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On the Wrong Side
This explosive investigation reveals the profound failures of the Title IX system and identifies concrete, surprisingly simple steps we can take to protect students. The debate over campus sexual ...
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Sin Padres, Ni Papeles
Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand ...
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Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words
"A timely, detailed, and inspiring book that helps maintain the intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm. The book reveals new dimensions of the congresswoman's politics, activism, and spirit."—Regina ...
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Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and ...
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Author Laureen Hom explains what urban Chinatowns have to teach us about coalition-building, pushing back against gentrification, and envisioning neighborhood changes that are community-driven and ...
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The Naturalness of Religious Ideas
Why do people have religious ideas? And why thosereligious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties ...
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Q&A with Charlotte Biltekoff, author of "Real Food, Real Facts"
In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating "real" food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry ...
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In her highly original book, Charlotte Biltekoff explores the role that science and scientific authority play in food industry responses to consumer concerns about what we eat and how it is made. Real ...
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News: Recent UC Press Book Signings
Founding president of the Association for Weight and Size Inclusive Medicine and physician, educator, author, and speaker Lisa Erlanger MD’s GETTING THE HEALTHCARE YOU DESERVE IN THE BODY YOU HAVE, ...
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Hearing While Deaf: Beethoven, Helen Keller, and the Ninth Symphony
On the two-hundredth anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which premiered on May 7th, 1824, The New York Times ran an opinion piece on the work by the distinguished pianist and conductor Daniel ...
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Celebrate National Honey Month with an exclusive author event
Get ready to journey to over 80 countries through the unique and sweet world of honey. To celebrate National Honey Month and the upcoming release of The World Atlas of Honey, we’re inviting you to an ...
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The World in Depression, 1929–1939
In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and ...