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University of California Press Pleased to have not one, but two of our wine books on Chicago Tribune's Top 5 wine books of 2009: Been Doon So Long and The Finest Wines of Champagne.
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Eclectic is the word to describe this year's crop of wine books. The diversity of approaches and degrees of sophistication speak to just how wide-ranging the wine world has become. From fledgling newbie ...
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Joint publishing initiative from UC Press and the CDL offers UC book publishing units new services, broader audience. http://www.ucpress.edu/blog/?p=1394
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Frequent awesome BB suggester Avi Solomon sez, "Yes, I know I'm totally biased, but I honestly think that my wife Dr. Elly Teman's forthcoming ethnography 'Birthing a Mother' will truly blow your mind if you're concerned with how technology forms and reboots core human ...experiences like 'Motherhood'....
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Today we'll give away a copy of The Book of Codes, and the Grand Prize—$100 worth of UC Press books. Decipher the mystery message in this video and send us a direct message on Twitter (@ucpress) with the answer. The deadline for both prizes is midnight EST, 9PM PST tonight. Good luck!
University of California Press Congratulations to Keith Waldrop! Transcendental Studies wins National Book Award.
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The 60th annual National Book Awards were handed out Wednesday night in New York. Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin, a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize. ...
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Ride the rails on today's Crack the Code Sweepstakes. Decipher the hidden message in this video, and send us the answer via direct message on Twitter @ucpress, before midnight EST / 9PM PST tonight.
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Calling all outdoor enthusiasts: University of California Press and students from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business are conducting a survey. Your anonymous responses will enable University of California Press to advance its offerings for those who appreciate the natural features of the state. .....
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The Crack the Code Sweepstakes has begun!
The first video is here: http://tinyurl.com/yjc7olo.
You have until midnight EST / 9PM PST tonight to crack this code, and send us a direct message us on Twitter @ucpress with the answer. We'll select a winner at random from all eligible entries and announce it on Twitter (limit ...one entry per Twitter account). The winner will receive a copy of The Book of Codes.
Check our blog every day this week for a new video, another code to crack, and another chance to win The Book of Codes. At the end of the week, you'll have a chance to win the grand prize—$100 worth of UC Press books.
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The Crack the Code Sweepstakes has begun. You have until midnight EST / 9PM PST tonight to crack this code, and send us a direct message us on Twitter @ucpress with the answer. We'll select a winner at random from...
University of California Press Darra Goldstein is the editor of Gastronomica and the forthcoming Gastronomica Reader (February 2010).
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When Darra Goldstein proposed writing a dissertation on food and Russian literature, her doctoral advisers were “aghast.” Food, they said, had no place in academia.
University of California Press We're very excited about this news. Look for Life (the companion book to the show) in March 2009.
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Oprah Winfrey will be the voice of an 11-part nature miniseries called "Life," which is intended as a follow-up to "Planet Earth."