Purdue University Press, founded in 1960, is a university press that is part of Purdue University. Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press provides quality resources in several key subject areas including business, technology, health, history, culture, veterinary medicine, sociology, and other fields in the sciences, the humanities, and social sciences. Print monograph series published by the Press are Advances in Homeland Security; Airplane Boys; Airplane Girls; Boy Hunters Series; Central European Studies; Books in Comparative Cultural Studies; History of Philosophy; History of Technology; International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation; The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review; Litera Manet Scripta; New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond; Philosophy/Communication; Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures; Purdue University Human Rights Studies Series; Science & Society; Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies; Studies in Jewish Civilization; and The Founders Series. The Press also publishes juvenile literature reprints under the imprint PuP Books. Purdue University Press publishes the following learned journals: CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture; Education and Culture: The Journal of the John Dewey Society; First Opinions, Second Reactions; Global Business Languages; Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning; Journal of Terrestrial Observation; Philip Roth Studies; Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies; Studies in American Jewish Literature; Studies in Jewish Civilization; and The Journal of Problem Solving. As the scholarly publishing arm of Purdue University and a unit of Purdue Libraries, the Press is also a partner for university faculty and staff, centers, and departments, wishing to disseminate the results of their research.
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