained. I have learned a lot more about the different facets of publishing, as well as how universities work. In my employment future, I want to stay in academia, working with universities and schools in general. This specific position affords you the opportunity to read up on all different types of programs at different schools and helps you understand why they do the things they do, why we read the books we read.
6.) Would you recommend this internship to others?
I would definitely recommend this internship to others. I think it is an amazing opportunity and something very interesting to a variety of different people.
7.) Is there any advice you can give to those applying for internships, looking for jobs in your field, or ways to maximize one’s chance of getting an internship with the Princeton University Press?
Don’t be afraid to offer some personal information. What seemed to clinch the position for me here was my involvement in things that did not necessarily have to do with employment or English or publishing. Talk about organizations and clubs you are in even if they don’t seem relevant, and don’t downplay any of your responsibilities or accomplishments. The Press wants well-rounded, interesting employees and interns, so show that about yourself.
Closing Remarks:
“I think people often think a job associated with a top university or a prestigious organization seems unattainable. I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel the same way when I applied. But places like PUP need applications and interest too. I think what has surprised me here in talking to people is hearing about the openings they have and how they want more applicants, so never hesitate! Sending in the application was one of the best decisions I could have made for my college experience.”
Title: Social Media Intern
Department: Publicity
College Major: Majoring in Public Relations
Year: Junior
1.) What does your list of duties for the Princeton University Press include?
Scans print media into the shared drive for easy retrieval in the future, attends departmental meetings to get an overall view of the function of the publicity department, conducts research related to various books for marketing purposes, researches online blogs for specific topics to obtain information for marketing and publicity, and initiates and monitors blogs on various topics related to specific books, updates mailing lists in the database to ensure they are current and accurate, sets up Facebook pages for each trade title, adds events to the Princeton University Press Facebook site and individual book sites, posts articles and creates features on the blog, completes all other duties as assigned or requested for the general support of the organization.
2.) Are there any special qualifications, skills, or training that you have brought with you to the internship?
I have been doing web design and HTML since I was fairly young – I’ve been self-taught since about 6th grade. My best friend and I used to build HTML/CSS layouts for Xanga, which is an online journal community. Having the skill set to build websites and become familiar with different types of coding is vital to the Social Media Intern position because this is a position heavily based around creativity and putting your own unique touch on things.
3.) What aspect(s) do you enjoy most about your internship with the Princeton University Press?
The aspects I enjoy most about my internship is the freedom to make what you do your own projects. In my department, I’m given a lot of freedom to show off my creativity. I’m allowed to create my own projects and am autonomous in making a lot of decisions.
4.) In what ways do you think this internship will help you in future job endeavors?
Building off of the previous question, I think being responsible for my own projects has taught me a lot about responsibility and self initiation. It’s easy to mess around when you have little guidelines on exactly how your work should be done. In a Social Media Intern position, you’re your own boss, in a sense – it is real sense of accomplishment knowing that your work comes from your own successes.
5.) What job skill(s) learned at the Press do you feel are most vital to your overall career success?
The job skills I’ve learned at the Press that I feel are most vital to my overall career success would definitely be the social media postings. I’ve become very savvy with what types of language you should use in Facebook and blog posts. When you learn how to communicate to your company’s specific key publics in a way that resonates with them, you obtain a priceless skill that is transferable to any type of business you may venture into.
6.) Would you recommend this internship to others?
I would absolutely recommend this internship to others. The Princeton University Press is a very friendly environment and there are an unlimited number of projects that greatly benefit your resume for future employers.
7.) Is there any advice you can give to those applying for internships, looking for jobs in your field, or ways to maximize one’s chance of getting an internship with the Princeton University Press?
If there is any advice I can give to those looking to be chosen for an internship at PUP, I would have to say that building your resume is paramount. Play up your strengths, and try to keep job descriptions to the point while highlighting the important duties and accomplishments that apply to the department you are looking to work for. For me, I made it a point to play up my previous employment in retail on my resume. Although one might not think retail relates directly to social media, the interactions with customers and fellow coworkers have taught me a lot about communicating with others, whether it be in person or through the internet. Another strength on my resume is my GPA. I work hard to maintain a very high GPA, because although a GPA may not be everything to employers, it does help you appear to be a promising employee with a steadfast work ethic.
Closing Remarks:
“For anyone looking for a very respectable and enlightening internship experience, I highly recommend you fill out an application for the Princeton University Press. There are a number of departments that span across many types of college majors. I was really excited when I landed my first internship here as a Publicity Intern over the summer. When I was asked to come back for a second internship as a Social Media Intern, I was thrilled. Doors will open for you if you pursue an internship with PUP.”
On Tuedsay night our European office held at St Hugh’s College Oxford its second annual PUP in Europe autumn lecture in honor of our European Advisory Board. Jeremy Adelman, the Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor in Spanish Civilisation and Culture at Princeton University, gave an extremely engaging overview of his forthcoming biography of the renowned social scientist Albert Hirschman (May 2013). Adelman framed his talk around Hirschman’s famous triad Exit, Voice and Loyalty. He showed that Hirschman’s life, from his work in getting Jews out of France in 1940 to his development of a new kind of social science with Clifford Geertz at the Institute for Advanced Study, offers a unique vantage point on the political, economic, and cultural history of the twentieth century. Adelman’s talk exemplified the values of big ideas and clear expression which Hirschman has made his own.
2012 has been a noteworthy year in the UK: the magnificent celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II were followed by the fabulously successful London Olympics. But the UK is not only home to these inspirational events, it is also home to PUP’s European office.
It has been 12 years since PUP set up its European base in the beautiful town of Woodstock, just outside the world-leading university city of Oxford. Since then the number of staff in the European office has increased threefold with UK-based editors, a publicity team which handles PR for all PUP books in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, and PUP’s International Rights team. Five years ago the office moved to larger premises and two years ago it was joined by a new European Publishing Director, Al Bertrand. Since Al’s arrival a PUP Europe Advisory Board has been set up and the Princeton University Press in Europe Lecture Series has been instigated, with annual lectures in the spring and autumn. To complement the European office’s activities we have updated and expanded the PUP Europe information on PUP’s website - our contribution to the UK’s year of celebration.
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.
A piece in the Chronicle Review highlights AcademicPub — a new business that allows professors to assemble their own textbooks from a range of materials from book chapters and articles, to white papers and web site posts. Several university presses, including PUP have signed on to the service and you can read more about it here:http://chronicle.com/article/New-Digital-Tools-Let/129309/
What an ingenious way to precisely tailor course materials while lowering textbook costs. I wonder if it will catch on.
This past Wednesday I was given the opportunity to tag along with the PUP publishing team at BookExpo America. I was advised to wear comfortable shoes, but I really had no idea what to expect. What, I wondered, is a “Book Expo,” and what does one do there? I learned that BEA is an incredibly important event for the publishing industry, as well as the ultimate book lover’s paradise.
BEA is held at the Javits Center, the same enormous conference arena that hosts the New York International Auto Show and the New York Bar & Wine Show every year. It’s a big place. I arrived and began to search for the Princeton University Press table, working my way through the maze of stalls and people in line for author signings. Was that Jimmy Fallon? (Yes! He was signing copies of his soon-to-be-released book.) Is it really worth standing on a half-mile long line for an autograph? I discovered that the organized and experienced BEA attendees have strategies for navigating a day at the expo:
1. The expo’s guide contains schedules of the times and locations of every author and speaker event, so map out an itinerary of author visits.
2. Look for the best free bags.
McGraw Hill was the winner this year, with bright red canvas tote bags that were large enough to hold a small child.
3. Plan an extra half hour to hour for your coffee run. Judging by its queue Starbucks may be the hottest spot in the entire conference center.
However this advice only applies to those like me who came to spend the day cruising around the floor. The important things going on have nothing to do with which celebrity’s autographed book you can score (though that is a nice perk) or who has the best free goodies. At the PUP table our representatives hold meetings with retailers to promote our titles, and field questions from the countless reviewers and curious show-goers who filter through. This year the PUP was stationed in a prime location–right at the end of the University Press row and next to one of the show’s entrances. The volume of people stopping at just at our stall was incredible! It is overwhelming to think of how many publishing houses were present and how many books each had. I have a whole new appreciation for how competitive, and how huge, the publishing industry is.
My personal experience at the show was absolutely wonderful. I met great people from publishing houses located all across the country, and saw a host of innovative books that I look forward to reading in the future. I got a signed Christmas cookbook (and a tasty brownie) from T.V. chef Mr. Food, had my photo taken with two pirates at the Galaxy Press booth (uploaded, as promised) and joined a champagne toast of Oprah’s last show with the friendly people at Abrams. And, according to my bathroom scale, I came home with 33 pounds (!) worth of books. My shoulders are still aching, but it was worth it!
While The Merchants of Culture is exclusively about trade publishing, according to Peter Dougherty, there are at least three lessons for university press publishers to be found in its pages.
Dougherty writes,
For the first part, he supplies an extremely useful tutorial in thinking about book publishing as a field, a kind of gravitational ecology in which there are few gains to be made without at least a few sacrifices. As economists would put it, there are no free lunches.
Second, by providing such a careful historical and empirical anatomy of the business, he presents a sobering X-ray of the factors that impinge on our publishing, as well as that of the trade. In his one mention of university presses he explains how a certain subset of us have stepped in to fill the breach in trade publishing created by the concentration of the industry, which has made us attractive publishers for mainly academic authors who might have opted for commercial houses a generation ago. Fair enough. But his account of the risks entailed in competing for sales in such a heavily concentrated marketplace reinforces what most of us university press publishers already know: that trade publishing is hardly a panacea for the challenges we face as scholarly publishers.
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Thompson’s third and final lesson for us in our activities as university presses and as publishers is more hopeful than the zero-sum maneuvers we learn by studying the ecology of the field: we should remain positive and resourceful in our outlook. The quotation above, “Good publishers…are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce…” is a useful watch phrase. It is our capacity to see what another fine scholar, Ronald Burt, describes as the “structural holes” in our respective disciplines, and to perceive these openings in the scholarly landscape as opportunities for new books, that inspires us as publishers.
Read the complete review here in the AAUP’s monthly newsletter. (If you prefer a PDF version, try page 4 in this document: http://aaupnet.org/programs/publications/exchange/2011_winter.pdf)
Could this be a revolution in design publishing?
MIT Press has just released a new iPad app for its design title, NONOBJECT, by Branko Lukić and Barry Katz. The print version of this book was available in early November, but now you can buy it from the Apple Store and download it to your iPad for $19.95.
Inspired by Debussy’s notion of music’s existence in the “space between the notes,” NONOBJECT explores the designs made from the space between people and objects and produces a series of objects that can’t exist but perhaps should. The app complements and builds on the printed book, presenting flexible navigation based on touch controls, interactive 360º views, and videos that show what the objects would be like if they did exist. The new level of interactive engagement brings the book’s images to life.
“We get excited about those pairings of content and technology that genuinely benefit the reader,” said MIT Press Director, Ellen W. Faran. “How better to experience these unbounded nonobjects which open our minds than to explore them in new and infinitely varying ways in the NONOBJECT app?”
Fascinating! If you want to read more about NONOBJECT, check out its website here. You can also take a tour of the app’s features at http://www.nonobject.com/blind/ipad_demo_Short.mov.
If you’ve been wondering about Mumbai Fables‘ evocative cover, it was recently featured in The Huffington Post‘s “25 Outstanding Book Covers of 2010.” Carmina Alvarez-Gaffin, one of the designers at Princeton University Press, was quoted in the article describing how she and author Gyan Prakash worked in tandem to create a design for the book’s jacket:
The image that we ultimately used for the cover of Mumbai Fables is a painting titled “Bombay Buccaneer” by Atul Dodiya, and was brought to us by the author, Gyan Prakash. He loved the image and felt that the image truly captured the essence of his book. Though the book is nonfiction, it is very novelistic in feel, and conjures up the images of Bollywood cinema and the graphic novels of Bombay . Gyan Prakash felt strongly about using a fresh and modern image — not an image traditionally associated with Bombay–but something that would capture the Mumbai of today.
To view the rest of the article, click here. For more information and news related to Mumbai Fables, check out the Facebook page – if you “like” the page, you’ll receive notice of updates!
Over at the Atlantic, Adam Roberts has been writing a fascinating five-part series about contemporary poetry. In the fourth part of the series, Roberts proposes that contemporary verse might take a cue from the Slow Food and other Slow movements and “help us transition away from monocultural reading habits.” He goes on to praise small presses:
In the world of literary culture, the small press is probably the closest equivalent to your local farmer’s market. (The carrots might look funnier, but, after you’re used to it, they taste about five times better.) There are tons of small presses, spread out over the country, and they’re often run at either no-profit or a loss. These are labors of love—not engaged in the production of commodities for consumption, but something closer to Lewis Hyde’s notion of “the gift.” Hand-sewn chapbooks take time to make, the poems in them take time to read, and the poets (most likely) took a lot of time to write them. Their production occurs on a smaller (and less grandiose) scale, and like the Slow Food and broader Slow Culture movement, they want to restore to us a sense of time that our current world system strips away from us. Perhaps they wouldn’t want to be in the airports, even if we let them. But they can, like the local food economy (which is growing at a spectacular rate, nationally), become viable alternatives with our support.
Princeton University Press hasn’t yet made his list of recommended small presses, but with the return of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, which includes Kathleen Graber’s The Eternal City (a National Book Award finalist), and the new Facing Pages series, you can support what Roberts calls “obscure, high-brow lit”–or come spring, the cheeky offerings of Troy Jollimore’s At Lake Scugog and the lush and spiritual poems in Anthony Carelli’s debut collection Carnations!
You can (and should) read his other posts in the series here, and for more information on Slow Poetry visit the Slow Society site. Don’t forget to savor all of your reading experiences!
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These are the best-selling books for the past week.
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The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil |
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The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig |
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The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors by Richard Crossley, Jerry Liguori, & Brian Sullivan |
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen |
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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman |
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The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible by Lance Fortnow |
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On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt |
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Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell by A. Zee |
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Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by W. Bernard Carlson |
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