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Big Brands Are Watching You
How is morality understood in the marketplace? Why do brands speak out about certain issues of injustice and not others? And what is influencer culture’s role in social and political activism? Big ...
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Invitation to Syriac Christianity
Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac Christians ...
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Actual Malice
"A detailed examination of . . . the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for journalists."—The New York Times Book Review A deeply researched legal ...
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The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
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Q&A with Benjamin Snyder, author of "Spy Plane"
In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department had an aerial surveillance plane that could supposedly photograph and track every person in public view. Spy Plane reveals what happened with this ...
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One Hundred Years of Border Control
A new special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924. The issue includes new research that critically examines the troubled ...
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Music Perception Announces New Associate and Consulting Editors
Music Perception is thrilled to welcome a new cohort of Associate Editors with expertise in music information retrieval, cross-cultural research, music performance and expertise, cognitive ...
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Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
When I began writing Women, Faith, and Family, I couldn’t help but see the complex tensions that shape conversations around women’s rights in Muslim societies—especially in Iran. In many of these ...
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UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) is joining UC Press's journals publishing program. The first issue published by UC Press will be Volume 37, No. 1, in ...
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System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. It was always ...
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Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Copyediting is expert but not arbitrary. Your copyeditor brings years of experience editing book-length works and has a reason for every mark they make, suggesting style and usage guidelines that fit ...