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We are happy to announce that we have joined with VitalSource to make its titles available for free as e-books for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. Read more about the resources on our blog.

We are honored that Emma Watson has shared Sex and World Peace with her followers. Visit our blog to read an excerpt from the book, and check out this conversation  between Watson and author, Valerie M. Hudson on Teen Vogue.

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Getting a Handle on the COVID-19 Pandemic By Geoffrey C. Kabat (Apr 6, 2020)
“Geoffrey Kabat’s vital, wide-ranging book cannot have arrived at a more fortuitous time. . . Everyone should read his analysis—at once clear-eyed, thoughtful, and beautifully written—to understand the nature of risk. I cannot overstate the importance of this book.” ~Siddhartha...
Book Giveaway! The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency, by Mark L. Clifford (Apr 6, 2020)
“In this well-researched and ultimately optimistic account, Mark L. Clifford makes the case that environmental policies ‘can and must be fixed’ and gives us examples of companies that have worked to find private-sector solutions. In doing so, he sheds much-needed...
Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia by Sarah Keller (Apr 5, 2020)
“Anxious Cinephilia gives us the most far-reaching theorization of cinephilia yet. This exploration of desire and anxiety as twin impulses unearths novel connections across film cultures, affective states, and moments of technological change, from early cinema to cinematic spectacle in...
New Books in Film and Media Studies from Auteur, transcript publishing, and the Austrian Film Museum (Apr 5, 2020)
No visit to the CUP tables at SCMS would be complete without a look through the exciting new titles we’ve brought from our distribution partners.  New from Auteur First up is the Auteur table, where you’ll find numerous new titles...
Ten Masterpieces of Experimental Cinema (Apr 5, 2020)
The following list by Justin Remes, author of Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis and the forthcoming Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing, considers ten canonical experimental films. You can also watch the films below. •  •  • ...

New Titles from Distributed Presses

Mind-Body Medicine in Inpatient Psychiatry
Design with Nature Now
Ways of Knowing Cities
A Medical History of Hong Kong
The Price of Football
Displacement and Citizenship