October 2025
We love libraries
We've now gathered our library-related publications together on a single page, which you can find here. I enjoyed rereading something I'd written about the libraries I love:When I ran away from home in Cupertino at
Afterword: The Waste Land
The Waste Land: Publisher’s Note Karen Christensen This was included in the 100th anniversary edition as an afterword. In 1986, I was hired by Valerie Eliot, T. S. Eliot’s second wife, to help her
July 2025
Imagination in international relations
This is the short speech Karen Christensen gave at the literary panel in Dunhuang in May 2025, and two videos produced by the organizers - the China Writers Association and the Chinese Association
March 2025
Beaver lodge by Carl Kurtz
Our cover photograph by Carl Kurtz shows fireflies (Pyractomena borealis) on the Iowa prairie. We selected this image for the Encyclopedia of Sustainability because it so vividly presents the beauty of a restored habitat
December 2024
World Publishing (China) interview with Karen Christensen
“我感兴趣的是对非中文读者有意义的图书” (“I am interested in books that are meaningful to non-Chinese readers.”) 沈凯伦 Karen Christensen，美国宝库山出版社CEO）- the original English Q&A and notes appear below the Chinese text, and the PDF is here: Chinese-interview-YP17B20241220C_Print. Note to
April 2024
Making world history
With Earth Day as well as the impending vote on aid to Ukraine on my mind, I came across an essay by Donald Worster, the founder or instigator of the field of environmental history. After
Asian editions of Berkshire books
It's not been a cruel April here at Berkshire Publishing, with copies of translated books arriving one after the other. You'll see here a complex Chinese (that's the written character set used in Taiwan
April Fool’s 2024
April Fool's! Our MIT West story is a fantasy, a dream of what could be. Some of the details are real. Most are not. Below is a photo of the fairgrounds, the Belmont of
March 2024
Exploring China through biography
I came across a note this morning of something someone said to me at an Association for Asian Studies conference: "It's remarkable how you publish books that are accessible and also authoritative. Like a
Now at Apple: This Fleeting World in Farsi
We're launching a new program with non-English books distributed internationally from the US. The first titles are in Myanmar/Burmese and in Farsi. The Farsi translation of This Fleeting World is now available for Apple
Books about religion and science
Berkshire has long published books on world religions and included religion, philosophy, and spiritual traditions in other publications. It's important to us to reach across political divides, both internationally and here at home, so
New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale
Abstract: The New Ecological Paradigm scale is a measure of endorsement of a “pro-ecological” world view. It is used extensively in environmental education, outdoor recreation, and other realms where differences in behavior or attitudes