The San Diego State University Press Blog

sdsupress — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:05:35 +0000

Humor & Eroticism in Advertising, by Maria Cristina da Silva Martins, explores the role that seduction plays in advertising. Through close analysis of Brazilian magazine ads published in the 1980′s, Martins uncovers the aesthetic, political, and cultural exchanges that occur in modern advertisements.

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SDSU Press Brings Ana Castillo to San Diego State University With a Host of Other Cool Co-Sponsors!

sdsupress — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:42:24 +0000

Ana Castillo Comes to SDSU--SDSU Press helps make it happen

What could be more romantic?

sdsupress — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:47:18 +0000

Click on the picture above to read a feature in the L.A. Times about Oliver Mayer’s romantically inspired play, ‘Dias y Flores.’

Oliver Mayer, The focus of “The Hurt Business,” in the News

sdsupress — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:29:00 +0000

Click the image above to get the whole smashing review of Oliver Mayer’s new play, Dias y flores. You can get a copy of The Hurt Business, a work wholly focused on the writing of Oliver Mayer, right here! Or hit the Amazon logo, opposite!

The Afterlife of Plays

sdsupress — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:31:00 +0000

by Jonathan Miller
ISBN: 1-879691-12-4
Cloth / Pages: 64 / $12.50 1992

The author’s Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture addresses the implications of repeated live performances for establishing a play’s definitive text. Physician, author, stage producer, and director, Miller has produced twelve plays in the acclaimed BBC Shakespeare Series, directed six of them, and has directed at least a dozen opera productions for the English National and Frankfurt Opera Companies.

Adapting Activities for Therapeutic Recreation Service: Concepts and Applications

sdsupress — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:08:00 +0000

by Jesse Thomas Dixon
ISBN: 0-916304-48-5
Paper / Pages: 100 / $14.50 1981

This book responds to a growing demand for practical devices which will enable disabled persons to participate in a full range of individual recreational services.

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An Alle Künstler! War, Revolution, Weimar: German Expressionist Prints, Drawings, Posters, and Periodicals from The Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation

sdsupress — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:00 +0000

By Ida Katherine Rigby; foreword Earl A. Powell, III
ISBN: 0-916304-62-0
Paper / Pages: 118 / $18.75
second edition, corrected, 1987; first edition 1983

In a scholarly and sympathetic study enhanced by over 100 illustrations, art historian Ida Rigby analyzes attempts by German Expressionist artists to integrate art into the movement for social reform in the wake of Germany’s bitter defeat in World War I and during the ensuing revolution.

Oliver Mayer’s THE HURT BUSINESS! A New Spring 2008 Title From Hyperbole Books and SDSU Press

sdsupress — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:34:00 +0000

Hyperbole Books is thrilled to announce the immanent release of The Hurt Business: Oliver Mayer’s Early Works [+] PLUS in April 2008. More information on the book is here. For the proof of the new title’s wraparound cover click here. Or, better, buy it now off Amazon.com.

On the right, L.A. playwright Oliver Mayer with his wife, the actress Marlene Forte.

From the Back Catalogue!

sdsupress — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:50:00 +0000

Adapting Activities for Therapeutic Recreation Service: Concepts and Applications by Jesse Thomas Dixon
ISBN: 0-916304-48-5
Paper / Pages: 100 / $14.50 1981

This book responds to a growing demand for practical devices which will enable disabled persons to participate in a full range of individual recreational services.

The Afterlife of Plays
by Jonathan Miller
ISBN: 1-879691-12-4
Cloth / Pages: 64 / $12.50 1992

The author’s Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture addresses the implications of repeated live performances for establishing a play’s definitive text. Physician, author, stage producer, and director, Miller has produced twelve plays in the acclaimed BBC Shakespeare Series, directed six of them, and has directed at least a dozen opera productions for the English National and Frankfurt Opera Companies.

Beyond the Graying of America: Who Cares?
by E. Percil Stanford
ISBN: 1-879691-11-6
Cloth / Pages: 64 / $10.00 Illustrated
1992
This title presents the author’s University Research Lecture and a colloquium on the subject of social and cultural attitudes towards aging.

British Activities in California and the Pacific Coast of North America to 1860: An Archival Calendar Guide
by Abraham Nasatir and Gary Monell
ISBN: 0-916304-85-X
Cloth / Pages: 1224 / $175.00 (oversize shipping)
1990
This title provides the raw materials to put the story of English activities in California and the west coast of North America in a historical perspective. Letters are calendared in summary, precise, and verbatim form, with major topics highlighted.

Chant the Names of God: Music and Culture in Bhojpuri-Speaking India
by Edward O. Henry
ISBN: 0-916304-79-5
Paper / Pages: 322 / $19.75
1988
In describing the main occasions of which music enhances cultural events such as weddings, births, and mother goddess worship, Chant the Names of God shows how music responds to its social and cultural contexts.

Coroebus Triumphs: The Alliance of Sport and the Arts
edited by Susan Bandy
ISBN: 0-916304-76-0
Paper / Pages: 304 / $18.75
1989
During the summer of 1984, a collection of scholars, athletes, and artists convened in Coroebus’s honor to celebrate the alliance of sport and the arts with the formation of the Sport Literature Association.

Four Trips to Antiquity: Adventures of an Artist in Maya Ruined Cities
by Everett Gee Jackson
ISBN: 1-879691-03-5 (limited, signed) (S) / Pages: 186 / $100.00
ISBN: 1-879691-04-3 / Cloth / $22.95 Illustrated
1991
Four Trips to Antiquity narrates an artist’s search through Central America for the space form which inheres in ancient Maya sculpture.

Goat Tails and Doodlebugs: A Journey toward Art
by Everett Gee Jackson
ISBN: 1-879691-18-3, cloth ($22.95)
ISBN: 1-879691-19-1 is limited edition, signed) $100.00
In his fourth book, Everett Gee Jackson recounts tales from his earliest memories through his youth and college years which reveal the gentle nudges that life gave him on the journey to his career as an artist and, especially, as a painter of the Mexican and Central American scene. Jackson was one of several distinguished American artists who worked in Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s. He was, for many years, chair of the Art Department at San Diego State University, and he founded the Latin American Committee of the San Diego Museum of Art.

Note: There is a special price for the order of both Jackson books, $38.00–illustrated with Jackson drawings in black and white, plus four color plates of his paintings.

Genetic Chemistry and the Future of Medicine
by Arthur Kornberg
ISBN: 0-916304-80-9
Paper / Paper: 54 / $9.50
1988
This title presents Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg‘s formal San Diego State University Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture. It is followed by excerpts from a colloquium discussion and by a short bibliography.

In the Shadow of Man
by Jane Goodall
ISBN:0-916304-82-5
Paper / Pages: 72 / $12.50
1988
San Diego State University’s Fourth Distinguished Graduate Research Lecture, this title features the author’s lecture, transcript of a colloquium, and a Goodall bibliography.

Clash of Identities By Dipak K. Gupta

sdsupress — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:49:00 +0000

I-879691-50-7
1998
hardback, 70 pp.
US $20.00

Clash of Identities presents Dipak K. Gupta‘s research on issues surrounding prediction in the social sciences, specifically, forecasting outbreaks of political violence. Honored as San Diego State University’s eleventh Distinguished Graduate Research Lecturer, Gupta explores ethnic nationalism, globalization, and the dimensions of reason and intuition in the complex processes of political prediction in a variety of contexts. This book features Gupta’s public lecture “Clash of Identities,” his colloquium “Can We Predict Humanitarian Crises?”, the article “An Early Warning about Political Forecasts: Oracle to Academics,” and a comprehensive listing of the author’s previous publications. Dipak K. Gupta is Professor in San Diego State University’s School of Public Administration and Urban Studies, and Co-Director of the University’s Institute for International Security and Conflict Resolution.