August Round-Up

Here is a recap of what went on at UTP in the month of August.

Conferences:

• Jennifer DiDomenico attended the Academy of Management annual meeting in Anaheim, California from August 5^th-9^th.
• Doug Hildebrand and Anne Brackenbury attended the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Seattle, Washington from August 20^th-23^rd.
• UTP had a booth at the Beijing International Book Fair in Beijing, China from August 24^th-28^th.

In the Media:

• Forbes Magazine reviewed Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors by John Camillus.
• 800CEORead included Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors in their monthly list of ‘Business Books to Watch.’
• Point of View (POV) Magazine reviewed Rebecca Sullivan’s book, Bonnie Sherr Klein’s ‘Not a Love Story’.
• Cristian Berco’s From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain was reviewed by H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online.
• Maureen Lux was interviewed about her book Separate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920-1980 by CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition with Michael Enright.
• “Read it, and you’ll never look at the alphabet the same way again,” says Paul T Vogel, about Laurence de Looze’s The Letter & the Cosmos: How the Alphabet has shaped the Western View of the World, in a review for the Midwest Book Review.
• The Vancouver Sun reviewed Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach by Tanya Narozhna and Andy Knight.
• New Books Network (NBN) interviewed Robert O’Kell about his book Disraeli: The Romance of Politics.
• Policy Options reviewed Jonathan Craft’s Backrooms and Beyond: Partisan Advisers and the Politics of Policy Work in Canada.
• A.M. Juster’s translation of Saint Aldhelm’s ‘Riddles’ was reviewed in The Weekly Standard.
• The Miramichi Reader reviewed Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park by Ronald Rudin.
• In their review of States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic, New Books Network (NBN) states, “taxation is a dense topic, which [Yanni] Kotsonis makes accessible through an engaging writing style.”
• 800CEORead ran a profile of The American Retail Value Proposition: Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices by Kyle B. Murray.
• John Camillus was interviewed about his book Wicked Strategies: How Companies Conquer Complexity and Confound Competitors on Break Through Radio’s Book Talk with Kory French.

New Releases:

• The Promise of Sociology: Classical Approaches to Contemporary Society, Second Edition by Rob Beamish
• Yiddish: A Survey and a Grammar, Second Edition by S.A. Birnbaum
• Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism by Christopher M. Bundock
• Italian Futurism and the First World War by Selena Daly
• A History of Science in Society: From Philosophy to Utility, Third Edition by Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack
• Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition edited by Marlene Epp and Franca Iacovetta
• Redesigning Work: A Blueprint for Canada’s Future Well-Being and Prosperity by Graham Lowe and Frank Graves
• Tournaments of Value: Sociability and Hierarchy in a Yemeni Town by Anne Meneley
• The American Retail Value Proposition: Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices by Kyle B. Murray
• A Mile of Make-Believe: A History of the Eaton’s Santa Claus Parade by Steve Penfold
• Latinity and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Literature edited by Rebecca Stephenson and Emily V. Thornbury