Much has changed since UC Press’s founding in 1893, and we now face some of the greatest challenges and opportunities in our history. In this new video, UC Press Director Alison Mudditt …
Read More >Today, UC Press, along with our distinguished peers at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell, announced a very exciting initiative with JSTOR to bring scholarly books online. This means that more than 15,000 front …
Read More >This Valentine’s Day, show us you care by becoming a member or renewing your membership today. As a nonprofit publisher, UC Press relies on donations to publish intellectually and culturally significant books …
Read More >NewSouth Books has decided to move ahead with their new version of Mark Twain’s classic book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, despite widespread criticism of the edition, which replaces Mark Twain’s use of …
Read More >The Regents of the University of California have approved the appointment of Alison Mudditt as the new director of University of California Press. Mudditt, who brings more than 22 years of experience …
Read More >If you notice a bittersweet tinge to the ambience of the book division these days, it might be due to the fact that one of UC Press’s most beloved editors, Stan Holwitz, …
Read More >We are terribly disappointed that we missed the aromatic return of Trudy, at the University of California Botanical Garden. Trudy is, of course, the infamous “Corpse Flower” or Amorphophallus titanum. This stinky …
Read More >While hiking on the North side of Mount Tamalpais, just off the Fairfax-Bolinas Road, we climbed to a spot called Serpentine Knoll. The plants on this section of the trail were dramatically …
Read More >While planning a trip to the Lost Coast, I’ve been depending heavily on the California Coastal Commission guides to the coast (more on that in a future post). Yesterday, the Los Angeles …
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