Word: wheats
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Recently, Cambridge University Press (CUP) refused to publish a book about ethnic identity in the Greek province of Macedonia, written by former Harvard visiting scholar Anastasia Karakasidou. CUP executives claimed that the publication of her book, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, might have sparked violent retaliation by Greek nationalists against CUP employees in Greece. In her book, Karakasidou states that Macedonians may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek, and this assertion could challenge Greek authority in the region...
What the staff is complaining about is not censorship or academic freedom but capitalism; Cambridge University Press made a business decision about Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood...
...controversy over Karakasidou's work, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, stems from her assertion that residents of the Greek province Macedonia may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek. The conclusion, if true, would threaten Greek authority in that region...
Meanwhile, Karakasidou has signed her first book with the University of Chicago Press, which will market Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood next year...
...tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds...