positions Receives the 2008 CELJ Award for Best Special Issue

“War Capital Trauma,” a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique, was unanimously selected as the winner of the 2008 Council of Editors of Learned Journals Award for Best Special Issue.

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Downloads Now Available for Two Duke University Press Titles

The Duke University Press edition of Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins is now available as a downloadable PDF. This expanded edition includes a foreword by Davis Guggenheim and an introduction by Cory Doctorow.

Christopher M. Kelty's Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software is generating lots of online buzz. On his own site, Kelty is trying a couple of experiments. First, the book is available free online. Readers can either download a PDF or they can read and interact with the book online, commenting on individual paragraphs.

Kelty also has a separate site where readers can modulate his work and add their own. Kelty announced his book on the anthropology blog Savage Minds, and many bloggers have linked to that post. Several bloggers have started an online book club to discuss Two Bits.

And the mainstream media is starting to catch on, too. The New Yorker praised the book's cover in its books blog, The Book Bench.

Recent Media Coverage
of Duke University Press Books

Magdalena J. Zaborowska's literary biography of James Baldwin's life in Turkey (1961-1971), James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile, has been reviewed in the February 9, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.


Duke University Press salutes our recent award-winning books

Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops by Ginetta E. B. Candelario is the reciepient of the 2009 LASA Latina/o Studies Section Book Award.

The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders by Kathy Davis is the winner of the 2009 Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, presented by the American Historical Association. Last year, the book also received the 2008 American Sociological Association Sex and Gender Section Distinguished Book Award and the 2008 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize.

Several Duke University Press titles were recognized by the Association for Asian American Studies at the 2009 annual conference. Sessue Hayakawa by Daisuke Miyao was named the 2007 Best Book in History; Interventions into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry was named the 2007 Best Book in Literary Studies; and Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir Puar and The Hypersexuality of Race by Celine Parreñas Shimizu were named 2007 Best Books in Cultural Studies.

Duke University Press author Fredric Jameson has been awarded the 2008 Holberg Prize for his work on the relation between social formations and cultural forms. Among his many books are Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Capitalism and Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism.

Our Fall 2009 catalog is now available online.

Over thirty years of back content for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law now available online and free to current subscribers

Duke University Press is pleased to announce that over thirty years of back content for the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is now available online for the first time on HighWire at jhppl.dukejournals.org. Current subscribers can access the content of more than 190 issues—from the very first issue of the journal, originally published in 1976, to the current issue—for free as part of their paid subscription.

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Duke Press launches its blog.
For up-to-date news about our books and journals, and links to reviews, interviews, and author events, please visit our new blog.