May 27, 2012 will mark the 75th anniversary of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. One of the most iconic structures in the world, the bridge combines amazing engineering, breathtaking views …
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Read More >In the video introduction to Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression, written by Dale Maharidge with photographs by Michael Williamson, Bruce Springsteen talks about how the authors inspired him …
Read More >The legendary civil rights activist, writer, and organizer Grace Lee Boggs was the subject of a recent multimedia profile in The Nation. The feature included a podcast interview, a video from her …
Read More >In the latest UC Press Podcast, Grace Lee Boggs, author of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, discusses her vision for creating a new American Revolution through radical …
Read More >UC Press author Cameron Macdonald was interviewed by Forbes.com on the complex bonds mothers forge with the “shadow mothers”—nannies, au pairs, daycare providers—in their lives. Macdonald, a professor of Sociology at the …
Read More >In this episode of the Harvard EdCast, a weekly podcast produced by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Natasha Warikoo discusses some of the topics in her new book, Balancing Acts: Youth …
Read More >Toni Yancey’s Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time is the subject of our latest UC Press Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yancey addresses some cultural and gender …
Read More >Instant Recess author Toni Yancey appeared on the Tavis Smiley program to discuss how our country’s culture of inactivity affects everything from worker productivity to childhood brain development to the ratio of …
Read More >What do you do when your mother writes a book about maternal ambivalence, which then receives a rave review in The New Yorker? After “smash[ing] your head against the wall three times,” …
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