For World Wildlife Day, Peter Alagona discusses his new book, The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities. Peter AlagonaThe Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpecte
For the Spring 2020 season, UC Press is proud to publish several titles in paperback ranging in subject from the lectures on the origins of nuclear weapons to how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America.Down by the Bay San Francisco’
Happy Earth Day 2020! This year, celebrating the outdoors and our planetary biosphere is more important than ever before. Even as California's landscape is regularly glassed, COVID-19 is offering a glimpse at what a future ecotopia could consist of. And if a week marked by oil prices inverting into