In August 1803 two Russian ships set off on a round-the-world voyage to carry out scientific exploration and collect artifacts for Alexander I’s ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg. Russia’s strategic concerns in the north Pacific, ho ... [read more]

Photo of Snowdrops (Galanthus) © Gayla Trail, author of Grow Great Grub   [read more]

Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ... [read more]

Kathy Sletto, fiber arts maven, farmer, mother, grants writer, and now author of the new book Keeping Watch: 30 Sheep, 24 Rabbits, 2 Llamas, 1 Alpaca, and a Shepherdess with a Day Job sent us this photo of Oliver the cat and Ada the she ... [read more]

George Kirsch, author of the book Golf in America, was consulted by the Christian Science Monitor for its story on Tiger’s return to the Masters. “[The Tiger scandal] raises the question specifically of what is considered appropriate o ... [read more]

Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ... [read more]

An excerpt in honor of Philip Roth's birthday. [read more]

As Congress takes up health care reform, the goal for the House is to pass two legislative measures: the Senate’s health care bill and a series of amendments to the Senate bill, which are going through the budget reconciliation process ... [read more]

The answer to yesterday's trivia question was D. 80,000+. Today is part 2 of the March Madness edition of our trivia game: Beyond the Brink with Indiana is our ______ bestselling book of all time: A. 2nd B. 3rd C.... [read more]

Over the next day and a half, while everyone watching basketball I’m going to repost a number of the things that I wrote for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. The ADIBF is the premiere professional fair for the Arab world, thanks i ... [read more]

Soon after we publish a new edited volume we send a message to the book’s editors and contributors thanking them for their work and encouraging them to adopt the book for their college courses. The college market is a key target for uni ... [read more]

In the latest installment of the Chicago Audio Works Podcast our Promotions Director Mark Heineke narrates the high points in the artistic life of German painter Gerhard Richter, adapted from the just-published Gerhard Richter: A Life i ... [read more]

Two weeks ago, I blogged here about National Women’s History Month, making the first in a series of posts about new and recent books available from UNC Press focusing on the lives of women. That entry featured books that looked at the l ... [read more]

The Huffington Post has published Part Two of Richard Hughes’s two-part commentary “Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good.”  Part One has generated hundreds of comments. “For almost forty years, the most visible rep ... [read more]

That's how a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News described "Double Scramble" a 1968 painting by Frank Stella of a pair of concentric squares (above). David Rubin, who is the curator of contemporary art at the San Antonio Museum of ... [read more]

Dustin Ells Howes, author of Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics, wrote to share some information on a couple of upcoming speaking engagements in Syracuse and Oswego, New York. Both events are open to ... [read more]

The latest Brookings Papers on Economic Activity features an essay by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan detailing his views about the recent economic crisis and the future of financial regulation. Other conference papers examine the re ... [read more]

Rom Harré on the use of living things in scientific experiments throughout history. [read more]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, University of Nebraska Press readers! Lots of things happening at the University of Nebraska Press today: First, the big news: Margaret Jacobs, author 2009 UNP title White Mother to a Dark Race has won the 2010... [read more]

Wiki Government author Beth Noveck’s March 4 seminar at The Long Now Foundation can now be viewed at FORA.tv. A full transcript of her remarks is also available. Noveck, who serves as deputy chief technology officer for open government ... [read more]

When, in late 1864, Charles Dickens was halfway through the writing of his last completed novel Our Mutual Friend, the romantic actor Charles Fechter gave a striking demonstration of his gratitude for all the help and advice Dickens, a ... [read more]

William J. Bauer Jr. (Wailacki and Concow, and an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes) is author of the new book We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, ... [read more]

Author and IU SPEA Dean John Graham explains the idea of a cross-partisan solution from his latest book, Bush on the Homefront: [read more]

The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans books available in the United States, were announced yesterday, and the University of Chicago Press has three titles among the nomi ... [read more]

We're happy to share with you that author Annette Dunlap set up her own author's page over at Amazon. Here's a bio she put together for the page: When people ask me why I wrote a biography, I tell them it was on my "bucket list." Ever ... [read more]

University of Michigan Press Director Phil Pochoda and University of Michigan Dean of Libraries Paul Courant speak about the digital publishing revolution and the new era of the academic monograph: ARE YOU TUNED IN? Click here to subscr ... [read more]

Think about a book you’ve read over and over. You may have turned to it for advice, or chuckled at an inadvertent reference. You know that book backwards and forwards. Now stop and try to think of who the editor is. Odds are, you have n ... [read more]

The answer to yesterday's trivia question was A. Victorian Studies. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, today's question focuses on Henry Glassie's ethnography of a rural community in Northern Ireland, Passing the Time in Ballymenone: Which ... [read more]

  Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., author of the new book BluesSpeak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual, was interviewed March 16, 2010, on WGN-TV’s Midday News. [read more]

In this episode of our podcast series, Blog Editor Joe Gallagher talks to Scott Melzer, author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture War, about the reasons for and results of the NRA’s transformation from an advocacy group into a conserva ... [read more]

The UK branch of Dorling Kindersley produced this video for their recent sales conference, but it was so popular among publishing professionals that they decided to share it on YouTube. It's very clever, and challenges some assumptions ... [read more]

The fourth installment of the Metro Monitor series reveals nascent signs of economic recovery, with job growth remaining relatively stagnant. Though some indicators show an upcoming return to robust economic activity, others point to a ... [read more]

The New York Times has posted a video from Bloggingheads.tv featuring Mike Treder of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and Massimo Pigliucci, professor of philosophy at CUNY and author of the forthcoming Nonsense on Sti ... [read more]

Job recovery in America remains slow in the wake of the recession, yet there have been some encouraging signs in recent data. Today, the Senate passed the House version of a nearly $18 billion bill for new jobs and unemployment aid, thu ... [read more]

Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty. At 4:30 p.m. at the Penn Law School, Cynthi ... [read more]

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Julie Abraham's Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities has been announced as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. [read more]

Elvin Lim leads us through the current political landscape. [read more]

Click here to browse sale books by subject. [read more]

There certainly are demographic reasons to be worried about the American Jewish community. But my experiences at Limmud and other adult Jewish education venues, and the interest in my books The Jewish Study Bible, How to Read the Bible ... [read more]

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in such far-flung places as Paris, Tokyo, and Sydney, but more than anywhere else it has become identified with New York.  At least the parade has.  That tradition started in colonial days, when a group o ... [read more]

As part of Women’s History Month, Temple University Press author Sandra Hanson  visited the laboratory, Fermilab, to talk with women scientists. She shared her thoughts in this blog entry. A few days ago I visited Fermilab in Chicago. ... [read more]

Citizens along the Red River are doggedly preparing for the eventuality of spring flooding. From the Pioneer Press: “We’re gearing up,” Fargo city administrator Pat Zavoral said. “It’s last year all over again in terms of us having to ... [read more]

Jennifer Nez Denetdale, co-editor of the Fall 2009 edition of Wicazo Sa Review, has published a portion of her paper on critical Indigenous feminism, Claiming the 'F' Word: Native Women, Feminisms, and Visions of Sovereignty, on the Fir ... [read more]

As James Srodes writes in his recent review of Jews in Nazi Berlin for the Washington Times "all significant historical events—even the ghastly Holocaust—tend to flatten and diminish as time draws us away from the moment they occurred." ... [read more]

New South Wales, Australia is the first government to allow a person to register their sex as "Not Specified." Norrie, a transgendered person, tells the story to The Scavenger, saying "Those concepts, man or woman, just don't fit me, th ... [read more]

Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture celebrates ten years of publication in 2010. Founded in 2001 by Jennifer L. Holberg (Calvin College) and Marcy Taylor (Central Michigan University) ... [read more]

Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth. [read more]

Last night, millions of users tuned in to the first installment of HBO's new miniseries, The Pacific, which tracks the stories of three U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater of World War II. [read more]

The New Republic hosts a symposium on Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Participants include Ravitch, PUP author Ben Wildavsky (The Great ... [read more]