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Thrilled to be part of this long-awaited volume in which Ilf and Petrov feature among an eclectic cast of "Wandering Critics."

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論文(章)　末期オスマン帝国イスタンブルの女性家事使用人の逃亡 Müge Özbek, "Entangled dependencies: the case of the runaway domestic worker Emine in late Ottoman Istanbul, 1910." In Coercion and Wage Labour: Exploring work relations through history and art, ed. A. Batista, et al. (UCL Press, 2024). otmn doi.org/10.2307/jj.4...

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Just sent in the manuscript for our book Understanding China through Digital Anthropology, Edited by Daniel Miller and Xinyuan Wang. To be published by UCL Press. Very happy with the amazing contributions that I think really challenge the meaning of the word digital.

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Finally, my piece "Sherlock Holmes and his doppelganger: for an anti-atlas of world literature" is available in the long-awaited Anti-Atlas: Critical area studies from the East of the West (eds. Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell & Michał Murawski)! Download⬇️ uclpress.co.uk/book/anti-at...

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Happy to have contributed in this imaginative and necessary book. Anti-Atlas plays with the politics of the conventional atlas, with its assumptions about knowledge and power, its hierarchies of value, and its simplifications.

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Congratulations to Tim Beasley-Murray, Wendy Bracewell, Michał Murawski and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book open access Anti-Atlas published today. Read and download free...

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Delighted to publish our first diamond open access article for February 2025 - thank you @lsgibson.bsky.social for your article on 'the rise and fall of Jackdaws between 1963 & 1977'! journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article... #historyeducation @1972shp.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @coe.int 1/2

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WEBINAR: Practical Applications of Open Infrastructure Tools for Scholarly Communication @oaspa.bsky.social Join Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei TODAY for an overview of @thoth-metadata.bsky.social how it can improve research workflows, research data management & discoverability 🔗

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New open-access book from UCL Press: War Essays by Zainab Bahrani on the Iraq War's legacies of cultural destruction uclpress.co.uk/book/war-ess...

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Delighted to see my open-source article about the history of Jackdaws published in the History Education Research Journal. "The rise and fall of Jackdaws: lessons for designing source collections to teach history" journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article... @arthurjchapman.bsky.social

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Join us for the book launch of Rachel Benchekroun’s Precarious Motherhood – Navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK (25 March) tinyurl.com/2e9vxmuj @uclpress.bsky.social @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat, Fizzah Sajjad and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Lahore in Motion published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3WCuBqI

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In the newly published book Postcapitalist Countrysides, Chizu Sato @csato.bsky.social (GEO), Nanako Nakamura and Jozelin María Soto Alarcón contributed a chapter on “Rural women’s business-led commoning in Mexico and Japan: A transnational feminist analysis” (OA) uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

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Join me and a panel full of big hitters in palaeo, as we launch excellent book on Palaeontology in Public (which is free and open access!) tomorrow evening (in a free event, what's not to love)

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To mark the publication of Postcapitalist Countrysides, which is available to readers all over the world as an open access download, we are delighted to publish an interview with one of the book’s editors, Professor Nick Gallent. Find out more: bit.ly/4gJ0uoD

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In celebration of Valentine's Day, we bring you an excerpt from one of our most popular titles: Dr Xinyuan Wang's Social Media in Industrial China . In it, she describes the role of social media in the romantic relationships of the factory workers that she observed for her ethnographic fieldwork.

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Marcel von der Linden: The World Wide Web of Work A history in the making - Open Access: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-wor...

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Download the book free from uclpress.co.uk/book/fake-go...

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Knowledge and the Curriculum is an open access @uclpress.bsky.social book series edited by CPA colleagues @ioe.bsky.social. The fourth volume in our series is publishing this spring. You can download all our titles at this link: uclpress.co.uk/book-series/...

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I'd like to share Angelina Giovani-Agha's thoughtful review of my book in The Burlington Magazine. If her review resonates with you, you can access the book for free through: uclpress.co.uk/book/nazi-er... If you would like to learn more about Angelina's work, please visit: www.flynngiovani.com

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Full details are now up for the in-person launch event for the book Palaeontology in Public - This will be at the KCL Strand campus in central London on Saturday 22 March, 14:30-19:30 More info and a sign-up form is here, if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/e/dsKYteTD1B

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Exciting publication with several chapters focusing on community landownership. Open access pdf at the link. Further relevant chapters focusing on commons, land justice, community and housing. Looking forward to diving in and getting it logged in the new CLAN Library! uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

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I'm really looking forward to reading this. Open access too. uclpress.co.uk/book/revisit...

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Congratulations to @DrWendySch! Her #OpenAccess book Revisiting Childhood Resilience Through Marginalised and Displaced Voices published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/3CFJiCj

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UCL Press is pleased to announce that the latest volume of The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society, volume 24 (2024), has published with alt text in the html and PDFs for all images. Find out more: bit.ly/3CKsRos

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New open access book from UCL Press: Postcapitalist Countrysides: From commoning to community wealth building. Free download available here:

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Postcapitalist Countrysides is now published @uclpress.bsky.social open access. Can alternative food projects be part of an anti-capitalist project? See my chapter: Experimental food commons in capitalist heartlands @gkrtzs.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

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I submitted the following piece as an afterword for “Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Organizations” (UCL Press June 2025) last Fall. I think it holds up! open.substack.com/pub/thomaspa...

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New open access book likely to be of interest to many on here, I think! Now reading: Stevenson, Alice. Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt. UCL Press, 2025. doi.org/10.2307/jj.1...

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There is much focus on the problems in #academic #publishing, so we sought some solutions. Hear @uclpress.bsky.social founder Paul Ayris & @descilabs.bsky.social founder Philipp Koellinger describe publishing models that support quality #research: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podca... #edusky

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Congratulations to Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios, Mark Scott, Andrew Purves and their contributors! Their new #OpenAccess book Postcapitalist Countrysides published today. Read and download free at: uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap... #Rural development #Postcapitalism

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📢 New book: ‘Postcapitalist Countrysides’ @uclpress.bsky.social! From land commoning and rural social enterprises, to experimental food commons, Indigenous collectives & land art practices. And more! Co-edited with N Gallent, @markscott-ucd.bsky.social & A Purves uclpress.co.uk/book/postcapit…

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Fantastic podcast featuring UCL Press CEO Dr Paul Ayris talking about the first ten years of UCL Press, where we have been, and where we're going next...

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Great to see this open access collection on Postcapitalist Countrysides out there! @uclpress.bsky.social Check out our chapter on The land question and postcapitalist countrysides: Towards a town-country synthesis discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... uclpress.co.uk/book/postcap...

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What buisness does the public have messing around with paleontology? Everything! @thepalass.bsky.social @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social @jeremybroberts.bsky.social @scifri.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/palaeon...

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2025 began in the best way possible- with four brand new open access books! Alison Fox, our Marketing Manager, gives a round-up: uclpress.co.uk/new-open-acc... #OpenAccess #Newbooks #UCLPress #Newbooks

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Free to download!

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Congratulations to David Scott! The third volume of his #OpenAccess trilogy On Learning has published today. Read and download it free at: bit.ly/42wRAan #Education

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#goodnews We should all be more like pebbles! 🪨 "A pebble is a whole; it is its different features altogether and, at the same time, none of them. A pebble refuses to be divided into variables or classified according to labels..." 🪨 #anthropology #archaeology #OA uclpress.co.uk/book/landsca...

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2025 began in the best way possible- with four brand new open access books! Alison Fox, our Marketing Manager, gives a round-up: uclpress.co.uk/new-open-acc... #OpenAccess #Newbooks #UCLPress #Newbooks

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