Jeff Sallaz’s book The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa has recently been honored with the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, from the American Sociological Association’s …
Read More >In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World, by Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, is a finalist for the Twelfth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one …
Read More >On the surface, they may seem different—one is a book about American jazz, the other is about the relationship between romantic and experimental modern poetry—but Amiri Baraka’s Digging: The Afro-American Soul of …
Read More >The University of California Press’s record with the Thomas and Znaniecki Book Awards is nothing less than honorable—the award has recognized 12 UC Press titles in the past 10 years. Most recently, …
Read More >Two University of California Press The World’s Finest Wines series titles are the latest additions to a long line of Press books honored by highly esteemed wine and culinary organizations. The Finest …
Read More >On July 12, The Book Club of California, a San Francisco-based society devoted to promoting an appreciation of the writing, design, and printing of fine books among collectors, scholars, and the public, …
Read More >UC Press title The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture has recently been recognized by the Theatre Library Association with the Richard Wall Memorial Award Special …
Read More >Who knew successful artists from Mill Valley were so common? There are so many of them, in fact, that the town’s art commission and board of directors established the Milley Awards for …
Read More >When her first book came out, Allison Pugh hoped it would create a stir but feared no one would notice. Her hope won out. Longing and Belonging has been honored by the …
Read More >Been Doon So Long, by Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard, has been named the 2010 Georges Duboeuf Wine Book of the Year at a ceremony today in New York City. The …
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