An Award-Winning History of Nuclear Waste
UC Press author Sam Walker said he was aiming to go into academia when he landed a job with the federal government as historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “For …
Read More >UC Press author Sam Walker said he was aiming to go into academia when he landed a job with the federal government as historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “For …
Read More >The James Beard Foundation Book Award nominees were announced today, with books on wine and pasta among the contenders. Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology, by Randall Grahm (the 1989 …
Read More >Four UC Press publications were named finalists in the 2010 IACP Cookbook Awards, organized by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. The IACP Cookbook Awards, along with the James Beard Awards, is …
Read More >Michael Welland has received the 2010 John Burroughs Medal for his book Sand: The Never Ending Story. The Medal honors the year’s most distinguished natural history writing. Welland joins Burroughs award recipients …
Read More >Several titles from the UC Press food and wine list were honored by the 2009 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. South-West France: The Wines and Winemakers by Paul Strang was named Best Wine …
Read More >Poet Sarah Gridley has been selected as a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellow in Literature by the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture in Cleveland, Ohio. The $20,000 fellowships are awarded to local …
Read More >The National Academy of Sciences has awarded its prestigious Public Welfare Medal to Eugenie Scott, author of Evolution vs. Creationism, in recognition of her work as executive director of the National Center …
Read More >Keith Waldrop’s Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. “I think that one should take it as one direction that poetry can go, there …
Read More >Matthew Engelke’s A Problem of Presence: Beyond Scripture in an African Church has been awarded the 2009 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing from the Society of Humanistic Anthropology (SHA). A Problem …
Read More >UPDATE: Transcendental Studies is the winner of the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry. Transcendental Studies is a 2009 National Book Award finalist in poetry. This compelling selection of recent work by …
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