Jisc Collections has agreed the terms of a license to renew access to Peter Lang’s DRM-free eBook collection of more than 10,000 titles. Starting on January 1, 2019 and for the next three years, the monographs, conference proceedings and reference works are again available for purchase through the agreements JISC has negotiated for its members. The books that include nearly 4,000 English language titles are available as subject collections, mini collections, evidence-based selection collections or standalone titles across all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The initial agreement is still in force until the end of 2018 and to celebrate its continuation, JISC grants an additional 5% discount for any orders placed before 14th December 2018. More information.  

Peter Lang has closed an agreement with French media group Hachette Livre to increase the availability of Peter Lang books in Francophone markets. The agreement is scheduled to start in autumn 2018 and covers two main aspects: Through its print on demand service with Lightning Source France, Hachette will print and distribute all new titles released by Peter Lang’s Belgian publishing office P.I.E. Peter Lang SA. Through its Hachette Livre Distribution division, Hachette will distribute Peter Lang’s entire French Language front- and backlist from all five Peter Lang publishing offices in the Francophone countries. Through this agreement, Peter Lang expands significantly its global presence in Francophone markets and ensures optimum international distribution for its growing portfolio of French language titles.

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Peter Lang has signed an agreement with Book Network Int’l Limited (NBNi) on the distribution of all of its eBooks and metadata to major international eBook retailers and discovery websites. Among others, this means that Peter Lang eBooks can be bought from the Amazon eBook store Kindle. Through this agreement, Peter Lang significantly accelerates and improves the availability of its growing eBook-collection (9,000+ titles) to end users worldwide.

The European Society for the Study of English ((ESSE) has honoured “Journeys in the Sun: Travel Literature and Desire in Balearic Islands (1903-1939)” by Dr. Eduard Moyà Antón with the 2018 ESSA book award in cultural and area studies, category B. The €1,500 prize is granted each year to a junior scholar for a first research book published in English. In its statement, the jury describes the work as “a brilliant comparative and cultural research project which rereads the ‘south’ and the concept of ‘travelling south’ in search of identity”. The book was published by Peter Lang in 2017 in co-production with Edicions UIB, the publishing house of the Universitat de les Illes Balears. More information on the award: http://essenglish.org/esse-book-awards-for-2018/

‘Border Crossing «Brothas» Black Males Navigating Race, Place, and Complex Space’, published by Peter Lang in 2016, has been named a 2017 Critics’ Choice award by the American Educational Studies Association. Each year, a committee of AESA members selects a number of titles it regards as outstanding books that may be of interest to those in educational studies. The Critics’ Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association.

Paul Ian Campbell’s book, Football, Ethnicity and Community: The Life of an African-Caribbean Football Club, has been shortlisted for the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize. The publication, which won the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize earlier this year, is a case study of an African-Caribbean-founded football club, Meadebrook Cavaliers, from the English East Midlands. The winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize will be announced at the British Society of Sports History (BSSH) annual conference at the University of Worcester on 1-2 September 2017.

Peter Lang congratulates Jefferson Pooley, for winning the 2017 James W. Carey Media Research Award for his publication “James W. Carey and Communication Research: Reputation at the University’s Margins” (Peter Lang, 2016). The award is given by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research for works on topics that were central to James W. Carey’s scholarship.

Professor Henry A. Giroux received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) on Tuesday 4 July 2017. Professor Giroux, who was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period, has published several books with Peter Lang, including the bestselling title “Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism”. You can read his commencement speech here.

Congratulations to Ty-Ron Douglas, Erin Cameron & Constance Russell, Patricia H. Hinchey and Jennifer Shiller for winning the Society of Professors of Education book award for their most recent publications with Peter Lang Publishing!

Ty-Ron Douglas is author of Border Crossing Brothas .

Erin Cameron and Constance Russell are the editors of The Fat Pedagogy Reader.Patricia H. Hinchey is author of A Critical Action Research Reader.

Jennifer T. Shiller is author of The New Reality for Suburban Schools.

Click here to read more about the Society of Professors of Education.

Congratulations to Dr. Isabel Dwornik, author of Dreams and Deceptions: Sports Lure, Racism, and Young Black Males’ Struggles in Sports and Education. This 2017 Peter Lang publication was included in the The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education’s Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars.