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 …
Read More >Kirk Savage has recently become the seventh University of California Press author to be honored with the prestigious Charles C. Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian American Art Museum for his book, Monument …
Read More >University of California Press title Cezanne’s Other: The Portraits of Hortense, by Susan Sidlauskas, has received the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation, which promotes understanding of modern art and …
Read More >On KQED’s Forum this week, Fred Rosenbaum spoke to Michael Krasny about his book Cosmopolitans: A Social & Cultural History of the Jews of the San Francisco Bay Area, in which he …
Read More >Two UC Press books are winners at the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards, which honor the best of everything in food and wine. Encyclopedia of Pasta, by Oretta Zanini de Vita and …
Read More >Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, about China’s one-child rule, by Susan Greenhalgh, has recently won the Association for Asian Studies’ Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the Best Book …
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