A timely and helpful article highlighting American Psychiatric Association Publishing author Dr. Thomas E. Brown's title Social Anxiety: Hidden Fears and Shame in Teens and Adults. Previewed in Futurity, Brown points out that "only about half the people with social anxiety ever seek treatment for it."
Over at Nation.Cymru there's a thoughtful review of University of Wales Press title Griffith Evans, A Veterinarian, Pioneer, Parasitologist and Adventurer by Gavin Gatehouse. In conclusion the review highlights that the book is "a wonderful reverent tribute to a man who, somewhat burdened by his ‘hiraeth’ for Wales and his family, lived large parts of his life in discomfort, pursing his passion for knowledge and indulging his fascination with science, a Welshman to truly admire."
There's an excerpt from Manchester University Press book Carbon Colonialism by Laurie Parsons in Resilience, the outlet for the Post Carbon Institute, in which the author passionately calls on readers to: "Demand an end to the delays. Demand an end to tolerance for the brazenly unknown in our economy. Demand an end to carbon colonialism."
The Hungarian Research Network, HUN-REN, is excited to announce that its Research Centre for Natural Sciences will host a prestigious international event featuring authors from World Scientific Publishing, mentioning that our client's "publications are recommended as textbooks by prestigious institutions such as Harvard University, the California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Princeton University".
Looking ahead to the future Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Ed trails forthcoming Georgetown University Press title Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age: An Interreligious Dialogue, which “'combines scholarly insight' and 'personal reflections on what it means to work through such a life-changing event' as COVID from within 'the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, nonbelieving, and Christian traditions.'”
EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books Week 2024 is an free online festival towards the end of September that will feature over 45 authors, First Amendment experts, and publishing professionals, and include 25 panels on such topics as censorship, the joy of reading, and the First Amendment's role in libraries. Longstanding IPS UK client Rowman & Littlefield will be among the sponsors, as reported in Publishers Weekly.
Agenda Publishing picked up an impressive review in America: The Jesuit Review for Lost in Ideology by Jason Blakely. This is, says reviewer William T. Cavanaugh, "is quite simply the best guide to today’s dominant ideologies".
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