1869, The Cornell University Press Podcast

CUP Senior Editor & Three Hills Editorial Director Michael McGandy joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Williamsburg, Virginia for the Twenty-Fourth Annual Omohundro Institute Conference. http://oieahc-cf.wm.edu/conferences/ If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Michael, take a look at our new and forthcoming books, and pick up copies of our 2018 United States catalog. (Receive 30% off anything in the catalog by using the promo code 09POD at cornellpress.cornell.edu.) The electronic version of our catalog can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/2018_us_history_catalog_issuu?e=29596641/61702749

Cornell is launching a new series, Histories and Cultures of Tourism, and Series Editor Eric Zuelow joins us to discuss what it is all about. We discuss the history of the field of tourism studies, seminal books in the field and what he and CUP Senior Editor Emily Andrew are looking for in regards to prospective projects. Along the way we also discuss Volkswagen Beetles, Roman graffiti, and Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. To submit a proposal for the series please contact Eric Zuelow and Emily Andrew via email. Their contact information can be found at the following websites: http://www.une.edu/people/eric-g-e-zuelow http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/contacts/ Eric G.E. Zuelow is an associate professor of European history. He specializes in modern Britain and Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the histories of tourism and national identity. Zuelow is author of A History of Modern Tourism (Palgrave, 2015) and of the award-winning Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the I

CUP Marketing Director Martyn Beeny joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Book Expo 2018: http://www.bookexpoamerica.com/ If you are at Book Expo this year, please do stop by Booth 3064 and say hello to Martyn, pick up advance copies of our Fall/Winter books (including one by John Cleese), and receive some choice CUP swag.

Author Jerry Jenkins joins us to talk about his two new guides from Comstock Publishing – Woody Plants of the Northern Forest - featured as both a beautiful 10 x 11 Photographic Guide, and also in more portable form as two Quick Guides – weather-resistant double-sided photographic charts that fold out to 26 x 36 inches. Jerry Jenkins directs the Northern Forest Atlas Project and is a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is the author of Climate Change in the Adirondacks: The Path to Sustainability and The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park and coauthor of Acid Rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his new books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140102677790 http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100847450

Host Martyn Beeny chats with Romi Gutierrez, associate director and director of sales and marketing at University Press of Florida about metadata, metrics, content marketing, influencers, local marketing, successful marketing, and the end of the book review!

CUP Editor in Chief Mahinder Kingra joins us to tell us about his upcoming trip to Kalamazoo for the International Congress on Medieval Studies. If you are attending the meeting, please do stop by our table to say hello to Mahinder, look at our new books, and pick up copies of our 2018 Medieval Studies catalog and sampler. The electronic versions of our catalog and sampler can be viewed via the following links: https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/cor_medieval_studies_2018_mb_issuu?e=29596641/60896191 https://issuu.com/cornelluniversitypress/docs/medieval_studies_2018_sampler_issuu?e=29596641/60776790

Author Julia Cassaniti joins us to talk about her book, Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia. Julia Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. Her previous Cornell book, Living Buddhism, won the Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140107114010&fa=author&person_id=5710#content

Author Jonathan Karmel joins us to talk about his book, Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace. For more than 30 years Jon has represented workers and labor unions and their benefit funds throughout the midwest in the federal courts and before the NLRB, Department of Labor, and EEOC among others agencies. Jon is a Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and is the Union Co-Chair of the Occupational Safety and Health Committee of the American Bar Association. He is a frequent speaker on labor and employment topics. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100125680

Author Tim Wendel joins us to talk about his book, Cancer Crossings: A Brother, His Doctors, and the Quest for a Cure to Childhood Leukemia. A writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, Tim Wendel is the author of Summer of ’68, Castro’s Curveball, and High Heat, which was an Editor’s Choice selection by The New York Times Book Review. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100978290

Author Daniel Bessner joins us to talk about his book, Democrary in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Daniel Bessner is the Anne H. H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Use code 09POD to save 30% on his book when you order directly from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140104396220

Poet, visual artist, oral historian and licensed electrician Susan Eisenberg joins us to talk about her new collection of poetry, Stanley's Girl. Susan Eisenberg is Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center. Visit susaneisenberg.com for more information. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her books when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140106652980&fa=author&person_id=846#content

On Episode 2, host Martyn Beeny chats with Carrie Olivia Adams, a freelance publicist, about book marketing, the future of publicity, the NY Times and NPR, blurbs, and more.

In this episode we chat with Sarah Grossman, Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) Publications Managing Editor, about her experiences at the recent Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Washington, DC.

Coline Jenkins joins us to discuss her family's, and her own, pioneering work in promoting women's rights. The great, great granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Coline is a legislator, author and television producer. Through the years, she has used her talents to inspire both awareness and pride in women's history.

Author Julie Chernov Hwang joins us to talk about her book, Why Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists. Julie Chernov Hwang is an associate professor of political science and international relations at Goucher College. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484390

First episode of the new spin-off podcast series, Sage Marketing, in which host Martyn Beeny chats book marketing with Dennis Johnson, co-owner and co-publisher of Melville House.

Author Danna Agmon joins us to talk about her book, A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, as well as her Twitter Party on February 27. Agmon is Assistant Professor of History and ASPECT at Virginia Tech. Use code 09POD to save 30% on her book when you order direct from Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100368870

Author Darryl Jones joins Martyn Beeny to chat about his new book, The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters.

Michael Roux, Marketing and Sales Manager at University of Illinois Press, joins Martyn Beeny to chat about marketing books to the scholarly community and beyond.

Authors Sharon Batt and Fran Quigley discuss the cost of medicines in the wake of President Trump's State of the Union address.