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Book cover detail for "When Rebels Win" by Kai Thaler (Cornell University Press, 2025).

Why some rebel victories build states — and others break them

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Jeff Liang
Professor Sameer Pandya at UC Santa Barbara's Harder Stadium

In Sameer Pandya’s ‘Our Beautiful Boys,’ teenage secrets are the dark heart of suburbia
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Abortion rights backlash and globalization
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Matt Perko

Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa writes definitive account of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
photograph of a first edition copy of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath"
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A first edition of "The Grapes of Wrath" was among a recent donation of John Steinbeck's major works to the UCSB Library archive

Trove of John Steinbeck first editions and audio recordings elevate UCSB Library archive
three-panel photographic image of a woman holding a picture of her son, the cover of a new book on Guatemala and the dry riverbed below a dam
"The Fourth Invasion" argues that present-day hydroelectric projects are a continuation of Guatemala's long history of colonialism and resource exploitation and includes the state-sponsored genocide of the late 20th century

Guatemala’s history of colonialism, from genocide to extractionist industries
Professor Tania Israel seated on a bench with text overlay Q&A
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Matt Perko
Professor and author Tania Israel, October 2024

Tania Israel’s new book teaches civil conversations in divisive times
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Author measures memoir’s potential impacts on readers with eating disorders
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Theater scholar’s culminating work unpacks masterpiece of the American stage
Researcher's new book and portrait

How to build and protect skills in our modern workplace, a world filled with AI and robots
Photograph of author Patricia Fancher with her new book, Queer Techné

New book explores gay, queer and feminist community at the heart of early advances in computer science
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New book reveals Ottoman origins of refugee resettlement in Middle East
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Religious scholar to discuss FBI roots in white Christian nationalism
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