#oxford university press

[uwmspeccoll]

Merry Christmas!

Or as they say in Spanish, Feliz Navidad! Today we celebrate the Christmas holiday with a festive book, Land of Two Christmases, which was published by Oxford University Press in 1965 with 360 copies held for distribution to the Typophiles. The text was written by Harriett Philmus Pitt and discusses the various Christmas traditions celebrated in Puerto Rico, where the books says it is celebrated in both the American and Spanish styles—though I would argue that Puerto Rico has a style all it's own! You can learn all about Christmas and related celebrations in Puerto Rico on the Discover Puerto Rico website.

The illustrations are by Erwin Schachner and were printed using photo-engravings of original linoleum prints. The text was set in Caledonia and letterpress printed on tan laid paper by Marbridge Printing Company, Inc. The book is printed in black and bright pink, making it quite festive though not what most would normally consider to be Christmas colors.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#Christmas #Land of Two Christmases #Oxford University Press #Typophiles #Harriett Philmus Pitt #Puerto Rico #Erwin Schachner #linocuts #Marbridge Printing Company #holidays

[garadinervi]

Audre Lorde, Apartheid U.S.A., in I Am Your Sister. Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009, pp. 64-72 [American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT]

Plus: Audre Lorde, Apartheid U.S.A. / Merle Woo, Our Common Enemy, Our Common Cause, Freedom Orgainizing in the Eighties, «Freedom Organizing» 2, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, New York, NY, 1986

#graphic design #book #audre lorde #rudolph p. byrd #johnnetta betsch cole #beverly guy sheftall #oxford university press #1980s #1990s

[teathattast]

#twitter #twitter memes #funny tweets #goblin mode #oxford unersity #oxford university press

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

- Eugene Ionesco

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586, it is the second oldest university press after Cambridge University Press.

Last year the University Press announced it would be changing its branding and logo which had served it so well and was iconic the world over. The new branding was designed by an agency named Superunion with refinements by typographer and logo designer Rob Clarke.

The new logo featured Oxford’s name and an icon showing the turning pages of a book forming the ‘O’ of the popular university press. It represented Oxford’s heritage as a print publisher, and its transformation to a future of multi-format content publishing. Or so they say.

The old OUP logo had the university coat of arms in which was the Latin quote: Dominus illuminatio mea. This is Latin for 'The Lord is my light’. It is the incipit (or opening words) of Psalm 27 from which the motto of the university was taken.

That motto has been in use there since at least the second half of the sixteenth century, and it appears in the coat of arms of the university. The origins of the motto shdes light (no pun intended) on the origins of the mission of the university as it was back then. Roman Catholic priest and theologian Ivan Illich explained that ancient university motto was being formulated around a time when scientists were progressively replacing the concept of vision as a gaze radiating from the pupil by the concept of vision as the retinal perception of an image formed by reflected sunlight. Illich wrote, “To interpret De oculo morali, the relationship of things to God "who is light" must be understood. This is the century (i.e. the thirteenth century) suffused by the idea that the world rests in God's hands, that it is contingent on Him. This means that at every instant everything derives its existence from his continued creative act. Things radiate by virtue of their constant dependence on this creative act. They are alight by the God-derived luminescence of their truth.”

It seems the Oxford University Press, in all its wisdom, threw out hundreds of years of tradition in the name of digital transformation to advance knowledge to all fours corners of the globe. In other words just another bland soulless corporate entity. As one critic said Oxford had gone from ‘maybe god will read your book, but no one else’ to ‘look here’s a visual representation of the drain your book will disappear down’.

#eugene ionesco #ionesco #quote #roots #oxford university press #oup #oxford #university #brand #branding #secular #sacred #heritage #custom #books #publishing #education

[dynamobooks]

Arika Okrent: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language (2021)

#akira okrent #sean oneill #highly irregular #english #language history #grammar #linguistics #oxford university press

[tinas1469]

Got rizz? Tom Holland memes propel popularity of 2023 word of the year

Gen Z slang for charm or attractiveness sees off ‘Swiftie’, ‘situationship’ and ‘prompt’ in judges’ decision

Do women twirl their hair when they’re around you? Do men laugh loudly at your jokes? Have you noticed you’re particularly good at chatting people up? Then you’ve got rizz.

If you’re unfamiliar with the word then get to know it, because “rizz” has been named as the word of the year by Oxford University Press (OUP), the world’s second oldest academic press and the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary.

The gen Z slang for “style, charm or attractiveness” or “the ability to attract a romantic or sexual partner” beat out other contenders such as “Swiftie” (an enthusiastic fan of Taylor Swift), “situationship” (an informal romantic or sexual relationship) and “prompt” (an instruction given to an artificial intelligence program).

Rizz is believed to come from the word “charisma”, and can be used as a verb, as in to “rizz up”, which means to attract, seduce, or chat someone up, OUP said.

The word was first recorded in 2022 and went viral in June this year after the Spider-Man actor Tom Holland declared in an interview: “I have no rizz whatsoever. I have limited rizz.” He later explained he won over his girlfriend, the actor Zendaya, by playing the “long game”.

As Holland’s comments spawned endless memes, overall usage of the word surged by a factor of about 15, according the publisher. Today, the word is used massively online, with billions of views of the hashtag “rizz” on TikTok.

OUP said the word had “boomed on social media”, showing how the internet can propel initially fringe language into the mainstream. “This is a story as old as language itself, but stories of linguistic evolution and expansion that used to take years can now take weeks or months,” it said.

It said the growth of rizz “speaks to how younger generations create spaces – online or in person – where they own and define the language they use. From activism to dating and wider culture, as gen Z comes to have more impact on society, differences in perspectives and lifestyle play out in language, too.”

This year’s shortlist of eight words was selected by language experts at OUP. That list was then put to a public vote in late November, reducing the field to four finalists, before Oxford lexicographers made the final decision.

More than 30,000 word lovers helped to decide head-to-head competitions between pairs of words or phrases. They selected “rizz” over “beige flag” (a character trait indicating that a partner or potential partner is boring).

The other words that didn’t make the final cut were “parasocial” (a relationship characterised by the one-sided, unreciprocated intimacy felt by a fan or follower for a well-known figure), “heat dome” (a persistent high-pressure weather system over a particular geographical area), and “de-influencing” (the practice of discouraging people from buying particular products or reducing their consumption more generally).

Last year the public was given the opportunity to choose the overall winner, and an overwhelming 93% voted for “goblin mode” – a slang term describing “unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly or greedy” behaviour.

Casper Grathwohl, the president of Oxford Languages, said witnessing thousands of people debate and discuss language “really highlights the power it has in helping us to understand who we are, and process what’s happening in the world around us”.

Given that “goblin mode” resonated with so many after the pandemic, Grathwohl added, “it’s interesting to see a contrasting word like ‘rizz’ come to the forefront, perhaps speaking to the prevailing mood of 2023, where more of us are opening ourselves up after a challenging few years and finding confidence in who we are.”

Previous words of the year – chosen by Oxford lexicographers – include “vax” (2021), “climate emergency” (2019) and “selfie” (2013).

Do you know these gen Z slang terms?

POV Short for “point of view”, referring to one’s point of view of a certain situation, including a physical standpoint, an opinion or attitude.

Lore Referring to background information about a person, typically secret or random pieces of information.

Tea Meaning gossip or inside information, used in phrases like “spill the tea”, ie share the juicy information you have.

Hits different When something feels special, or appeals to you in a unique way, it “hits different”.

Sneaky link A secret meeting between two people romantically interested in each other, commonly used to refer to a hookup but also to describe a friends-with-benefits relationship.

Heather Refers to a very desirable person who everyone likes, derived from the Conan Gray song Heather, about being in love with someone who is in love with a girl called Heather.

Pick Me Girl A woman who claims or acts as if she is unlike most other women to gain attention from men.

Slept on To be ignored, overlooked or not appropriately respected.

Girl dinner A low-maintenance way to eat, by picking (usually insubstantial) items from the fridge and arranging them in an aesthetically pleasing way on a plate.

Canon event A trend that started after the release of Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, referring to a pivotal moment that changes the course of one’s life and therefore cannot be interrupted.

#Tom Holland #Rizz #Oxford University Press #rizz has been named as the word of the year #the guardian #zendaya #tomdaya

[gacorley]

How is it an open access book if the ebook is $18.99 and I cannot find the PDF copy that is mentioned in the Amazon description? Like, what, I'm only able to read this book for free on Google books? What is with this?

#academia #linguistics #oxford university press

[thepastisalreadywritten]

4 December 2023

#Rizz #Oxford Dictionary #Oxford University Press #Word of the Year #Gen Z #Generation Z #words #lexicographers #Oxford English Dictionary

[theeditorreads]

The Philosophy of Mind by Jonathan Glover (Editor) - A Review

My Rating: 3/5Genre: Philosophy/PsychologyPages: 162 (Paperback)Publisher: Oxford University PressDate of Publication: 13 January 1977 Series: Oxford Readings in Philosophy Review Reviewing this one in a manner different from my other reviews because1) This is a scholarly book that I had no business reading and now I am going to review it.2) I checked out two books from the Sahitya Akademi…

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#book review #Compilation #Editor #Jonathan Glover #Non Fiction #Oxford Readings in Philosophy #Oxford University Press #Paperback #Philosophy #Psychology #Sahitya Akademi Library #Shaina Reviews #Shaina&039;s Musings #The Philosophy of Mind

[africanamericanreports]

The Oxford University Press has planned to publish in 2025 a dictionary that will reflect the history, significance and meaning of African-American language.

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English, a new glossary of language that will contain popular phrases used by historical Black figures and modern-day Black Americans.

#african american #african american dictionary #henry louis gates jr. #oxford university press #oxford dictionary of african american english #african american english #language

[mcbitchtits]

i’m pretty sure this is indirectly tumblr’s fault

[uwmspeccoll]

A Sand County Feathursday

One of the most noteworthy books to come out of Wisconsin is A Sand County Almanac by the equally noteworthy Wisconsin naturalist and conservationist Aldo Leopold (1887-1948). Considered a landmark in the American conservation movement, A Sand County Almanac is a collection of essays mainly concerning the land around Leopold’s home in Sauk County, Wisconsin, that advocates the author’s idea of a "land ethic," or a responsible relationship between people and the land they inhabit.

Our copy is a first edition published in New York by Oxford University Press in 1949 with illustrations by the American wildlife artist and fellow conservationist Charles W. Schwartz (1914-1991). The book was published a year after Leopold’s death so he never got to witness its significant impact on the conservation and environmentalist movements. 

Schwartz made a special emphasis on depicting the avian inhabitants of Sauk County, and we show a few of those images here that include Canada Geese (Branta canadensis), Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus), American Woodcocks (Scolopax minor), and a Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). A couple of other species shown here are from Leopold’s visits to Mexico and the American southwest, Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) and Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana).

The image of the chickadee being annoyed by its newly banded leg has a particularly charming description:

65290 was one of 7 chickadees constituting the ‘class of 1937.’ When he first entered our trap, he showed no visible evidence of genius. Like his classmates, his valor for suet was greater than his discretion. Like his classmates, he bit my finger while being taken out of the trap. When banded and released he fluttered up to a limb, pecked his new aluminum anklet in mild annoyance, and hurried away to catch up with the gang. It is doubtful whether he drew any philosophical deductions from his experience,  . . . for he was caught again three times that same winter. . . . By the fifth winter 65290 was the sole survivor of his generation. Signs of genius were still lacking, but of his extraordinary capacity for living, there was now historical proof.

Our copy of A Sand County Almanac is from the collection of another heralded Milwaukee-area environmentalist and activist, Lorrie Otto. 

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#Feathursday #Aldo Leopold #Charles W. Schwartz #A Sand County Almanac #Oxford University Press #Canada Goose #Black-capped Chickadee #American Woodcock #Mallard #Gambel's Quail #Clark's Nutcracker #Lorrie Otto #wildlife art #bird art #birds #birbs!

[garadinervi]

Audre Lorde, Commencement Address: Oberlin College, May 29, 1989, in I Am Your Sister. Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde, Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, and Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, NY, 2009, pp. 213-218 (text here) [Solidarity with Palestine – A Radical Black Feminist Mandate: A Reading List, Black Women Radicals]

#graphic design #poetry #education #speech #book #audre lorde #rudolph p. byrd #johnnetta betsch cole #beverly guy sheftall #oxford university press #1980s #2000s

[duardius]

owl forme 3

a form i find pleasing that summons to my mind the contour of an owl i have come to call owl forme. the image shown is an example composed of binders’ dies, tooled into the cover of a scarce reprint of Cobbett’s Grammar—gold on front, blind on back. the book was seen through oxford university press under the direction of horace hart [Cobbett’s English Grammar, with introduction by h.l stephen, henry frowde, london, 1906 (oxford appears on the case spine, while title-page imprint shows henry frowde); reprint of the 1833 edition published by the author, william cobbett].

two typographical compositions: ‹owl forme›, handset letterpress; & ‹owl forme 2›, a digital exemplar.

#arabesque #book binding #william cobbett #horace hart #oxford university press

[amymaebee]

#witchcraft in early modern europe #scholarly tomes #believe it #university of chicago press #demon lovers #walter stephens #oxford university press #thinking with demons #stuart clark #witchcraft #demon lover #witch trials #malleus maleficarum #the devil #demon #demons #bibliography #unread #reading list #research #european history #history #history of witchcraft

[fieriframes]

[-That makes more sense. -It's a process. Okay, so you bring a whole cow in. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1944 before. Today we've got sirloin and some fattier trim pieces. To make sure that you get the fat and the flavor combination.]

#s29e10 burgers bacon and bbq #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #fattier trim pieces #oxford university press #flavor combination #sense #process #cow #eng. #sirloin