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Michael Gurven reframes aging as evolutionary success

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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
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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
Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Author and professor Jody Enders, January 2024

Jody Enders’s ‘uncomfortably entertaining’ naughty French comedies nab prize for translation
UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí
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UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Francisco Lomelí at the International Latino Book Awards, October 2023

Compendium on Chicano poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera strikes gold
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Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial
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Giuliana Perrone, October 2023

Freedom in the aftermath of slavery: historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failures of American law
Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh
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Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, September 2023

From HIV-AIDS to COVID-19, scholar Bishnupriya Ghosh unpacks decades of research to better understand the complexities of living with viruses
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