Another Item to Fix: Looking Deeply at Calls for Body Acceptance

5 January 2017 Uncategorized

Written by guest blogger, Cheryl Madliger. Her review of Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do About It by Harriet Brown is featured in the See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness issue of IJFAB. Read the full review here or on Project MUSE! Cheryl […]

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The Inspiration and Process Behind Our Investigation into Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars’ Language Choices

23 December 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest bloggers, Andy Xuesong Gao & Yongyan Zheng, authors of “Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Scholars’ Language Choices in International Scholarly Publishing: A Ten-Year Survey,” from the latest issue of the Journal of Scholarly Publishing! Andy Xuesong Gao, University of Hong Kong Yongyan Zheng, Fudan University What drove us to write this article […]

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Co-ops and Big Banks in the Weimar Republic

21 December 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Thomas J. Saunders. Thomas J. Saunders’ article, “Self-Help and State Rescue: The Raiffeisen Bank and Rationalization of the Cooperative Movement in Weimar Germany” is FREE-TO-READ for a limited time. Read it inside the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire at CJH/ACH Online or on Project MUSE. Thomas J. Saunders, University of […]

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Finding Motivation to Research as Community College Faculty

16 December 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Michelle Parrinello-Cason, author of “Choose Your Battles: Agonism and Identity in Narratives of Feminist Fitnesses” featured in the See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness issue of IJFAB. Read the full article here or on Project MUSE!   I wrote “Choose Your Battles: Agonism and Identity in Narratives of Feminist Fitnesses” […]

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The Continuing Wealth Divide in Canada

6 December 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Michelle Maroto (@MarotoMichelle), author of “Fifteen Years of Wealth Disparities in Canada: New Trends or Simply the Status Quo?” featured in the Summer 2016 issue of Canadian Public Policy. The issue is available to read here!   In assessing inequality in Canada, researchers tend to focus on income disparities and the […]

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Big Ideas for a Stronger, Cleaner Economy

30 November 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by the Smart Prosperity Institute on the release of the special November issue of Canadian Public Policy, which you can access here for free!   We are excited to be guest editors for the new special issue of Canadian Public Policy Journal (CPP) – “Big Ideas for Sustainable Prosperity: Policy Innovation for Greening Growth.” […]

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The Physical Performance of Politics

28 November 2016 Contributor Blog

Written by guest blogger, Greg Koabel In the personal world of early modern politics, political identities were performed by men (for the most part), and mediated through audiences within a shared space and physical immediacy. “The Treasonous Hat” explores just such a contested performance, as the Earl of Strafford fought for his life before an […]

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Out with the Old, In with the New: Throwing it Back to the Future of Online Scholarly Journals

17 November 2016 AAUP Blog Tour

To celebrate our participation in the 5th annual University Press Week blog tour, we’re looking back at the future of online publishing in the journals industry! Yes, you read that right…we’re “looking back at the future.” In this #UPWeek post, we look back at our very first online platform as well as flash forward to […]

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University Press Week 2016: UP Staff Spotlight

16 November 2016 AAUP Blog Tour

We’re thrilled to once again be one of over 40 presses participating in this years UP Week Blog Tour. Each day this week, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Each day, we will round up of all the university presses that posted on […]

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University Press Week 2016: Indie Bound

15 November 2016 AAUP Blog Tour

We’re thrilled to once again be one of over 40 presses participating in this years UP Week Blog Tour. Each day this week, presses will be blogging on a different theme that highlights the value of collaboration among the scholarly community. Each day, we will round up of all the university presses that posted on […]

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