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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 18h

Rough day?
#AmateurRamenPhotography
For the win.

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hannah Frydman, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS, discusses the history of sexual #advertising and the modern ways we see #media and #FreeSpeech grapple with sexual content.

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social

Now on the #SageHouseBlog: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 1d

All are invited to the first in Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series, "Turning Your Dissertation into a Book," Oct 9 at 1pm ET. Organized by our Faculty Outreach Committee with the Rutgers Ctr for Minority Serving Institutions.

Register here: https://buff.ly/UiOAr5M

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 1d

FYI! The awesome @nathankfinney.com's awesome book "Orchestrating Power" has an awesome cover! Find more about (and maybe pre-order...) his upcoming addition to the #Battlegrounds series at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501783777/orchestrating-power/

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NK Finney @nathankfinney.com · 2d

Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!

Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 4d

Friday.
The only solution is bourbon. And bitters.
Lots of bitters.
Cheers, team.

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 4d

Have your sights set on publishing your first scholarly book? We’re just a few days away from kicking off our free First Book Publishing Series! 💥 Our inaugural webinar topic: Finding the right publisher for your first book. Register: ideasonfire.net/first-book-p...

#IoFFirstBookSeries

Puzzle pieces on a yellow background, with speaker photos. Text reads: Finding the Right Publisher for Your First Book, October 8, 12-1 pm, part of the Ideas on Fire First Book Publishing Series

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI: A *fantastic* interview with Robert F. Williams on his superb book, "The Airborne Mafia", just landed on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-airborne... and learn more about the @cornellupress.bsky.social book here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 13d

FYI #FrenchHistory, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, and
@cornellupress.bsky.social fans: The stunning cover for Samuel D. Anderson's "The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa" is a real thing(!) and you can pre-order here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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ICCIT @iccit-utm.bsky.social · 12d

Lilia Topouzova discusses her new book, Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag, in an informal interview with the European Review of Books. Published by Cornell University Press, her book is a study of Bulgaria's forced labour camps. europeanreviewofbooks.com/texting-with...

Texting with ... Lilia Topouzova - The European Review of Books

I wanted to show that history and memory are inseparable—and that unsilencing is itself a method.

europeanreviewofbooks.com

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 11d

Vodka, Lillet, simple syrup, Angostura bitters, and an orange garnish for a serving of fruit. Like all gangsters do.

Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute Gangster.
Because, Friday.
Cheers, team.
Let's weekend.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 12d

We had a @cornellupress.bsky.social new book party and there were new published pretty books and colleagues excited about books and snacks and they were all very good things.

Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 12d

It’s a good day to celebrate our new books @cornellupress.bsky.social! And a good time to celebrate free speech and critical thinking!

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 13d

FYI #FrenchHistory, @sfhs.bsky.social, @fhp.bsky.social, and
@cornellupress.bsky.social fans: The stunning cover for Samuel D. Anderson's "The French Médersa: Islamic Education and Empire in Northwest Africa" is a real thing(!) and you can pre-order here: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Amanda Madden @amandamadden.bsky.social · Aug 29

Why does having a cover for your book make it feel more official? Thrilled to share mine for Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy out Nov 15 with @cornellupress.bsky.social This book has some things to say about the intersections between violence and statecraft.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 14d

More great and essential information, like how to pre-order, can be found at the *great* @cornellupress.bsky.social book page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History by Thomas L. Pangle | Paperback | Cornell University Press

Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of World History brings together the works of Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831), one of the greatest philosophers of history, who, prior to his death, did not execute...

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 14d

Team, I have great news.
Great cover news.
Great Hegel cover news.
Great Thomas L. Pangle's Hegel book cover news.
Great new Hegel book for the @cornellupress.bsky.social #AgoraEditions series cover news.
Pretty Great, right?
And Essential.
Great and Essential.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 15d

FYI: A superb review of Andrew Buchanan & @lawlorruth.bsky.social's "The Greater Second World War" has landed in Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Intrigued? More on this "luminous collection of essays" at the @cornellupress.bsky.social page: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

World War II Didn’t End in 1945

A new history of the war lengthens the conflict’s timeline and argues that its “ragged ends” complicate the neat morality tale we still tell today.

www.bloomberg.com

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 15d

"In 'Resurrecting the Past,' Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past—a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over a forgotten 'heritage mandate.'"

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/an-excavatio...

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 16d

In better news my book is coming out in paperback next March (pre-orders now available)! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Flooded Pasts by William Carruthers | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Flooded Pasts examines a world famous yet critically underexamined event—UNESCO's International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia (1960–80)—to show how the project, its genealogy, and its...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 18d

Winning with rye, mezcal, amaro, Suze, chocolate bitters, orange twist, and an ice globe.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 18d

Friday.
Took a social media break this week.
Feeling like a Prizefighter.
Cheers, team.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 25d

CHEERS!

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 25d

No worries. We will persist without confusion next week, team, with the help of vodka, sake, dry vermouth, and a dash of cherry bitters.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 25d

This was a Week.
A week of confusion.
I made mistakes of dates and times every day and one was even my birthday so that's where we are this Friday.
The solution is a Sake Martini. Obviously.
And a Weekend.
Cheers, team.

A stemless martini glass on a bartop half-filled with clear liquid.

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