University Press Week Blog Tour – Meet the Press
November 12, 2013
The University Press Week blog tour kicked off yesterday in celebration of University Press Week. Here is a summary of the “Meet the Press”-themed posts:
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Classic Reissue: Architect? by Roger K. Lewis
November 8, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of long-time MIT Press classics. Our last book in the Classic Reissue series is Roger Lewis’s well-loved Architect?: A Candid Guide to the Profession, now in its third edition. Executive Editor Roger Conover shared these thoughts on the need for such a book in the market and the careful considerations for the revision:
Emil du Bois-Reymond
November 7, 2013
Have you ever heard of Emil du Bois-Reymond? If you haven’t it’s probably because according to Gabriel Finkelstein, author of Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany, this founder of electrophysiology is largely forgotten. For du Bois-Reymond’s birthday read on to discover his fascinating life. His encounter with William James is one of our favorite parts. Enjoy!
Classic Reissue: Word & Object by Willard Van Orman Quine
November 1, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of long-time MIT Press classics. See previous posts from the series on Learnability and Cognition, Matter and Consciousness, and The Well-Played Game.
Ghostly Apparitions
October 31, 2013
Happy Halloween! We hope that your Halloween includes candy, costumes, and…ghost stories!
Five Minutes with Lane Relyea
October 28, 2013
Here’s Five minutes with Lane Relyea, author of Your Everyday Art World.
Classic Reissue: The Well-Played Game by Bernard De Koven
October 25, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of long-time MIT Press classics. See previous posts from the series on Learnability and Cognition and Matter and Consciousness.
Open Access Week II
October 23, 2013
Our first Open Access Week post came from Charlie Schweik, author of Internet Success. Today, we have Peter Suber author of Open Access, part of our MIT Essential Knowledge Series.
Classic Reissue: Matter and Consciousness by Paul M. Churchland
October 18, 2013
The Classic Reissue series highlights new editions of four long-time MIT Press classics.
Columbus Day: Ten Minutes with Nicolás Wey Gómez
October 14, 2013
For Columbus Day, we thought we’d ask Nicolás Wey Gómez, author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies, to share with us some thoughts on “the Discoverer.”