December 2012

Andrew Herscher discusses Detroit’s ‘Unreal Estate’ on Michigan Radio

by Brianne Johnson December 18, 2012

During a recent interview with Cynthia Canty on Michigan Radio, Press author Andrew Herscher discussed his new book, The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit, a guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit’s economic decline. Herscher describes unreal estate as “urban space that has lost economic value to the point where ...

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LA Weekly Spotlights ‘International Relations of Middle-earth’

by Shaun Manning December 11, 2012

With The Hobbit hitting theatres this week, LA Weekly, part of the Village Voice family of free papers, interviewed International Relations of Middle-earth co-author Patrick James about the book’s origins and using Tolkien to teach real-world multinational conflict. In the interview, James credited Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy with creating a “pop culture touchstone,” making the situations ...

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November Publications Round-Up

by Alix December 10, 2012

It has been a busy and exciting fall here at MPublishing. We’ve been winding the month with some new content to share with you: digitalcuturebooks newest title:  The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit by Andrew Herscher. (see here for our previous  announcement) The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) released issue 18.1, the latest electronic back issue from Fall 2011. ...

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Holiday Sale Featuring ‘The Martian’s Daughter’ and ‘Music is my Life!’

by Phillip Witteveen December 5, 2012

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou We’re  highlighting some of our autobiographies this holiday season, including “The Martian’s Daughter”–the life of Marina Von Neumann-Whitman, daughter of one of the greatest scientific geniuses of ...

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