Dear Colleague,
I recently returned from the Pacific Sociological Association meeting in Reno, where nearly 1,000 people attended this very popular conference.
The LSS book exhibit consisted over 350 titles, including monographs, text books and journals from over 40 publishers—and was a center of attraction at the conference.
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One of our featured exhibitors: Polity Press
(130 titles on three tables). |
Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and
SAGE had their own tables. |
Text books from Jossey-Bass, as well as monographs from Lynne Rienner, International Specialized Book Service, Springer Publishing and Seven Stories drew a lot of attention—as well as the journals from Berghahn Books.
Thanks so much to the following publishers who participated in the
Library of Social Science Book Exhibit at the Pacific Sociological Association |
• U. of Alabama Press
• U. of Alberta Press
• Ashgate Publishing
• Bayou Publishing
• Berghahn Books
• Wiley-Blackwell
• U. of California
• Carolina Academic Press
• Central European U. Press
• U. of Chicago Press
• Common Ground Publishing
• Cornell U. Press
• Edwin Mellen Press |
• Harvard U. Press
• Hogrefe Publishing
• ISBS
• John Wiley & Sons
• Johns Hopkins U. Press
• Jossey-Bass
• Kendall Hunt
• Levins Publishing
• Lynne Rienner
• Nehora
• Nova Science Publishers
• Oxford U. Press
• Peter Lang USA
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• Polity Press
• Routledge
• Russell Sage
• Rutgers U. Press
• SAGE Publications
• Seven Stories Press
• Springer Publishing Co.
• Springer Sci. & Business
• Temple U. Press
• World Scientific Publishing
• Worth Publishers |
Attendees returned to the book exhibit throughout the conference. People remarked to me that they had rarely seen such an interesting, exciting display of sociology titles.
Professor Michael Mann, author of “Power in the 21st Century” was extremely happy to see his title included in the Polity display. A student of Jonathan Turner was absolutely amazed to see that his professor’s 3 volume set ”Theoretical Principles of Sociology” from Springer SBM.
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| Our table of textbooks for adoption. |
Between sessions, conference attendees
browse the titles on display. |
Every year Library of Social Science donates books to the PSA auction held the last night of the conference to enable students to obtain books for their research. This year, Professor Susan Wurzburg was in charge of the book auction—and was surprised and delighted with our contribution of over 100 titles. She gave me a beautiful card inscribed with the words, “Thanks!! You are a gem!!”
This year’s meeting was unique in that it was held in the Golden Nugget Casino, which was interesting because I have seldom been to a gambling casino. The slot machines I heard about when I was growing up—where three oranges or three cherries always signaled some kind of winning jackpot—have been replaced by computerized machines with seven items across, instead of three, with fruit symbols replaced by symbols from computer games.
Unfortunately, the conference director, Chuck Hohm, was not able to attend for personal reasons, but the day was saved by the dependable former conference director Dean Dorn and his assistant Josh Terrell.
On a lighter note, one of the Routledge/Taylor and Francis representatives, Gerhard Boomgaarden, told me that he found the climate so dry in Reno that every night before he went to bed he took all of the towels in the hotel room, soaked them in water and hung them up around the room to make the room more humid. And of by morning, the towels were completely dry.
Best regards,
Richard G. Klein
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