University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
At its annual sidewalk sale on Thursday, October 11, University of California Press will sell hundreds of new and slightly scuffed books from the warehouse at a significant discount. Prices are $5 for paperbacks and $10 for hardbacks, with a...
Burning Silo (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees by Nalini M. Nadkarni University of California Press, 2008. How best to describe Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees? A compendium of facts, anecdotes, literature, and images pertaining to human interaction with trees? Tree canopy biologist, Nalini Nadkarni, has drawn on her [...]
Holland & Hart Health Care Law Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
The title, Public Health Law smacks of the kind of mind numbing subject of old textbooks one runs across occasionally in used book sales at public libraries or the free book box outside of used book stores. This book is far different. It is an intelligently imagined overview of the...
Evolving Thoughts (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Today I finalised my manuscript, printed it out, annotated it, made sure all the figures were there, that they had the least ugly photos of me, burned the CD, and ticked all the boxes. Tomorrow, Species: A history of the idea physically travels to University of California Press, where they will do publishing things to it until it instantiates as a book. This is great, given that I am now in the job...
United Professionals Blog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, University of California Press, June 2008 This book, co-authored by UP Board member Bill Fletcher, is probably the most important book on the current labor movement to come out in recent years. Fletcher and Gapasin basically set out to write the balance sheet on the state...
Waggish (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Lisa Samuels edited and wrote an extensive introduction for the University of California Press 2001 reprint of Laura Riding’s 1928 collection of essays and stories, Anarchism Is Not Enough . Lisa has also published three books of poetry, most recently The Invention of Culture (Shearsman Books, 2008), as well as several chapbooks. She teaches at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. What influence...
Georgetown Law Faculty Blog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
The revised and expanded second edition of Larry Gostin's book, Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, has just been released by the University of California Press. The first chapter of this book, "A Theory and Definition of Public Health Law", has been posted to SSRN and BePress. Abstract:The literature, both academic and judicial, on the intersection of law and health is pervasive. The subject...
NewWest.Net Salt Lake City (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Bargaining for Eden by Stephen Trimble University of California Press 319 pages, $29.95 The contemporary story of the American West is being written in town halls across the region where neighbors stand at odds with one another over their vision for the prized landscapes that surround them. Every area has its Eden besieged by developers, and each one inevitably becomes buried in controversy, and sometimes...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Studies published in a special issue of the online journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy by the University of California Press reveal that abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education programs fail to change sexual behavior in teenagers, provide inaccurate information about condoms, and violate human rights principles. Edited by John S.
Waggish (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Lisa Samuels edited and wrote an extensive introduction for the University of California Press 2001 reprint of Laura Riding’s 1928 collection of essays and stories, Anarchism Is Not Enough . Lisa has also published three books of poetry, most recently The Invention of Culture (Shearsman Books, 2008), as well as several chapbooks. She teaches at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. Riding’s poetry...
thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Solidarity Divided: the Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008, 301 pp. ISBN #978-0520-25525-8 I will be writing my own review of this book... in my opinion, the writer/reviewer is much too kind regarding what the reviewer regards as "venial sins"--- or, without putting words in the reviewer's...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
By Richards, Robert J NEUROHISTORY Recovering the Past ON DEEP HISTORY AND THE BRAIN. Daniel Lord Smail. xiv + 271 pp. University of California Press, 2008. $21.95.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Studies published in a special issue of the online journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy by the University of California Press reveal that abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education programs fail to change sexual behavior in teenagers, provide inaccurate information about condoms and violate human rights principles.
Waggish (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Lisa Samuels edited and wrote an extensive introduction for the University of California Press 2001 reprint of Laura Riding’s 1928 collection of essays and stories, Anarchism Is Not Enough . Lisa has also published three books of poetry, most recently The Invention of Culture (Shearsman Books, 2008), as well as several chapbooks. She teaches at The University of Auckland in New Zealand. How did you...
Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
The following book review on the theme of Islamic charity apears in the Fall 2008 volume of Middle East Quarterly The Price of Fear: The Truth behind the Financial War on Terror by Ibrahim Warde (University of California Press, 2007); Understanding Islamic Charities , edited by Jon B. Alterman and Karin von Hippel (CSIS 2007). "Terror networks often use compromised or complicit charities and businesses...
