In this new UC Press Podcast, Harriet Smith, editor of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, explains the reasoning behind Mark Twain’s famous 100-year embargo, a decision Smith calls “a great marketing strategy.” …
Read More >Toni Yancey’s Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time is the subject of our latest UC Press Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yancey addresses some cultural and gender …
Read More >Halloween conjures up memories of one of the spookiest events in broadcast history: Orson Welles’ radio dramatization of the War of the Worlds, which aired on Halloween eve in 1938. “No single …
Read More >Before you vote on November 2, watch this video segment on KCET, Southern California’s PBS affiliate, featuring the authors of California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul. The authors examine the proposition …
Read More >Instant Recess author Toni Yancey appeared on the Tavis Smiley program to discuss how our country’s culture of inactivity affects everything from worker productivity to childhood brain development to the ratio of …
Read More >What do you do when your mother writes a book about maternal ambivalence, which then receives a rave review in The New Yorker? After “smash[ing] your head against the wall three times,” …
Read More >As Californians file into the voting booth this November and try to decipher the complicated list of propositions and initiatives, many will think, “There has got to be a better way.” In …
Read More >Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words, recently appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab for a show about language. Fans of Radiolab will love this episode, which examines the conundrums of language in …
Read More >If you’re in New York, spend an evening with the authors of Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History on October 21st at 7pm. …
Read More >In this video Inside Government TV interviews author and long-time activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. about his book, co-authored with Fernando Gapasin, Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path …
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