Joshua Hortwiz is one of two authors of this book Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea. He received a law degree from George Washington University and is currently a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
|Visit the authors' website at: Coalition to Stop Gun Violence|
|Also watch: "Guns and Liberty" on C-Span, Horwitz and Anderson at Hartford University|
In addition to it's regular seasonal print and electronic catalogs, Director Phil Pochoda and the University of Michigan Press today launched the subject-based Michigan Spring 2010: eCATALOG, a "University Press 2.0" subject catalog design reflecting a digital transition that embraces new technologies, expanding social media networks, and immediate global searchability, accessibility, and connectivity.
The University of Michigan Press congratulates Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her "analyis of economic governance, especially the commons"! She is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in this category.
Dr. Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of UMP title RULES, GAMES, AND COMMON-POOL RESOURCES and a contributor to three UMP collections from the Workshop in Political Theory and Analysis: POLYCENTRIC GAMES AND INSTITUTIONS, POLYCENTRICITY AND LOCAL PUBLIC ECONOMIES, and POLYCENTRIC GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT.
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What is HathiTrust?
HathiTrust is a digital repository and research management tool for the United States' great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search, large-scale full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it, and the ability to very easily flip through and purchase full titles in both print and electronic form.
| "Presses have had online previews and PDFs of sample chapters, tables of contents, and sometimes entire books on their websites for years. The HathiTrust partnership is something entirely new that takes into account the actual pursuit of broad dissemination of scholarly information. Security restrictions are in place to protect the integrity of the product, but with HathiTrust, a full-view of the material is there, it's searchable and manageable, and it's available to anyone with access to the Trust. If you want to either search for or happen to come across Michigan Press books, you can view them onscreen anywhere, anytime, and decide if you are interested in making the purchase...This is just one of the many avenues we're pursuing to allow today's readers to find and 'flip through' a book to see if it meets their needs and interests without ever turning an actual page." —Phil Pochoda, Director of the University of Michigan Press |
For more information on UMP's Digital Transition,
Visit: www.press.umich.edu/digital
by David Bell, originally appeared in The New Republic on October 7th, 2009
The Information Master by Jacob Soll
Soll is also the author of Publishing The Prince (2005)
"That resonant piece of verbal shorthand, TMI--or Too Much Information--would make a fine epigraph for our age. Anyone with an Internet connection today has access to exponentially greater quantities of writing, images, sound, and video than anyone on earth could have imagined just twenty years ago. Small wonder that we have become obsessed with the idea of "information" as an abstract substance independent of its content--something that we accumulate, measure, and "process," rather than ponder and understand. And small wonder that the management and control of information, whether by its "producers," by governments, or by corporations such as Google, has emerged as an increasingly important political concern, and as a subject of scholarship."
Continue reading "The Colbert Report | The Information Master" »
by John Kenneth White, author of Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
ALSO READ: John Kenneth White on:
AT LEFT: Photo from MODERN FAMILY on ABC, a new show about a single family that must bridge generational, cultural, and social gaps.
"In 1970, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg famously defined the Real Majority of the U.S. electorate as being “un-young, un-poor, and un-black.” Today, Scammon and Wattenberg’s Real Majority is increasingly an historical artifact. Certainly, George W. Bush helped hasten the end of this Republican-leaning coalition by his poor performance. But Ronald Reagan also helped by getting much of his conservative agenda enacted into law. Redefining what is means to be a conservative is a central problem for the Republican Party in the Barack
Obama era.
But other factors are working to create a new majority poised to elect more Democrats. Since 1970, the U.S. has had four revolutions: (1) a racial revolution where whites will be a minority of the US population by mid-century; (2) a family revolution where having a mom, dad,
and kids living at home with their biological parents is no longer the norm; (3) a gay rights revolution where greater tolerance toward homosexuals is prevalent; and (4) a religious revolution where the location of faith is not necessarily in a church building, but in the heart of
the individual.
Continue reading "One Big (Straight, Gay, Multi-cultural, Traditional) Happy Family" »
"As you have heard, a class action lawsuit was brought by authors and publishers against Google for digitizing millions of books without permission of their copyright holders and publishers. The terms of the Google Settlement will be reviewed in a Fairness Hearing by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 7, 2009. At this time any comments and objections received by the Court to the terms of the Settlement will be considered, and the Settlement will be approved, amended, or disapproved.
University of Michigan Press has decided to opt in to the terms of the Settlement and is beginning the process of claiming books digitized by Google under its Book Search program. We will claim all titles under copyright on behalf of our authors.
Books published prior to 1923 are in the public domain, but most books published by the Press are still protected by copyright. Some books under copyright may have been out of print in prior years, but we have been putting these into commercial offerings again recently (e.g., digital products). By doing this, we will ensure the copyright for these titles are clearly known to be held by us and by you as rightsholder.
Please note that if you hold copyright or if the Press released publication rights back to you, you are solely responsible for claiming them with Google. If copyrighted titles did not revert to you, even if out of print, we will claim these on behalf of authors and the Press as publisher.
The Settlement terms will govern future revenue-generating plans for books in the Google repository, but claims for the books whether by us, you, or both will yield one-time payments of not less than $60/book. This payment is solely the authors' where rights have reverted, and will be shared via contracted royalty terms following payment by Google otherwise. Please come to our website for regular updates, and please do not hesitate to contact us with questions."
-Phil Pochoda
(originally published July 8, 2009 on CUNY Radio Podcasts)
Austin Sarat, author of Pain, Death, and the Law, and Paul Kahn, author of Sacred Violence, examine how religious ideas and the use of “sacred violence” play a significant role in modern secular philosophy, political theory and ultimately, the state itself.
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