August 2010

Avoid Glenn Beck Rally Attendance: Stop by Our Booth at the 2010 American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C.

by kris bishop August 29, 2010

The University of Michigan Press will be hosting our annual book display at the American Political Science Association Meeting in Washington, D.C. at booth #210. If you’re into that sort of thing, you should stop by and check out some of our new political science releases below in person. In the meantime, click on a title for more information: FEATURED TITLE: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data by Donald R. Deskins, Jr., Hanes Walton, Jr., and Sherman C. Puckett   NEW RELEASES: Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences (paperback) [...]

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UM Press launches ebook rental program

by Heather Newman August 23, 2010

The University of Michigan Press announced today that it launched a new ebook rental program for more than 250 of its scholarly titles, allowing students or faculty to rent digital copies of the books at a discount for a month or six months. “The University of Michigan Press is committed to providing our titles in every format people would like to use, and to keeping readers’ costs down wherever possible,” said Karen Hill, Assistant Director and Digital Manager for the Press. “We expect that the lower rental prices will be a special help for students and faculty who only need [...]

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Congratulations to Professor Jerry Goldman, Winner of the APSA/CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation in Political Science

by Bridget August 12, 2010

Co-Editor of the University of Michigan Press title, A Good Quarrel, Professor Jerry Goldman, Ph.D. of Northwestern University was recently awarded the 2010 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation in Political Science. Dr. Goldman was chosen for the award based on his work in creating Pocket Justice which allows users to access information about Supreme Court cases using their iPhones and other smart phones. He applied this same 21st century understanding of information and attention to Supreme Court law to A Good Quarrel.  The book, published in 2009, features commentary and analysis from top legal reporters of the most important oral arguments in [...]

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New areas in ‘World of Warcraft: Catacysm’ a disappointment? Press author comments

by The University of Michigan Press August 11, 2010

The University of Michigan Press has been running a series of blog entries about the online world game World of Warcraft and its new “Cataclysm” expansion/update, which is due to launch later this year, brought you to by the new book My Life as a Night Elf Priest, by Bonnie Nardi. Here Nardi tackles the new areas for players to slowly build their new characters in the Horde faction from levels 15-22, which transform with the release of the expansion. These descriptions are based on the beta test of the newly changed areas. For previous blog entries in this series [...]

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Q&A with Bonnie Nardi, author of “My Life as a Night Elf Priest”

by The University of Michigan Press August 10, 2010

World of Warcraft rapidly became one of the most popular online world games on the planet, amassing 11.5 million subscribers—officially making it an online community of gamers that had more inhabitants than the state of Ohio and was almost twice as populous as Scotland. It's a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO in gamer jargon, where each person controls a single character inside a virtual world, interacting with other people's characters and computer-controlled monsters, quest-givers, and merchants. Bonnie Nardi has given us a fresh look not only at World of Warcraft but at the field of game studies as a [...]

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