UC Press Scholars Look at Implications of Bin Laden’s Death
In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, many are seeking to put the event in context and determine what the loss of al Qaeda’s leader will mean for the organization. UC …
Read More >In the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, many are seeking to put the event in context and determine what the loss of al Qaeda’s leader will mean for the organization. UC …
Read More >Many people see poetry as an act of creation, but Srikanth Reddy shows in his latest collection, Voyager, that it can also be an act of erasure. Reddy transforms the memoir of …
Read More >At age sixty-one, Roger H. Martin left his job as President of Randolph-Macon College and enrolled at St. John’s College, the Great Books school in Annapolis, Maryland, to spend a semester as …
Read More >Last week, KPFA’s Against the Grain interviewed UC Press author Daniel Martinez HoSang about California’s fiscal crisis and the false narrative that economic hardship in the state is something new. In the …
Read More >Many people look at a vacant lot and see failure, destruction, or nothing at all. Grace Lee Boggs sees possibilities for a cultural revolution. Boggs, a 95-year-old Detroit-based activist and author of …
Read More >The UC Press Spring 2011 newsletter is now available on our website! Inside, Regional Publisher Kim Robinson talks about our recently launched new scholarly magazine, Boom: A Journal of California; Director Alison …
Read More >Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, recently appeared on Democracy Now! with Michael Eric Dyson to talk about the …
Read More >One of our most anticipated titles for Spring, Changing Planet, Changing Health is an eye-opening book that looks at the ways climate change is altering patterns of disease. It’s scary—and pressing—stuff. Before …
Read More >As Japan’s nuclear crisis continues to unfold, many are considering the lessons from Three Mile Island, America’s worst nuclear accident. The Washington Post recently interviewed J. Samuel Walker, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission …
Read More >Our latest podcast features Stephen Brook, author of the newly released The Finest Wines of California: A Regional Guide to the Best Producers and Their Wines. A regular writer for Decanter and …
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