The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a

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associated with the

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

that engages in

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. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868, and has been officially headquartered at the university's flagship campus in Berkeley, California, since its inception. As the non-profit publishing arm of the

system, the UC Press is fully subsidized by the university and the State of California. A third of its authors are faculty members of the university. The press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print. It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives. The University of California Press publishes in the following subjects: African studies, American studies, ancient world (classics), anthropology, art, Asian studies, communication, criminology & criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, film & media studies, food & wine, gender & sexuality, global studies, health, history, language, Latin American studies, literary studies & poetry, Middle Eastern studies, music, philosophy, politics, psychology, religion, sciences, and sociology. The press has its administrative office in downtown

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, an editorial branch office in

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, and a sales office in New York, and distributes through marketing offices in Great Britain, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. A Board consisting of senior officers of the University of California, headquartered in Berkeley, holds responsibility for the operations of the press, and authorizes and approves all manuscripts for publication. The Editorial Committee consists of distinguished faculty members representing the university's nine campuses. The press commissioned as its corporate typeface University of California Old Style from type designer

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from 1936 to 1938, although it no longer always uses the design.

Notable books

*'' Language As Symbolic Action'',

Kenneth Burke Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory. As a literary theorist, Burk ...

(1966) *'' The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge'',

Carlos Castaneda Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting with ''The Teachings of Don Juan'' in 1968, Castaneda wrote a series of books that purport to describe training in shamanism that he received under the tu ...

(1968) *''Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania'', Jerome Rothenberg (1968; 50th anniversary edition 2017) *''

The Mysterious Stranger ''The Mysterious Stranger'' is a novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it intermittently from 1897 through 1908. Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each involves a supernatural character called "Satan" or "No. ...

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Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...

(definitive edition) (1969, based on work first published in 1916) *'' Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution'' (1969) *''

The Making of a Counter Culture ''The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition'' is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published by Doubleday & Co. in 1969. Roszak "first came to public prominence in 1 ...

,'' Theodore Roszak (1970) *'' Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature'',

Stanley Fish Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19, 1938) is an American literary theorist, legal scholar, author and public intellectual. He is currently the Floersheimer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo Sc ...

(1972) *'' The Ancient Economy'', Moses I. Finley (1973) *'' Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism'',

Marina Warner Dame Marina Sarah Warner, (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publicat ...

(1981) *''Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education'', Nel Noddings (1984, 2nd edition 2003) *'' Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age'', Benjamin R. Barber (1984) *'' Art in the San Francisco Bay Area'', Thomas Albright (1985) *''

Religious Experience A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, or mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework. The concept originated in the 19th century, as a defens ...

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Wayne Proudfoot Wayne Lee Proudfoot (born November 17, 1939) is an American scholar of religion and has written several works in that field, specializing in the philosophy of religion. Proudfoot earned the degree of Master of Theology from the Harvard Divinity S ...

(1985) *'' The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam'', Tom Wells (1994) *'' George Grosz: An Autobiography'', George Grosz (translated by Nora Hodges) (published 1998, written in 1946, translated in 1955) *'' Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy'',

Kevin Bales Kevin Brian Bales, (born 1952), is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves. Free the Slaves is the US sister orga ...

(1999) *'' Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn'',

Karen McCarthy Brown Karen McCarthy Brown (August 12, 1942 – March 4, 2015) was an anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of religion. She is best known for her groundbreaking book ''Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn'', which made great strides in des ...

(2001) *'' A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America'',

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(2003) *'' Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History'', Norman G. Finkelstein (2005) *'' Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume One'',

(2010) *'' Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam'', Brannon D. Ingram (2018) *'' Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar'', Barbara D. Metcalf (1992)

Open access (OA) programs at UC Press

; Collabra Collabra is University of California Press's open access journal program. The Collabra program currently publishes two open access journals, ''Collabra: Psychology ''and'' Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene'', with plans for continued expansion and journal acquisition. ; Luminos Luminos is University of California Press's open access response to the challenged monograph landscape. With the same high standards for selection, peer review, production, and marketing as its traditional book publishing program, Luminos is a transformative model, built as a partnership where costs and benefits are shared.

Notable series

The University of California Press re-printed a number of novels under the ''California Fiction'' series from 1996 to 2001. These titles were selected for their literary merit and for their illumination of California history and culture. *''The Ford'' by Mary Austin *''Thieves' Market'' by A.I. Bezzerides *''Disobedience'' by Michael Drinkard *''Words of My Roaring'' by Ernest J. Finney *''Skin Deep'' by Guy Garcia *''Fat City'' by Leonard Gardiner *''Chez Chance'' by Jay Gummerman *''Continental Drift'' by

James D. Houston James Dudley Houston (November 10, 1933 – April 16, 2009) was an American novelist, poet and editor. He wrote nine novels and a number of non-fiction works (some co-authored and/or edited). Early life Houston was born in San Francisco, where h ...

*''The Vineyard'' by Idwal Jones *''In the Heart of the Valley of Love'' by

Cynthia Kadohata Cynthia Kadohata (born July 2, 1956) is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel ''Kira-Kira'' which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for ''Th ...

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Always Coming Home ''Always Coming Home'' is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. It is in parts narrative, pseudo-textbook and pseudo-anthropologist's record. It describes the life and society of the Kesh people, a cultural group ...

'' by

Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the '' Earthsea'' fantasy series. She was ...

*'' The Valley of the Moon'' by

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

*''Home and Away'' by Joanne Meschery *''Bright Web in the Darkness'' by Alexander Saxton *''Golden Days'' by

Carolyn See Carolyn See (née Laws; January 13, 1934 – July 13, 2016) was a professor emerita of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of ten books, including the memoir, ''Dreaming: Hard Luck and Good Times in America'', a ...

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Oil! ''Oil!'' is a novel by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1926–27 and told as a third-person narrative, with only the opening pages written in the first person. The book was written in the context of the Harding administration's Teapot Dome Sc ...

'' by

Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer, muckraker, political activist and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in seve ...

*''Understand This'' by

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*''Ghost Woman'' by Lawrence Thornton *''Who Is Angelina?'' by

Al Young Albert James Young (May 31, 1939 – April 17, 2021) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. He was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger from 2005 to 2008. Young's many books includ ...

References

External links

* * Frugé, August.
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Notable books

Open access (OA) programs at UC Press

Notable series

References

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