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 …
Read More >We’re delighted to announce that multiple UC Press titles are on the shortlist and longlist for the 2016 Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Book Awards. The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards are the UK’s leading prizes for …
Read More >By Michela Soyer, author of A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America When Bill Clinton signed the federal “Three Strikes Bill” in 1994, most of the teenagers I interviewed …
Read More >“A cookbook that educates as well as inspires.”—New York Times With the critical mass of media coverage for Joyce Goldstein’s new cookbook, the New Mediterranean Jewish Table: Old World Recipes for the …
Read More >The newly released Living at the Edges of Capitalism explores communities living in exilic spaces, or spaces outside of state capitalism—Cossacks on the Don River in Russia, Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico, and …
Read More >Frequently compared to John Muir, David Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act, among other key achievements. Tapping …
Read More >We’re excited to announce that the University of California Press and California Digital Library have partnered with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to develop, Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. Through the …
Read More >What caught Drew Harvell’s eye first was a glass octopus. Inspired by the incredible glass marine sculptures of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, she soon set off to search for their living counterparts. In …
Read More >This story, written by Leah Stark, first appeared on the Stanford University website on April 18, 2016 and is cross-posted here with their kind permission. The Hellboy comics — about a demon who tries to …
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