Amores Latin Love I chose to focus on Amores(Book I) because Ovid’s text seems particularly suitable for students at that crucial stage when they have learned the basics of Latin and are just starting
Global Citizenship Commission Human Rights: Fit For the 21st Century? We’re thrilled to announce that our latest title The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century: A Living Document in a Changing World [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0091]
OBP Customised Sharing Knowledge Just Got More Personal [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/59/1]OBP is delighted to announce the launch of OBP Customised [http://www.openbookpublishers.com/section/59/1], a new line of customised editions that lets readers
Catherine Wilson What is Metaethics? Metaethics [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0087] is the study of moral thought and moral language. Rather than addressing questions about what practices are right and wrong, and what our obligations to
August Wilhelm Schlegel Writing the Life of Schlegel My approach to this biography [https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0069] of Schlegel came from an unexpected quarter. I had already written a biography of Ludwig Tieck, Schlegel’s old friend, (1985)
Daniel Nettle It's the economy, stupid. (Or is it?) Everyone thinks they know that poor communities harbour more social problems than rich ones. Well, almost everyone; in academic as well as popular literature, you can also find uplifting accounts of how poverty
Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death Deadbeat Donors I was thrilled about the birth of my new grandson; yet as I held him, just a week after his birth, I wondered how he should feel about that event, or how I
Data Introducing Some Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part One) There is quite a lot of discussion about how to finance the costs of publishing monographs in Open Access. While lots of alternative business models have been identified, actual hard data on the
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP's Business Model (Part Two) In the first part of this post I identified some of the problems I perceive with the legacy publishing model for academic books, articulated the primary objectives of OBP, and noted that at
Data Introducing Data to the Open Access Debate: OBP’s Business Model (Part Three) Here are our cost and revenue figures. As also reported at the OASPA conference, they are for the 12-month period from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015. Being based in the UK,
