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Preserving Healthy Soil for Future Generations

ssilverman — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:46:31 +0000

David R. Montgomery, author of Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations and professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, was recently profiled as one of Sunset Magazine’s “10 Visionaries, Trendsetters, and Innovators” who are “redefining every aspect of gardening in the West—and changing the way we live, eat, and connect with one another.”

Montgomery was [more...]

Orrin Pilkey in the New York Times: How Not to Cope with Rising Sea Levels

ssilverman — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:00:12 +0000

Why do we rebuild our beaches, homes, and roads close to the shoreline only to see them washed away time and time again? Orrin H. Pilkey, emeritus professor of Earth Sciences at Duke University and author of The World’s Beaches, takes on this controversial subject in a recent op-ed for the New York Times. Pilkey [more...]

A Case for Expensive Oil

ssilverman — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:01:14 +0000

While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seemed to argue in last night’s debate over which was better, cheap oil or cheaper oil, it can be refreshing to hear another perspective. In an op-ed entitled “Three Cheers for Expensive Oil,” published in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, UC Press author David Montgomery argues that “Scarce oil may [more...]

2 UC Press Authors Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

ssilverman — Thu, 03 May 2012 22:31:32 +0000

Congratulations to Mary Power and Dan Simberloff who, along with 82 other distinguished scientists (4, including Power, from UC Berkeley), were elected to the National Academy of Sciences this week.

Mary Power is a freshwater ecologist and has done groundbreaking work on the Eel River. Mary also serves on the editorial board of our own Freshwater [more...]

UC Press Authors to participate in The White House Summit on Environmental Education

ssilverman — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:34:42 +0000

Charles Saylan

Dan Blumenstein (Credit: Reed Hutchinson)

Congratulations to Charles Saylan and Dan Blumenstein, the authors of The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It) for being invited to The White House Summit on Environmental Education this Monday, April 16, 2012.

They’ll be participating in the panel discussion “21st Century Environmentalism – Shaping [more...]

An Acquiring Eye: Chuck Crumly on Ornithology Books and Journals

ssilverman — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:57:01 +0000

For the second post in our Acquiring Eye series, Executive Editor Chuck Crumly has written about the Ornithology books and journals he has his eye on:

Almost all of us have experienced the delight of watching birds – listening to birds calling mournfully or happily or even unexpectedly, and enjoying their antics. For many, birds are [more...]

Deeper Context: The Digital Jepson Manual

ssilverman — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:13:58 +0000

Coming right on the heels of the overwhelmingly positive reaction we got for the publication of the second edition of the Jepson Manual, I am pleased to announce The Digital Jepson Manual.

For the first time, University of California Press is offering this resource as an e-book. The Digital Jepson Manual provides an unparalleled new level [more...]

Deeper Context: The Jepson Manual, second edition

ssilverman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:12:12 +0000

Every publisher, at least on some level, would like to think that the books they publish are essential. But, really, how often does this happen and when it does, how do you know?

Well, one good sign is looking at what others have said about your work:

“A book that will stand for many years as the [more...]

Meanwhile, over at our Journals division…

ssilverman — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:43:28 +0000

The New York Times posted a great piece detailing an article published in the October issue of The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists’ Union, exploring the cycle of abuse in birds.

The Auk is one of over 50 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines published by the Journals and Digital Publishing Division [more...]

Back to the Parallel

ssilverman — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:17:06 +0000

We’ve received an update on the travels and adventures of the intrepid David and Janet Carle as they do the ground work behind their upcoming THE 38th PARALLEL: A WATER LINE AROUND THE WORLD, which is scheduled to be published in 2012. They’re still in Japan, talking to people about tsunami recovery and the restoration [more...]