diff --git a/_quarto.yml b/_quarto.yml index 2e00acb4..0f96037b 100644 --- a/_quarto.yml +++ b/_quarto.yml @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ project: book: title: "ScholarLed catalogue" author: "Simon Bowie" - date: "2024-01-16" + date: "2024-01-17" chapters: - index.qmd - all_press.nbconvert.ipynb diff --git a/_quarto.yml.bak b/_quarto.yml.bak index 64456644..2e00acb4 100644 --- a/_quarto.yml.bak +++ b/_quarto.yml.bak @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ project: book: title: "ScholarLed catalogue" author: "Simon Bowie" - date: "2024-01-15" + date: "2024-01-16" chapters: - index.qmd - all_press.nbconvert.ipynb diff --git a/african_press.nbconvert.ipynb b/african_press.nbconvert.ipynb index f5d6de92..8e35853f 100644 --- a/african_press.nbconvert.ipynb +++ b/african_press.nbconvert.ipynb @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ - "Last updated: 2024-01-15 01:00:05\n" + "Last updated: 2024-01-17 01:00:04\n" ] } ], diff --git a/all_press.nbconvert.ipynb b/all_press.nbconvert.ipynb index 2c0c9872..b2449618 100644 --- a/all_press.nbconvert.ipynb +++ b/all_press.nbconvert.ipynb @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ - "Last updated: 2024-01-15 01:00:09\n" + "Last updated: 2024-01-17 01:00:09\n" ] } ], @@ -57,16 +57,46 @@ "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ + "## January 2024\n", + "\n", + "### Analogical City\n", + "\n", + "\"cover\n", + "\n", + "Author: Cameron McEwan\n", + "\n", + "Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2024\n", + "\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.53288/0386.1.00](https://doi.org/10.53288/0386.1.00)\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "### Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible\n", + "\n", + "\"cover\n", + "\n", + "Author: F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp\n", + "\n", + "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024\n", + "\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0357](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0357)\n", + "\n", + "Dobbs-Allsopp, Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary, explicitly approaches Whitman from the perspective of a biblical scholar. Utilising his wealth of expertise in this field, he constructs a compelling, erudite and methodical argument for the King James Bible’s importance in the evolution of Whitman’s style – from his signature long lines to the prevalence of parallelism and tendency towards parataxis in his works.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", "## December 2023\n", "\n", "### Synopses and Lists: Textual Practices in the Pre-Modern World\n", "\n", "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Editor: Ronny Vollandt\n", - "\n", "Editor: Teresa Bernheimer\n", "\n", + "Editor: Ronny Vollandt\n", + "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0375](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0375)\n", @@ -97,10 +127,10 @@ "\n", "Author: Arianna Ciula\n", "\n", - "Author: Cristina Marras\n", - "\n", "Author: Øyvind Eide\n", "\n", + "Author: Cristina Marras\n", + "\n", "Author: Patrick Sahle\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", @@ -131,10 +161,10 @@ "\n", "Editor: Floriana Cerniglia\n", "\n", - "Editor: Andrew Watt\n", - "\n", "Editor: Francesco Saraceno\n", "\n", + "Editor: Andrew Watt\n", + "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0386](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0386)\n", @@ -206,30 +236,30 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 1 - From Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition\n", + "### Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", "Author: David Ingram\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0335](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0335)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0384](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0384)\n", "\n", "In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 2 - From Anarchy of Transition to Programme for Reform\n", + "### Health Care in the Information Society: Volume 1 - From Adventure of Ideas to Anarchy of Transition\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", "Author: David Ingram\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0384](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0384)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0335](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0335)\n", "\n", "In this fascinating book David Ingram traces the history of information technology and health informatics from its pioneers in the middle of the twentieth century to its latest developments.\n", "\n", @@ -1008,34 +1038,34 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century\n", + "### Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Author: Patricia Auspos\n", + "Author: Lee Haring\n", "\n", - "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", + "Foreword by: Mark Turin\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318)\n", + "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry.\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0315](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0315)\n", "\n", + "The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Folktales of Mayotte, an African Island\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "### Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century\n", "\n", - "Author: Lee Haring\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Foreword by: Mark Turin\n", + "Author: Patricia Auspos\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0315](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0315)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0318)\n", "\n", - "The book uncovers the versatility and literary skills of oral narrators in a small African island. Relying on the researches of three French ethnographers who interviewed storytellers in the 1970s-80s, Lee Haring shows a once-colonised people using verbal art to preserve ancient values in the postcolonial world, when the island of Mayotte was transforming itself from a neglected colony to an overseas department of France.\n", + "This rich history illuminates the lives and partnerships of five married couples – two British, three American – whose unions defied the conventions of their time and anticipated social changes that were to come in the ensuing century. In all five marriages, both husband and wife enjoyed thriving professional lives: a shocking circumstance at a time when wealthy white married women were not supposed to have careers, and career women were not supposed to marry.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", @@ -1081,32 +1111,32 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism\n", + "### From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Editor: Ingrid Robeyns\n", + "Author: Anne Baillot\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0355](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0355)\n", "\n", - "Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.\n", + "Integrating historical, archival and environmental perspectives, From Handwriting to Footprinting illuminates the impact that digitisation has had on the dissemination and preservation of textual heritage and reflects on what its future may hold. It is invaluable reading for anyone interested in textual history from a linguistic or philological perspective, as well as those working on publishing, archival and infrastructure projects that require the storing and long-term preservation of texts, or who want to know how to develop a more mindful attachment to digitised material.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis\n", + "### Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Author: Anne Baillot\n", + "Editor: Ingrid Robeyns\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0355](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0355)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0338)\n", "\n", - "Integrating historical, archival and environmental perspectives, From Handwriting to Footprinting illuminates the impact that digitisation has had on the dissemination and preservation of textual heritage and reflects on what its future may hold. It is invaluable reading for anyone interested in textual history from a linguistic or philological perspective, as well as those working on publishing, archival and infrastructure projects that require the storing and long-term preservation of texts, or who want to know how to develop a more mindful attachment to digitised material.\n", + "Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits. This concept has deep roots in economic and political thought. One can find similar statements of such limits in thinkers such as Plato, Aquinas, and Spinoza. But Having Too Much is the first time in contemporary political philosophy that limitarianism is explored at length and in detail.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", @@ -1141,23 +1171,6 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Models in Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (She)\n", - "\n", - "\"cover\n", - "\n", - "Author: Martin J. Osborne\n", - "\n", - "Author: Ariel Rubinstein\n", - "\n", - "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", - "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361)\n", - "\n", - "Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly. Part II (Chapters 8-14) introduces the concept of equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an economy with indivisible goods, and continuing with models of an exchange economy, equilibrium with rational expectations, and an economy with asymmetric information. Part III (Chapters 15-16) provides an introduction to game theory, covering strategic and extensive games and the concepts of Nash equilibrium and subgame perfect equilibrium. Part IV (Chapters 17-20) gives a taste of the topics of mechanism design, matching, the axiomatic analysis of economic systems, and social choice.\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "\n", "### Models in Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (He)\n", "\n", "\"cover\n", @@ -1190,30 +1203,34 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art\n", + "### Models in Microeconomic Theory: Expanded Second Edition (She)\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Author: Joanna Page\n", + "Author: Martin J. Osborne\n", + "\n", + "Author: Ariel Rubinstein\n", "\n", "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0361)\n", "\n", - "In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.\n", + "Models in Microeconomic Theory covers basic models in current microeconomic theory. Part I (Chapters 1-7) presents models of an economic agent, discussing abstract models of preferences, choice, and decision making under uncertainty, before turning to models of the consumer, the producer, and monopoly. Part II (Chapters 8-14) introduces the concept of equilibrium, beginning, unconventionally, with the models of the jungle and an economy with indivisible goods, and continuing with models of an exchange economy, equilibrium with rational expectations, and an economy with asymmetric information. Part III (Chapters 15-16) provides an introduction to game theory, covering strategic and extensive games and the concepts of Nash equilibrium and subgame perfect equilibrium. Part IV (Chapters 17-20) gives a taste of the topics of mechanism design, matching, the axiomatic analysis of economic systems, and social choice.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### The(y)ology: Mythopoetics for Queer/Trans Liberation\n", + "### Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Author: Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus\n", + "Author: Joanna Page\n", "\n", - "Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023\n", + "Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.53288/0385.1.00](https://doi.org/10.53288/0385.1.00)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339](https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0339)\n", + "\n", + "In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", @@ -1235,6 +1252,19 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", + "### The(y)ology: Mythopoetics for Queer/Trans Liberation\n", + "\n", + "\"cover\n", + "\n", + "Author: Max Yeshaye Brumberg-Kraus\n", + "\n", + "Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2023\n", + "\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.53288/0385.1.00](https://doi.org/10.53288/0385.1.00)\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", "## May 2023\n", "\n", "### Irradiated Cities\n", @@ -1576,34 +1606,34 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "### Kritik postdigital\n", + "### Preferable Futures\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "Editor: Laura Hille\n", + "Editor: Irina Kaldrack\n", "\n", - "Editor: Daniela Wentz\n", + "Editor: Rolf F. Nohr\n", "\n", - "Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.14619/0337](https://doi.org/10.14619/0337)\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.14619/0832](https://doi.org/10.14619/0832)\n", + "Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-provoking read challenges us to imagine and (re)shape a future we cannot predict and find ways to make a difference right now.\n", "\n", - "Die realpolitische Affirmation der Universalität des Digitalen geht mit einer regelrechten Abwehr der kritischen Reflexion seiner scheinbaren Axiome einher. Umso dringlicher ist es zu fragen: Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten von Kritik am Digitalen und seiner Kulturen? Wie lässt sich die drängende Notwendigkeit politischer Haltung und kritischer Praxis mit einem wissenschaftlichen Einsatz verbinden, der die Eigengesetzlichkeiten des Digitalen ernst nimmt? Die Beiträge in Kritik postdigital begegnen diesen Herausforderungen aus sozial-, medienwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", + "### Kritik postdigital\n", "\n", - "### Preferable Futures\n", + "\"cover\n", "\n", - "\"cover\n", + "Editor: Laura Hille\n", "\n", - "Editor: Irina Kaldrack\n", + "Editor: Daniela Wentz\n", "\n", - "Editor: Rolf F. Nohr\n", + "Lüneburg: meson press eG, 2023\n", "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.14619/0337](https://doi.org/10.14619/0337)\n", + "[https://doi.org/10.14619/0832](https://doi.org/10.14619/0832)\n", "\n", - "Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-provoking read challenges us to imagine and (re)shape a future we cannot predict and find ways to make a difference right now.\n", + "Die realpolitische Affirmation der Universalität des Digitalen geht mit einer regelrechten Abwehr der kritischen Reflexion seiner scheinbaren Axiome einher. Umso dringlicher ist es zu fragen: Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten von Kritik am Digitalen und seiner Kulturen? Wie lässt sich die drängende Notwendigkeit politischer Haltung und kritischer Praxis mit einem wissenschaftlichen Einsatz verbinden, der die Eigengesetzlichkeiten des Digitalen ernst nimmt? Die Beiträge in Kritik postdigital begegnen diesen Herausforderungen aus sozial-, medienwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive.\n", "\n", "\n", "\n", @@ -1785,35 +1815,6 @@ "\n", "\n", "\n", - "\n", - "### The Angels Won't Help You\n", - "\n", - "\"cover\n", - "\n", - "Author: M.H. Bowker\n", - "\n", - "Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022\n", - "\n", - "[https://doi.org/10.53288/0388.1.00](https://doi.org/10.53288/0388.1.00)\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "### Reframing Africa\n", - "\n", - "\"cover\n", - "\n", - "Cape Town: African Minds, 2022\n", - "\n", - "Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities\n", - "By Simon Bekker, Sylvia Croese and Edgar Pieterse\n", - "\n", - "Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa – make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters – the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development and the global currents on urban development – make up its framework. All authors and editors are African, as is the publisher. The only exception is Göran Therborn whose recent book, Cities of Power, served as motivation for this volume. Accordingly, the issue common to all case studies is the often conflictual powers that are exercised by national, global and popular forces in the development of these African cities.\n", - "\n", - "Rather than locating the case studies in an exclusively African historical context, the focus is on the trajectories of the postcolonial city (with the important exception of Addis Ababa with a non-colonial history that has granted it a special place in African consciousness). These trajectories enable comparisons with those of postcolonial cities on other continents. This, in turn, highlights the fact that Africa – today, the least urbanised continent on an increasingly urbanised globe – is in the thick of processes of large-scale urban transformation, illustrated in diverse ways by the case studies that make up the foundation of this publication.\n", - "\n", - "\n", - "\n", "\n" ] } diff --git a/docs/ScholarLed-catalogue.pdf b/docs/ScholarLed-catalogue.pdf index 91cbe231..8c6bac1f 100644 Binary files a/docs/ScholarLed-catalogue.pdf and b/docs/ScholarLed-catalogue.pdf differ diff --git a/docs/african_press.nbconvert.html b/docs/african_press.nbconvert.html index 3f11b64a..4218ea7d 100644 --- a/docs/african_press.nbconvert.html +++ b/docs/african_press.nbconvert.html @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@

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The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000.

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Preferable Futures delves into the question of possible, probable, and desirable futures amidst the pressures of climate change and digitalization. Through a diverse range of perspectives, the book explores ways to negotiate and create desirable futures using the concept of transformation design in theory and practice, economic business simulations, and recent humanistic theories. This thought-provoking read challenges us to imagine and (re)shape a future we cannot predict and find ways to make a difference right now.

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Die realpolitische Affirmation der Universalität des Digitalen geht mit einer regelrechten Abwehr der kritischen Reflexion seiner scheinbaren Axiome einher. Umso dringlicher ist es zu fragen: Was sind die Bedingungen und Möglichkeiten von Kritik am Digitalen und seiner Kulturen? Wie lässt sich die drängende Notwendigkeit politischer Haltung und kritischer Praxis mit einem wissenschaftlichen Einsatz verbinden, der die Eigengesetzlichkeiten des Digitalen ernst nimmt? Die Beiträge in Kritik postdigital begegnen diesen Herausforderungen aus sozial-, medienwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive.

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