HEB at NYSAIS (New York State Association of Independent Schools) NEIT Conference

HEB will attend this year's NYSAIS (New York State Association of Independent Schools) Education and Information Technology Conference (NEIT 14). The conference takes place January 29-31, 2014, at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY.

We are happy to be able to offer annual subscriptions to secondary schools at the competitive rate reserved for institutions categorized as "very small" according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning.

KC Trommer, HEB Subscriptions and Marketing Coordinator, would be happy to meet with attendees during exhibit hours on Thursday, 1/30, from 6PM to 9PM, or on the morning of Friday, 1/31. Please write to subscriptions@hebook.org to set up an appointment.

Visit the NYSAIS website here for details on this event.

New Handheld Titles Available from HEB

HEB continues to expand its offering of titles formatted for use with handheld devices. The latest batch of 28 downloadable titles includes such diverse books as Dan Carter's The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism and the Transformation of American Politics; Francois Hartog's The Mirror of Herodotus; Walter McDougall's The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age; Goddesses, Whores, Wives and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity by Sarah Pomeroy; James Scott's Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance; and The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone.

There are currently around 120 handheld titles available for purchase from various retailers, including Barnes & Noble's NOOK Book Store, Amazon, BooksOnBoard, eBookMall, Lybrary.com, Powell's Books, Feedbooks, and others.

For more information on this program, please visit: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/handheld.html.

HEB at ALA Midwinter 2014

Come see HEB at the upcoming American Library Association Midwinter Meeting!

We will be at Booth 545 and happy to answer any questions and discuss the collection with current and prospective subscribers. If you'd like to schedule an appointment, drop us a line at info@hebook.org.

ALA Midwinter 2014 takes place in Philadelphia, January 24-28. Please visit the official website to register and for further details.

We hope to see you in Philly!

ACLS Fellows' Publications on HEB

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is proud to feature more than one hundred publications by ACLS Fellows as part of its online collection. These titles are identified by their unique logo and may be searched as a separate series.

A complete list of Fellows' Publications on HEB can be found on our website and on Pinterest.

ACLS supports scholars in the humanities by awarding over $15 million in fellowships annually. Recipients for these highly competitive awards are selected from thousands of applications each year. Fellowships allow these scholars to pursue research that improves our understanding of the world, its cultures and histories.

Read more about ACLS fellows and annual fellowship competitions on the ACLS website.

New on HEB: Miss Yourlovin and From Heads of Household to Heads of State

HEB has just published two more entries in its ongoing Gutenberg-e series. We are happy to offer these new titles, both of which represent recent scholarship in the fields of women's studies and women's history.

Miss Yourlovin: GIs, Gender, and Domesticity during World War II by Ann Elizabeth Pfau delves into gender roles and the perception of women among U.S. soldiers during the second world war. What emerges is a conflicted view divided between sentimentality and eroticism, a yearning for domesticity and a mistrust of female independence. The book’s name derives from a B-24 bomber operating in the Mediterranean theater during World War II and the pinup girl that served as its decoration and mascot.

In J. L. McIntosh’s From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession we turn to Tudor England, investigating Mary and Elizabeth Tudor’s reigns during a historical period ostensibly defined by patriarchal dominance. The author argues here that these two monarchs established themselves as authority figures able to wield sovereign power not only because they were the legal heirs to the throne (through the 1544 Act of Succession) but also because, in their preaccession political careers, they already functioned as heads of their own independent households.

These volumes are the XML-formatted counterparts of online editions originally published by Columbia University Press and the American Historical Association.

Latest HEB Top Ten Titles (Fall 2013)

Once again HEB is pleased to publish its latest list of the ten most frequently accessed titles in the ACLS Humanities E-Book collection, which now totals close to 4,000 books. These findings cover our most recently processed royalty period for the first half of 2013.

1. Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Verso, 2006)
2. Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York University Press, 2006)
3. McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995)
4. Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Basic Books, 1973)
5. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton University Press, 1996)
6. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon, 1993)
7. Weber, Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870–1914 (Stanford University Press, 1976)
8. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
9. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (Yale University Press, 1985)
10. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Frankfurt Book Fair 2013

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) will be attending this year's Frankfurt Book Fair from October 9 to 11. If you will be in Frankfurt as well and are interested in setting up a meeting, please write us at info@hebook.org. We look forward to seeing you there.