Long before the English language began, Mayans were writing history and literature in their own script. Most ancient Mayan books were burned in the 16th century, but Mayan authors continued to write, …
Read More >by Elly Teman, author of Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self Surrogacy has now made it to the cover pages of Newsweek and The New York Times. Whether …
Read More >Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church has been awarded the 2009 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society of Humanistic Anthropology (SHA). A Problem …
Read More >Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 17 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Jonathan Marks as he …
Read More >UC Press authors David Meltzer, Melvyn Goldstein, and Anne Salmond were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28. Meltzer and Goldstein were elected as members, and Salmond was elected …
Read More >On April 17th, Kate Harding of Salon.com wrote an article called “No One Will Miss You,” highlighting the 13th Annual National Day of Silence “to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling, bullying and …
Read More >The School for Advanced Research (SAR) has awarded its 2009 J.I. Staley Prize to Jonathan Marks, for his book What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee. The annual prize honors authors who …
Read More >The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Guggenheim Fellowships this year. Among the recipients are several UC Press authors, honored for their outstanding achievements in Poetry, Film, Classics, Folklore/Popular Culture, and …
Read More >While going over the marketing plan for, Birth Models that Work, I came across a website recommended by one of the authors. The website was the official homepage for the documentary, …
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