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New Book Announcement! Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land: At Home in Santa Monica's Rent-Controlled Housing, by Lauren E. M. Everett, provides an in-depth look—from the tenants’ perspective—at the most controversial housing policy in America.

Sad to see the @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social lose yesterday. You can recall better times and games with Ray Didinger's THE EAGLES ENCYCLOPEDIA: CHAMPIONS II out October 15!

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We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of A Century of Music Under the Stars, by Jack McCarthy, celebrating the remarkable legacy of the @manncenter.

🗓️ Coming November 7, 2025

Pre-order your copy today!
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Shipping books out to the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social meeting October 8-11 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Visit us in the Book Exhibit Room!

Adoption Memoirs Author Event with Marianne Novy, Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup Join us at **Books and Mortar** in Grand Rapids for a powerful evening with adoptee author **Marianne Novy**, as she discusses her latest work, ***Adoption Memoirs: Inside

Marianne Novy, author of ADOPTION MEMOIRS, will present her book at Books & Mortar, 966 Cherry Street SE, in Grand Rapids, MI, at 6:30pm. More information on the event can be found here. www.meetup.com/west-michiga...

Ming-sho Ho, author of BE WATER, stops by Temple University Press' booth at the @apsa.bsky.social conference.

Aaron Javsicas, Editor-in-Chief at Temple University Press, poses at the @apsa.bsky.social A converence with Tim Weaver (right), author of INEQUALITY, CRIME, AND RESISTENCE IN NEW YORK CITY.

Weaver will participate in an author meets critics panel on September 13 at 8:00 am PDT at the conference.

Come visit Temple University Press' Booth #108, located in the East Convention Level, Exhibit Hall A, at the @apsa.bsky.social annual conference through September 12, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Check out John Shjarback recieving copies of his new book, CHASING CHANGE IN CAMDEN. Congratulations on holding your ideas in your hands!

Ever-expanding AI continues to invade higher education Trump and Big Tech promise "human flourishing" in the UW System.

Neil Kraus, author of THE FANTASY ECONOMY, penned an editorial on AI and education for Tone Madison. tonemadison.com/articles/eve...

Wishing the E-A-G-L-E-S well tonight!
Fans, you can pre-order Ray Didinger's CHAMPIONS II (out in October) now! tupress.temple.edu/books/the-ea...

Fireside Reads | The Other Public Lands: Preservation, Extraction, and Politics on the Fifty States’ Natural Resource Lands. As the Trump administration in 2025 enables those who for three quarters of a century (“Land Grab” of the 1940s, Sagebrush Rebellion, Wise Use Movement) have sought privatization and transfer of feder...

A terrific review of Steven Davis' THE OTHER PUBLIC LANDS in The National Parks Traveler.
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Sarah Hoiland, author of RIGHTEOUS SISTERHOOD, and Temple University Press editor Ryan Mulligan, pose at the American Sociological Association meeting. Vist our display at Booth #542.

Temple University Press will be attending the American Sociological Association annual meeting, August 9-12 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago, IL. Our display, Booth #542, will feature books by authors giving papers or participating in panels at the conference.

New Book Annoucement! AMERICAN CORRUPTION TALK: A POLITICAL ETYMOLOGY, by Robert G. Boatright and Molly Brigid McGrath, explores differences in how Americans have deployed corruption talk throughout the nation’s history.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Gang Databases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

ON GANGS, by Scott Decker, David Pyrooz, and James Densley, was featured on @lastweektonight.com with John Oliver on July 27. The book is quoted from at the 5:56 minute mark.

New Book Announcement! THE HIDDEN FACE OF LOCAL POWER: APPOINTED BOARDS AND THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRACY by Mirya R. Holman, develops a framework for understanding how cities use appointed boards and commissions, and what this means for local democracy.

A young Diné woman in a red headband, red fringed cape, red and yellow skirt, and blue beaded boots with a starburst dances on a sandy walking path against a backdrop of trees and scrub with mesas in the distance. The Monument Lab – Re:Generation cover features Destiny Folgheraiter (Diné) at the Trail Opening Celebration from the Walking with Dinétah team. The photo was taken by Marissa Leshnov as a part of the Monument Lab Re:Generation initiative.

Taking a break from my usual political posts to celebrate Book Cover Reveal Day! Beginning in 2022, we launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in public? And soon you can read about the first cohort! Temple University Press coming in January 2026.

subsequently ≠ consequently

Is the soup guy Peter Gibbons?

Just published! FOUNDATIONS OF BLACK EPISTEMOLOGY: KNOWLEDGE DISCOURSE IN AFRICANA PHILOSOPHY, by Adebayo Oluwayomi, engages with epistemological questions concerning the object and subject knowledge from the black philosophical perspective. tupress.temple.edu/books/founda...

Author’s Event: Jim Murphy — booked. Author Jim Murphy will be here on Wednesday, July 2nd at 7:00 PM to read and sign his book Real Philly History, Real Fast !

Want to learn some REAL PHILLY HISTORY, REAL FAST? Come see Jim Murphy at booked. 8511 Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, PA on July 2 at 7pm.
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Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape: Deep Roots, Continuing… With Black History in the Philadelphia Landscape , author Amy Jane Cohen places Black history at the heart of our city while honoring Black people not as…

The Broad Street Review says Amy Cohen's BLACK HISTORY IN THE PHILADELPHIA LANDSCAPE is "[A] landmark text: a must read for all Philadelphians, and Americans." www.broadstreetreview.com/reviews/blac...

Celebrating Juneteenth with our NAACP Image Award-winning book, ENVISIONING EMANCIPATION, by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer, which illustrates what freedom looked like for black Americans in the Civil War era.

A blue book with the title "A Hidden Face of Local Power" by Mirya R Holman

I'm not even home to see it, but look what came in the mail to my house today!!

New book documents queer lives in newly independent Ireland “Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972” is by historian Averill Earls.

Fantastic piece in today's DUBLIN INQUIRER about Averill Earls' fascinating new book, LOVE IN THE LAV, about same-sex desire in Ireland 1922-1972.
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Purchased at Fill a Bagel?

Tonight at 6;30 pm! Rebecca Jo Kinney, author of MAPPING ASIATOWN CLEVELAND, will present her book at the Thirdspace Reading Room, 1464 E. 105th Street in Cleveland, OH.

‘Ghosts’ of long-demolished Philly buildings have stories to tell "Building Ghosts," a recent book from Temple University Press, suggests new ways to look at durable artifacts displayed on party walls across Philly.

Hats off to Hidden City editorial director Michael Bixler and longtime HC alum Molly Lester. Their new book, “Building Ghosts” is featured in a terrific @inquirer.com article by reporter Kevin Riordan.

#buildingghosts #demolition
#socialhistory #philly

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