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 …
Read More >Due out in October, Volume 2 of the Autobiography of Mark Twain recently hit the presses at book manufacturer Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan. While the initial printing is 100,000 copies, the first …
Read More >A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that President Obama must make a decision about whether to use Yucca Mountain to dump nuclear waste. The Nevada site was designated by the …
Read More >Is Elon Musk’s Hyperloop like a 21st century version of the transcontinental railroad? Jon Christensen, the Editor of Boom: A Journal of California, draws some interesting parallels between the two in the …
Read More >“Text-mining articles within the context of a body of articles can expedite new discoveries”Stuart Shieber, James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University. Elementa is open …
Read More >NPR’s The Salt recently featured an interview with Seth Holmes, author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies, about the unfair and unsafe conditions faced by migrant workers who provide Americans with fresh fruit …
Read More >Eric Lambin discusses how globalization and international trade can drive land use change in unexpected ways Published by Generation Anthropocene, August 1, 2013. Professor Eric Lambin started his career working with satellite …
Read More >Greetings from the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting in New York! At left, Judith A. Levine poses at the UC Press booth with her new book, Ain’t No Trust, which explores issues …
Read More >Head over to Harper’s Magazine to read a six-question interview with Rebecca Solnit, in which she talks about her two new books, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas (UC Press) and The …
Read More >We are sad to note the passing of sculptor Ruth Asawa, who died Monday at the age of 87 at her home in San Francisco. Asawa was a pioneering modernist sculptor who …
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