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Dear Colleague,
I returned several days ago from the Society for Psychological Anthropology’s Biennial Meeting in San Diego, California—this year held in conjunction with the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group.
Library of Social Science chooses to organize book exhibits at conferences in fast-moving, cutting-edge fields. Psychological Anthropology is one of these fields, having emerged as one of the most innovative and exciting areas in the social sciences.
The LSS book exhibit—12 tables with more than 225 monographs, textbooks and journals from 32 publishers—was a central attraction. Titles from Rutgers University Press, Berghahn Books, Bloomsbury Publishing and Oxford University Press drew a lot of attention.
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| The book exhibit filled the
entire foyer. |
Carolina Izquierdo with her book Pursuits of Happiness (Berghahn Books). |
Rutgers sent 30 titles, among which Children & Childhood in World Religions, Contesting Childhood, From Madness to Mental Health, Learning the Hard Way and What Freud Didn’t Know did particularly well.
From Berghahn’s list of 21 books, Illness & Irony; Morality, Hope & Grief; Pursuits of Happiness; and Strangers Either Way caught attendees’ attention.
Bloomsbury author Jonathan Marion was glad to see his two books, Ballroom and Visual Research, in our display and came by throughout the conference to discuss them with attendees.
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| Jonathan Marion with his books Visual Research and Ballroom (Bloomsbury Publishing). |
Between sessions, conference attendees
browse the titles on display. |
Barbara Rogoff was one of this year’s Keynote Speakers. Her Developing Destinies and The Cultural Nature of Human Development (both published by Oxford University Press) did especially well, as did Robert LeVine’s Literacy & Mothering (also Oxford).
The conference attendees often complimented me on the wide range of books displayed by Library of Social Science. Several international attendees told me that these titles are unavailable in the cities where they teach. They were so excited to find these books—all in one place!—that they came back time and again throughout the meeting.
Helen Bond, one of The Key Publishing House’s authors, had her own table. She signed copies of her book, Through Children’s Eyes, and chatted with attendees about her research in education and childhood development in Africa and India. Elisa Sobo was happy to see her Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity from Left Coast Press in our exhibit.
Thanks so much to the following publishers who participated in the
Library of Social Science Book Exhibit at the SPA/ACYIG meeting |
• U. of Alabama Press
• American Psychological Assn.
• Bayou Publishing
• Berghahn Books
• Bloomsbury Publishing
• Brookes Publishing
• Common Ground
• Cornell U. Press
• Cotsen Institute
• Guilford Press
• Hogrefe Publishing |
• Harvard U. Press
• Jossey-Bass
• Left Coast Press
• Levins Publishing
• Nehora Press
• Oxford U. Press
• Palgrave Macmillan
• Peter Lang
• Polity
• Radcliffe Publishing
• Routledge Journals
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• Rutgers U. Press
• Springer Publishing
• SUNY Press
• Temple U. Press
• U. of Texas Press
• The Key Publishing House
• Transaction Publishers
• Wiley-Blackwell
• World Scientific
• Worth Publishers |
After San Diego’s palm trees, yuccas and warm sun, New York’s cold and overcast skies came as a shock when I returned home.
Best regards,
Richard G. Klein
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