Each December, Chez Pim and a global group of food bloggers hosts a fundraising campaign and charity raffle called Menu for Hope. This year, Menu for Hope benefits the United Nations World …
Read More >The successful completion of University of California Press’s $5 million A Voice for Great Ideas Campaign marks an unprecedented investment in UC Press’s long-term vision. The exceptional level of philanthropic support allows …
Read More >Starting on December 7, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen for the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference. With the Copenhagen summit on the horizon, “Climate Change and Our World“, an exhibit …
Read More >Poet and UC Press author Richard O. Moore will read from his forthcoming collection, Writing the Silences, at noon this Thursday, December 3, as part of the Lunch Poems Noontime Poetry Reading …
Read More >On November 24, 1859, John Murray published Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. That same …
Read More >If you think you see Charles Darwin roaming the streets this month, it might be Richard Milner, the singing Darwin scholar. Since his graduate school days, Milner, a science historian and author …
Read More >by Sheila Levine, Associate Director and Publisher, University of California Press Last month I had the great pleasure of visiting Rome to help launch our new Encyclopedia of Pasta. My hosts were …
Read More >Dragonlike and prehistoric-looking, monitor lizards, or varanids, are uncommonly intelligent: “I dare anybody to…look a monitor lizard in the eye. It’s looking back at you”, says Eric Pianka, lizard expert and co-author …
Read More >Dr. Patrick E. McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist and author of Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages, works with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery to resurrect the world’s …
Read More >University of California Press will sell hundreds of new and slightly scuffed books from the warehouse at a significant discount on Thursday, October 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prices are …
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