Get caught reading . . . The Teachings of Don Juan
May is Get Caught Reading Month, and what better book to be caught red-handed with than our newly repackaged edition of a classic? A bit of backstory on this influential book is in …
Read More >May is Get Caught Reading Month, and what better book to be caught red-handed with than our newly repackaged edition of a classic? A bit of backstory on this influential book is in …
Read More >This post was originally featured on the UC Santa Cruz News Center, and has been reblogged with the permission of the author. by Tim Stephens In his new book, Serendipity: An Ecologist’s …
Read More >It’s common knowledge at this point that China has rapidly transformed over the last few decades. Andrew Kipnis, an Anthropologist at The Australian National University, has looked at how one city, Zouping, has …
Read More >Motherhood (mŭth′ər-ho͝od′). noun: the state or experience of having or raising a child. Sounds straightforward. Yet motherhood today is anything but straightforward. Whether they are single mothers, working mothers, teenage mothers, or surrogate mothers, all …
Read More >This story, written by Erica Ciccarone, first appeared on the Chapter 16 website on April 25, 2016 and is cross-posted here with their kind permission. Rhodes College professor David McCarthy writes a history …
Read More >To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we’re providing excerpts from El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition, by David E. Hayes-Bautista, which asks a curious question: Why is the holiday so widely celebrated across the …
Read More >by Drew Harvell, author of A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk Over 150 years ago, the father-son glassmaking team of Leopold and Rudolf …
Read More >Without teachers and educators, where would the world be? University of California Press is honored to collaborate with university professors who serve as authors of outstanding scholarship. The work of addressing society’s core challenges …
Read More >May Day, “International Worker’s Day,” is a curiously un-American holiday. Celebrated by labor groups and political parties outside the United States, it began in 1890 as a global day of solidarity to …
Read More >While we could not be there for the recent opening of the Puja and Piety exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, we proudly co-published the impressive catalogue and have been …
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