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What we've been up to lately...

It has been such a busy Fall!

We attended the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, which is the biggest book fair in the world and dates back to the Middle Ages when booksellers rolled their books along in barrels to reach the Fair. Frankfurt 2011 was an extremely busy fair for ISBS, full of meetings with current and prospective publishers. It was great to meet everybody and exchange news face-to-face. We look forward to distributing a wide range of diverse and exciting books, arriving this winter and into 2012. The 12 featured titles on our Home Page are just a small sampling.

At the end of October we attended the Western Pacific American Association of Law Libraries conference, which was held in our home city of Portland, Oregon. A number of the "big guns" in the law world were displaying, and so was ISBS. We enjoyed visiting with law librarians from all over the Western Pacific region, and were glad for the opportunity to showcase our newest law titles.

Eleven International Publishing, one of the publishers we represent, recently attended the American Society of Criminology conference in Washington, DC. This is the criminology conference to attend. Eleven had such a great time that they plan on going back in 2012!

In addition, Ithaca Press and Berkshire Academic Press are attending the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference in Washington, DC, which takes place in early December. MESA is a non-political association fostering the best scholarship on Middle East studies, and about 2,000 people attend.

Publisher news...

AWARDS-

Congratulations to two of Hart Publishing's authors. The Society of Legal Scholars awarded Robert Thomas's Administrative Justice and Asylum Appeals: A Study of Tribunal Adjudication and Rebecca William's Unjust Enrichment and Public Law: A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU first and second place for the 2011 Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

Two major National University of Ireland (NUI) awards for research in Irish History were announced in November 2011. These awards carry substantial monetary prizes-

Bernadette Cunningham's The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century, published by Four Courts Press, was awarded the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize. This prestigious prize is offered in alternate years for the best work of original Irish historical research by a graduate of the National University of Ireland. The awards panel commented "Everywhere, she highlights the larger significance of events and, in its understanding of the sheer central important of the subject, this masterly book is unique."

The NUI Publication Prize in Irish History was awarded to Dr Caitriona Foley for The Last Irish Plague: The Great Flu Epidemic in Ireland 1918-1919 published in 2011 by Irish Academic Press. This prize was awarded for a first sole author book by an NUI scholar whose doctoral degree was awarded no earlier than 1 January 2005. Commenting on this book, the panel remarked that ‘This is an excellent, multi faceted study of a relatively neglected episode."

The American Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Kuczycki Book Prize, which is awarded annually for the best book on any aspect of Polish affairs, has gone to The Jews in Poland and Russia, Volume 1 and Volume 2. Congratulations to Antony Polonski, the author of these prestigious books (the third and final volume will be published in 2012) and to the publisher, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. The award and cash prize was given at the November AASEEES conference.

What we're up to next...

The Association for Jewish Studies conference starts Dec. 19th in Washington, DC. As usual, The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization will be attending. Littman's books, with their in-depth scholarship in Jewish history, culture and religion, are the belle of this ball. Volume 24 of their ongoing Polin series has just been published and will be available at the conference.

If you haven't seen, we have a Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/isbsbooks) and you can also follow us on Twitter: @isbsbooks. This is a great way to keep up on our latest releases, and to hear a bit of news from the book world.

In other news ...

If you are looking for gift books we have three that have recently arrived. The Twelve Cakes of Christmas: An Evolutionary History, with Recipes from Otago University Press is a lovely, illustrated book with historical recipes. In addition, The RMS Titanic Miscellany is a handsome book filled with interesting and accurate details about the Titanic and her sinking. And for the birdwatcher on your list, we recommend Seabird Genius: The Story of L.E. Richdale, the Royal Albatross and the Yellow-eyed Penguin. Time magazine dubbed him 'The Dr. Kinsey of the penguin world.'

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