Books & Publishing

Australia's Labor Party and university presses to jointly fund the creation of the Australian Universities Press to support scholarly monographs and books.

John Sides and Lynn Vavreck explain why they rewrote rules of how to publish in political science for their book on the 2012 presidential election.

Change everything about how higher ed is funded and public colleges can offer free tuition, a new book argues.

Whatever happened to the shrinking work week that futurologists used to worry about? Scott McLemee checks into a volume in the field of leisure studies.

A new restriction from Amazon prevents students from bringing some of their rented textbooks across state lines.

Derek Bok's new book asserts that much of the recent criticism of higher education is inaccurate or oversimplified, but that plenty of serious problems do exist.

A documentary about the philosopher, mystic, and rebel is coming out on DVD. Scott McLemee hears from the director.

Editors of new book discuss the zombie apocalypse in higher education.