Big news! NILE NIGHTSHADE: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato by Anny Gaul has been named a 2026 James Beard Media Award nominee in the Reference, History, and Scholarship category. Congratulations, Anny! 🍅✨
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As seen on @thedailyshow last week, THE MIDDLE-CLASS NEW DEAL by A. Mechele Dickerson is definitely striking a chord—it's now # 5 on the @nytimes bestseller list for paperback nonfiction!
What would it take to rebuild the American middle class? In this timely and thought-provoking book, Dickerson explores practical solutions to strengthen economic opportunity and stability for working families.
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THE MIDDLE-CLASS NEW DEAL
Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream
by A. Mechele Dickerson
“It’s not just [that] the middle class is suffering because of one thing; they’re suffering because of everything.”
A. Mechele Dickerson, author of THE MIDDLE CLASS NEW DEAL, appearing on @thedailyshow , on how the gig economy has failed the middle class while Democrats have remained oblivious.
MANGA'S FIRST CENTURY by Andrea Horbinski has been nominated for a 2026 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category! Congratulations, Andrea!
A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt the 30,000-kilometer drive from far northern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. There is more to the highway, however, than the persistent allure of the open road. In Dream Road to Pan America, historian Shawn William Miller unveils a larger tale of lofty ideals and bedrock greed, romantic adventure and pragmatic diplomacy, immigrant desperation and Indigenous resistance.
DREAM ROAD TO PAN AMERICA
A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway
by Shawn William Miller
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How queering economics will better serve society.
Despite its tremendous influence, economics is one of the least diverse and most exclusionary social science disciplines. In this book, Michael E. Martell and Leanne Roncolato reveal how economics has created a dangerous hierarchy that deters dissent and marginalizes underrepresented voices. They argue that diversification can benefit the field. By highlighting the voices of LGBTQ+ economists and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data, the authors accompany their call to action with a step-by-step plan for queering economics.
QUEERING ECONOMICS
Reimagining the Dismal Science
by Leanne Roncolato and Michael E. Martell
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What is it like to stand in the shadow of Earth and look out at the vastness of the Milky Way? Space anthropologist Deana L. Weibel interviewed astronauts and others in the space community to find out.
Welcome to the ultraview effect — an expansion of the classic overview effect.
A fascinating dive into science, cognition, and spirituality, THE ULTRAVIEW EFFECT shares how astronauts’ experiences of profound humility in the face of the unknown transform their understanding of humanity.
THE ULTRAVIEW EFFECT
What We Can Learn from Astronauts about Awe, Humility, and Exploring the Unknown
by Deana L. Weibel
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A bold new feminist history, recovering ancient women’s stories of pregnancy and birth.
In A WOMB OF ONE'S OWN, historian Tara Mulder takes us to a pivotal moment in Ancient Rome—when male doctors first tried to usurp midwives. Yet Roman women resisted, supporting each other as they fought for autonomy over their bodies and health.
With intimate details of women's lives never heard before, this book is perfect for readers of feminist ancient history like PENELOPE'S BONES.
A WOMB OF ONE'S OWN
Lost Histories of Childbirth in Ancient Rome
by Tara Mulder
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This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re turning the page to stories that history too often left out.
These books shine a light on the overlooked, untold, and underrepresented experiences that have shaped AAPI communities—past and present.
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MENACE TO EMPIRE
Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
by Moon Ho-Jung
AMERICAN PERIL
The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism
by Scott Kurashige
SUBURBAN REFUGEES
Class and Resistance in Little Saigon
by Jennifer Huynh
PACIFIC CONFLUENCE
Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i
by Christen T. Sasaki
BEYOND HAWAI'I
Native Labor in the Pacific World
by Gregory Rosenthal
SOLDIERING THROUGH EMPIRE
Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific
by Simeon Man
EMPIRE'S TRACKS
Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad
by Manu Karuka
HOW CHIEF'S BECAME KINGS
Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
by Patrick Vinton Kirch
What happens when artists and scientists collaborate?
In ART-SCIENCE UNDISCIPLINED artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell reimagine this collaboration, not as a transaction, but as a joyful, exploratory practice.
Drawing from real-world experiences, this playbook offers tools for co-creation between art and science that builds powerful, unexpected alliances. It challenges the constraints of busy schedules and institutional norms and invites us to imagine new ways of working together.
ART-SCIENCE UNDISCIPLINED
A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration
by Janani Balasubramanian & Natalie Gosnell
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It’s the UC Press 40% Sale! Visit ucpress.edu and use promo code SPRING40 to enjoy 40% off any UC Press book.
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Critical race theory (CRT) has been singled out for banning in 49 US states and been subject to a flurry of legislative acts surveilling its teaching in all levels of education.
To combat this, TEACHING SOLIDARITY argues for a practice of critical race reading and activism. Teaching in Florida, the epicenter and catalyst of these harsh rebukes of CRT, Malini Schueller challenges students to awaken to questions of racial privilege and hierarchy not through comfortable racial identification but through racial reckoning.
Part of the AMERICAN STUDIES NOW series
TEACHING SOLIDARITY
Critical Race Reading
by Malini Johar Schueller
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