Last week Bill Ivey won the prestigious NAMM “Music for Life” award, the association’s highest honor. Ivey, part of the Obama/Biden transition team, former head of the NEA, of Vanderbilt University’s Curb …
Read More >by Michael Long, Author of Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media (2008) Like plenty of others, I wondered what shape Michael Jackson’s memorial service in the Staples Center would ultimately …
Read More >On your list of activities that you need to think twice about, you probably haven’t penciled in cancer screening, but a recent article in the New York Times could have you reaching …
Read More >Stephen Trimble’s Bargaining for Eden is now available in paperback. The following reading guide questions are available to facilitate the book group and classroom discussions the book is provoking: Discussion Questions: 1. …
Read More >Nina Jablonski says that differing skin colors are simply our bodies’ adaptation to varied climates and levels of UV exposure. Charles Darwin disagreed with this theory, but she explains, that’s because he did not have access to NASA.
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 22 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Laurel E. Fletcher and …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 21 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bryant Simon as he …
Read More >When Starbucks first started out, a $4 coffee was virtually unheard of. However, as Bryant Simon observes in Everything but the Coffee and on his Red Room blog, $4 at Starbucks went …
Read More >On July 9, 2009, Thomas Gladysz of Examiner.com interviewed author Jeffrey Vance about his newest book, Douglas Fairbanks, which was published by UC Press in December 2008. Vance is a film historian, …
Read More >By Ariel Rosen My year abroad in the City of Lights and the violent aftermath of the election in Iran. At first glance, these two events may not seem to have much …
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