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Sunday - Saturday, 4 - 10 May 2008 Wilson, Patrick. 1968. Two Kinds of Power : an Essay on Bibliographical Control. Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress. Ch. III : Relevance (Sun) Ch. IV : Bibliographical Instruments and Their Specifications (Mon) Ch. V : Subjects and the Sense of Position (Wed) Ch. VI : Indexing, Coupling, Hunting (Thu) Ch. VII : Consultants [...]
Details below the folod. [JH] The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All, by Peter Linebaugh The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition, by Carl F. Ameringer Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, (2d ed.), by...
Another fascinating book I’m finding hard to put down is David Sedley's masterful treatment of ancient Greek debates about intelligent design, Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity (University of CaliforniaPress, 2008). What Sedley means by “creationism” is not the Henry Morris / ICR / [...]
Having read three of her previous books, Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms (Berkeley, CA: University of CaliforniaPress, 1991), Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy (New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2002), and Ethics of Scientific Research (Lanham,...
Here's a book you should buy and read. University of CaliforniaPress has published "The Healthy Skeptic: Çutting Through The Hype About Your Health," by Robert Davis, PhD. Disclosure: Robert is my friend and trusted colleague. I hired him at...
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
The poet and politician, Aimé Césaire, died yesterday at the age of 94. The New York Times published an obituary yesterday. The University of CaliforniaPress published the Collected Poetry of Aimé Césaire in 1983.
The University of CaliforniaPress has just published Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America, by David Ngaruri Kenney, a former client of the Center for Applied Legal Studies (Georgetown’s political asylum clinic) and his lawyer, Georgetown University Law Professor Philip G. Schrag, the clinic’s director. The book explores U.S.immigration law and its administration...
Of all the books on 9/11 Peter Dale Scott 's learned The Road To 9/11 (University of CaliforniaPress, 2007) deserves special recognition for situating the events of 9/11 in an intelligible, albeit complicated, context. Unlike other leftist social critics who see a simple narrative in government actions, Peter sees rich textures in what he calls 'the deep state.' An agnostic about...
In case you missed the news last week, Siva has locked up a deal with the University of CaliforniaPress to publish the North American print edition of The Googlization of Everything . It's due out late summer, 2009. Profile will publish it in the UK and British Commonwealth. We're currently brainstorming next steps for the blog as Siva moves into intense drafting and revising...
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 03/17/2008
University of CaliforniaPress Journals and Digital Publishing is proud to announce the publication of a special issue of The Public Historian, the official journal of the National Council on Public History. “Sites of Conscience: Opening Historic Sites for Civic...
A while back we got mail from the University of CaliforniaPress telling us that they have recently published by a book that might be worth reading. It is by now Japan resident Charles Jenkins, and it is titled The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea. Charles Robert Jenkins is a [...]
This was actually left as a comment, but I have decided to bump this up into its own posting: The University of CaliforniaPress is pleased to announce the publication of: The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea Charles Robert Jenkins is a former United States Army soldier who lived in North Korea [...]
University of California Press Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Chuck Crumly, Science Publisher at the University of CaliforniaPress, continues with the second in a short series of posts about the future of specialized textbooks in the college curriculum. One of the great strengths of science, as a way...
