our authors

Professors, Polymaths and Progress: Learning from Thomas Young@250

Read now a new blog by Andrew Robinson on the topic of his latest Open Access title 'The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young'.

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Susan Isaacs: Second Edition

Read now a blog by author Philip Graham on his latest Open Access title 'Susan Isaacs: A Life Freeing the Minds of Children'.

OBP Newsletter

Open Book Publishers - Winter Newsletter - February 2023

Welcome to our Winter Newsletter! We have information on our open Call for Proposals, updates including our Author Survey and our involvement with PALOMERA, new and forthcoming publications and latest reviews, interviews, features and blogs.

Our books

Teaching European History in the 21st Century

Read now a blog by Emma Johnson and Jochen Hung on one of our latest Open Access titles 'The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000'

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Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

The aim of this book is to address the following question: why are education reforms so difficult to implement and so easy to reverse? i

annual report

Open Book Publishers - Annual Report 2022

Welcome to our Annual Report! As we come to the end of this year, it is with great pride that we look back at the many exciting things that have happened here at OBP in 2022!

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The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame

Read now 'The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame' by Jan M. Ziolkowski, author of 'The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity' and 'Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings'

Our books

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

This blog post was written by Bill Sutherland (Miriam Rothschild Professor in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Nigel Taylor (Research Associate in the Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

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Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Read now a blog by OBP author Steven Jan where he discusses the topic of his latest title 'Music in Evolution and Evolution in Music'

Open Access Week 2022

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?

Read Now: Thea Potter's blog on climate change, climate justice and the environment written for OA Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice.

A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice - The Morphogenetic Paradigm: Conceptualising the Human in the Social

A Relational Realist Vision for Education Policy and Practice: Relational Realism as an Alternative General Sociological Approach

The Predatory Paradox: Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing

How can you read a novel in hundreds of translations? (and why would you want to?)

Professors, Polymaths and Progress: Learning from Thomas Young@250

Susan Isaacs: Second Edition

Teaching European History in the 21st Century

Dire Straits-Education Reforms: Ideology, Vested Interests and Evidence

The Little Drummer Boy and The Juggler of Notre Dame

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

Steven Jan on Music and/as Evolution

Fake Seeds and Dead Livestock: Where’s the Justice in that?