University Press Alert

Monthly lists with the newest books
for academic subject librarians
 

We scrape the newest (English-language) publications from 85 university presses every month.

Just to name a few examples:
 
Aarhus University Press; Brandeis University Press; Cambridge University Press; Columbia University Press; Duke University Press; Georgetown University Press; McGill–Queen's University Press; Melbourne University Publishing; MIT Press; Penn State University Press; Princeton University Press; Stanford University Press; SUNY Press; Temple University Press; University of Michigan Press; University of Oklahoma Press; University of Virginia Press; University Press of Kansas; Yale University Press.
 
Here is a full list!

We continue adding more publishers over time.

This service is perfect for subject librarians or liaison librarians who are responsible for the book coverage in a given academic discipline.

The latest scraping was undertaken in April 2024.

Here are some examples of how the result – to be sent to subscribers – may look like (snippets from January 2024):

Political Science Sociology Business & Economics Education Arts Philosophy Law Religion & Theology

Political Science

(55 books found from January 2024)

God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America
Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware
Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231211222
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/god-guns-and-sedition/9780231211222

Indigenous Peoples and Borders
Sheryl Lightfoot; Elsa Stamatopoulou
Duke University Press
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2547-4
https://www.dukeupress.edu/indigenous-peoples-and-borders

Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century
Julia F. Irwin
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781469677231
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469677231/catastrophic-diplomacy

Not in My Backyard: How Citizen Activists Nationalized Local Politics in the Fight to Save Green Springs
Brian Balogh
Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300253788
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300253788/not-in-my-backyard

Iran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire
Steele, Robert
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9781914983085
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo216864280.html

Spartakus: The Symbology of Revolt
Jesi, Furio
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9781803093628
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo16862610.html

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Sociology

(41 books found from January 2024)

The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History
Diego Javier Luis
Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674271784
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674271784

Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human
Jesse D. Peterson; Natashe Lemos Dekker; Philip R. Olson
Bristol University Press
ISBN: 978-152923014
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/deaths-social-and-material-meaning-beyond-the-human

Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq
Fazil Moradi
Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9781978831698
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/being-human/9781978831698/

The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism in Contemporary Spanish Culture
William Nichols
Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826506214
https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826506214/the-paradox-of-paradise/

The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle
Alexandrina Vanke
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 978-1-5261-67
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526167637/the-urban-life-of-workers-in-post-soviet-russia

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Business & Economics

(31 books found from January 2024)

Menopause Transitions and the Workplace: Theorizing Transitions, Responsibilities and Interventions
Vanessa Beck; Jo Brewis
Bristol University Press
ISBN: 978-152921570
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/menopause-transitions-and-the-workplace

Winning with Data Science: A Handbook for Business Leaders
Howard Steven Friedman and Akshay Swaminathan
Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231206860
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/winning-with-data-science/9780231206860

The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century - New Edition
Roger E. Backhouse
Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691252018
https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691252018

We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years
Stephen D. King
Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300276084
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300276084/we-need-to-talk-about-inflation

American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change
Libecap, Gary D.
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9780226830612
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo208512296.html

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Education

(20 books found from January 2024)

Teaching as if Students Matter: A Guide to Creating Classrooms Based on Relationships and Engaged Learning
Jaye Zola; John Zola
SUNY Press
ISBN: 9781438496672
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teaching-as-if-Students-Matter

The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children's Literature, 1762–1860
Elizabeth Massa Hoiem
University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9781625347558
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625347558/the-education-of-things/

Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education: A Labor History
Edited by Eric Fure-Slocum and Claire Goldstene
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 978-0-252-045
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087653

Central City's Joy and Pain: Solidarity, Survival, and Soul in a Birmingham Housing Project
By Jerome E. Morris
University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9-780-8203-65
https://ugapress.org/book/9780820365756/central-citys-joy-and-pain

Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University
Nelson, Adam R.
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9780226829203
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo205624930.html

Diversity Leadership in Education: Embedding Practices of Social Justice
Catherine McGregor; Shailoo Bedi
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 9780228019251
https://www.mqup.ca/diversity-leadership-in-education-products-9780228019251.php?page_id=46&

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Arts

(62 books found from January 2024)

A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City
Kristin Love Huffman
Duke University Press
ISBN: 978-1-4780-1917-6
https://www.dukeupress.edu/a-view-of-venice

Fantasies of music in nostalgic medievalism
Helen Dell
Manchester University Press
ISBN: 978-1-5261-73
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173959/fantasies-of-music-in-nostalgic-medievalism

Art, Medicine, and Femininity: Visualising the Morphine Addict in Paris, 1870–1914
Hannah Halliwell
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN: 9780228019909
https://www.mqup.ca/art--medicine--and-femininity-products-9780228019909.php?page_id=46&

Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life
Alisa Zhulina
Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810146341
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810146341/theater-of-capital

Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter
EL Putnam
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 978-1-5179-17
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/livestreaming

What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor
Elyce Rae Helford
University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813197029
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813197029/what-price-hollywood

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Philosophy

(47 books found from January 2024)

The Weirdness of the World
Eric Schwitzgebel
Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691215679
https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691215679

The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy
Pippin, Robert B.
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9780226830001
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo208042246.html

The Moral Life: Eight Lectures
James F. Keenan
Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 978-1-64712-3
https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Moral-Life

Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously
Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús
Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531505646
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531505646/catastrophic-historicism

Totalitarianism: A Borderline Idea in Political Philosophy
Simona Forti
Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503627505
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33311

Messy Ethics in Human Rights Work
Plaut, Shayna
University Press of Chicago
ISBN: 9780774868518
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo208652353.html

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Law

(22 books found from January 2024)

Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa
Kim Bouwer; Uzuazo Etemire; Tracy-Lynn Field; Ademola Oluborode Jegede
Bristol University Press
ISBN: 978-152922895
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/climate-litigation-and-justice-in-africa

Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law
Jennifer M. Chacón, Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee
Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9781503611719
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31444

Crowded Orbits: Conflict and Cooperation in Space, second edition
James Clay Moltz
Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231207072
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/crowded-orbits/9780231207072

Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
Lara Montesinos Coleman
Duke University Press
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2556-6
https://www.dukeupress.edu/struggles-for-the-human

Down Ballot: How a Local Campaign Became a National Referendum on Abortion
Patrick Wohl
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 978-0-252-045
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087585

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

Religion & Theology

(40 books found from January 2024)

Minor Prophets for Living: Daily Prayers, Wisdom, and Guidance
Mark Lanier
Baylor University Press
ISBN: 9781481320986
https://www.baylorpress.com/9781481320986/minor-prophets-for-living

Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity
Stefan Heid
Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 9780813237435
/9780813237435/altar-and-church/

The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making
Yountae An
Duke University Press
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2510-8
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-coloniality-of-the-secular

Traces of the Prophets: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Adam Bursi
Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399522328
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html

American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism
Edited by Katherine Dugan and Karen E. Park; Contributor(s): Adrienne Nock Ambrose, Lloyd Barba, James S. Bielo, Katherine Dugan, David J. Endres, Kay
Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531504885
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531504885/american-patroness

Strictly Observant: Amish and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women Negotiating Media
Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar
Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9781978805217
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/strictly-observant/9781978805217/

The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor
Jordan Daniel Wood
University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN: 9780268203481
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203481/the-whole-mystery-of-christ

Circumventing the Law: Rabbinic Perspectives on Loopholes and Legal Integrity
Elana Stein Hain
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9781512824407
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512824407/circumventing-the-law

Etc. etc. (this is just an exemplary snippet)

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