Cécile Whiting’s book Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s (2006) is the winner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s 2009 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American …
Read More >In last week’s New Yorker Adam Gopnik wrote and incredibly wide-ranging and ultimately soothing article that, crudely, goes something like this: Don’t worry if these hard times haven’t stimulated your imagination. Necessity …
Read More >The California Coastal Commission was created by the voters of California, who adopted an initiative measure in 1972 that formed the Commission and gave it broad powers to plan and protect the …
Read More >Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist. He has written seven books, including Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Grassland: The Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American …
Read More >Robin Blaser, prize-winning poet and author died last Thursday, just shy of his 84th birthday. The Globe and Mail and The Vancouver Sun published obituaries last week. Among the many books Blaser …
Read More >The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced that David Blumenthal will join the Obama Administration as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. As part of the American Recovery and …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 18 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews David Blumenthal as he …
Read More >We are pleased to announce that Episode 17 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In this episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Jonathan Marks as he …
Read More >UC Press authors David Meltzer, Melvyn Goldstein, and Anne Salmond were elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28. Meltzer and Goldstein were elected as members, and Salmond was elected …
Read More >Marl Young, a pianist, music director, and author who helped desegregate L.A. musician unions died last Wednesday at the age of 92. The Los Angeles Times published an obituary this past Sunday. …
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