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High Quality Non-Fiction Books
In memory of Denis Dutton, 1944-2010, founder of Cybereditions and so much else besides.
WHAT IS CYBEREDITIONS?
CYBEREDITIONS is a traditional book publisher focusing on the highest quality nonfiction and scholarly writing. In the past, we specialized in publishing new editions of out-of-print books, revised and updated through the addition of new introductions, supplementary chapters, up-dated bibliographies, &c. Beginning with the Critics Series, however, CYBEREDITIONS now publishes original works and retelling of classics, classics with new illustrations, and natural history, environmental books, poetry collections, and more.
CYBEREDITIONS books are published both as hardcover, paperbacks ebooks, online courses are also made for classrooms.
The list of our out-of-print CYBEREDITIONS titles is listed below. We do not publish these books, and can't since they would need new contracts and new ISBNs.
Cybereditions has a roster of best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning authors, professors, experts in their field of studies that cover a broad range of disciplines, including literary criticism, social anthropology, environment, natural history, local history, and biographical analysis, but always provides quality, thought-provoking material.
Our books that are in production for upcoming releases are found at www.catalog.cybereditions.com.
Executive Director
Lisa Loucks Christenson
FORMER CYBEREDITION TITLES (the books listed below are out-of-print). We do not sell or publish these titles:
Cartesian Linguistics, by Noam Chomsky. A new edition of this seminal work, edited by James McGilvray, who provides a stimulating introduction linking Chomsky’s early insights with his later linguistic theories.
Peter Frost’s Fair Women, Dark Men, is a provocative study of the phenomenon that anthropologist Pierre L. van den Berghe has called the Snow White Syndrome: the cultural preference in virtually all human societies for fair complexions, especially in women. This apparently existed long before black slavery, European colonialism, and what we now call “color prejudice”. Of special interest is the question of how this earlier sensibility to skin color relates to the later development of prejudice against dark skin.
As Peter Frost puts it, “Which came first, color prejudice or black slavery? Was it slavery that eventually created negative feelings toward dark skin? Or was it the other way around? Perhaps these feelings already existed when black slavery first arose, eventually making it more and more inhuman.” In Fair Women, Dark Men, Dr Frost exposes and explores historical, biological, cultural and psychological facts which might help to answer this question.
What do Star Wars and Lord of the Rings tell us of our mythic past and our attitude to modern technology?
John David Ebert's Celluloid Heroes and Mechanical Dragons a wide-ranging study of films produced since the late 1960s which consciously embody mythic themes and address the problem of man's relation to modern technology. Ebert gives detailed analyses of seven kinds of cinematic responses to this problem, exhibited in films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, The Lord of the Rings, Solaris, Alien, Star Wars, and A.I. In addition he offers a highly original and thought-provoking account of the way such visionary films serve not only to highlight man’s predicament vis-à-vis modern technology, but also to “miniaturize” ancient cosmologies as a way of preserving the past in the form of modern folklore.
A new title in the CYBEREDITIONS CRITICS SERIES is The Apes of New York, by Lionel Tiger. From 1998 to 2002, Lionel Tiger – Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University – enjoyed a brief but exuberant career as a columnist for various New York newspapers. The sharp and witty fruits of this career, collected in The Apes of New York, range over such diverse topics as greedy political and stock-option malefactors, Cleo Laine, mass tourism, Pierre Trudeau, the American legal profession, the New York subway system, American eating habits, and modern feminism.
A Selection of Earlier Titles
- Understanding Religion by S. A. Grave; an illuminating account of the five great world religions and what makes them unlike anything else in human life
- Moral Nations by Julius Kovesi; including three previously unpublished essays
- Reading for the Truth by Jan Sjåvik
- From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England by Colin Manlove; a comprehensive and authoritative survey by the author of The Fantasy Literature of England
- The Apes of New York by Lionel Tiger; a sharp, witty collection of columns by this noted Professor of Anthropology
- The Paths of Glory: Social Change in merica from teh Great War to Vietnam by Brian M. Downing; a timely and penetrating study of America's involvement in wars and its effect on US society
- Return of the Heroes: The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Social Conflict by Hal Colebatch; looking at why tales of heroic fantasy have been so successful in our apparently cynical age
- Hanslick on the Musically Beautiful by Geoffrey Payzant
The full list of Cybereditions titles now available can be seen here.
Executive Director
Lisa Loucks Christenson