Arthur Nelson is a remarkable man. Late last year we published his book, In Your Eyes a Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian. Starting with the basic question: “Who are the Palestinians?”, this …
Read More >Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, …
Read More >Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for …
Read More >Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa’s megafauna. Martin assesses the …
Read More >Have you noticed how far a newscast will go to slap a “local interest” angle on an otherwise perfectly newsworthy international story, as if we couldn’t possibly care about something happening on …
Read More >One way to look at a publisher’s ultimate role is that they facilitate the conversation between the author and the reader, but if authors start developing their own sites as well as …
Read More >We’re back with the second podcast of the Spring 2012 season, this time going to our food and wine list where Chris Gondek is interviewing Gerald Asher about his new book A …
Read More >We’re kicking off the podcast series for the Spring 2012 season with Gilbert Waldbauer talking with Chris Gondek about his newest book, How Not To Be Eaten. [podcast]https://www.ucpress.edu/content/podcasts/11853.mp3[/podcast] All animals must eat. …
Read More >English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi …
Read More >It’s been two decades since Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa jumped the fence at the U.S.-Mexico border and labored as a migrant farmworker in southern California. Today, he is one of the foremost neurosurgeons in …
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