Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

Anticipatory Governance: Do You Know What That Is?

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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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

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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2018 Award Winning Books and Authors

2018 Award Winning Books and Authors

Several Anthem Press authors have received awards this year. Our congratulations to these authors for this well-deserved recognition! 2018 Schumpeter Prize – John Matthews, Global Green Shift: When Ceres Meets Gaia The International Schumpeter Society (ISS) announced John Mathews (Global Green Shift: When CERES Meets GAIA) as co-winner of the 2018 Schumpeter...
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Sociology: New Series Announcements

Anthem Press is pleased to announce the launch of five new Sociology series, each highlighting a compelling area of research. The first of these is the Anthem Law and Society Series, which delves into the role of law and legal institutions in everyday modern societies in order to understand and...
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Academic Publishing News Roundup: October 2015

Academic Publishing News Roundup: October 2015

Columbia University Press partners with Russian translation nonprofit The literary nonprofit Read Russia, which seeks to present Russian classics, modern words, and genre fiction to English-speaking audiences, has partnered with Columbia University Press to publish 125 Russian titles into English. Overlook Press was previously attached to the 10-year project. An...
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Reading Kripke’s Wittgenstein: Why a Guide Is Needed?

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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...