Author Posts Open Textbook Network: The Power of Community Open education means providing greater access to knowledge and learning. It also means significant institutional change, something that takes time and concerted effort to be successful. The Open Textbook Network (OTN) is a
Author Posts Tolerance: Student Perspectives “We produced translations for Tolerance in a small group, made up of the 2nd year students in my college. We were given the French copies of two texts, produced our own translations, and
Author Posts Open Access Week 2017: Tolerance It has been exciting to see how much interest our Tolerance volume has provoked since its publication. We initially took up the project in order to show support for our colleagues in France
Author Posts Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture Why has Afghanistan changed in a few decades from being a relatively relaxed and tolerant society to one of the most authoritarian and fanatical societies in the world? And why were women allowed
Author Posts From George Romero to The Walking Dead: The Meaning of the Zombie A few weeks ago, filmmaker George Romero passed away in Toronto. Across the city and elsewhere, remembrance vigils were held for him. It was the kind of treatment usually reserved for great musicians,
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/
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.
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
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’
Author Posts L'idée de l’Europe au Siècle des Lumières This blog post was originally posted as an article on theAdventures on the Bookshelfblog – you can read it here [http://bookshelf.mml.ox.ac.uk/2017/05/17/europe/]. In 1813, Germaine de
