Our books Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century In this new blog Dr Lucy Pollard, author of 'Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women’s Health in the Early Twentieth Century', reflects on her new title and her role as a biographer.
Author Posts The Death of Tomie dePaola and the Juggler of Notre Dame Jan Ziolkowski reflects on the life and work of American author and illustrator Tomie dePaola, particularly his affinity for the tale of the Juggler of Notre Dame.
Author Posts The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925: Theory of a Genre Florence Goyet discusses her global study of the classic short story, which examines the entire body of stories of five major authors: Maupassant, Chekhov, Verga, James and Akutagawa.
Author Posts Tony Curtis, “The Young Juggler” Jan M. Ziolkowski explores the connections between Hollywood star Tony Curtis and the fable of the Juggler of Notre Dame.
Author Posts From Darkness to Light: Writers in Museums 1798-1898 'From Darkness to Light, Writers in Museums 1798-1898' explores the reaction of writers and artists to museums and galleries during the gradual introduction of electric light.
Author Posts The World Dislocated Author Ellyn Toscano draws on her book, 'Women and Migration', to consider the impact of coronavirus on the plight of migrants huddled closely in detention centers or migrant camps or prisons.
Author Posts Vigilant audiences and stay-at-home justice Author Daniel Trottier reflects on the roles of vigilance and vigilantism during the coronavirus pandemic, considering emerging and established forms of scrutiny and denunciation as practices that combine entertainment and justice-seeking.
Author Posts The End of the World: ten years later Maria Manuel Lisboa reflects on her book, 'The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture' ten years after its publication, and considers what it has to tell us today.
Author Posts Open books from OBP: A showcase A showcase of freely accessible academic books - from anthologies to philosophical tracts to books on film and quotation - all introduced by their authors.
Moral Philosophy Agency: Moral Identity and Free Will by David Weissman Agency is fundamental to everything we are and do. Thinking, doing, and making—Aristotle’s triad of generic activities—imply it. Yet two reasons thwart inquiries that would make it the focus of inquiry. One is the difficulty of understanding a condition presupposed by the activity of
textbooks 'Models in Microeconomic Theory' by Martin J. Osborne As an undergraduate, I was fortunate not to learn microeconomic theory from a textbook. Instead, I was privileged to have two wonderful teachers, Frank Hahn and Partha Dasgupta. Frank taught consumer, producer, and general equilibrium theory (our Chapters 4-6 and 10-12), and Partha, in small group
Open resources Gallucci's Commentary on Dürer’s 'Four Books on Human Proportion': Renaissance Proportion Theory by James Hutson Ever since the seminal publication on human proportion by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, the relevance to such studies to other areas was rarely in question. Writers on poetry, natural philosophy, astronomy and astrology, and the visual arts all found a useful interpretative schema readymade in
Academics Featured Publishing an Open Access Textbook on Environmental Sciences: Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa By Richard B. Primack and John W. Wilson. The book contains hundreds of photographs from Africa, such as this cheetah family, which are published as CC BY 4.0. Photograph by Markus Lilje, CC BY 4.0. For the past six years we have been working to produce the first
Academic Publishing Featured Why is open education resource creation, management and publishing important? Reflections for Open Book Publishers on Open Education Week 2020 Read this post to find out more about the take our authors and contributors have on OER creation, management and publishing.
Data Open Access Around the World: Tracking Our Books Using Online Statistics At Open Book Publishers, openness is at the heart of everything we do (the clue is in the name!) Recently, we’ve been working on how to present more data about our books on our website, in a more visually attractive way. We want to know as much as we
Author Posts Why Open Access? OBP Author's Perspectives ‘I am committed to egalitarian education and breaking down any barriers that would get in the way to learning. In short I champion access to material for all.’ -Andrew Fisher ‘I really wanted The Idea of Europe to be widely available, to as many people as possible. I wanted to
100th Book One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Three) Open Technology: The Future of Open Access This is the third and final part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/611]. To read the first part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-one/] To read the second
100th Book One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part Two) This is part of a three-part series of blogs to celebrate the publication of our hundredth book [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/611]. To read the first part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-one/] To read the final part, click here. [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/one-hundred-books-how-far-have-we-come-part-three/] A Global Outlook:
100th Book One Hundred Books: How Far Have We Come? (Part One) Open Book Publishers was born in 2008, sparked into life by co-founder and managing editor Alessandra Tosi’s first-hand experience of the frustrations of academic publishing. The thrill of seeing her book in print was dampened by the realisation that, thanks to its exorbitant price and small print run, very
Notes From The Editor OBP Nominated for Education Award We are delighted to announce that we are 2017 WISE Awards Finalists [http://bit.ly/2jtNQ4N]! The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) rewards organisations for their innovative and impactful approaches to today’s most urgent education challenges, and we are thrilled to be recognised alongside some very impressive projects.
Create your own OBP book with OBP Customise! Did you know you can create your own books using OBP content? This can be as simple as requesting a customised cover for one of our existing books (OBP Personal [https://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/60/1/obp-personal]), but we can also work with you to create a volume that
Author Posts Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem - A Q&A with Flora Kimmich Q: How did translating Wallenstein: A Dramatic Poem compare to your first translation with OBP, Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa? A: Wallenstein is in every sense a much bigger piece than Fiesco: three plays instead of one; in verse and not in prose; a major tragedy and not a first
Our Top Five Most Read Books of 2016 Happy New Year from Open Book Publishers! As we leave 2016 behind, join us in taking a look at our top 5 most read books of the year. 5. The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines by Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.) Number 5
Libraries and Open Access - The December Series For Open Access Week 2016, OBP published a series of blog posts by librarians, in which they shared their thoughts on Open Access books – all the blog posts can be read here [https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/category/libraries-oa/]. But we didn’t want the conversation to end there! We are
Open Access Week - Librarian Bloggers Needed! Open Access week is fast approaching! There are some fantastic events and other projects in the OA Week lineup, all available to look through on theOA Week website [http://www.openaccessweek.org/]. Here at OBP, we are planning some of our own projects for OA Week – we will be publishing
