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Vanderbilt Titles Featured in ALA Panel and FDL Book Salon
THE GHOSTS OF HARLEM: Sessions with Jazz Legends by Hank O'Neal was cited as an Outstanding University Press for Public Libraries and was presented at a "Best of the Best" panel at the American Library Association Annual Meeting in June. C-Span broadcast the panel and the program can be seen at the C-Span website: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294276-1
SEEDS OF CHANGE: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group by John Atlas will be the subject of the Firedoglake.com Book Salon on August 15. Join the discussion here.
Check Out the New Fall/Winter 2010 Catalog Before Anyone Else!
It's not even back from the printer, but you can get the first look at the books in our our new Fall/Winter 2010 catalog here on the website.
The catalog features local Nashville photographer Chris Wage's work on the cover. That's the corner of 5th and Broadway, looking down towards the river.
PLAYING THE CHANGES Wins ARSC Award
We're very proud that Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs has receved a 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.
A list of all winners can be viewed here.
Richard Mollica on NPR
Richard Mollica, author of Healing Invisible Wounds, talks to NPR about providing mental health relief in Haiti, among other things.
You can listen here.
Author Pete Peterson has Died
We're sad to say that Pete Peterson has died. Peterson was the co-editor of Music Scenes and a respected member of the Vanderbilt community.
Click here for more information.
New Subject Catalogs
We've introduced two new subject catalogs on our Browse page--Civics and Hispanic and Latin American Studies.
Be sure to check them out!
Vanderbilt University Press Premiers E-Catalog
Our Spring/Summer 2010 catalog is available in traditional paper format, as always, but this season marks our first electronic catalog. It includes the same content as our print catalog, but also includes fun (and functional) interactive features like:
- Keyword search
- Zoom and magnifier functions
- Sticky notes
- Email options
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John Braxton Wins 2009 Chancellor's Cup
John Braxton, editor of Reworking the Student Departure Puzzle, has won Vanderbilt University's prestigious Chancellor's Cup for 2009.
Congratulations, Professor Braxton.
ACORN -- New Book Offers New Perspectives
ACORN: On the front lines in the struggle for economic justice -- new perspectives on controversial community organizing group
Before the 2008 presidential election, when conservative pundits started complaining about Barack Obama's community organizing past and his connections to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), most Americans had probably not heard of the group.
Things are certainly different now. Mentions of ACORN are ubiquitous. But how many people understand what the organization does and how it works? In his new book, The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice (Vanderbilt University Press, October 2009), editor Robert Fisher provides the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics to provide a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape.
"I've been studying community organizing since my days as a graduate student in the early 1970s," says Fisher. "For nearly 40 years ACORN has offered a model of progressive social change that has challenged those on the Right as well as the Left."
The first book in more than two decades to give focus primarily on ACORN and its model of organizing, The People Shall Rule will be an indispensible resource for people on both sides of the political aisle.
For a complete list of articles and contributors, click the Table of Contents tab here.
