The New York Times reported “a medley of whoops, hollers and gasps” when the gavel came down on Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O, 1955) at Christie’s Monday evening. At a …
Read More >Hundreds of thousands of students are graduating across the country, and we’d like to offer some inspiration from author and activist Paul Farmer. Dr. Farmer recently delivered the commencement speech to the 2015 graduates at Duke University. …
Read More >Join University of California Press this spring at the 2015 Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting. The meeting is May 17-22 in Milwaukee, WI. Please visit us at the Wisconsin Center for …
Read More >To accompany Davita Silfen Glasberg’s review of Seriously!: Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered in last month’s Gender & Society, author Cynthia Enloe sat down with SAGE’s Sarah Shinkle to speak about the makings of …
Read More >We’re pleased to congratulate Rubén G. Rumbaut, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Sociology, on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins 197 new fellows this year, among …
Read More >Concluding its annual meeting in Chicago on April 25, the Association of American Geographers recognized UC Press with its Publication Award for “long-term commitment to publishing excellent research in geography” that …
Read More >By Mary Francis, Executive Editor, Cinema & Media Studies What’s new? That is always the biggest question in an editor’s mind going to big annual conference (right up there with, where can …
Read More >This guest post is by author John R. MacArthur, The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy Trade agreements and the political conflicts surrounding them are back …
Read More >It’s no secret that California is currently in a water crisis. With the state enacting an emergency drought plan and some cities establishing strict drought rules, people are looking to conserve as much …
Read More >Every April, Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket, reads only poetry in honor of National Poetry Month. This year, he gave a shoutout to two of our poets on both Twitter …
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