Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird Bruce Thomas Boehrer 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 49 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2104-6 | $22.50 | £15.00 Exploring the presence and meanings of these bi ... [read more]

Ann Arbor lost a former mayor and longtime University of Michigan professor when Samuel Eldersveld died Friday of congestive heart failure. He was 92. [read more]

We are happy as clams—and horses and chickens and goats and all creatures, really—to announce that today, at the American Society for Environmental History’s annual meeting in Portland, our author Carolyn Merchant, receives the Distingu ... [read more]

My goodness, what a week: first, the Oscars on Sunday night, and then the Jewish Oscars on Tuesday! The Jewish book Oscars, that is: the 2009 National Jewish Book Awards... It was quite a night for JPS, with more award winners than any ... [read more]

Brian Boyd's fascinating essay in the inaugural issue of The Evolutionary Review is now available online for you to read—for free! Here's the opening two paragraphs, to set the scene a bit: Comics can have almost no mass and yet be the ... [read more]

So now that the Best Translated Book Awards are over, I can fully concentrate on the next event—one for Macedonio Fernandez’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) that is taking place tonight at the Americas Society tonig ... [read more]

Taking a look at how the ebook format compares and contrasts with various book formats throughout history. [read more]

Semiotext(e) is the topic of tonight's 2010 Fales Lecture at NYU. The Fales Library & Special Collections is home to rare books and manuscripts in English and American literature, and collections such as the Food and Cookery Collection ... [read more]

Collector and author Charles L. Blockson has donated a treasure trove of artifacts relating to Harriet Tubman to the Smithsonian Institution for display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture. According to Washin ... [read more]

The following post is by Siobhan Phillips author of The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse. When I wrote The Poetics of the Everyday, I wanted to learn how quotidian experience could foster rather tha ... [read more]

The answer to yesterday's trivia question was C. Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Today's trivia question also relates to The Addict and the Law: Upon learning that the Press intended to publish the book, The Federal Bureau of Narcotics inv ... [read more]

With the economic pitfalls of the past few years still tightening state budgets across the U.S., every dollar counts. There are many factors contributing to state budgets, and in Arizona, prison sentencing has become a hot topic in budg ... [read more]

Anton Treuer will read from his new book, Ojibwe in Minnesota tomorrow at the Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church, hosted by Birchbark Books. The Pipestone Singers will also be there, along with Anton’s mother, Margaret Treuer, Minnesota’ ... [read more]

The UH Press 2010 Asian Studies catalog is now available! To download the 5.1M PDF, click on the catalog cover image to the left. [read more]

The Smithsonian Institution has more than thirteen million images in some seven hundred collections throughout its network of museums, research centers, and the National Zoo. The Bigger Picture is a blog that takes a closer look at the ... [read more]

Last night was the ceremony honoring the winner’s of this year’s National Jewish Book Awards, sponsored by the Jewish Book Council. The University of Nebraska Press is honored that one of our books was among the winning titles. The Holo ... [read more]

After nearly 500 years spent lurking in the shadows of Florentine Golden Boy Michelangelo, Caravaggio is having his moment in the spotlight.   Thanks in part to this front page piece in the New York Times and a flurry of media attention ... [read more]

Toronto's The Globe and Mail published a review of Adrian Johns's Piracy in Monday's edition of the paper. In the review Grace Westcott takes special note of Johns's unique approach to the history of intellectual property debates— a fea ... [read more]

Two podcasts! Cary Nelson (No University is an Island) on Baltimore NPR. David Shneer (Torah Queeries) on BBC’s The World Today (starts at minute 32). [read more]

Just a reminder that Tom Espenshade will be presenting from his book No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life at the Princeton Public Library tonight. The event starts at 7:30 PM. Rea ... [read more]

James Hall, author of The Sinister Side, on the left-right symbolism in one of the Labour Party's new election posters. [read more]

On Saturday, March 6, the University Press of Mississippi celebrated its 40th anniversary with an afternoon picnic held during the Oxford Conference for the Book. The day’s events culminated with a book signing and toast to UPM at Squar ... [read more]

We’re thrilled that Blazing Figures: A Life of Robert Markle is in print and we’re throwing a party to prove it! On Thursday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. please join us at Ben McNally Books (366 Bay St) in Toronto to celebrate this publicatio ... [read more]

Date & Time: Thursday, April 29th at 6.00pm Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street A darkly funny, pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment in the tradition of Beautiful Children from a compelling new voice in American fic ... [read more]

  Date & Time: Thursday, April 22nd at 6.00pm Location: Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State Street From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Oli ... [read more]

Date & Time: Friday, April 16th at 6.00pm Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street Federalism is regarded as one of the signal American contributions to modern politics. Its origins are typically traced to the drafting of the ... [read more]

Analyzing the colorful language of two of the right's loudest voices is Jonathan M. Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. Metzl is associate professor of psychiatry and women's studies and dir ... [read more]

  Date & Time: Tuesday, April 6th at 6.30pm Location: 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th Street No one who read Elif Batuman’s first article (in the journal n+1) will ever forget it. “Babel in California” told the true story of various ... [read more]

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Do academics get an unfair rep for speaking (and writing) in academic gobbledygook? If you are undecided, stop by The Virtual Academic for a taste of REAL jargon courtesy of the virtual academic Pootwattle and the virtual critic Smedley ... [read more]

Recent months have seen an increase in Pakistani involvement in the fight against the Taliban in the Middle East, including a sudden surge in arrests of the terrorist network's top leaders. Although Pakistan's motives behind this policy ... [read more]

Over the course of his career historian Tony Judt has become one of the nation's most "famously tough-minded and combative" public intellectuals, writes Wesley Yang for the current edition of New York Magazine. The director of NYU's Eri ... [read more]

We love it when new UNC Press books seem to be in conversation with other books of the moment.  Take Patti Smith’s acclaimed new memoir, Just Kids (HarperCollins 2010), which offers an inside look at the punk pioneer’s artistic influenc ... [read more]

Kathryn Kalinak reflects on the the 2010 Oscar “Original Score” presentations and results. [read more]

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka Sandya Hewamanne 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4045-0 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2112-1 | $24.95... [read more]

On the morning of June 19, 1944, as U.S. troops were battling Japanese forces on Saipan in the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, American pilots based on aircraft carriers offshore rushed to their planes to protect their fleet from an ene ... [read more]

As Vice President Biden travels to the Middle East, Ragui Assaad and Samantha Constant analyze employment prospects for young people in both the United States and the Middle East, with a special focus on Egypt. Both the United States an ... [read more]

The answer to yesterday's trivia question was D. All of the above. Today's question focuses on our dudely study of the movie: In his essay, "The Really Big Sleep: Jeffrey Lebowski as the Second Coming of Rip Van Winkle", Fred... [read more]

Girldrive author Nona Willis Aronowitz was here in the Bay Area last week, and she (and a couple of us from here at Seal Press) spent an afternoon on Telegraph Avenue doing some free word association--with a feminist slant, of course--w ... [read more]

Now that we can actually see the sidewalks in the Twin Cities, if you are poetically inclined, consider entering the Annual St. Paul Sidewalk Poetry Contest. Winning poems will be permanently published in city sidewalks. Submissions are ... [read more]

Last night, Kathryn Bigelow took home the Oscar for Best Director (the first for a woman) and her film, The Hurt Locker, topped a field of ten Best Picture nominees (beating out the highest grossing film of all time, directed by Bigelow ... [read more]

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Life Ways Edited by Andrzej Weber, M. Anne Katzenberg, and Theodore G. Schurr 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 63 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-1-934536-11- ... [read more]

Today, March 8th 2010, women worldwide will unite to literally bridge the gap between their countries and demand the peace they deserve. In honor of International Women’s Day, author of A Thousand Sisters, Lisa Shannon, will be joining ... [read more]

Have you heard? Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has sponsored a bill to replace U.S. Grant on the $50 bill with Ronald Reagan. In an op-ed for the LA Times, Grant biographer Joan Waugh offers a brief history lesson in defense of the Union g ... [read more]

On International Women's Day, we offer this post from Carole Joffe, author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients, and the Rest of Us. Joffe is professor of sociology at the University of Cali ... [read more]

This month’s episode features Susan Harris of Words Without Borders, who came on to talk about WWB’s educational programs and the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry that she edited along with Ilya Kaminsky. [read more]

March 8 is International Women’s Day. A day to celebrate the accomplishments of women, which are many. More women than ever are serving in government, training as scientists and doctors, and leading local, national, and international or ... [read more]

While discussion of Kathryn Bigelow’s work is sure to grow following last night’s win at the Oscars, currently one of the few books to give serious consideration to her films is The Cinema of of Kathryn Bigelow, edited by Deborah Jermyn ... [read more]

In response to a recent campaign demanding that the Justice Department release the names of attorneys defending Guantánamo detainees, a group of attorneys, former officials and policy specialists who have worked on detention issues—incl ... [read more]

Today brings us a guest post from Raúl Ramos, author of Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861. In his book, Ramos introduces a new model for the transnational history of the United States as he focuses o ... [read more]