The School for Advanced Research (SAR) has awarded its 2009 J.I. Staley Prize to Jonathan Marks, for his book What It Means to be 98% Chimpanzee. The annual prize honors authors who …
Read More >UC Press is happy to announce that we are supporting the National Ocean Sciences Bowl which is organized by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. The event will take place on April 25-27 …
Read More >For frogs, spring is a raucous affair of warm evenings. In these heady nights, the quiet of winter is ruptured by peeps, croaks, rattles, honks and cackles. An innocent evening walk was …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 14 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Michael McLeod, as he …
Read More >We invite you to watch our latest book trailer for The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife (UC Press, April 2009). Please check back, as we continue to add more book trailers and videos! …
Read More >You don’t see them very often, but California has more kinds of owls than you might realize. Fifteen species in fact, give or take a few. This uncertainty makes a lot of …
Read More >Butterflies are such a common sight that we can be excused for thinking we understand these beautiful insects. They fly around on big floppy wings, visit flowers, and their larvae are called …
Read More >Galls are something you can be forgiven for overlooking, but they’re an important and surprisingly common feature of the natural world. In fact, gall expert Ron Russo has found as many as …
Read More >Winter is a special time in one of California’s most distinctive and widespread plant communities. Whether you travel to the dusty hillsides of southern California, to the fog drenched slopes of the …
Read More >Beetles may be California’s most exuberant expression of life. Over 7000 species have been discovered in California and many more await discovery. Beetles are fascinating to study because they have so many …
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