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The Virtual World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Winner: Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) Finalists: Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press) Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books)Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press) POETRY JUDGES: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A. Van Jordan, Cole Swensen, Kevin
Isak (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Keith Waldrop, author of Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University of California Press) wins the National Book Award in Poetry. In this thank you speech, Waldrop said that he hopes the award inspires more young people to turn to poetry. From the book's NBA citation of Waldrop's collection:If transcendental immanence were possible, it would be because Keith Waldrop had invented it; he’s the...
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Title: Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life Author: Scott Sampson Publishing Information: University of California Press; HC; 352 pages; 1st edition (October 30, 2009) $29.95 Ordering Numbers: ISBN-10: 0520241630; ISBN-13: 978-0520241633 Review copy: complimentary Read the Publisher blurb Review: The author has taken the traditional approach of most dinosaur books that discusses each...
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Title: The Great Dinosaur Discoveries Author: Darren Naish Publishing Information: University of California Press; HC, 192 pages; 1st edition (October 21, 2009) $29.95 Ordering Numbers: ISBN-10: 0520259750; ISBN-13: 978-0520259751 Review copy: complimentary Read the Publisher's blurb Review: The Great Dinosaur Discoveries is another in the very long line of highly illustrated, general dinosaur books...
PALAEOBLOG (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Title: Evolution: The Story of Life Author: Douglas Palmer; with illustrations by Peter Barrett Publishing Information: University of California Press, HC, 374 pages, November 9, 2009, $39.95 Ordering Numbers: ISBN-10: 0520255119; ISBN-13: 978-0520255111 Review copy: complimentary From the Publisher: Evolution recreates the 3.5-billion-year story of life on Earth in stunning detail through vivid full-color...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The man with the magic touch Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince. By Mark A. Vieira. University of California Press; 465 pages; $34.95 and GBP25.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk KNOWN as “The Boy Wonder”, Irving Thalberg was an American film producer who held the reins at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a Hollywood studio, during its formative years. Thalberg’s name had...
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
by Sheila Levine, Associate Director and Publisher, University of California Press Last month I had the great pleasure of visiting Rome to help launch our new Encyclopedia of Pasta. My hosts were the author, Oretta Zanini de Vita and the...
Evolving Thoughts (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Today I had the pleasure of meeting my editor, Chuck Crumly, of University of California Press, who noted that my book is now an e-book. And cheaper than the printed version, too. Chuck, to no surprise from me, is an erudite and enthusiastic science fan, and Yet Another Nice Guy, as I seem fated to find [...]
Prairie Ice (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Most of the content from an upcoming Studies in Avian Biology devoted specifically to Greater Sage-Grouse had been posted to the SageMap website . Ecology and Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse: A Landscape Species and Its Habitats is being produced by the Cooper Ornithological Society and published by the University of California Press and has been released online under an agreement between the authors,...
Green Integer Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Robin Blaser The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) The death on May 7, 2009 of American-Canadian poet Robin Blaser sent me to my office shelf where I keep books waiting to be read. For three years Blaser's collected essays had burned its presence into my eyes, but only now, six months after his death, have I actually found the time to read this...
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
The following poem is included in The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press), edited by Mark Weiss . THE WITCH’S BIRD To Joel James The bird was born of a machete’s blade It’s nothing like mockingbird blackbird or mournful dove: it was born of a machete’s blade not from some old bird’s white egg. Neither skylark nor quetzal nor the buzzard...
My Right Word (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
...and I also believe that Jews have created gentile hostility by demanding equal rights but refusing to surrender their ethnic integrity. Books have been written about this by a number of authors who are not overtly anti-Semitic – e.g. Kevin MacDonald and Albert Lindemann – and Arendt’s analysis of Jewish “responsibility” for anti-Semitism can hardly be dismissed as due...
The Chicago Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In January we announced the birth of the new series "South Asia Across the Disciplines"—a unique collaborative publication effort between Columbia University Press, the University of California Press, and the University of Chicago Press designed to increase publication opportunities...
[helix] (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The shortlists have been announced! NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (United States) The finalists in poetry are (drum roll): Rae Armantrout , Versed (Wesleyan University Press) Ann Lauterbach , Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books) Carl Phillips , Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon , Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press) Keith Waldrop , Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy (University...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
As I mentioned in my review of Azuchi Satoshi's Supermarket , this 1981 title has now appeared in English translation (from St.Martin's Press) in no small part because it was: "specially selected for the Japanese Literature Publishing Project ( JLPP )". [The Japanese (and English) sites won't open in my browser; the French and German ones do.] I like the idea behind the JLPP, providing subsidies...
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