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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893[2] 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.[3]

Parent company

1893

Ingram Publisher Services (US)
John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Footprint Books (Australia)[1]

As the non-profit publishing arm of the University of California system, the UC Press is fully subsidized by the university and the State of California.[3] 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.[4] It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives.


The press has its administrative office in downtown Oakland, California, an editorial branch office in Los Angeles, 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.[3]


The press commissioned as its corporate typeface University of California Old Style from type designer Frederic Goudy from 1936 to 1938, although it no longer always uses the design.[5][6][7][8]

, Kenneth Burke (1966)

Language As Symbolic Action

, Carlos Castaneda (1968)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

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

, Mark Twain (definitive edition) (1969, based on work first published in 1916)

The Mysterious Stranger

(1969)

Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

, Theodore Roszak (1970)

The Making of a Counter Culture

, Stanley Fish (1972)

Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature

, Moses I. Finley (1973)

The Ancient Economy

, Marina Warner (1981)

Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism

Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, Nel Noddings (1984, 2nd edition 2003)

, Benjamin R. Barber (1984)

Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age

, Thomas Albright (1985)

Art in the San Francisco Bay Area

, Wayne Proudfoot (1985)

Religious Experience

, Tom Wells (1994)

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam

, George Grosz (translated by Nora Hodges) (published 1998, written in 1946, translated in 1955)

George Grosz: An Autobiography

, Kevin Bales (1999)

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

, Karen McCarthy Brown (2001)

Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn

, Michael Barkun (2003)

A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America

, Norman G. Finkelstein (2005)

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History

: Volume One, Mark Twain (2010)

Autobiography of Mark Twain

, Brannon D. Ingram (2018)

Revival from Below

, Barbara D. Metcalf (1992)

Perfecting Women

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

The Vineyard by

Idwal Jones

In the Heart of the Valley of Love by

Cynthia Kadohata

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Always Coming Home

by Jack London

The Valley of the Moon

Home and Away by

Joanne Meschery

Bright Web in the Darkness by

Alexander Saxton

Golden Days by

Carolyn See

by Upton Sinclair

Oil!

Understand This by

Jervey Tervalon

Ghost Woman by

Lawrence Thornton

Who Is Angelina? by

Al Young

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.[11][12]

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List of university presses

Official website

Frugé, August. . Berkeley: University of California Press, c1993 1993.

A Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing

– University of California Libraries

California Digital Library (CDL)

Free Online - UC Press E-Books Collection

Mark Twain Project Online

"", The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2010

Mark Twain's Biography Flying Off the Shelves