French film director Jacques Rivette was born on March 1, 1928. A member of the French New Wave, alongside François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Rivette is best known for his films Celine and Julie Go […]
Contemporary Film Directors $2.99 eBook sale
For the month of March we have lowered the e-book list price of 20+ titles in our Contemporary Film Directors series to $2.99. Click here to view the full list. […]
Caribbean Spaces up for OCM Bocas Prize
Carole Boyce-Davies has been named to the long list for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zones is one of three books nominated […]
Q&A with Demilitarization in the Contemporary World editor Peter Stearns
Peter N. Stearns is Provost of George Mason University, author of Globalization in World History and editor of the new UIP book Demilitarization in the Contemporary World. He answered our questions about the book. […]
A video preview of Exploring Nature in Illinois
With Exploring Nature in Illinois: A Field Guide to the Prairie State, naturalists Michael Jeffords and Susan Post provide a panorama of the natural diversity found in Illinois. The book […]
Q&A with Hillary Clinton in the News author Shawn Parry-Giles
Shawn J. Parry-Giles is a professor of communication and director of the Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership at the University of Maryland. She answered some questions about her UIP […]
Read an excerpt of Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant
“With great eloquence and pathos, N. draws on his daily life and references philosophers from Socrates to Kant to describe the netherworld of the undocumented. He takes solace in his […]
Women for President’s Day
What do Victoria Woodhull, Belva Lockwood, Margaret Chase Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Patricia Schroeder, Lenora Fulani, Elizabeth Dole and Carol Moseley Braun have in common? Each of these women ran for […]
Happy birthday Anna Howard Shaw
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was born on February 14, 1847. A leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Shaw was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist ministers in […]
Q&A with Hear Our Truths author Ruth Nicole Brown
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 Black Girlhood Celebration: Toward a Hip-Hop Feminist […]
Meet the Press: new faces for 2014
Towards the end of last year the Press welcomed three new faces to the staff. Now that we are well into 2014, it’s past time to introduce the new members […]
Intelligently Designed author weighs in on Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham
So Ken Ham and Bill Nye debated. Young-earth creationists were the winners by virtue of being on the same stage with a nationally known science educator before a national audience. […]