LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE BOOK EXHIBITS: 2015 SCHEDULE

Our book exhibits become a central component of the meeting experience—where attendees meet and mingle—contributing substantially to the success and intellectual value of a conference.

We make special efforts to include titles authored by presenters—and often organize book signings for keynote and plenary speakers.
Recognized as the premier firm creating, organizing and managing book exhibits for scholarly and professional conferences, Library of Social Science is putting together an exciting array of meetings for 2015. Our preliminary schedule is directly below.

From among hundreds of conferences, we select a limited number—based on their capacity to attract influential audiences and advance knowledge. Using input from conference organizers, publishers and authors—as well as our own in-depth research—we develop for each meeting a comprehensive collection of the latest and most significant books and journals.

Our book exhibits are a sight to behold. Attendees are often stunned by the scope of our display. Conference organizers invariably tell us that our book exhibit is the best they’ve ever had. Photos to the right convey the excitement that an LSS book exhibit brings to a meeting. Additional photos may be viewed here.

For information on how we work with publishers, please click here. For details on how we work with conference organizers, please click here.

For information on a particular conference, publishers and authors may contact Hugh Galford at 718-393-1104, or send him an email. To discuss working with LSSBE to create a book exhibit for your meeting, please contact Richard Koenigsberg at 718-393-1081, or send him an email.

For information on some of the publishers we represent on a regular basis, please scroll to the bottom of this page.
2015 Book Exhibits
Date / Location Name
February 13-14
Teachers College,
Columbia University		 32nd Annual Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education (TCWR): “#hoodiesup2015: breaking cycles of violence, building alliances, mobilizing resources”
March 12-16
Memphis, TN		 71st Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES): “The Blues, Soul Music: Making Philosophy of Education in 2015”
March 18-22
New York, NY 		19th International Conference of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS): “From DNA to Neighborhood: Relationship and Experience in Psychosis—An International Dialogue”
March 19-21
Branson, MO		 21st Asian Studies Development Program National Conference (ASDP)
April 1-4
Long Beach, CA		 86th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association (PSA): “People, Place and Power”
April 9-12
Cleveland, OH		 90th Annual Meeting of the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA)
April 10-12
St. Louis, MO		 23rd Annual ASIANetwork Spring Conference: “Asia: Body and Spirit”
June 11-14
Charleston, SC		 10th Southern Association for Women Historians Conference (SAWH): “Re-membering/Gendering: Women, Historical Tourism, and Public History”
June 18-21
Lawrence, KS		 47th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences (Cheiron)
June 24-26
Vancouver, BC 		8th Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY): “In Relation: Children, Youth and Belonging”
June 25-28
Toronto, ON 		12th Annual Conference of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP): “The Relational Pulse: Controversies, Caricatures and Clinical Wisdom”
July 19-22
Lexington, KY		 Annual Conference of the Community Development Society (CDS)
August 6-9
Madison, WI		 78th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS): “Knowing Rural”
Oct. 15-18
Los Angeles, CA 		38th Annual International Conference of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP)
Fall
Washington, DC		 Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)
Fall
Washington, DC		 Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH)
November 12-14
San Antonio, TX		 Annual Convention of the Texas Psychological Association (TPA)
The following publishers are among those that regularly
participate in Library of Social Science Book Exhibits
APA Books
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the world’s largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology. APA’s titles cover abnormal psychology, addiction, children and aging, education and learning, gender, organizational psychology, neuropsychology, social psychology and violence.
Ashgate
For the past 40 years, Ashgate has been one of the world’s leading publishers of academic research and scholarship. Driven by a commitment to cutting-edge research and specialist reference works, Ashgate publishes over 700 titles a year in the Humanities and Social Sciences, including their well-established reprint Reference and highly regarded Variorum series.
Bayou Publishing
For over 20 years, Bayou Publishing has created practical, innovative resources for families and schools that are easy to understand, personally relevant and professionally reliable. The relational focus of Bayou’s products underscores respect, hope and communication—earning the Press an international reputation for excellence.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn is an award-winning independent publisher of distinguished scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. Its program, which includes 30 journals and 100 new titles a year, focuses on anthropology & sociology, European history, politics and media studies. A peer-review press, Berghahn is committed to the highest academic standards, seeking to enable innovative contributions to the scholarship in its fields of specialty.
University of Chicago Press
Since its founding in 1891, the University of Chicago Press has disseminated scholarship of the highest standard and published serious works that promote education, foster public understanding and enrich cultural life. The largest American university press in terms of output, staff and revenue, Chicago publishes approximately 180 new books and 70 reprints a year, in addition to 49 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in fields ranging from the Humanities and Social Sciences to the Biological, Medical and Physical Sciences.
Common Ground Publishing
Common Ground is a meeting place for people, ideas, and dialogue. Committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, Common Ground organizes over 20 conferences a year and publishes peer-reviewed journals and books to sustain these communities. Dedicated to producing works of the highest intellectual quality, Common Ground stresses interdisciplinary thinking and global conversations and intellectual collaborations to discuss the important issues of our time: sustainability, diversity, the future of the humanities, the place of the arts in society, technology’s connections with knowledge and the changing role of the university, among others.
Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press has the distinction of being the first university press established in the United States. Now a major scholarly publisher, Cornell offers 150 new titles a year in anthropology, classics, cultural studies, history, literary criticism and theory, medieval studies, philosophy, politics and international relations, psychology and psychiatry, and women's studies.
Edwin Mellen Press
The Edwin Mellen Press publishes scholarly titles in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dedicated to exacting standards, quick publication times and rigorous attention to detail, Mellen issues books that make important contributions to scholarship.
Guilford Publications
Guilford Publications, founded in 1973, has built an international reputation as a publisher of books, periodicals, software and audiovisual programs in mental health, education, and the social and behavioral sciences. Marked by independence, stability, and commitment to quality, Guilford is dedicated to bringing well-written, solidly researched work to professionals, academics and general readers. With more than 1,250 titles in print, Guilford publishes over 90 new books each year.
Harvard University Press
Founded in 1913, Harvard University Press continues to be a leading publisher of works in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. The Press is also embracing new digital products and platforms, driven by the belief that books from academic publishers are more essential than ever before for understanding critical issues facing the world today. Home to both the Loeb Classical Library and the Belknap Press, Harvard also believes in “Readership Beyond the Academy”— publishing exceptional scholarship with broad appeal to a wider general audience.
Hogrefe Publishing
Hogrefe Publishing has been a publisher of psychology, psychiatry and mental health books, journals, and tests for 60 years. With offices in Europe and North American, the Hogrefe group is one of the world’s largest publishers and distributors of psychometric tests and assessment instruments in many languages.
International Specialized Book Services
International Specialized Book Services is a full-service marketing company representing overseas publishers in the American market. ISBS currently distributes around 60 publishers from the UK, Ireland, continental Europe, Asia and Australia who produce high-caliber books across a broad spectrum of subjects.
Johns Hopkins University Press
Founded in 1878, Johns Hopkins is America’s oldest university press. The Press’ mission is to advance teaching and research and to enlighten a diverse audience of readers. Today, Johns Hopkins is one of the world’s largest university presses, publishing 60 scholarly journals and nearly 200 new books each year. Award-winning lists in history, science, literary studies, political science, and medicine reach a worldwide audience and fulfill their mandate to broadly disseminate the expertise of leading scholars, scientists and physicians.
John Wiley & Sons
From Charles Wiley’s Manhattan printing shop in 1807, John Wiley & Sons has grown to be one of the largest and most respected publishing houses. Their extensive Professional & Trade front- and backlists cover all subjects and areas, including business, technology, psychology, education, health and religion. Wiley continues to grow, branching into new technologies to continue meeting the needs of its customers.
Jossey-Bass: Higher Education and Research Methods
Jossey-Bass publishes nearly 250 new titles each year to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations and their communities. Jossey-Bass’ publications feature the work of some of the world’s best-known authors in leadership, business, education, religion and spirituality, parenting, nonprofit, public health and health administration, conflict resolution and relationships. Their Higher Education series publishes books on teaching, educational leadership and faculty development, while their Research Methods series publishes materials and handbooks to assist researchers in all academic fields stay up-to-date with the latest research methodologies.
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publishing books that defend, refute and create fresh interpretation, MQUP is in the business of debate. With over 2,800 books in print and numerous awards and bestsellers, their goal is to produce rigorously edited and beautifully produced books. A joint venture of McGill University in Montreal and Queen's University in Kingston, MQUP is both a specialist in the Canadian perspective and a publisher of international themes.
Nehora Press
Nehora Press was founded by Mark and Yedidah Cohen in 2003 when they published their translations of Rabbi Yehudah Lev Ashlag’s Introductions to the Kabbalah. Their goal is to maintain high standards of authenticity in the publication of Rabbi Ashlag’s material both in Hebrew and English, and in the application of the texts to everyday life. Nehora’s work is endorsed by the Chief Rabbi of Britain, Rabbi Sir Jonathon Sacks, Rabbi Shmuel Eliahu, Chief Rabbi of Tsfat, and Rabbi Avraham Mordecai Gottlieb, head of the Beit haMidrash, Ohr Baruch Shalom, Kiryat Yearim, Israel.
Nova Science Publishers
Nova Science Publishers is an academic publisher focusing on science, political science, European and Asian studies, and security studies. Founded in 1985 in New York by Frank Columbus, former Vice-President of Plenum Publishing, Nova publishes a variety of materials including nearly 300 book series and more than 100 journals, as well as reference books and e-books.
Oxford University Press
Founded in 1586, Oxford University Press now has 50 offices and is the largest university press in the world, publishing over 6,000 titles a year in more than 40 languages. Their publishing program is incredibly diverse, catering to all audiences and covering all areas of inquiry. Oxford’s objectives are to further excellence in scholarship, research and education. While continuing to choose manuscripts of only the highest caliber for publication, the press also embraces new technologies and new formats to support its publishers and customers.
Peter Lang
Peter Lang Publishing Group publishes and distributes academic works in the fields of the Humanities, Social Sciences, Law and Economics. Peter Lang’s publications include monographs, textbooks and journals in more than 35 fields. Peter Lang publishes around 2,000 new titles a year in English, French and German.
Polity Press
Established in 1984, Polity has rapidly grown into one of the leading international publishers in the social sciences and humanities, publishing some of the world’s best authors in these fields. They aim to publish original, cutting-edge work of the highest quality alongside college textbooks. Polity’s list is particularly strong in sociology, politics, social and political theory, philosophy, history, cultural and gender studies, and anthropology. While primarily an academic publisher, Polity also publishes general interest titles that stimulate public debate about key issues in social, political and cultural life.
Rodopi
Based in both Amsterdam and New York, Rodopi is an independent academic publishing house—committed to publishing series that generate new domains of study—issuing over 150 titles per year. Their subject areas include Art and Music, History of Medicine, Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Social and Political Sciences and Theology.
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press, founded in 1936, publishes books in a broad array of disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Rutgers’ books meet high editorial standards, facilitate the exchange of ideas, enhance teaching, and make scholarship accessible to a wide range of readers. The Press’ overriding ambition is nothing less than to help make the world better, one book at a time, by publishing titles of superior scholarship and popular appeal—affirming its role as a major cultural institution that contributes significantly to the ideas that shape the critical issues of our day.
SUNY Press
An acclaimed international publisher of distinguished research and notable general interest works since 1966, SUNY Press is capitalizing on the latest advances in digital communication to offer an innovative range of print and electronic publications to fulfill the needs of scholars, students, authors and readers around the world. They have recognized—and growing—lists in African American studies, Asian studies, environmental studies, Indigenous studies, Italian American studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, political science, queer studies, religion, transpersonal psychology and women’s studies.
Temple University Press
Publishing significant books in urban studies, housing and labor studies, organizational reform, religion, health care and cultural studies—Temple University Press was one of the first university presses to publish in women's and ethnic studies. Today, it continues in these fields and in newer ones such as disability studies, animal rights, criminology, gender and sexual identity, and sport and society.
Transaction Publishers
Transaction Publishers is a major independent publisher of social scientific books, periodicals and serials. Transaction's mission is scholarly and professional inquiry into the nature of society. Transaction offers publications in established core disciplines such as economics, political science, history, sociology, anthropology and psychology, as well as recently established disciplines ranging from area research to urban studies, policy analysis, philosophy of social science, organizational behavior and criminology.
World Scientific Publishing Group
Since its inception in 1981, the World Scientific Publishing Group has established itself as one of the world’s leading academic publishers. Developing the highest-quality products and services for the academic, scientific professional and research communities, it now publishes more than 400 books and 100 journals a year in science, technology, medicine and business and management. World Scientific co-founded Imperial College Press—well known for its engineering, medicine and information technology titles—in 1995, and was awarded exclusive rights by the Nobel Foundation to publish the entire series of Nobel lectures (1901–2000) in English.