#Cambridge University Press

[fanfican]

An Important Lesson from the Authors Who Came Before Us

We all know the story of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.

Childhood friends, high school sweethearts, and university rivals.

They showed up at Cambridge with trunks full of typewritten stories featuring talking lions, magical rings, a demon named Screwtape, and a dragon named Smog.

Their Creative Writing professor, James Joyce, famously suffered a fit of apoplexy when he first read their writing. He was so furious over their whimsical stories that he banished them from his classroom and forced them to work as unpaid innkeepers at his pub. He told them they could only come back once they proved they'd learned enough about the "real world" to write stories about "real things, like eagles and children."

Professor Joyce was forced to admit them back into his classroom when Tolkien wrote his eagles into Middle Earth and Lewis created the Pevensie children to visit Narnia. Their contemporary, Bede Griffiths, alleges that Joyce could be heard raging and screeching about how the clever young authors had willfully misinterpreted his assignment as far away as Gertrude Stein's Edinburgh apartment!

I remember this moment in history every time my professors tell me that I need to change my writing--when they try to get me to conform to a dying format. When they tell me that my Land Before Time fanfiction isn't appropriate for a class on Immigration Stories and Travel Narratives. When they tell me that my Babe fics "can't" be considered an essay on Orwell's Animal Farm.

Won't they feel silly in a few decades, when there will be sold-out university courses focused on studying work like mine.

There's a reason James Joyce's work has never been turned into movies. There's a reason his fandom is practically nonexistent.

The only reason we know his name is because he was a footnote in the intertwined heroes' journeys of authors who weren't afraid to try something new.

#c.s. lewis #j.r.r. tolkien #the chronicles of narnia #lord of the rings #lotr fandom #fanfiction #ao3 #history #england #james joyce #cambridge university press

[garadinervi]

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (نادرة شلهوب - كيفوركيان), Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East. A Palestinian Case-Study, «Cambridge Studies in Law and Society» Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

Quote: Kahlil Gibran, (1926), Sand and Foam. A Book of Aphorisms, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1995 (1969 Edition here)

#graphic design #law #humanitarian law #human rights law #trauma study #journal #nadera shalhoub kevorkian #cambridge studies in law and society #cambridge university press #2000s

[drawdownbooks]

Space as Language: The Properties of Typographic Space

This publication, part of the Cambridge Elements: Publishing and Book Culture series, examines the function and significance of typographic space. Readers are invited to consider in turn the space within letters, the space between letters, the space between lines, and the margin space surrounding the text-block, to develop the hypothesis that viewed collectively these constitute a 'metalanguage' complementary to the text.

Drawing upon critical perspectives from printing, typeface design, typography, avant-garde artistic practice, and design history, Space as Language examines the connotative values and philosophies embodied in the form and disposition of space. These include the values attributed to symmetry and asymmetry, the role of "active" space in the development of modernist typography, the debated relationship between type and writing, the divergent ideologies of the printing industry and the letter arts, and the impact of successive technologies upon both the organization and the perception of typographic space.

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023

Softcover, 75 pages, 5 × 7 inches

ISBN: 978-1-00-926543-0

#Space as Language #typography book #graphic design book #typographic theory #graphic design theory #Cambridge University Press #Will Hill #Draw Down Books

[shakespearenews]

Shakespeare's Contemporaries Infographic

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #shakespeare's contemporaries #cambridge university press #playwrights #authors #writers #early modern

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Wealth by Unrighteous Means

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, That he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! — Habakkuk 2:9 | Cambridge Paragraph Bible (CAMB) The Cambridge Paragraph Bible of the Authorized English Version, by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose, 1813-1891. Published by Cambridge University Press. Cross References: Isaiah 5:8; Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 49:16; Jeremiah 51:13; Ezekiel 22:27; Obadiah 1:4

#woe #disaster #wickedness #wealth #greed #wrongdoing #unrighteousness #Habakkuk 2:9 #Book of Habakkuk #Old Testament #CAMB #Cambridge Paragraph Bible #Cambridge University Press

[deadpresidents]

It's always a good day to add a brand-new book about Lyndon Johnson to the LBJ section of my personal library -- a section which might eventually just require building a new wing to my home in order to fit my LBJ collection!

Thanks to the wonderful folks at the Cambridge University Press for sending me an advance copy of LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE). LBJ's America is a collection of essays from many prominent historians about President Johnson, his life, his times, and the legacy he left behind. The essays featured in the book were selected and edited by historians Mark Atwood Lawrence, the current director of the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas in Austin, and Mark K. Updegrove, who was director of the LBJ Library from 2009 to 2017 and has been President and CEO of the LBJ Foundation since 2017. It would be difficult to find two contemporary historians better equipped to help tell Lyndon Johnson's story today.

I just received my copy of LBJ's America late this afternoon, but you can be sure that I've already jumped into the book without hesitation. And since the book features essays by an impressive lineup of historians including Peniel E. Joseph, Julian Zelizer, Joshua Zeitz, Nicole Hemmer, Melody Barnes, and Fredrik Logevall -- among others -- each chapter of LBJ's America is an excellent window into President Johnson and the triumphs and failures of his Administration as he actively sought to make the most of his unexpected opportunity to be the most powerful person in the world and actually accomplish goals which truly changed people's lives. After all, as LBJ once said when asked why he was trying to achieve things that were seemingly impossible politically, "What the hell is the Presidency for?".

I'm not completely finished reading the book yet, but even after just a few hours of progress, I can strongly recommend LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE). Pre-order it now wherever you buy books and you can get your copy of LBJ's America as soon as it is released on October 19th!

#History #Books #Lyndon B. Johnson #LBJ #Lyndon Baines Johnson #Lyndon Johnson #President Johnson #LBJ's America #LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson #Book Suggestions #Book Recommendations #Book Reviews #Books About Presidents #Cambridge University Press #The Johnson Treatment #Mark Atwood Lawrence #Mark K. Updegrove #LBJ Library #LBJ Foundation #Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library #Politics #Political History #Johnson Administration #LBJ Books #Books About LBJ

[linguisticillustrations]

König, Ekkehard & Peter Siemund. 2007. Speech act distinctions in grammar. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Volume 1: Clause Structure, vol. 1, 276–324. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511619427.005.

Sentence types (page 279, figure 5.1 )

#linguistics #sentence types #declarative #interrogative #imperative #typology #Cambridge University Press #Ekkehard König #Peter Siemund #2007 #Timothy Shopen

[brightgnosis]

Not all the peculiarities of Odessa Russian, however, can be attributed to the influence of Ukrainian. Odessans are [also] caricaturized as misusing cases, and that is sometimes blamed […] on the influence of Yiddish […] Such "barbarization of the Russian language" was opposed by the defenders of linguistic purity. Around 1912 the Odessa newspaper Russkaia rech' consistently referred to the city as Iudessa (Judaeodessa) [… But] Whether or not the misuse of cases in Odessa Russian had anything to do with Yiddish, there is certainly ample evidence of lexical and phraseological influences from Yiddish […] Phraseology also testifies to Yiddish influences […] Odessa Russian [also] uses Yiddish formulaic models of what the linguist James Matisoff called "psycho-ostensive expressions" (curses, oaths, and so on) […]

Just as Odessa Russian is sui generis, [however] so too is Odessa Yiddish unlike the Yiddish of Warsaw or Vilna. In fact the Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language [even] has an entry for 'adeser yidish', which it explains as 'full of Russian words'.

From Robert Rothstein in “How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk Culture” in the Slavic Review Volume 60, Issue 4 (Winter 2001); Cambridge University Press (My Ko-Fi Here)

#Robert Rothstein #How It Was Sung in Odessa: At the Intersection of Russian and Yiddish Folk Culture #Slavic Review #Slavic Review Volume 60 Issue 4 #Volume 60 Issue 4 Winter 2001 #Cambridge University #Cambridge University Press #Jewish Studies #Ancestral Connections #Slavic Folk Tradition #Quote

[guy60660]

Luisa Jung | Cambridge University Press | The Guardian

#luisa jung #cambridge university press #art #the guardian

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day -Mathematics for Machine Learning

Today’s Book of the Day is Mathematics for Machine Learning, written by Marc Peter Deisenroth, Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong in 2020 and published by Cambridge University Press. Marc Peter Deisenroth is DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. His research areas include data-efficient learning, probabilistic modeling, and…

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#Aldo Faisal #Artificial Intelligence #Book #Book Of The Day #book recommendation #book review #book suggestions #books #bookstagram #booktok #Cambridge #Cambridge University Press #chatbot #Cheng Soong Ong #Gaussian mixture models #linear regression #Machine Learning #Marc Peter Deisenroth #Mathematics #Mathematics for Machine Learning #Maths #principal component analysis #Raffaello Palandri #support vector machines

[ebookporn]

Digitizing ‘Christmas Books’ at the UK’s Cambridge University Press

Produced between 1930 and 1973, Cambridge University Press’ Christmas gift books were testaments to the company’s capabilities.

by Porter Anderson

Grooms: The ‘Skill of the Press’ Compositors and Printers’

In an interesting point of irony, Cambridge University Press’ 34 “Christmas Books” series was started by university printer Walter Lewis in the early 1930s, in hopes of showing off the press’ printing and design skills as the British economy slowed. And now, just in time for another economic downturn—as well as for the holiday season, of course—these highly specialized editions, “privately printed at the University Press,” have been digitized by the press to preserve a remarkable collection of limited editions.

These are not Christmas books in the sense of titles themed on Christmas. They’re called the press’ Christmas books because they were given to industry associates and customers at Christmas, in no small part as promotional pieces.

In most cases, only some 100 copies were made of a single title, and all of them were given away to “friends in printing and publishing.”

This meant that b itself didn’t have a complete set of these rare editions, the last of which was produced in 1973. Starting in 2014, the press has been working to pull together a complete set of its own, drawing on “a mixture of donations and detective work.”

Ros Grooms, the press’ archivist says, “The books were published for a long time, with a pause for the Second World War, and demonstrate real excellence in the way they are put together. They aren’t showy, but all the signs of quality in printing, typography and design would have been obvious to the people receiving them.

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#christmas books #book publishing #librarians #booksellers #book lovers #bibliophiles #Cambridge University Press #book tumblr #literacy #book printing

[panicinthestudio]

Dr. Gina Tam - "What is Cantonese? A discussion about dialects, languages, and the power of words", February 25, 2023

Dr. Gina Tam address one of the most frequently asked questions about the Cantonese language: "Is Cantonese a dialect or a language?" 

TAM, GINA ANNE. Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960. CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108776400

CantoneseAlliance

#language #Chinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #dialect #history #nationalism #Republic of China #19th century #20th century #identity #Gina Tam #books #ideology #education #media #relevant #politics #power #Cambridge University Press #linguistics

[garadinervi]

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (نادرة شلهوب - كيفوركيان), Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019

#graphic design #law #humanitarian law #human rights law #trauma study #book #cover #book cover #nadera shalhoub kevorkian #cambridge studies in law and society #cambridge university press #2010s

[younes-ben-amara]

سبب تفضيل الاستشهاد بالمطبوع على الرقمي في غالب الحالات 📜🆚📱

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#Cambridge University Press #link rot #Paul Skallas #SAGE Journals #The Lindy Newsletter #فتوى الكد والسعاية #فتوى بن عرضون #قاموس العنقاء #قاموس العنقاء التأثيلي #منشورات مرايانا #مدونة مرام عبدالحفيظ #نشرة التَّرجُمَان النَّاصِح #النوازل #التأثيل #العدد الأول منشورات مرايانا #ابن عرضون #ابن عرضون الكبير #تأثيل

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.

1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, 4 Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. 13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. — Psalm 39 | Authorized King James Version (AKJV) The Holy Bible: Authorized King James Version; Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK. All rights reserved. Cross References: Exodus 9:3; 2 Samuel 16:10; Job 2:10; Job 6:11; Job 7:19; Job 9:34; Job 11:12; Psalm 32:3-4; Psalm 38:13; Psalm 38:15; Psalm 44:13; Psalm 51:9; Isaiah 38:16; Jeremiah 20:9; Matthew 6:27; Luke 12:20; Luke 24:32; 1 Corinthians 7:31; Hebrews 6:19; Hebrews 11:13; James 1:26; James 3:2; 1 Peter 2:11; 2 Peter 2:16

#hope #life #trouble #prayer #despair #Psalm 39 #Book of Psalms #Old Testament #AKJV #Authorized King James Version Bible #Cambridge University Press

[dorianmathay]

(AN) WHITEHEAD. Adventure of Ideas. CUP. 1933 (1947). ix+392pp.Bib ULiège 49 WHI. PART 1 SOCIOLOGICAL. Epilogue(p127): "At this stage we conclude that the consideration of that group of ideas that most directly contributed to the civilisation of the behaviour-systems of human beings in their intercourse with each other. This improvement depended on the slow growth of mutual respect, sympathy, and general kindliness. All these feelings can exist with the minimum of intellectuality. Their basis is emotional, and humanity acquired these emotions by reason of its unthinking activities amid the course of nature.[...]"

#WHITEHEAD #philosophy #XX #Cambridge University Press #esthetix #ontology #art #consciousness