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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 2h

This is an incredible book that brings together the biographies of 24 women of African descent from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the Americas, and tells their stories of how they imagined and found freedom after having been enslaved.

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 2h

Throughout October, we are sharing some of the books in our #BlackHistoryMonth collection. 📚

Today we want to highlight 'As If She Were Free', edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder.

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A book titled "As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas," edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder, displayed on a clear bookshop shelf with a 30% discount sticker.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 2d

We're so thrilled to be celebrating #BookshopDay with @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social and so many other independent bookshops across the UK. And this weekend if you buy any book from there you're in with a chance of winning a £250 gift card! 📚🤩

🔗: uk.bookshop.org/shop/CambridgeUniversityPressBookshop

Promotional image for Bookshop.org supporting Independent Bookshop Day. A stylized image of an open book in red and cream colors with text encouraging to support independent bookshops. Details of winning a £250 gift card from October 10 to 12, with instructions to buy to enter.

Books and gifts sold from the oldest bookshop site in the UK in the heart of Cambridge city centre.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 2d

Take a look on our website to see what may be helpful to you, or any of your loved ones: 🔗

www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/medicine-and-wellbeing

Medicine and wellbeing

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 2d

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. 🧠💚

We are huge advocates for taking the time to learn more about mental health, that's why we're so proud to have so many books available as resources on how to treat different conditions and how to look after our well-being. 📚

Interior of Cambridge University Press Bookshop featuring a variety of colorful books about mental health displayed on wooden tables, including titles such as "Being You", "Everything you need to know about OCD" and "Out of her mind", with bookshelves in the background.

A selection of our newest publications

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 3d

Take a look instore or on our website: 🔗 www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/new-books

New Books

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 3d

It's new book day! 🤩📚

We are thrilled to have so many exciting brand-new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including Risk and Resistance' by @azizaahmed.bsky.social 'Assembling India’s Constitution' by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, and much more! 🙌

A hand holding a book titled "Assembling India's Constitution: A New Democratic History" by Rohit De and Ornit Shani, in a bookshop with bookshelves in the background.

Hand holding a book titled 'Politics and the New Challenge of Migration: Bridging Cultural, Social and Political Divides' by Gordon Sammut in a bookshop.

A hand holding a book titled "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS" by Aziza Ahmed, in a bookshop with shelves of books in the background.

A hand holding a book titled "The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change" by Winifred R. Louis, G. K. Chonu, Kiara Minto, and Susilo Wibisono, in a bookshop.

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 6d

A big welcome to all university students arriving to #Cambridge this week. 🙌
Whether you want to make a start on your reading lists, or just want to have a browse to see might interest you, we have 20% off our books for students of University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk and @angliaruskin.bsky.social! 📚🤩

Window display of Cambridge University Press Bookshop, featuring decals that state "20% Discount on books for University of Cambridge and ARU students." Reflective glass shows buildings and the clear sky outside.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 10d

We're thrilled to have so many groundbreaking new books, including William I. Robinson's 'Epochal Crisis', which presents a bold 'big picture' analysis of the unprecedented global crisis. 🌍📚

Pick up a copy or look at all our new books here: 🔗 www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/new-books

Cambridge University Press Bookshop window displaying the book "Epochal Crisis" by William I. Robinson, with multiple copies visible through a clear window, reflecting city buildings.

Books and gifts sold from the oldest bookshop site in the UK in the heart of Cambridge city centre.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 11d

You can come and see our display instore or browse the whole collection on our website: 🔗
www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/...

Black History Month

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 11d

This Black History Month, we're proud to be displaying some of the amazing titles we have by black authors, and about incredible black historical figures. 📚

We're thrilled to offer 30% off our Black History Month collection to further share the important stories.❤️

A window display from Cambridge University Press Bookshop featuring a collection of books for Black History Month, adorned with themed decorations and a prominent sign.

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 17d

We have got an amazing selection of new books this week! 🤩

We have 'Killing the Messenger' by Ashutosh Bhagwat, which explores the legal wars on social media, and the new paperback of 'Insurgent Imaginations' by Auritro Majumder, and many more. 📚

🔗: https://bit.ly/3ZNM6Wo
@cambup-law.cambridge.org

A person holding a book titled "Killing the Messenger: The War on Social Media" by Ashutosh Bhagwat, in front of a bookshelf filled with various books. The book cover features an illustration of three pigeons in flight.

Hand holding a book titled 'Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery' by Auritro Majumder, in front of a bookshelf.

Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 21d

'Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's': bit.ly/48dNAyg

In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which h...

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 21d

You can pick up his books from our website 🔗
'A Tattoo on my Brain': bit.ly/4goHVaw

A Tattoo on my Brain

Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, car...

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 21d

This #WorldAlzheimersDay, we want to highlight the books of Dr Daniel Gibbs. 📚

From the perspective of a neurologist now living with the condition, his books intertwine his personal accounts with clinical knowledge, they are hopeful summaries of current research in the disease. 🧠❤️

A display of books about Alzheimer's disease, featuring titles such as "Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's" by Daniel Gibbs and "A Tattoo on My Brain" also by Daniel Gibbs, arranged on a shelf in a bookstore with a window view of a building exterior in the background.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 25d

We've been blown away…by the new books from @universitypress.cambridge.org (and the wind!) 🤩☁️

From books on the Tree of Life, to Afrodescendants contributions to Cuban art, we have something for everyone. Take a look at all our new books here: 🔗 📚 www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/new-books

image of a wooden bookshelf in Cambridge University Press Bookshop with various books including “My Own Past” by Alejandro de la Fuente & Cary Aileen García Yero and “Local Greens” by Katrina M Wyman & Danielle Spiegel-Feld

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · 27d

We have had furry friends from across the globe visit us this summer! 🐶

Even dogs can't resist a good day out in #Cambridge, and of course, stopping off at Britain's oldest bookshop site. Here are just some of the precious pups we have had in the Bookshop...🐾📚

#cambridgebookshop

Two small dogs in a stroller inside a bookstore, looking towards the camera.

A Welsh Terrier dog standing inside a bookstore, looking directly at the camera.

A Boston Terrier wearing a harness and a lime green cast on one leg, lying on the floor while leashed by a person standing nearby.

A brown dachshund being held by a person in a bookshop

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 12

Have you ever dreamt of working in Britain's oldest bookshop site? 😍
Are you looking for a part-time job in the heart of Cambridge? 🙌

We're looking for booksellers to join our team! Find out more information on how to apply here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3JW3pzr

@cambridge.org

Two individuals standing in front of the Cambridge University Press Bookshop, holding signs that read "We're looking for booksellers to join our team."

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 11

New books really are music to our ears! 🎵

We're thrilled to have so many new releases from @universitypress.cambridge.org including 'Bach: The Cello Suites' by @@eklorman.bsky.socialas a part of the new Cambridge Music Handbooks series! 📚

Find all our new books here: 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ZNM6Wo

A hand holding a book titled "Bach: The Cello Suites" from the New Cambridge Music Handbooks series, authored by Edward Klorman, in front of a bookshelf.

Person holding a book titled "Less Than Victory: American Catholics and the Vietnam War" by Steven J. Brady, in front of a bookshelf.

A hand holding a book titled "Ability and Difference in Early Modern China" by David Robinson, in front of a bookshelf.

A person holding "The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Theatre" book with shelves of books in the background.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 6

Today is #NationalReadABookDay! 📖

Of course we're joining in... so here are booksellers Elise and Kinga reading some of our new books around the Bookshop on their break. 🤩

What book are you reading at the moment? Let us know in the comments! 👇

Two people sitting in the Cambridge University Press Bookshop, reading books and smiling. One is holding a black-covered book and the other is holding a yellow and white book. There are bookshelves and promotional posters in the background.

cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 4

We've got some new books in our Bookshop! 📚

With groundbreaking new titles alongside some of our bestsellers hitting the shelves in paperback for the first time. 🤩

Why not have a browse on our website and possibly pick up your next read: 🔗 www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/collections/new-books

A hand holding a book titled "AI versus IP: Rewriting Creativity" by Robin Feldman in front of a bookshelf filled with various books.

A person holding a book titled "The Wars of the Roses: A Medieval Civil War" by John Watts in front of a bookshelf filled with various books.

Person holding a book titled 'Byron: A Life in Ten Letters' by Andrew Stauffer in front of a bookshelf filled with various books.

A hand holding a book titled "Cities and Environmental Change: From Crisis to Transformation" by William Solecki, in front of a bookshelf filled with various books.

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cambridgebookshop.bsky.social @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's back to school season! ✏️🍎

Whether you or your child are heading back to the classroom this autumn, we've got the books to help you. 📚

p.s. University of Cambridge (‪@cam.ac.uk‬) and Anglia Ruskin University students get 20% off in our Bookshop. 🙌

Shelf with various books including a selection of Cambridge Companions to literature, displayed under a sign marked 'Literature' in Cambridge University Press Bookshop.

A row of colourful Cambridge University Press school textbooks on a wooden bookshelf

Bookshelf stocked with a variety of books, including titles on medieval studies and European history, in the Cambridge University Press Bookshop