Politics at Continuum

Bloomsbury and Continuum

We are happy to announce that Continuum is now operating under the ownership of Bloomsbury Publishing, plc. Founded 25 years ago, Bloomsbury is a highly successful trade publisher operating from London, New York, Sydney, and Doha. In recent years, it has set out to balance its trade publishing with a strong academic and professional strand. Continuum is a perfect partner. Under this merger, Continuum's publishing plans will continue to be enthusiastically implemented. Nothing changes for authors and staff. For Continuum, this means growth, an increased worldwide presence and, under the Bloomsbury Academic name, a competitive, succesful venue for high-quality scholarship.

Continuum Books available on Kindle

We are delighted to announce that Continuum is now publishing ebooks simultaneously with print editions through Amazon Kindle and other retail partners. 

About 900 titles have started to become available as Kindle edition and, as of today, there are 233 titles available on Kindle. This number will grow significantly over the coming weeks and months as we add backlist and frontlist titles.

   You can also purchase ebooks in epub and PDF formats directly from our website at http://ebooks.continuumbooks.com/BookStore/pagedisplay.do?pub=continuum

Continuum crowned indie publisher of the year

Continuum was awarded the Independent Publishers Guild's Independent Publisher of the Year at the IPG award. Continuum also won the academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award at the ceremony last night [10th March].

You can read the full article at http://www.thebookseller.com/news/continuum-crowned-indie-publisher-year.html

International Studies Association Meeting

We will be showcasing our new titles at the International Studies Association conference in Montreal, Quebec March 16-19, 2011.

Be sure to stop by booth #7 to see the range of our publishing, from textbooks and series titles to readers and monographs. Marie-Claire Antoine, Senior Acquisitions Editor will be happy to say hello (or bonjour) and tell you about our exciting new projects. She is also accepting proposals for works across the fields of political science, more specifically in International Relations, Conflict Processes, Security Studies, Intelligence Studies, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy.

New Politics Titles

Check out our great new politics titles! You can download our mini-catalog by clicking on this link: Download Politics catalog February 2011

Most of these books will be featured at ISA in Montreal, March 15-19. Be sure to drop by our booth (#7)!

 

E-publishing at Continuum

All the books published by Continuum can be purchased both in print and as e-books. Titles can be distributed to retailers such as Amazon (Kindle), Google Editions, eBooks.com, Kobo, Waterstones, and ebook wholesalers (Gardners & Ingram Digital). Books are offered in two formats, one where the file can be reflowed to fit any device (e-readers, ipads, e.g.) and the other as web-ready PDFs.

 

SPSA Conference

I will be attending the Southern Political Science Conference in New Orleans, January 6-8. If you would like to meet to discuss your research and projects, I'll be happy to do so. Just drop me a note at mantoine@continuum-books.com

Looking forward to it!

Marie-Claire Antoine
Senior 
Acquisitions Editor, Politics & IR

Diplomacy

U.S. Diplomacy is in the news today with the release by Wikileaks of secret diplomatic cables. This brings to the forefront the question of the role of diplomats and embassies today.

This is one question Continuum is exploring through the volumes of its upcoming new series Key Studies in Diplomacy. Edited by Lorna Lloyd from Keele University, this unique series offers practical guides to the practice of diplomacy today.

There are two volumes in the works:

Embassies in Armed Conflict by G.R. Berridge, which examines how embassies work and cope during wartime, with a focus on the experiences of the British, American, and Indian embassies.

21st Century Diplomacy: A Practitioner's Guide by Kishan S. Rana, which focuses on the contemporary practice of diplomacy, looking at how states deal with each other and analyzing elements of change. 

 

 

Singapore & Delhi

Some of you may have wondering about the silence of the blog lately. We are now back online -- the gap in news was because I was travelling, visiting our sales representatives in Singapore and Delhi.

Taylor & Francis Asia represents Continuum in Taiwan, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. Palgrave Macmillan represents us in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

It was most interesting and profitable to learn about the Asian market and to see the increased sales potential in the region for our politics books. We have great, expert teams working there and I thank them all for the warm welcome.

I also visited some scholars on campus, met with librarians, and went to some bookstores --it was a full, but productive trip. Feel free to contact me if you have any comments or questions!

Marie-Claire Antoine
Senior Acquisitions Editor, Politics & IR

 

 

 

 

The Publishing World: The Frankfurt Book Fair

From October 5 to October 10, the Frankfurt Book Fair will occupy Publishers from around the world.

Publishers, booksellers, agents, authors, and even film producers gather at the fair, which has become the largest marketplace for books, media, rights, and licenses worldwide.

Continuum is one ot the 7,300 exhibitors, making sure your books get the exposure they deserve!

For more information on the fair, you can visit the website at http://www.book-fair.com/en/fbf/general/

 

What's going on?

"What's going on with the politics list?" might you ask. Well, much actually. First, we are thrilled to announce our newest series:

- Key Studies in Diplomacy, edited by Lorna Lloyd with a volume by G. R. Berridge in the works.
- Critical Theory and Contemporary Society, edited by Darrow Schecter, with an upcoming volume by William Outhwaite
- Contemporary Anarchist Studies, edited by Alex Prichard, Laurence Davis, Nathan Jun, and Uri Gordon

Second, we had a great time at APSA last month, where we enjoyed showcasing our newest titles and meeting with scholars from across the fields of political science (and from across the continents).

Third, we have just published the following:

- Pakistan's Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-Nuclear Nation, edited by Usama Butt and N. Elahi
- Energy and Climate Wars, by Michael Economides and Peter Glover
- Recast All Under Heaven: Revolution, War, Diplomacy, and Frontier China in the 20th Century by Xiaoyuan Liu

Lastly, we will publish in October:

- Rethinking US Labor History: Essays on the Working-Class Experience, 1756-2009, edited by Daniel Walkowitz and Donna Haverty-Stacke
- Orwell, Politics and Power by Craig Carr
- Terrorism, Civil War and Revolution by Peter Calvert

If you'd like to know more about our publications or are considering publishing with us, please contact me, Marie-Claire Antoine, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Politics & IR at mantoine@continuum-books.com

 

Selling the Books

Authors often ask me, "what is your main market?" and "Do you sell the books in other countries?"

Our main markets are the United States, Canada, and the UK. And yes, we do sell around the world. For example, we have garnered adoptions in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia. 

Here is a list of our representative around the world. Download Sales representatives

We also sell foreign rights and our books have been translated in many languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Japanese...

Peer Review

Prospective authors often ask whether our books are peer reviewed. The answer is yes.

First of all, each and every proposal is sent out for review to two or three scholars along with a sample chapter. Then, we systematically send the entire manuscript to senior scholars for endorsements, which is a peer-review. And if you want a more complete, in-depth review, we are happy to arrange that, too.

At Continuum, we pride ourselves on the quality of our books and peer review is key!

Publicity news -- Continuum Authors in the Media

Steve Hewitt, author of Snitch! A History of the Modern Intelligence Informer did a program for the Sunday Edition of CBC radio. http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/2010/05/may-16-2010.html

Steven Moore's The Novel: An Alternative History was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday May 16.Click here to read the review.

Peter YU's Second Long March was reviewed in The Taiwan Review. Download Taiwan Review

Google Book Search

Continuum participates in Google Book Search. To be clear, this program has nothing to do with the scanning of titles by Google for complete access, but is governed by a contractual agreement between Continuum and Google. Consequently, Google Books can only show books that we agree to share.  

The best way to share we find is to offer a preview of 20% of the content, the smallest sampling allowed next to no sample pages at all. Such a preview on Google Book Search is an essential aspect of marketing books today, and not unlike browsing through the pages of a book in a bookstore. Interested readers are led by Google to various purchasing options, including our website and Amazon. 

Participating in this program maximizes the exposure of the book and its sales. It is a great additional device in our marketing and sales toolbox.

 
 

International Relations titles

Continuum is developing its line of books on foreign policy. These are texts for upper level undergraduate and graduate students. Just published are:

The International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa
by Ian Taylor

International Conflict Resolution, 3rd Ed.
by Charles Hauss, Alliance for Peace Building

Also in the works:
Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama
by Stanley Sloan, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Middlebury College

International Relations of the Gulf Cooperation Council States
by Christian Koch, Director of International Studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, UAE

Security Challenges and Military Politics in East Asia
by Jongseok Woo, University of West Florida

China's Energy Relations with the Developing Nations
by Manochehr Dorraj and Carrie Liu Currier, Texas Christian University

The Dragon’s Will: The Exercise and Limitation of China’s Power from Pyongyang to Khartoum
by Jing-dong Yuan, Monterey Institute of International Studies

Faith and Foreign Policy: The Beliefs, Attitudes, and Influence of U.S. Christians
by Stephen R. Roch, Vassar College

ISA 2010

We attended the International Studies Association (ISA) meeting in New Orleans last week. We had a great show --and a good time-- and were happy to display our newest titles.

We also had quite a few productive meetings and I thank everyone who took the time to discuss their research and projects with me. I very much enjoyed our conversations and hope to pursue them in the near future!

Marie-Claire Antoine
Acquisitions Editor, Politics & IR

mantoine@continuum-books.com

New Series: Critical Theory and Contemporary Society

Continuum is launching a new series titled, Critical Theory and Contemporary Society. Edited by Darrow Schecter, from the University of Sussex, UK, the series will be a unique collection of monographs.

The volumes in the series will explore the relation between contemporary society as a complex and highly differentiated phenomenon on the one hand, and critical theory as a correspondingly sophisticated methodology for studying and understanding it on the other. Volumes highlight why critical theory offers appropriate concepts for understanding political movements, socio-economic conflicts, and state-institutions in an ever more global world, and why critical theory needs updating to keep pace with the realities of the twenty-first century.

Works will cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary Europe, feminism, post-colonialism, cosmopolitanism, terrorism, film, literature, and more.

If you are interested in this new scholarly venture, please contact Marie-Claire Antoine, the Continuum politics editor at mantoine@continuum-books.com.

Facebook

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Also, to keep up with our latest titles and developments, you can sign up for our e-newsletter at

http://www.continuumbooks.com/e-news.aspx.

New Politics Titles in the works

Here are some of our soon to be published titles in politics:

Monographs
Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész
by Magdalena Zolkos
March 2010
 
Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt
by Michael Marder
July 2010
 
Struggling for Recognition: The Psychological Impetus for Democratic Change
by Doron Shultziner
October 2010
 
Coursebooks
International Relations of Sub-Saharan African
by Ian Taylor
April 2010

International Conflict Resolution, 2nd Edition
by Charles Hauss
April 2010
 
Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia
by Alastair Bonnett
May 2010
 
Pakistan's Quagmire: Security, Strategy, and the Future of the Islamic-nuclear Nation
by Usama Butt
July 2010
 
Permanent Alliance? NATO and the Transatlantic Bargain from Truman to Obama
by Stanley Sloan
July 2010
 
Sociocultural Intelligence: A New Discipline in Intelligence Studies
by Kerry Patton
July 2010
 
US Civil-Military Relations
by Mackubin Owens
December 2010