A recommended reading list on toys, the atomic bomb, and the unlikely intersection of the two     A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition » MARTIN J. SHERWIN, FOREWORD BY ROBERT J. LIFTON Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.S. atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In his Preface to this new edition, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new evidence that ..read more

  Please enjoy this virtual space, showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of sociology at SUP.   New Books  Recent Award Winners ASA Resources   New Books  Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off recent SUP Sociology titles with discount code S23XASA through our virtual exhibit ». SUP 2023 Sociology Catalog » Recent Award Winners     Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America » PATRICIA A. BANKS Gold Medal in the Women / BIPOC i ..read more

The Subterranean in practice and popular imagination PATRICK WHITMARSH 1898 Illustration By A. D. McCormick for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe. Google Books, Public Domain. Via Wikimedia Commons   In May 2023, researchers for the International Ocean Discovery Program, or IODP (a collaborative effort that draws funding from multiple government institutions across four continents), retrieved core samples from the planet’s mantle. The achievement is over sixty years in the making; in 1961, scientists and engineers aboard the barge CUSS I practiced an experimenta ..read more

The resurgence of American censorship and book bans KATHERINE GIUFFRE 2016— Then Vice President Joe Biden examines James Joyce manuscripts at Trinity college, Dublin.  Official White House Photo by David Lienemann. Public Domain. Via Wikimedia Commons    Anthony Comstock is back in the news. More than a century after his death, the founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (NYSSV) and the law he inspired – the 1873 “Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use,” more commonly known as the “Comstock Ac ..read more

    Announcements Recent Award Winners BCHW Resources   Announcements Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off these and other recent SUP History titles with discount code S23XBCHW through our virtual exhibit ». Recent Award Winners     Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women in Post-Taliban Afghanistan  SONIA AHSAN-TIRMIZI  Winner of the 2022 Fatema Mernissi Book Award, sponsored by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).  Honorable Mention for the 2022 AMEA Bi-annual Book Award, sponsored by the Associ ..read more

How revolutionary values survive repression in postwar Dhufar ALICE WILSON Overhead view of  Salalah and the Jabal al Qar mountains. Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons   The Dhufar region of Oman was famous in ancient times for its frankincense. Visitors today can learn about this past in “The Museum of the Frankincense Land” near the ruins of the former port city where medieval traveler Ibn Battuta sojourned. Visitors can later enjoy a frankincense flavor ice cream at a peaceful café that looks out from the edge of Dhufar’s mountain interior, across its coastal plain, to the cit ..read more

      We hope you enjoy this virtual space showcasing our new authors, award-winning books, and highlights from the last year of Latin American Studies at SUP.   New Books and New SUP Authors Recent Award Winners  LASA Resources   New Books and New SUP Authors Announcing new books, published in the last year. We’re offering 30% off select SUP Latin American Studies titles plus free North American shipping. To use the discount select titles from our virtual exhibit », and enter coupon code S23XLASA-FM at checkout. Browse new and forthcoming titles in ou ..read more

A Q&A with authors Bradley L. Kirkman and Adam C. Stoverink about building resilient teams. BRADLEY L. KIRKMAN and ADAM C. STOVERINK Free for commercial use. Via Pixabay   What made you want to write this book? We started thinking about the concept of team resilience over 10 years ago. We are teams researchers, and so we’re always thinking about ways to take a concept that applies to individuals and then see how it might work in teams. For individual resilience, there has been over 50 years of research on what makes individual people resilient. For example, people are more able to ..read more

An Interview with SUP’s Sarah Rodriguez By Kapani Kirkland Free for commercial use. Via Pixabay.   When people learn that I work at University Press, I receive all sorts of questions. They’re always very curious about what it’s like to consider manuscripts. But I don’t consider manuscripts. (People in marketing don’t consider manuscripts.) So, I redirected the question to an Editorial Assistant, Sarah, because they actually do consider the manuscripts. We discussed Sarah’s interest in culture and media studies, their background in creative writing, and the space of a University Press ..read more

(Or Die Trying) By SUP Marketing & Publicity   On Friday, January 6th, I found myself fully dressed and yet, still afraid at the Moscone Convention Center for the MLA conference. MLA (the Modern Language Association for the uninitiated) was my first conference as a marketing assistant at SUP. I was joined by my colleagues, Emma, Sabrina, and Lizzie. Supposedly, MLA was going to be “wonderful” and “affirm [our] love for university publishing.” (Quote provided by a senior member at the Press.) But. It wasn’t that simple. Dressed in my professional yet frisky J. Crew blazer – the one m ..read more