Dear Friends, It is with great sorrow that I write with the news that our friend, colleague, and former editorial director Sheila Levine died this week after a struggle with ovarian cancer. Everyone …
Read More >Reblogged from ScienceOpen A few Bay Area Open Access people –Dan Morgan (UC Press), Liz Allen (ScienceOpen), Pete Binfield (PeerJ, with Georgina Gurnhill in the UK), Lenny Teytelman (Zappy Lab) and Laurence Bianchini (My Science Work), who are expanding to the Bay Area, welcome) …
Read More >David Lynch is internationally renowned for his films and music, but he began his creative life as a visual artist and has maintained a devoted studio practice, developing an extensive body of …
Read More >by Caitlin O’Hara Can’t Catch a Break, publishing this month, is a brilliant book that teases out the nuanced relationship between gender, drugs, and jail in many women’s lives. We asked coauthor …
Read More >Last week at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, the Commonwealth Club hosted a conversation with Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook and Lean In fame and Marianne Cooper, the lead researcher on Sandberg’s book and author …
Read More >In a recent profile on Bill Gates, the New York Times explored the emerging subject of Big History, and Gates’ project with UC Press author David Christian to introduce Big History into high school …
Read More >“The Sustainability Transitions domain encourages submissions from scholars in the social and natural sciences and humanities, and practitioners, innovators, and leaders who are forging ahead with strategies to shift towards sustainability.” “Elementa is …
Read More >James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Chair of …
Read More >Marianne Cooper, author of Cut Adrift: Families in Insecure Times recently discussed the financial security of American families on Bloomberg TV’s “Taking Stock” with Pimm Fox. Watch to find out how families are …
Read More >Thanks to everyone who came to see us at ASA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Hard Times. For our parting shot, here’s Executive Editor Naomi Schneider with some of our illustrious authors: Till …
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