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Online learning startup Coursera on Wednesday announced a partnership with Chegg , a student hub for various educational tools and materials, as well as five publishers to offer students free textbooks during their courses.

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"The Bankers' New Clothes ," by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig, Princeton University Press, 2013, which looks at the global banking industry and its self-protective lobbying efforts at the BIS, the EU and the regulators and politicians in London, and Washington, is critical and refreshing.

New York, NY- TELEHOUSE America has announced that Akio Sugeno , Vice President of Internet Engineering, Operations and Business Development, is a key contributor in Fordam University Press' new book, Advances in Cyber Security: Technology, Operations and Experiences.

As the Internet has steadily made freely distributed, ad-supported news articles the industry standard, content mills such as Now that both the Times and the Post have reported dismal first quarter earnings, what lies ahead for the industry that edges closer to obscurity? Can these old newspapers finally catch up with the times and prove to their ... (more)

StockRunway.com issues special report on the Stocks To Watch - General Motors Company , Washington Post Company The Detroit, Michigan based General Motors Company , profitable for 13 consecutive quarters, is mulling over to invest almost $16 billion on U.S. plants and facilities through 2016, over it will spend in China, according to United States ... (more)

Cambridge University Press seeks a dynamic Marketing Manager with a proven track record to join our College team.

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History , by Derek Sayer, Princeton University Press, RRPA 24.95/$35, 656 pages In 1968 New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a blockbuster exhibition, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage , put together by William Rubin, an authoritative curator.

The Washington Post Company posted bleak been experimenting with its digital paywall for over a year, and now has plans to create different pricing tiers , the Post's plan to raise online digital subscription revenue remains amorphous; the company announced a paywall for this summer but the model appears so leaky that it is unlikely to bring in ... (more)

Mahmood Mamdani's book Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Colonialism is now viewed as one of the key texts on citizenship, modernity and post-colonialism in Africa.

Monday was a two-sided anniversary for the Greek poet C.F. Cavafy, born 150 years ago on April 29, 1863, to Greek parents in Alexandria, where he died 70 years later on April 29, 1933.

Kurt De Belder Presents "Transformation of the Academic Library" at OCLC from 10-11:30 a.m. ET on 10 May Attend this free OCLC Research Distinguished Seminar Series presentation in person or online in which Kurt De Belder , University Librarian at Leiden University, Director of Leiden University Libraries and of Leiden University Press , will ... (more)

The upgrade will see the cableco upgrade nearly 50,000 amplifiers, install more than 600 new nodes, replace 800 miles of cable, and deploy approximately 600 miles worth of fibre-optic infrastructure.

Cambridge University Press seeks three Senior Editors to drive the continued growth of its journals in the U.S. market and to maximize their contributions to the Press.

Sharing the Prize. By Gavin Wright. Belknap; 368 pages; $35. Harvard University Press; A 25.95. Buy from Amazon.com , Amazon.co.uk THIS year America will mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's famous speech, in which he sang out to a crowd of 250,000: "I have a dream." King's speech, it is often forgotten, was delivered at the "March on ... (more)

Question: What do Earth Day and Vladimir Lenin's birthday have in common? Answer: they both reoccur every year on April 22.