The UC Press list of wine books stands out for its diversity and unique areas of interest. With a particular emphasis on wineries, viticulture and winemaking in California and the West, it appeals to casual tasters, aficionados and wine professionals alike. Yesterday's Los Angeles Times praised our wine program for its ability to draw a wide audience and excel in the competitive wine book market. Read the article here.
Episode 5 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In July's episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Marion Nestle, author of Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine and Nalini M. Nadkarni, the author of Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees. The audio for episode 5 is included herewith. You may subscribe to the monthly podcast feed that contains the individual episodes using your RSS aggregator or directly via the iTunes store. You can listen to individual author interviews from the episodes at www.ucpress.edu/podcast or on the individual book pages using the embedded player.
Episode 4 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In June's episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Fernando Gapasin, the authors of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice and Robert J. Davis, the author of The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health. The audio for episode 4 is included herewith. You may subscribe to the monthly podcast feed that contains the individual episodes using your RSS aggregator or directly via the iTunes store. You can listen to individual author interviews from the episodes at www.ucpress.edu/podcast or on the individual book pages using the embedded player.
In the latest installment of NPR's Talk of the Nation, author Gayle Greene offers insight into the condition, while elaborating on her book, Insomniac (UC Press, March 2008), in this audio interview. Additionally, you can read more about Gayle and the disorder, including tips and shared experiences on her website, Sleep Starved.
Kasra Naji, author of Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader (UC Press, February 2008), was recently interviewed by Fresh Air at WHYY/NPR. In the interview, Naji talks about the controversial leader and his rise to power. You can find his interview on the NPR website.
Episode 3 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In May's episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag, the authors of Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America and Mark Juergensmeyer, the author of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, from Christian Militias to al Qaeda. The audio for episode 3 is included herewith. You may subscribe to the monthly podcast feed that contains the individual episodes using your RSS aggregator or directly via the iTunes store. You can listen to individual author interviews from the episodes at www.ucpress.edu/podcast or on the individual book pages using the embedded player.
Episode 2 of the UC Press podcast series is now available. In April's episode, Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions interviews Bill Ivey, the author Arts, Inc: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights, and Elias Aboujaoude, the author of Compulsive Acts: A Psychiatrists Tales of Ritual and Obsession. The audio for episode 2 is included herewith. You may subscribe to the monthly podcast feed that contains the individual episodes using your RSS aggregator or directly via the iTunes store. You can listen to individual author interviews from the episodes at www.ucpress.edu/podcast or on the individual book pages using the embedded player.
This week, UC Press is pleased to announce the start of a brand new author podcast series. The podcasts can be found on our podcast page. The series is produced by Chris Gondek of Heron and Crane Productions, and the initial show features interviews with UC Press authors Gayle Greene, the author of Insomniac, and Rajmohan Gandhi, the author of Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire. The monthly podcasts will become a regular feature of the website. Individual interviews with authors are featured on the podcast page, and you may subscribe to the monthly podcast feed with your RSS aggregator or directly via the iTunes store. This month's entire show is available as part of this post.
Alastair Fothergill's Planet Earth ranked #33 on the New York Times Bestseller List this week. This splendid collection of facts and photographs is the result of the authors' 5-year odyssey to over 200 countries, including some of the most remote locations in the world. The book's surge in sales coincides with the Discovery Channel's encore presentation of the Emmy award-winning Planet Earth
miniseries. Oprah Winfrey also included the Planet Earth DVDs on her
2007 "Favorite Things" list, and has called it "my favorite gift to
give". Readers have described Planet Earth as 'breathtaking' and 'a treasure'.
Read the entire bestseller list here.
University of California Press congratulates Robert Hass, whose most recent book, Time and Materials (Ecco/Harper Collins), has received the National Book Award for poetry.
Hass, a professor at UC Berkeley, is one of the four series editors (with Calvin Bedient, Forrest Gander, and Brenda Hillman) of UC Press's New California Poetry series, which also garnered a National Book Award nomination in 2002 for Harryette Mullen's Sleeping with the Dictionary. The series, which began in 2000, has been widely recognized and reviewed. It is one of the most preeminent series in avant-garde and experimental poetry in the country.
In addition to his work on the series, Hass has been a great friend to UC Press and to the Berkeley community. Hass, an avid environmentalist and outdoorsman, is committed to environmental education. He was instrumental in organizing River of Words, a Berkeley-based organization, which inspires students to create artwork and poetry based on the environment. He has also encouraged the expansion of UC Press's California Natural History Guide series. Since the 1960s, the books have been read and used in the field by amateur naturalists of all ages.
Hass directs the Lunch Poems Reading Series, which takes place on the first Thursday of the Month at Doe Library on the UC Berkeley campus. In 2005, UC Press published The Face of Poetry, which is based on the series and to which Hass contributed a foreword.
We are pleased that someone of such generous spirit and great talent has been recognized by the National Book Foundation.
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