Sociology

A39 Theatre Group and the fight not to be where we have come to be

Read a blog post by OBP author Paul Farmer on his latest Open Access book 'After the Miners’ Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher’s Britain: Volume 1'

Our books

Changing the conversation around Existential Risk

Read now a new blog post by OBP author Dr SJ Beard on the Open Access title 'The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies'

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On 'Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century'

Read now a blog by Patricia Auspos, author of 'Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century', on her new OA title.

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Reading about Palestine after Tom Hurndall

Read now a new blog by Ian Parker on the topic of his latest Open Access title 'For Palestine: Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group'

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Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

Read now a blog post by Ladan Rahbari & Olga Burlyuk on their latest edited volume 'Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe'

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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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Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín

Ya disponible: un nuevo blog escrito por Geoffrey Baker en el que presenta su nuevo libro 'Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín'.

vigilantism

Vigilantes in the Digital Age

Read Christopher Hubbard's blog on digital vigilantism, social media and our new title 'Introducing Vigilant Audiences'.

Language

The Possibility of Signs

This is the first of a series of blog post on one of our latest titles 'Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations'. Read William B. Bonvillian's reflections on the Simplified Signs project.

Austerity

Just Managing? and the articulation of Austerity

The Independent has recently reported that in autumn this year, the UN Human Rights Investigator Professor Philip Alston will be researching the impact of Tory austerity measures in Britain.[1] The need for

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?)

A39 Theatre Group and the fight not to be where we have come to be

Changing the conversation around Existential Risk

On 'Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century'

Reading about Palestine after Tom Hurndall

Stories [that] Matter: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe

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

Replanteando la acción social por la música: la búsqueda de la convivencia y la ciudadanía en la Red de Escuelas de Música de Medellín

Vigilantes in the Digital Age

The Possibility of Signs

Just Managing? and the articulation of Austerity