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The Problem with Solutions
A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ...
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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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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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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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An interview with Paul Unschuld, translator of the "Ben Cao Gang Mu"
This interview was originally published here, and is reposted with permission. The Ben Cao Gang Mu is not only an ancient pharmacopoeia, but also a living museum. In the 16th century, after 27 years ...
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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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Autopsy of a Crime Lab
This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. "That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a ...
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A Prophet Has Appeared
Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources ...