This is a guest post by Professor Lawrence Susskind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA and General Editor, Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative. I finally found the right phrase to describe what city planning is, and what city planners do. Planners provide…
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Talk of the Town: 5 Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in March 2020
March 2020 has been an incredibly testing month as countries around the world continue to fight the coronavirus pandemic and people settle into their homes to transition to a “new normal.” That’s why Anthem Press has curated 5 note-worthy articles…
Spring is in Full Swing at Anthem Press: New Titles
It has been a busy season here at Anthem Press and we want to share some information about our exciting new titles and authors.
Sustainability Is the New Advantage: Leadership, Change, and the Future of Business by Peter McAteer
Peter McAteer’s excellent new title, Sustainability Is the New Advantage, expertly answers the question: “How can leaders accelerate business transformation in the face of climate change and other environmental issues?” Transformation is a difficult process for any company and Sustainability provides a straightforward approach for incorporating sustainable business practices while ensuring profitability.
Peter McAteer is managing director of SustainLearning and member of the board of directors for KPPM Global. Peter’s prior work includes service as CEO of Corporate University Research and CEO of the Corporate University Xchange.
Private Equity: A Casebook by Paul Gompers, Victoria Ivashina and Richard Ruback
Private Equity: A Casebook is an advanced applied corporate finance book dedicated to educating investors and students on practices delivering sustained future profitability. This title features a collection of cases written from private equity investors’ perspectives, detailing actual investments and outcomes.
Paul A. Gompers, Victoria Ivashina and Richard S. Ruback are distinguished Professors of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
The Plight of Potential: Embracing Solitude in Millennial Life and Modern Work by Emerson Csorba
The Plight of Potential is a field guide for the millennial worker searching for career satisfaction without sacrificing personal enrichment. In the modern world, millennials experience constant pressure to grow professionally without advancing emotionally. Csorba uses scholarly research, his first-hand experience with intergenerational engagement and case studies of millennials from networks like the Global Shapers Community to show how hitting the pause button for inward meditation will benefit the individual.
Emerson Csorba is president of Csorba & Company Ltd., where he leads projects involving social network analysis, intergenerational engagement and political campaign management.
Iron Men centers around Henry Maudslay and his followers, whose factory on Westminster Bridge Road in London, England attracted the country’s top engineering talent during the early nineteenth century. Their contributions to precision engineering and machine tools helped Great Britain become the workshop of the world.
David Waller is an author, business consultant and former Financial Times journalist specialising in business and the nineteenth century.
For full catalogue, please visit www.anthempress.com.
2018 Award Winning Books and Authors
Several Anthem Press authors have received awards this year. Our congratulations to these authors for this well-deserved recognition! 2018 Schumpeter Prize – John Matthews, Global Green Shift: When Ceres Meets Gaia The International Schumpeter Society (ISS) announced John Mathews (Global Green Shift:…
New and Forthcoming Titles from Anthem Press
We are pleased to announce the following newly released and forthcoming titles: Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game By Steve Fuller ‘Post-Truth’ was Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers, especially…
Sociology: New Series Announcements
Academic Publishing News Roundup: November 2015
Academic journal publisher profits might not last forever Justin Fox’s article at Bloomberg View acknowledges the profits made by journal publishers who don’t have to pay for the content they publish. It examines academic publishing’s history and how journals have…
Academic Publishing News Roundup: October 2015
Columbia University Press partners with Russian translation nonprofit The literary nonprofit Read Russia, which seeks to present Russian classics, modern words, and genre fiction to English-speaking audiences, has partnered with Columbia University Press to publish 125 Russian titles into English.…
AUTHOR EVENT: A Conversation with Ralf Fücks
Speaking at an event hosted by Nesta on Friday, economist and green thinker Ralf Fücks presented ideas from his new book Green Growth, Smart Growth: A New Approach to Economics and the Environment. His casual yet enthusiastic manner belied the fact…
Featured Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series is a collection that fosters connections between areas including history, science, religion and literary theory. The general editor of this series is Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Professor of English Literature at University of Oxford. He recently spoke to us about the…