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Duke University Press publishes annually approximately 120 books and more than 30 journals.
This places the Duke UNiversity Press's books publishing program among the twenty largest at American university presses, and the journals publishing program among the five largest.
The relative magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American university presses. There is no other publisher of more than 15 journals that also publishes fewer than 175 books per year.
The Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and issues a few publications for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). The Duke University Press is best known for its publications in the broad and interdisciplinary area of theory and history of cultural production, and it is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals.
The Press' publications are purchased and read in three overlapping venues:
- they are purchased in bookstores by both academics and other educated and serious readers;
- they are purchased and read in conjunction with university courses, as required or recommended texts at both the graduate and undergraduate (usually, advanced undergraduate) levels;
- they are purchased and read in libraries, primarily academic libraries but also on occasion public libraries, corporate and government libraries, secondary school libraries, and other special libraries.
You can also purchase Duke University Press publications directly from Press' Web site. Start your search here.
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Introducing selected titles:
Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space by Anna McCarthy published by Duke University Press in 2001 (second printing in 2003). This project was supported at different stages by a number of institutions. The research trips were funded by a dissertation year grant from the Graduate School of Northwestern University and by research grant from the University Film and Video Association. Other research was completed over the course of two fellowships, one from the Alumnae of Northwestern and one from the Smithsonian Institution.
This spectacular account is rich and engaging. Anna McCarthy discusses such practices as Turner Private Networks' efforts to transform waiting room populations into advertising audience, and the use of point-of-sale video that influences brand visibility and consumer behavior... Anna McCarthy made a remarkable research, and explores in depth our over-expanding media culture. Ambient Television shows the ways in which what de Certeau conceives as institutional strategies and user tactics can blend together in TV's public environments on the micro-level. This title "speculate on how public practices of the TV screen might exploit this confusing to activate the dialectical forces that the TV screen embodies in a site, in the service of progressive cultural politics..."
Anna McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Agreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century: Annual Supplement to Volume 38, History of Political Economy, edited by Philip Mirowski and D. Wade Hands published by Duke University press in 2006.
The theory on demand basic idea is simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. The theory begins with the assumption that demand curves relating the amount of a particular commodity that a consumer is willing and able to purchase at various prices exist as phenomenal regularities in market economies...
The seven articles in the first section of this invaluable title investigate particular aspects of demand theory during the early period of stabilization. The articles in the last two sections address aspects of the perceived failures of general equilibrium theory and how they relate, directly or indirectly, to the theory of demand... The final set of articles moves beyond the perceived problems for the Walrasian program - stability, SMD, and such to address connections between demand theory and larger developments within contemporary theory.
This fabulous book provides us with a much better understanding of the history of demand theory and its relationship to many of the major theoretical developments within 20th-century microeconomics.
High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty by Jessica R. Cattelino published by Duke University Press in September, 2008. J. Cattelino presents a fascinating ethnographic volume of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. She unravels the complex connections among cultural difference, political rights, and economic power. Cattelino analyses the Seminole housing, everyday activities, she shows how Seminoles use gaming industry to enact their sovereignty. Illustrated with black-and-white photography, High Stakes explores in depth the contemporary North American settler society, economy of value... This fabulous title written with the high respect to American Indians, and presents the history of Seminole gaming.
When Florida Seminole opened in 1979, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming was $600 million... In High Stakes J. R. Cattelino uncovers the unique story of Seminoles, the complex efforts to maintain politically and culturally distinctive values in a new time of prosperity.
Jessica R. Cattelino is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, LA.
A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day by Davin Heckman published by Duke University Press in 2008. Davin Heckman began his study of the home with two particular places, which tell the different stories: Disney's EPCOT and Disney's Celebration... Disney represents the highest development of the United States culture dreams, ambitions, and ideals. The Disney Company is steeped in capitalist and consumerist ideologies. We totally linking our ideas of the good life with a technical future...
Davin Heckman explores in depth the early-twentieth-century: the home of electric appliances and industrial time-management techniques through the postwar advent of television and the space-age "house of tomorrow," and the contemporary automated, networked "smart home." D. Heckman engages debates about lifestyle, post-humanism, and rights under the destabilizing influences of consumer technologies. In this important account Heckman tells that the achievements of an environment attuned to its inhabitant's specific needs...
Davin Heckman is Assistant Professor of English at Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
A New Type Of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America by Natasha Kirsten Kraus published by Duke University Press in 2008. This historical title provides an overview of the terrain of antebellum Womanhood: its legal, economic, and familiar practices; its deployment by the antebellum woman's rights movement; its social meanings; and the dramatic changes it underwent between the mid-1840s and the early 1860s. This engaging book explores the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement, and how this movement changed society's very conception of "Womanhood" in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Natasha analyzes a new conception of women as legitimate economic actors in relation to antebellum economic and demographic changes, changes in the legal structure and social meaning of contract. She explores the subject from new perspectives, and shows that true womanhood is a highly unstable concept...
Natasha Kirsten Kraus has taught sociology and women's studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She has been a Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
References:
http://dukeupress.edu
Category:
Articles
Book Publishing
This places the Duke UNiversity Press's books publishing program among the twenty largest at American university presses, and the journals publishing program among the five largest.
The relative magnitude of the journals program within the Press is unique among American university presses. There is no other publisher of more than 15 journals that also publishes fewer than 175 books per year.
The Duke University Press publishes primarily in the humanities and social sciences and issues a few publications for primarily professional audiences (e.g., in law or medicine). The Duke University Press is best known for its publications in the broad and interdisciplinary area of theory and history of cultural production, and it is known in general as a publisher willing to take chances with nontraditional and interdisciplinary publications, both books and journals.
The Press' publications are purchased and read in three overlapping venues:
- they are purchased in bookstores by both academics and other educated and serious readers;
- they are purchased and read in conjunction with university courses, as required or recommended texts at both the graduate and undergraduate (usually, advanced undergraduate) levels;
- they are purchased and read in libraries, primarily academic libraries but also on occasion public libraries, corporate and government libraries, secondary school libraries, and other special libraries.
You can also purchase Duke University Press publications directly from Press' Web site. Start your search here.
______________________
Introducing selected titles:
Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space by Anna McCarthy published by Duke University Press in 2001 (second printing in 2003). This project was supported at different stages by a number of institutions. The research trips were funded by a dissertation year grant from the Graduate School of Northwestern University and by research grant from the University Film and Video Association. Other research was completed over the course of two fellowships, one from the Alumnae of Northwestern and one from the Smithsonian Institution. This spectacular account is rich and engaging. Anna McCarthy discusses such practices as Turner Private Networks' efforts to transform waiting room populations into advertising audience, and the use of point-of-sale video that influences brand visibility and consumer behavior... Anna McCarthy made a remarkable research, and explores in depth our over-expanding media culture. Ambient Television shows the ways in which what de Certeau conceives as institutional strategies and user tactics can blend together in TV's public environments on the micro-level. This title "speculate on how public practices of the TV screen might exploit this confusing to activate the dialectical forces that the TV screen embodies in a site, in the service of progressive cultural politics..."
Anna McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
Agreement on Demand: Consumer Theory in the Twentieth Century: Annual Supplement to Volume 38, History of Political Economy, edited by Philip Mirowski and D. Wade Hands published by Duke University press in 2006. The theory on demand basic idea is simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. The theory begins with the assumption that demand curves relating the amount of a particular commodity that a consumer is willing and able to purchase at various prices exist as phenomenal regularities in market economies...
The seven articles in the first section of this invaluable title investigate particular aspects of demand theory during the early period of stabilization. The articles in the last two sections address aspects of the perceived failures of general equilibrium theory and how they relate, directly or indirectly, to the theory of demand... The final set of articles moves beyond the perceived problems for the Walrasian program - stability, SMD, and such to address connections between demand theory and larger developments within contemporary theory.
This fabulous book provides us with a much better understanding of the history of demand theory and its relationship to many of the major theoretical developments within 20th-century microeconomics.
High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty by Jessica R. Cattelino published by Duke University Press in September, 2008. J. Cattelino presents a fascinating ethnographic volume of the history and consequences of Seminole gaming. She unravels the complex connections among cultural difference, political rights, and economic power. Cattelino analyses the Seminole housing, everyday activities, she shows how Seminoles use gaming industry to enact their sovereignty. Illustrated with black-and-white photography, High Stakes explores in depth the contemporary North American settler society, economy of value... This fabulous title written with the high respect to American Indians, and presents the history of Seminole gaming. When Florida Seminole opened in 1979, their annual budget stood at less than $2 million. By 2006, net income from gaming was $600 million... In High Stakes J. R. Cattelino uncovers the unique story of Seminoles, the complex efforts to maintain politically and culturally distinctive values in a new time of prosperity.
Jessica R. Cattelino is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, LA.
A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day by Davin Heckman published by Duke University Press in 2008. Davin Heckman began his study of the home with two particular places, which tell the different stories: Disney's EPCOT and Disney's Celebration... Disney represents the highest development of the United States culture dreams, ambitions, and ideals. The Disney Company is steeped in capitalist and consumerist ideologies. We totally linking our ideas of the good life with a technical future... Davin Heckman explores in depth the early-twentieth-century: the home of electric appliances and industrial time-management techniques through the postwar advent of television and the space-age "house of tomorrow," and the contemporary automated, networked "smart home." D. Heckman engages debates about lifestyle, post-humanism, and rights under the destabilizing influences of consumer technologies. In this important account Heckman tells that the achievements of an environment attuned to its inhabitant's specific needs...
Davin Heckman is Assistant Professor of English at Sienna Heights University in Adrian, Michigan.
A New Type Of Womanhood: Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America by Natasha Kirsten Kraus published by Duke University Press in 2008. This historical title provides an overview of the terrain of antebellum Womanhood: its legal, economic, and familiar practices; its deployment by the antebellum woman's rights movement; its social meanings; and the dramatic changes it underwent between the mid-1840s and the early 1860s. This engaging book explores the history of the 1850s woman's rights movement, and how this movement changed society's very conception of "Womanhood" in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Natasha analyzes a new conception of women as legitimate economic actors in relation to antebellum economic and demographic changes, changes in the legal structure and social meaning of contract. She explores the subject from new perspectives, and shows that true womanhood is a highly unstable concept...Natasha Kirsten Kraus has taught sociology and women's studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She has been a Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.
References:
http://dukeupress.edu
Category:
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