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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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Portrait of professor Jody Enders with two books of translated French stage comedies
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Matt Perko
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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Paul Meyers
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
Book cover image of The Computer Music Tutorial

Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial
Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight
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Matt Perko
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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Matt Perko
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
Historian Kate McDonald
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Matt Perko
Historian Kate McDonald, August 2023

From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation
The cover of “Mighty Bad Land” with Mount Luyendyk in the background.
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Bruce Luyendyk
Peak 1070 — near one of the team’s field camps — was renamed Mount Luyendyk in honor of the author’s contribution to our knowledge of Antarctica.

‘Mighty Bad Land’: A tale of danger and discovery in West Antarctica
Rice terraces at sunset in Japan
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Shining a light on the interconnectedness between societies and the natural world
Philosophy professor Thomas Holden
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Matt Perko
Professor Thomas Holden, March 2023

New book offers new interpretation on Thomas Hobbes’ philosophy of religion
Female Professor France Winddance Twine
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Matt Perko
Professor France Winddance Twine, March 2023

New book offers firsthand accounts of inequality in Silicon Valley, centers Black and Latinx women
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