Top Tweets for #OUPPR

over 5 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is "Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend" by @mark_glancy published by @OUPAcademic this week. “[An] exemplary biography” according to David Thomson for @LRB: https://t.co/VkNHPEdrtL #CaryGrant

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over 5 years ago

Happy Publication Day to @UKAMREnvoy and @pearsonstuttard, whose book publishes today with @OUPAcademic. "Whose Health Is It, Anyway?" is a clarion call for change to our health system, and is #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek. Read more about it in @TheSundayTimes https://t.co/fD2XCnOIao

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over 5 years ago

A geometry book “full of pretty surprises”? Must be The Wonder Book of Geometry by David Acheson. Don’t Miss @newscientist #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek https://t.co/5sukpLh5Oz

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almost 6 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" edited by James Raven. "[A] brilliant book... illustrated with the most sumptuous photographic images" - as reviewed by Kathryn Hughes in Mail on Sunday @OUPHistory https://t.co/HgAHazpG5Q

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almost 6 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is "Winston Churchill: A Life in the News" by @RichardToye - as featured in @ObserverUK this weekend. @OUPHistory https://t.co/ywNqVkXd9r

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almost 6 years ago

“Greg Woolf reminds us of how vulnerable urban life has often been to plague, invasion and economic collapse.” @mounth on 'The Life and Death of Ancient Cities' for @spectator #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek @OUPHistory https://t.co/vSSuL7jj6t

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almost 6 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is 'The Life and Death of Ancient Cities' by @Woolf_Greg, “a deeply researched and ambitious “natural history” of the origins and growth of urbanism" according to Andrew Robinson for @nature: https://t.co/G16uIjYMQo

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almost 6 years ago

"A rollicking and thriller-like narrative that captures the chaos and turbulence of post-revolutionary Petrograd and Moscow." @steelejourno on THE LOCKHART PLOT for @GuardianBooks #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek @OUPHistory https://t.co/jYm9Xl1GyU

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almost 6 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is THE LOCKHART PLOT by Jonathan Schneer, of which @dcsandbrook said in @ST_Culture "it would make a cracking Hollywood thriller". @OUPHistory

silvareader's tweet photo. This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is THE LOCKHART PLOT by Jonathan Schneer, of which @dcsandbrook said in @ST_Culture "it would make a cracking Hollywood thriller". @OUPHistory https://t.co/5CxkNLQjTK

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almost 6 years ago

This weighty study reveals how the Nazis exploited films and theatre to spread their poisonous ideology - @annemcelvoy on Moritz Föllmer's "Culture in the Third Reich" for @GuardianBooks #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek https://t.co/GRVMq5D2wu

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Georgie Malcolm @georgie_malcolm

almost 6 years ago

"There was an imaginary dimension to life in the Third Reich for which culture was crucial." Check out Moritz Föllmer's Q&A with @prospect_uk, where he discusses his new book "Culture in the Third Reich". #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek @OUPHistory https://t.co/ocItl0iYqy

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almost 6 years ago

Ughh this absolutely sucks. Love Review, love Guide... Always the supplements I scrabbled for first on a Monday morning in the #OUPPR office! 😢

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about 6 years ago

This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is 'November 1918: The German Revolution' by Prof Robert Gerwarth (published this Thursday). In his review for @Lit_Review Alexander Watson describes it as “thought-provoking and readable... invaluable book": https://t.co/f7fwJKAHjc

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about 6 years ago

Interviewed on @CNN Amanpour @camanpour Archie Brown discussed how it took a certain character to bring about the end of the Cold War. His book The Human Factor, Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the end of the Cold War is #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek https://t.co/lc2ecAL7oD

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over 6 years ago

In his review for @WSJ, Richard Davenport-Hines describes @MisakCheryl, new book, Frank Ramsey, A Sheer Excess of Powers, as “noble reading… an enthralling and glorious book” ($). #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek. https://t.co/ggnSmPh0IR

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over 6 years ago

"a manifesto for the virtues that travel can bestow on the traveller" This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is "The Meaning of Travel" by @emilytwrites, reviewed by @philip1marsden in @spectator (£): https://t.co/4ufld98ZSv

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over 6 years ago

"An immersive, lovingly written memoir, whose story resonates beyond publishing." This week's #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is @Lennie_Virago's A BITE OF THE APPLE 🍎, reviewed by Johanna Thomas-Corr in @ST_Culture yesterday (£) https://t.co/8psClh9CIz

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Rose @rosewolfeemery

over 6 years ago

This week’s #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder by @KHarveyHistory. You can read all about the Mary Toft case in the February issue of BBC History Magazine! 🐰

rosewolfeemery's tweet photo. This week’s #OUPPR #BookoftheWeek is The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder by @KHarveyHistory. You can read all about the Mary Toft case in the February issue of BBC History Magazine! 🐰 https://t.co/j7skeD7Q9P

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