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- Non-profit, scholar-led.
- Building collective, community-owned infrastructure to support OA book publishing.
- We're part of @scholarled.hcommons.social and @copim@hcommons.social.
- Find us here: https://lnk.bio/openbookpublishers
This "book club" scam -- an author receives a (probably AI-generated) email telling them that a suspiciously well-attended book club wants to feature their book, bringing them many vague but wonderful benefits in exchange for a fee -- seems to be on the rise.
Forewarned is forearmed, so more information about how it works is available here: https://medium.com/@claude.whitmyer/the-new-book-club-scam-targeting-authors-and-how-to-spot-it-525eee86b443
NEW BOOK | Beyond Popular Science by David H. Silver
Our first book of the new month bridges the gap between popular science & the textbook.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0526
Going to #UKSG2026? Our @rupertgatti@mastodon.sdf.org and @alittleroad@hcommons.social will be there with colleagues from @copim@hcommons.social, @Thoth_metadata@hcommons.social, and @openbookcollect@mastodon.social! Come and find us at Stand 66!
We're also looking forward to seeing colleagues from OIPA, who will be at Stand 67.
Say hello and talk to us about scholar-led, non-profit, diamond #OpenAccess books!
NEW BOOK | The American Archipelago: A New Edition of Oscar Handlin’s Classic Anthology, 'This Was America', edited by Kenneth Weisbrode
Read the new edition of this classic text freely online in #OpenAccess or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0495
NEW BOOK | 'Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition' translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley
Freely available to read online or download, and available to buy in paperback, hardback or EPUB: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0483
NEW POST | 'Choose Your Own Adventure' by Anna Beresin
Reflecting on the research process behind her latest book, 'Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change'
We're looking forward to attending the #CopimConference on Thursday and Friday of this week -- say hello if you'll be there too! 👋
@rupertgatti@mastodon.sdf.org and @alittleroad@hcommons.social are part of the programme, and Alessandra Tosi, Laura Rodriguez, Javi Arias, Ross Higman and other members of the team will be there in person. If you see us, say hi -- we'll all be happy to talk all things #OAbooks & open infrastructure!
How do we fight the problems that beset contemporary science?
Listen to author Krist Vaesen explain in this short introduction to his new book, 'Neomania': https://youtu.be/UmJtzU2GmBA?si=X6Ug5fiubQhXUgsT
Read the book online: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0507
OUT NOW: 'The Economics of Cultural Loss: Harm and Resilience in North American Indigenous Communities' confronts urgent questions about the erosion of Indigenous culture through the lens of economics, proposing a meaningful path toward healing and justice for Indigenous communities. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0477
OUT NOW: Active Speech: Critical Perspectives on Teresa Deevy edited by Úna Kealy and Kate McCarthy is a groundbreaking collection of essays and interviews on the work of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy. This book sheds light on the importance of Deevy’s work in the literary canon. Read for free: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0432
OUT NOW: Simon of Faversham was an English scholar affiliated with the University of Paris in the 1280s, where he likely wrote his commentaries on Aristotle’s philosophical works. The Posterior Analytics, one of Aristotle’s most important treatises, addresses the nature of scientific demonstration. This edited commentary, with accompanying translation, offers new insight into Simon of Faversham’s philosophy—a fascinating chapter in the history of late medieval thought.
OUT NOW: This book offers a rigorous yet accessible foundation for understanding how formal tools can illuminate political phenomena, exploring topics that lie at the core of political economy: collective choice, voting, elections, bargaining, and rebellion. Complete mathematical proofs are provided, to clarify the assumptions and deepen understanding.
OUT NOW: As global displacement reaches unprecedented levels, health and social care professionals increasingly find themselves supporting people with refugee experience whose health and wellbeing needs are complex, urgent, and often unmet. This timely and practical book provides essential guidance for professionals on how to deliver compassionate, culturally responsive, and effective care to forcibly displaced individuals and communities.
OUT NOW: This edition of Plautus’s 'Casina' features the complete Latin text of the play, richly annotated, and with a clear prose translation. The introduction provides historical and cultural context, situating the farce within ancient Athenian and Roman comedic traditions. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0482
OUT NOW: 'Reading: Performance and Materiality in Hebrew and Aramaic Traditions' explores how performance, orality, and material forms shaped the reading of Hebrew and Aramaic texts, this volume reveals the dynamic interplay between tradition and innovation, authority and interpretation.
👉 https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0457
OUT NOW: 'Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education' brings together a diverse range of educators and practitioners, showcasing real-world innovations that challenge the status quo and offer glimpses of a more humane and inspiring educational future. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0462
OUT NOW: Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture confronts the hidden and systemic violence shaping creative spaces—from art schools to opera houses. Spanning Europe, Asia, and North America, this powerful collection exposes both the explicit and everyday forms of gender-based violence in artistic work and education. https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0436
NEW BOOK | Spaces for Action: A Repository of Tools and Methods for a Socially Situated Architectural Education, edited by Guido Cimadomo and Ingrid C. Vargas Díaz
👉️ Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0503
NEW BOOK | 'Ottoman-Era Documents from the Cairo Genizah' by Jane Hathaway
The latest book in the Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures series, this groundbreaking volume marks a rare and transformative contribution to studies of the Cairo Genizah, a vast trove of documents generated by Egypt’s Jewish community between the 10th and 19th centuries.
Read freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0502
NEW POST | 'On Colonial Knowledge, Africa, and Imperial Russia' by Anita Frison
'the discourses, rhetoric and practices of Russian subjects in relation to Africa were deeply embedded in Western colonial culture'
🎧️ LISTEN UP 🎧️
Our latest title, 'Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change' by Anna Beresin has an audiobook version created by the author. Click on the 'Download' button and select the MP3 option
It's freely available, like the PDF and HTML formats. Other ebook and paper formats are available to buy:
👉️ https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0511
NEW BOOK | Make/Unmake: Play at the Centre of Culture Change by Anna Beresin
Read online freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0511
NEW BOOK | Historicizing IQ Testing: Intelligence Assessments and their Role in Norwegian Society from the 1900s to the Present, edited by Håkon Aamot Caspersen & Jon Røyne Kyllingstad
Access freely online or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0471
NEW BLOG POST | The EU Energy Transition: Doing More with More by Floriana Cerniglia and @saraceno@econtwitter.net
'In a context marked by economic and geopolitical tensions, the European Union is called upon to make energy a pillar of its strategic autonomy.'
Find out more and read the blog post here👉️ https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-eu-energy-transition-doing-more-with-more/
NEW BLOG | The “Charm” of Objectivity by Tricia De Souza
This post explores how Anita Frison's book 'Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850-1917)' probes the instability of the 'objective' viewpoint.
Read now: https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-charm-of-objectivity/
OUT NOW | Africa in Russian Imperial Culture: Race, Empire, and Representation (1850-1917) by Anita Frison
Explore how Sub-Saharan Africa was imagined in Russian culture from 1850 to 1917 in this new #OpenAccess book.
Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0504
Our third #OpenAccess book published this month is 'A Society of Meta-Organizations' by Héloïse Berkowitz: an examination of how meta-organizations operate, how they can be understood, the problems they raise & what they can achieve.
Read freely or buy a copy: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0505
NEW BLOG POST: Some Reflections on How 'Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné' Was Received by the Choné Tibetan Community
"The act of returning the book was understood not simply as a gesture of completion but as a form of accountability. The book functions as a form of recognition that the stories, knowledge, and insights generated through a research project need to circulate back to community members who made them possible."
https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/some-reflections-on-how-shepa-was-received-by-the-community/
