Hiring: Book Designer
The University of Illinois Press is looking for a Book Designer. Duties: Design interiors and covers/jackets (including art research) for university press books; typeset design-intensive books; review art programs; and […]
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Getting a start on Fixing Illinois
Fixing the problems in Illinois will be no easy task. But the authors of Fixing Illinois: Politics and Policy in the Prairie State want to get the wheels in motion. […]
Mushroom Monday: Morchella esculentioides
Morchella esculentioides (M. Kuo, Dewsbury, Moncalvo, & S.L. Stephenson) Edible and very good. Previously known as Morchella esculenta, which recent studies have determined to be strictly European. DNA reveals Morchella […]
Jim Rooney: on the road and In It for the Long Run
In 2009 Jim Rooney received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. In his new book In It for the Long Run Rooney recounts a lifetime’s worth of musical […]
New documentary expands on Rachel in the World
In her memoir Rachel in the World, Jane Bernstein writes about the formidable obstacles of raising a disabled daughter into adulthood. In the book, a follow up to her previous memoir Loving Rachel, […]
Mushroom Monday: Coprinus comatus
Coprinus comatus (O.F. Müller) Persoon Often called the “shaggy mane.” Edible and good when collected in the button stage (when the gills are still white), but compare it carefully with Amanita […]
Mushroom season! Get up, get into it, get your Morganella pyriformis
Morganella pyriformis (Schaeffer) Kreisel & D. Kruger The habitat on wood and the abundant white rhizomorphs make this puffball easy to identify. Morganella versus Lycoperdon. It’s the mycologist’s version of pepperoni or […]
The May 4, 1886 bombing that shook the world
On May 4, 1886, someone threw a bomb in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, and Leon Fink, editor of the recently released Workers in Hard […]
Exploring Illinois photos on exhibit
Michael Jeffords and Susan Post, authors of Exploring Nature in Illinois, are celebrating both the release of their new book and an exhibit of nature photography in May and June. […]
Ruth Nicole Brown: “Black girlhood is freedom”
Ruth Nicole Brown is an assistant professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Hear Our Truths: The Creative Potential of […]
Modern Masters of Science Fiction $2.99 eBook sale
For the month of May we have lowered the e-book list price of all four Modern Masters of Science Fiction titles in the University of Illinois Press catalog to $2.99. […]
Becoming Ray Bradbury $2.99 eBook sale
For the month of May we have lowered the eBook list price of Jonathan Eller’s Becoming Ray Bradbury to $2.99. Link to the buy options below. Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the […]