People say to me all the time: Bill, I just can’t be bothered to click download every time a new free book comes out from your press. This is an understandable concern. After all, clicking download five or six times a year might take as much as 20 seconds from your daily life. I’ve listened and I’ve created a Cyber Monday (whatever that is) One Click Download Collection from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. With one click you can download TEN free books from the press. Nine of them were published recently, and one is a quiet…
NEW BOOK DAY: Practical Necromancy for Beginners
It’s NEW BOOK DAY at the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. I am very excited to announce the publication of Shawn Graham’s Practical Necromancy for Beginners:A Short Incomplete Opinionated Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology and History Students. The buzz surrounding AI these days is nearly deafening and hardly a week goes by without some breathless utterance about the future of AI. One day AI is eliminating the need for teachers, the next it is streamlining our entire consumer economy, revolutionizing warfare, and turning us all into mindless drones. Shawn Graham’s new book will not help us…
New Book Day: Context and Content: The Art of WD
It’s new book day at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota and it’s my please to announce the publication of Context and Content: The Art of WD edited by Kostis Kourelis and in collaboration with the artist, WD (Wild Drawing). Wild Drawing (WD) is the leading figure in Athens’ street art scene that blossomed in the 2010s. His distinctive style of realism, anamorphic perspective, and classical aesthetics has won him international recognition and commissions throughout the world. This volume features over 100 images of WD’s major works accompanied by interpretive essays by historians, urbanists, curators, artists, and…
New Book Day: Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres
When we first started The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, we planned to do some republications of classic works with updated covers, book designs, and illustrations. As the press gained momentum and took on a life of its own, that idea drifted into the background, but never entirely faded away. Today’s New Book Day is proof of this. It is my pleasure to announce the publication of Clell Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. Gannon, a prairie poet, painter, and public intellectual first published these this slim book of poetry in 1924. We have reprinted it here…
New Book Day: An Archaeology of the Red River of the North
It is my pleasure to announce the publication of Michael G. Michlovic’s An Archaeology of the Red River of the North from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. When the press first started, I had this idea that we could somehow contribute to archaeology and regional history. This book, along with its companion volume Archaeological Cultures of the Sheyenne Bend (co-authored by Michlovic and George R. Holley) do both things. An Archaeology of the Red River of the North offers an expansive survey of the indigenous cultures and peoples in the region of the Red River from the recession of Lake Agassiz…
NEW BOOK DAY: Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition.
It is my pleasure to announce the publication a Revised and Expanded Edition of Eric Burin’s Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. This edition features over a dozen new contributions, an expanded documents section, as well as all the essays in the original edition of the book. This new edition also includes a description and the results of survey conducted by the book’s editor and titled “The Electoral College in the American Mind.” As many of you know, the first edition of this book was a best seller for my little press logging thousands of downloads and hundreds in sales….
Books for the Holidays
If you’re like me, you’re looking forward to a few days with good books over the next few weeks. This feels like as good an excuse as any to draw attention to some of the recent releases from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. All these books are available as free downloads (with no sign up or email or as a low cost paperback (and many are listed on bookshop.org if you’d prefer not to buy from Amazon). Do check out our latest release, Jack Russell Weinstein’s Israel, Palestine, and the Trolley Problem: On the Futility of the Search…
New Book Day: Big Pandemic on the Prairie
About a decade ago, in the very early days of the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, I approached a graduate student with the idea to write a little book on the last wood framed church in Grand Forks which was slated for demolition. Chris Price jumped at the chance and produced a book that far exceeded my expectations: The Old Church on Walnut Street: A Story of Immigrants and Evangelicals. The book was so charming and relevant that we released a revised edition in 2018. Needless to say that when he pitched a book idea to me a…
New Book Day: Corinthian Countrysides
It is our pleasure to announce the publication of David Pettegrew’s Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey. This book presents the history, methods, results, and analysis of the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (EKAS)which took place from 1997 to 2003 in the fields east of the city of Corinth and along the Saronic coastline. This intensive survey project collected a massive amount of information from this area that illuminates the bustling landscape surrounding the Greek and Roman city. Pettegrew’s work presents and analyzes this information, and encourages readers to dig into the range of…
New Book Day: Campus Building
It’s NEW BOOK DAY at The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. I am very excited to announce the publication of Campus Building, a reflective celebration on Merrifield Hall on the campus of the University of North Dakota edited by Shilo Virginia Previti, Grant McMillan, and Samuel Amendolar. This book brings together archival research, creative writing, interviews, and stunning photographs to tell the story of Merrifield Hall from the perspectives of students and faculty who spent so many hours learning, teaching, and experiencing the building over the years. These reflections and research are timely as Merrifield Hall is currently…
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