August 2013 marks a sad milestone for the Golden Gate Bridge. There were more suicides that month—10—than any other in the bridge’s history. John Bateson, author of The Final Leap, calls attention to …
Read More >[vimeo https://vimeo.com/67316014] Working directly with Elementa, filmmaker John Boswell produced a remix capturing the grandness of the aspects covered by the Anthropocene. Read an interview with Boswell here.
Read More >UC Press is sad to note the passing of renowned herpetologist, Robert C. Stebbins, who died in his home on Monday at the age of 98. Stebbins was a Professor of Zoology at …
Read More >Banned Books Week is the celebration of books challenged in libraries and classrooms across the nation. Books are banned for various reasons, but most are banned for content not deemed appropriate for …
Read More >Think you know Mark Twain? Think again. Enter the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 Goodreads galley giveaway between now and October 5th for your chance to win one of five limited …
Read More >To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, we’re revisiting the origins of the General Assembly with this excerpt from Nathan Schneider’s Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy …
Read More >Guest post by Mary Helen Spooner It has been four decades since Chile’s Salvador Allende, a socialist, was overthrown in a military coup whose violence shocked the world and ushered in sixteen …
Read More >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 VETERAN JOURNALIST AND HISTORIAN JON CHRISTENSEN TAKES EDITORIAL HELM, REBOOTS BOOM: A JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA WITH LIVELY FALL ISSUE BOOM’S INFORMAL MISSION OF HOSTING ONE OF …
Read More >Elementa’s Editor-in-Chief for Atmospheric Science, Detlev Helmig, gives his view on the importance of data publication. “In the academic University environment, most research these days is conducted under the umbrella of targeted …
Read More >It’s been 50 years since the March on Washington, and the issues of racial equality and economic justice are just as vital as ever. UC Press is proud to contribute to the …
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