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Congratulations to Robin Grossinger, author of the Napa Valley Historical Ecology Atlas, for winning one of the coveted Bay Nature Local Hero awards. Robin was recognized in the Environmental Educator category. Robin is the Senior Scientist and Director at the Historical Ecology Project of the San Francisco Estuary Institute. In the words of Bay Nature publisher David [more...]  Far be it for me to seem like I’m bragging, so here’s our history editor, Niels Hooper, with the good news: Dear all, UC Press has won 4 of the major prizes at the largest and most prestigious annual history conference, the American Historical Association. This is a remarkable success for any press. History is a massive [more...] This is best left in the words of Scott Norton, our Director of Editing, Design and Production: Folks: I’m proud to announce that four of our books have recently won two prestigious design awards. Infinite City, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Culinary Ephemera, and The Exultant Ark have all received awards at the 37th Bookbuilders West Book Show. Infinite [more...] The British Museum Reading Room, which contains all the books on the Guardian's top 100 list The Guardian‘s list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time is a fascinating mix of the classic and the arcane. The British newspaper rounded up what they consider to be the very best factual writing, with [more...] Jeffrey Angles has been chosen by the translator Charles Martin as the recipient of the 2011 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the The Academy of American Poets. Angles is being recognized for his translation of Tada Chimako’s Forest of Eyes. The Harold Morton Landon Translation Award is given to the best book of poetry [more...] UC Press is proud to announce that Culinary Ephemera: An Illustrated History by William Woys Weaver was named Best Culinary History Book by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). This extraordinary collection, a trove of enchanting designs, appealing colors, and forgotten motifs that stir the imagination, features an unprecedented assortment of ephemera, [more...] We are pleased to announce that W. Joseph Campbell has received the Sigma Delta Chi Award in Research from the Society of Professional Journalists for Getting it Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism. In the book, Campbell addresses ten prominent media-driven myths—stories about or by the news media that are widely [more...] UC Press congratulates Rebecca Solnit on winning two major awards for Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas: the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association (NCIBA) Award for Regional Title of the Year, and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. The NCIBA Awards are decided by local booksellers who choose their favorite books in seven different [more...] Steve Waksman has been named the winner of the 2010 Woody Guthrie Award for This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk by the U.S. branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The Woody Guthrie Book Award committee, which was comprised of Anahid Kassabian (University [more...] UC Press is pleased to announce that Joel Robbins has received the J. I. Staley Prize from the School of American Research for Becoming Sinners: Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society. Robbins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, and the recipient of a UCSD Academic [more...] |
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