New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
txtng: the gr8 db8, by David Crystal. Oxford University Press, 240 pp., $19.95.
Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Hooray for Dial M’s 200,000th hit! On my own side, I just FINISHED revising my book, Chopin’s Polish Ballade, for Oxford University Press. I still have to muck around a bit with the musical examples, printing it out etc. and...
World Wide Words newsletter (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
’Tis the season? We’ve not yet had the pleasure of the Lord Mayor’s Show but already I’ve had my first meal of sprats * and the first Word of the Year has been sighted. It is from the Oxford University Press, whose annual publication on words in the news by Susie Dent came out on Thursday. You will have no difficulty guessing the area of life from which this year’s word has been drawn: the current...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
"The entire staff of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary has been laid off because of declining sales, which the book's publisher attributes to the proliferation of free online dictionaries [Oxford University Press] will publish future editions of the [dictionary] with the assistance of freelancers and the lexicography department in Oxford, England."...
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
October 1, 2008 By Ashley @ Oxford University Press Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood by Clara E. Rodríguez recounts the stories of Latino actors and actresses from the era of silent film to the present...
Hirhurim - Musings (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Oxford University Press recently published a book with Jewish stories and folktales titled Leaves from the Garden of Eden . I haven't seen the book but this excerpt contains a Rosh Hashanah story about the Rashbash, his father the Rashbatz, and their legendary miraculous rescue from imprisonment ( link ). The Rashbash, by the way, has a fascinating responsum about the theology of Rosh Hashanah (no....
Telegraph Blogs : Guests (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
No sooner had Susie Dent declared the " Words of the Year " for 2008 on behalf of the Oxford University Press than they became obsolete. Court pap...
ReadySteadyBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Oxford University Press have announced their Word of the Year . It's ... credit crunch !
The Engine Room (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Oxford University Press emailed The Engine Room this morning to inform us that the OUP UK Word of the Year – "as chosen by Countdown's Susie Dent" – is 'credit crunch'. You can see Susie pictured here on the front cover of her new book, Words of the Year , which is published by OUP. I suspect some kind of tie-in. Anyway, I can understand the arguments for 'credit crunch' as word of the year: it's highly...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
When Oxford University Press invited me to attend the Oxford English Dictionary’s 80th anniversary celebrations in Oxford, I was thrilled but ready to decline. Traveling to England would be fun, but impossible. (Have you looked at the exchange rate lately') Then they offered to foot the bill. As a rule I’m [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
By Love, Alan C STANFORD, P. KyIe. Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv + 234 pp.
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
DailyLit has started serializing Oxford University Press books via e-mail and RSS. Shown is one of the choices, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam—96 installments for $4.95 starting with three free samples. Given OUP’s stature within publishing, the deal is another sign that e-mail/RSS serialization idea is catching on. This is A Good [...]
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Kenneth Einar Himma (Seattle Pacific University) has posted Understanding the Relationship between the U.S. Constitution and the Conventional Rule of Recognition (THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, Matthew D. Adler, Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Oxford University Press,...
All About Symbian (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
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Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Good piece here from Ed Zelinsky (Cradozo) on the 401(k) aspect of the 2008 economic collapse from Oxford University Press Blog: Even as we contemplate the financial carnage of the Crash of 2008, the federal government sends a strong, paternalistic...
