http://www.berghahnbooks.com News updates from Berghahn Books / berghahnbooks.com en-us Steinmuller, author of Communities of Complicity, was recently interviewed by Jim Stevenson from Voice of America's Daybreak Asia programme. The interview is available from the Voice of America website. ]]> Research led by Berghahn Author Oliver Rathkolb uncovers the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's past links to the Nazi party.

Oliver Rathkolb's The Paradoxical Republic: Austria 1945-2005 is available here.]]> After winning the BAFTA, Michael Haneke's Amour takes Oscar for best film not in the English language at the Academy Awards.

Haneke is featured in Robert Dassanowsky's and Oliver C. Speck's (eds) critique of Austrian new wave cinema New Austrian Film and Catherine Wheatley's Michael Haneke's Cinema. ]]> Renowned author Pankaj Mishra has named Wolfgang Koeppen's Journey Through America as one of his favourite books of the year in an article in The Guardian.

]]> Vakoch's recent talk "How Do We Explain Aesthetics to Extraterrestrial Civilizations" appeared on The Maine Public Broadcasting Network, and can be freely downloaded at: mpbn.net. The introduction to this talk includes reference to Douglas' title, Civilizations Beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society. ]]> Vienna is different”: Jewish Writers in Austria from the Fin de Siècle to the Present; Marek Haltof, author of Polish Film and the Holocaust: Politics and Memory, and Katerina Capková, author of Czechs, Germans, Jews: National Identity and the Jews of Bohemia, for being among last year’s winners of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award, or to quote the editor of Choice: “These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important—often the first—treatment of their subject. Comprising almost 9 percent of the titles reviewed by Choice during the past year, and less than 3 percent of the more than 25,000 titles submitted to Choice during this same period, Outstanding Academic Titles are truly the ‘best of the best.’ As always, only a select group of publishers and authors are represented on such a list.” ]]> Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes, edited by Marcia Inhorn and Daphna Carmeli, as co-winner of the Most Notable Recent Collection Book Prize for 2012. ]]> Anyone  and Human Nature as Capacity, on being awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal for 2012 by the Royal Anthropological Institute. ]]> Listen to Valerie Alia talk about her title New Media Nation in an interview on Public Eye Radio, British Columbia's only weekly radio show covering politics in Canada's westernmost province, hosted Sunday mornings on CFAX 1070 by award-winning investigative journalist Sean Holman. ]]> Hitler's Slaves: Life Stories of Forced Labourers in Nazi-Occupied Europe) who has just won the 2012 John G. Diefenbaker Award from the Canada Council of Arts. ]]> The Land is Dying edited by Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince has been awarded the 2012 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology by the Royal Anthropological Institute. ]]> Civilizations Beyond Earth: Extraterrestrial Life and Society, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Albert A. Harrison, has been  nominated for the American Astronautical Society’s 2011 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award. ]]> Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais' Night and Fog, edited by Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman, is the winner of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Award for Best Moving Image Book. ]]> Fire in the Dark by Sarah Buckler, Liquid Bread edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth, and Experience and Memory edited by Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens have been chosen as Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011. ]]> Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by Wulf Schiefenhövel and Helen Macbeth, is the UK winner of the 2011 Gourmand World Cookbook Award. ]]> Forging Political Identity: Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France, 1900-1939 nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award of the ASA Section on Labor and Labor Movements ]]> Berghahn Author David Graeber: On Playing By The Rules – The Strange Success Of #OccupyWallStreet ]]> Jürgen Kocka on winning the 2011 Holberg International Memorial Prize. ]]> Learning Democracy awarded the 2011 AERA New Scholar's Book Award ]]> Sponeck's open letter to Tony Blair has been published in the New Statesman. Click here to read more. Von Sponeck's A Different Kind of War: The UN Sanctions Regime in Iraq is published by Berghahn Books. ]]>