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Month: April 2020

Month: April 2020

Talk of the Town: 5 Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in April 2020

Talk of the Town: 5 Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in April 2020

29 April 2020 Publishing Industry News
The world remains restless in April 2020 as some countries and states prepare for reopening while others intensify their fight to combat the novel coronavirus. That’s why Anthem Press has curated 5 note-worthy articles that contribute to a holistic understanding of the current state and future trajectory of the publishing...
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Reading Francis Hodgson Burnett in a Time of Pandemic

25 April 2020 Guest Post
The guest author for this post is Thomas Recchio. He is the author of The Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett: In “The World of Actual Literature” out May 2020. As I was writing my study of the novels of Francis Hodgson Burnett, the impact of a pandemic on individual lives, and by extension...
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Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

6 April 2020 Guest Post
This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide ideas, analyses and organized settings in which governance (i.e. collaborative...
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Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

Personal Data Collection During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Takeaways for Global Health and Society

2 April 2020 Guest Post
The guest author for this post is Colette Mazzucelli. She is an Editor for the Anthem Press book series Ethics of Personal Data Collection Series alongside James Felton Keith, which publishes scholarly works at the intersection of data, ethics and digital technology in the 21st century. In a March 29, 2020 interview on...
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Talk of the Town: 5 Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in March 2020

Talk of the Town: 5 Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in March 2020

2 April 2020 Publishing Industry News
March 2020 has been an incredibly testing month as countries around the world continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic and people settle into their homes to transition to a “new normal.” That’s why Anthem Press has curated 5 note-worthy articles that contribute to a holistic understanding of the current state...
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Reading Kripke’s Wittgenstein: On Why a Guide Is Needed

This is a guest post by Ali Hossein Khani, author of Kripke’s Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules and Scepticism My first encounter with Kripke’s seminal book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language...

For African/African American Humanity

This is an interview with Lawrence Hogue, author of Struggle, Resistance, and Decolonization in African American Literature after 1960 What is the aim of this book? From the seventh and...

The Age of AI Demands New Models for Soft Power and Public Diplomacy

This is a guest post by Naren Chitty, series editor of Anthem Studies in Soft Power and Public Diplomacy. Practice related to soft power has always been a subtle art....

Deep Dives into Persistent Paradoxes

This is an interview with Lou Marinoff, author of Paradoxes of Rationality, Probability and Utility Interviewer: Your book is subtitled “Slaying Decision Theory’s Dragons.” What are these “dragons,” and why...