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Euripides Scholia: Scholia on Orestes 501–1100
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Author(s): Donald J. Mastronarde
Subject(s): Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Institution(s): University of California, Berkeley
Last updated: 12/02/2024
Scholia are the annotations found in medieval manuscripts of Greek authors. They are found in the margins and between the lines of a primary text, or occasionally gathered in a separate codex or section of a codex. The annotations represent an amalgamation of commentary and glosses made over a long period of time, from the 2nd century BCE to the Renaissance, and designed for a wide spectrum of users, from professional scholars and advanced teachers to learners using the primary text as a means of learning classical Greek vocabulary, grammar, and style. This edition is part of a long-term, open-ended project to provide a more extensive accounting of the annotations on the tragedies of Euripides than ever before. This book provides a continuation of the first part, which covered annotations on Orestes 1–500. This edition contains updated front matter, including addenda and corrigenda to the first part, and the annotations on Orestes 501–1100. The two eBooks together represent the version of the online edition of scholia at EuripidesScholia.org as of Release 2.1 (2023). This version is intended for digital preservation purposes. Updates and greater functionality are available at the online site.
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Author(s): Office of Scholarly Communication Services, UC Berkeley
Publisher: UC Berkeley Library
Last updated: 11/10/2023
Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining
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Author(s): Scott Althaus, David Bamman, Sara Benson, Brandon Butler, Beth Cate, Kyle K. Courtney, Sean Flynn, Maria Gould, Cody Hennesy, Eleanor Dickson Koehl, Thomas Padilla, Stacy Reardon, Matthew Sag, Rachael Samberg, Brianna L. Schofield, Megan Senseney, Timothy Vollmer, Glen Worthey
Editor(s): Rachael Samberg, Timothy Vollmer
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
Last updated: 04/10/2023
Until now, humanities researchers conducting text data mining in the U.S. have had to maneuver through a thicket of legal issues without much guidance or assistance.
UC Berkeley Library led more than a dozen institutions in submitting (and receiving) a grant to create a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute entitled Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (Building LLTDM). We wanted to empower digital humanities researchers and professionals (librarians, consultants, and other institutional staff) to confidently navigate United States law, policy, ethics, and risk within digital humanities text data mining projects—so that they could more easily engage in this type of research and contribute to the advancement of knowledge.
On June 23-26, 2020, we welcomed 32 digital humanities researchers and professionals to the institute. After months of preparation, we had been looking forward to working and learning together at UC Berkeley, but the world had other plans. Due to the global health crisis, we had to transform our planned in-person, intensive workshop into an interactive and relevant remote experience.
The pandemic meant we had to transition everything online. The substantive content was pre-recorded and delivered in a flipped classroom model. Faculty created a series of short videos, and shared readings relevant to the legal literacies. We also provided the video transcripts and slides to participants to promote accessibility and accommodate multiple learning styles.
This book explores the legal literacies covered during the virtual institute, including copyright (both U.S. and international law), technological protection measures, privacy, and ethical considerations. It describes in detail how we developed and delivered the 4-day institute, and also provides ideas for hosting shorter literacy teaching sessions. Finally, we offer reflections and take-aways on the institute.
"The Discipline of Organizing" for Kids
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Author(s): Robert J Glushko
Last updated: 28/05/2023
“The Discipline of Organizing for Kids” is an adaptation of an award-winning college/professional book called “The Discipline of Organizing” (also available in open-access Pressbooks format). That book defines organizing as a new discipline that combines concepts and methods from many fields, especially library science and computer science, with some help from psychology, philosophy, economics, law, and other areas of study. This book for kids is aimed at children in late elementary or early middle school because at this age kids face many organizing challenges as they transition from one teacher in elementary school to different teachers for each subject. This significant change requires students to organize their time, their schoolwork and supplies, and their study habits with much less help from their teachers. That’s why they need the organizing concepts and skills that this book will teach them.
A Few Stories in Attic Greek: Adapted to Accompany Hansen & Quinn (11-20)
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Author(s): Christopher Jelen
Last updated: 03/01/2023
Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film
Author(s): John R. Wallace
Subject(s): Literature: history and criticism, Film history, theory or criticism
Publisher: berkeley.pressbooks.pub
Last updated: 07/12/2022
The Discipline of Organizing: 4th Professional Edition
Author(s): Robert J. Glushko
Editor(s): Robert J. Glushko
Subject(s): Information theory
Publisher: Robert J. Glushko
Last updated: 14/04/2022
The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition
Author(s): Claude H. Potts, curator
Editor(s): Claude H. Potts, curator, Achille Bocus, ed., Fedora Gertzman, ed., Steve Mendoza, Brenda Rosado
Subject(s): Bilingualism and multilingualism, Language and Linguistics, Language: reference and general, Language: history and general works, Language acquisition, Language teaching and learning, Language self-study, Language learning for academic, technical and scientific purposes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Publisher: The University Library, University of California, Berkeley
Last updated: 28/02/2022
This online library exhibition celebrates the magnificent diversity of languages that advance research, teaching, and learning at the University of California, Berkeley. Taking place between February 2019 and October 2020, it was the point of embarkation for an exciting sequential exhibit that built on one post per week, showcasing an array of digitized works in the original language chosen by those who work with these languages on a daily basis — librarians, professors, lecturers, staff, and students. Since its founding in 1868, students and faculty at UC Berkeley have concerned themselves with a breathtaking range of languages. In support of teaching and research, the University Library, which collects and preserves materials in all languages, now boasts a collection of more than thirteen million volumes. It is among the largest academic libraries in the U.S. with more than one third of its print resources in more than 500 non-English languages.
Euripides Scholia: Scholia on Orestes 1–500
Editor(s): Donald J. Mastronarde
Last updated: 10/09/2020
Scholia are the annotations found in medieval manuscripts of Greek authors. They are found in the margins and between the lines of a primary text, or occasionally gathered in a separate codex or section of a codex. The annotations represent an amalgamation of commentary and glosses made over a long period of time, from the 2nd century BCE to the Renaissance, and designed for a wide spectrum of users, from professional scholars and advanced teachers to learners using the primary text as a means of learning classical Greek vocabulary, grammar, and style. This edition is part of a long-term, open-ended project to provide a more extensive accounting of the annotations on the tragedies of Euripides than ever before. This book provides an edition of the prefatory material ( argumenta ) and scholia on the first 500 lines of Orestes : about 9000 items drawn from over 30 manuscripts. This is eBook version of the online edition of scholia at EuripidesScholia.org , covering Release 1 (2020) with the annotations on Euripides, Orestes 1–500. This version is intended for digital preservation purposes. Updates and greater functionality are available at the online site.
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Coming of Age in a Struggling Berkeley Bookstore
Nicola derobertis-theye on finding community working at university press books.
The bookstore where I worked for four years was named University Press Books. Its name appeared on a large sign above the door, but perhaps slightly too far above, because only about half of the people who visited the store called it that. About ten years before I’d started working there, Bill McClung, who with his wife Karen and a group of original investors founded the store in the 1970s, had painted in large letters just under it TEN THOUSAND MINDS ON FIRE, in reference to the subtitle of an Emerson biography by Robert Richardson, ‘”A mind on fire.” Naturally, every person walking by or entering the store assumed the name of the store was “Ten Thousand Minds on Fire.” “What a great name for a bookstore!” I heard several times a day. (One of the necessities of a customer service job: to be able to react to the same joke over and over as if it were unique and original.) Bill and Karen had done the rough math: if ten thousand people bought two books a year, the finances would work.
Everyone who knew it called it UPB, though. It was located across the street from the UC Berkeley campus (hereafter referred to by its true name, Cal), on Bancroft just below Telegraph and Sproul Plaza, following a Turkish deli and the UC hair salon, which had the cheapest wax in town. Across the street most directly was the student union and a plaza of cheap food places and the Bear’s Lair, the only campus bar, where sometimes cheers reached us during their “beat the clock” Friday special when the weather was nice and our door was propped open.
Karen and Bill had met while working at the University of California Press. They had agreed there should be a bookstore in Berkeley that would stock the more academic titles published by university presses, which most bookstores didn’t find it made economic sense to carry. A partnership of 25 people raised $35,000 and founded the store in 1974.
Our relationship to the rest of Berkeley was strange; we seemed either known and deeply beloved or completely unacknowledged. There was an informal tradition among the independent bookstores of Berkeley to honor a 10% discount for each other’s staffs, and often when I felt courageous enough to ask for it the clerk on the other end would have no idea we were a bookstore. These were years at the tail end of a good run for Berkeley’s bookstores. Four or five blocks down on Telegraph there was Cody’s and Moe’s and Shakespeare & Co. The same distance away on Shattuck were Pegasus and Border’s, widely despised as the corporate megalith. The was the anarchist bookstore in the alley between Durant and Channing, across from my shoe repair guy and the good frozen yogurt place, North Berkeley had Black Oak, and there was a Barnes and Nobel in Emeryville with the higher end shops by the bay. The bookstores contributed to the literary culture of Berkeley not only through the books they sold but also through the people they employed: the poet Brenda Hillman had worked at the store in its early years, as had Dean Young, while Jonathan Lethem had famously worked at Moe’s.
Despite our proximity to campus, most undergraduates had never heard of us. I was an undergraduate, and I’d never heard of it before my boyfriend at the time, a philosophy major, suggested I apply there for a job—it was 2007, my last year of college, and I’d spent the previous eight months working at an upscale Italian deli, dreaming of a life that did not involve regularly cleaning the meat slicer. A week after dropping off my resume, I’d interviewed and gotten the job, and worked there twenty hours a week during my last year of college.
Karen was always in the back, boxing and unboxing, seven days a week, often in her soccer clothes (she played in the same adult soccer league as my mother, it turned out). Other than the managers—five or six women in their fifties and sixties—the employees were me, Pablo, a poet straight out of the Brown MFA, Ed, who’d graduated at the same time as me from Cal and whose other job was at the Port of Oakland, and Jay, who had crazy Beethovenesque shocked-upward white hair and lived above the store and had been working on a philosophy dissertation on Foucault for twenty years. Jay had the slowest, Sunday shift.
Margins were tight. Some days the store brought in less than $1,000 gross—on bleak days we would tally $700, $800 when running the till—so often there was only one person working in the store. When ringing up books the practice was to bring the spines under the front desk and align them against a “demagnifier”—except there was no such thing. The security cameras and metal detector, too, were just for show. The most frequently shoplifted sections were Political Philosophy (obviously) and Caribbean studies. You learned never to tell a customer on the phone the Gramsci was in stock before finding it on the shelf.
After I graduated, a friend and I decided to travel around South America for a few months, before getting real jobs. In September, the economy crashed. I came back from South America in March, having spent all of my savings and in credit card debt. I applied for every job I could find, but the country was in a recession, and over the summer I worked my high school job at a summer camp. Then two closing shifts opened up at the bookstore—seven hours a week. I would bike down from the Oakland hills to the Berkeley campus, sometimes feeling bold enough to have one iPod ear bud in listening to MGMT’s Kids or the Life Aquatic soundtrack on repeat.
By the fall, the new manager they had hired to run the events had just given birth. All of the women who’d been with the store from the 70s assumed she’d do it as Karen had done with her two children—baby strapped to her chest while working the cash register, toddler in a play pen under a book display table. But she decided to stay home with the baby, so I became the events coordinator. My training was simple: go through the UP publisher catalogs, circle when the author was a professor at Berkeley, email them as ask if they’d like to have an event when the book came out. We did events with all of the Berkeley intellectual royalty: George Lakoff, Judith Butler, Robert Hass, Alice Walker.
After the books, the main appeal to working in a bookstore is the people. People who buy books! What a special category of souls. It was a customer service job, one or two customers were so mean they made me cry, but most were wonderful. There was a man who repeatedly ordered the Historical Atlas of Armenia , published by the University of Chicago Press at $175, it was almost always on order for him or waiting in the holds shelf for him to pick up, he had purchased ten or twelve of them in total by the time I started working there. Once I got the courage to ask him what he did with them. I give them away, he said. I want people to know.
Retail was tough on Telegraph. The joke—which often was just reality—was that every time something went out of business in those years it was replaced by a frozen yogurt store. The other bookstores had started dropping off—first Cody’s expanded and burned out like a supernova, then Borders closed in 2011.
Bill had all kinds of ideas for keeping the store afloat. He created “Slow Reading Dinners”: For $45 ($15 for students), attendees could gather for dinner prepared by Erick, the Spanish chef from the café next door. They would bring a short piece of writing—paragraph, page, or poem—that they thought should be read slowly. Martin, who was a partner in the bookstore and owned the collection of antique books that resided in the loft, foraged for mushrooms regularly, and the first of these dinners featured local chanterelles from the Berkeley and Oakland hills. Bill bought rosé from Kermit Lynch—this was 2009 and I had never had a dry rose before, a revelation. (I suspect the math did not work out exactly with the wine.) We would eat, drink, go around in the circle and read, and discuss. I was twenty-three and too young to know how special this all was.
Bill next decided we should found a nonprofit to support the Arts and Letters at the bookstore and the classical CD store next door, which often hosted performances by local string quartets. This would allow us to collect tax-deductible donations for the bookstore, the nonprofit could contribute towards the events and programs at the store. It was becoming clear that if there was an economic model with which the bookstore could survive, it was not a strictly capitalist one.
We tried a lot of things. Before the nonprofit, there were frequent buyer programs for customers, a “Friends of UPB” drive where we flat out asked supporters to donate money. We begged professors to order their course books with us instead of the campus bookstore, and a lot of them did. I applied to presses for coop funds to support every event we had, we partnered with nonprofit presses, bought used books on which the margins were better, acquired the libraries of professors recently retired or deceased, sold books on Abebooks and other websites. But increasingly, it wasn’t enough.
After college, my only ambition had been to be to travel. Then I came back from South America and it slowly occurred to me over the early years of my twenties that I would need to build a life. The only things I had ever wanted to do, to write and to travel, felt very far away. Those years after college were in some ways difficult for me, as I suspect they were for many academically achieving elder millennials. For so long I’d had a series of goals arranged: high school, then college, and suddenly after college an entire life stretched in front of me that I had no idea how to shape, or no faith that with the puny abilities, that I would be able to shape it.
But there was something swirling in my head, practically in front of my eyes, I could hear sentences echoing as I walked, and I had to write them. So on my days off, when I wasn’t doing chores and grocery shopping and watching marathons of SVU while folding laundry, I was trying to peck out words on to my laptop. The thing I was working on, I was realizing, was going to be a book.
I decided to apply to MFA programs, I wanted to finish the book, go all in on this ill-advised career track. By the spring I’d gotten into four MFA programs, three in the Bay Area, but none of those with any funding. I saw that if I stayed I would keep my job at the bookstore, classes were often at night and would be easy to fit into my schedule, I could have lobbied to be made a manager, worked to expand the nonprofit with Bill, given my life over to running the store. But aside from studying abroad I had never lived outside of the East Bay, and I wanted to build my own life. I needed to leave home.
The bookstore threw me a goodbye party in the back patio. Erick made the best sangria I have to this day ever tasted. I moved to North Carolina, where I lived for three years. I wrote the book I wanted to write. No one published it, but I survived. After I finished my MFA I moved to New York and started a new book, a novel, though I’d written the opening pages while still working in the store. In fact, they were set in the store itself.
I left the bookstore in 2011, but at least once a year I would visit when home for Christmas, I bought books, for myself and as gifts, refused the discount. I sent my mother there. I would get updates—they had recruited more investors, expanded the group to 50. They started hosting classics and reading groups in back room. In 2013, two years after I’d left, they sold the building and they seemed optimistic, the buyer was motivated to keep them in place, the cash influx bought them some time. They turned over the back patio to Café Ohlone, dedicated to the cuisine of the indigenous Ohlone, which became quite successful.
In the meantime, I finished the book, the one whose early pages were set in the store, got an agent, and a publisher offered to publish it—all of this is easy to write in a sentence; it took years and years. In the summer before the book was published, four months into the Covid lockdown, I’d just finished copyedits when I saw the Facebook post: University Press Books had closed. They were hoping it was temporary, hoped to find a smaller space with cheaper rent and reopen post-pandemic. It had been so many years on the edge: I really had begun to wonder if maybe it could continue forever.
Independent bookstores have been hit so hard by the pandemic, and I can’t help thinking about what are we losing, each time we lose one. A shopping experience, certainly—Amazon algorithms can never replicate the serendipity of a book catching your eye, one that you might never usually seek out, but of course everyone knows bookstore really make the money on the cards, the merch (we sold “reading is sexy” tees and bumper stickers), and the kids’ books—despite our academic bent, one of our bestselling books in 2007 was Twilight . There’s the convenience, of course—more than one Berkeley adjunct or GSI on the way to teach a class, having forgotten the book they were teaching at home had popped in to grab Things Fall Apart , or Gender Troubles , but there is also inconvenience—customers were consistently shocked that it took 2-3 weeks for us to order books from University Presses. I think really, what they dissolve is a community. It takes so much time to build a community. It takes a second for them to fall apart.
Of course I wonder if I should have stayed, should have thrown myself into the various ways we were trying to save the bookstore, and if I am honest I can easily picture that alternate life that would have spun out from the decision to stay. It’s true I chose a different life, chose my own book, but it’s a book I could not have conceived of or written without my time working for that bookstore. Even before I learned it was closing, I dedicated the book to it.
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The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye is available now via Harper Books.
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Summer is one of the publishing industry’s busiest times of year, when a summer beach read remains a seasonal ritual. From this season’s bounty comes a dozen books by Berkeley writers or by authors who have Berkeley roots or write about Berkeley subjects.
- Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein
- Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
- Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean by Christina Gerhardt
- This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue by Zachary Shore
- Brown Eyes from Russell Street by Héctor Muñoz-Guzmán
- Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor by Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs
- The Making of American Buddhism by Scott A. Mitchell
- Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers by Hozan Alan Senauke
- Nondual Love: Awakening to the Loving Nature of Reality by A.H. Almaas
- The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane
- Tell the Rest by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
- Writers by Barry Gifford
Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater
By Peggy Orenstein Harper Collins, 224 pages, $28
Peggy Orenstein’s breezy pandemic memoir, Unraveling , is partially inspired by Michael Pollan’s groundbreaking 2006 book, the Omnivore’s Dilemma , in which Pollan investigates where his food comes from and ends up making a meal without the use of industrialized ingredients. Like Pollan, Orenstein is curious about the origins of her clothing and goes DIY, undertaking every step that goes into the making of a wool sweater, from shearing the wool to dyeing and spinning it and finally knitting the garment.
“While everyone else was stress-baking and doom scrolling, I felt an inexplicable, unquenchable urge to confront a large animal while wielding a razor-sharp, juddering clipper; shear off its fleece; and figure out how to make it into a sweater,” she writes.
Unlike Pollan, Orenstein’s exercise serves as a jumping off point for the major life changes she finds herself pondering during the pandemic: her daughter going away to college, the recent loss of her mother, her father’s dementia and her own aging — making the book somewhat of a memoir, with the jaunty prose and quick humor she is known for.
Along the way, Orenstein manages to knit in brief histories exploring natural versus synthetic fibers and dyes, turn-of-the-century garment worker women and women’s knitting during the wars and as a sign of protest, among other engaging threads.
The book also offers a place for Orenstein to re-examine the fraught relationship she had with her mother, who taught her how to knit when she was around 11. That generational transfer is so widespread among women, Orenstein even created an acronym for such learning: SLFHM (She Learned From Her Mother).
“For my mom and me, knitting bridged the generation gap, created reliably neutral ground where we could meet,” Orenstein writes. Though her mother “could not be the guide to contemporary womanhood I needed, we could still bond over a trip to the yarn store.”
This is Orenstein’s eighth book. Previous titles include her New York Times bestsellers exploring adolescent sexuality, Boys & Sex and Girls & Sex .
Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
By Dacher Keltner Penguin Random House, 336 pages, $28
Dacher Keltner is an expert in the science of human emotion. A professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, Keltner has spent decades studying how emotions shape us and steer our moral intuition. His new book, his third, is the product of his last dozen years of research on awe.
As Keltner describes it, awe is the emotion we experience “when we encounter vast mysteries that we don’t understand,” such as the birth of a child or the immensity of the Grand Canyon. Awe, he writes, is an essential ingredient to a happy life. Though awe has animated the “stories, ceremonies, rituals and visual designs of Indigenous peoples dating back tens of thousands of years,” it has only been studied scientifically within the past 15 years. The book incorporates new research into how awe can transform our brains and bodies, examines awe across history, culture and within his own life during a period of grief.
Awe, it turns out, is worth expressing because it has proven benefits. Awe sharpens our reasoning, orients our brains toward big ideas and new insights, dulls our immune system’s inflammatory response and inclines us to share and create strong communal bonds, among other plusses.
Awe is a book for our times, Keltner argues. Awe breeds empathy, connectivity and community at a time of great disconnection — from each other and the planet.
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
By Christina Gerhardt University of California Press, 320 pages, $35
The word “island” is practically synonymous with paradise, writes UC Berkeley senior fellow and environmental journalist Christina Gerhardt in her new book. Yet life on islands around the world is no fantasy. In fact, island life has increasingly become dystopian as islands around the world bear the brunt of climate change.
“Atlases are being redrawn as islands are disappearing,” Gerhardt writes. “Yet many on continents are not even aware of where these islands are located, what their names are, or how climate impacts them.” With sea levels rising, low-lying islands are harbingers of the future that awaits coastal cities around the world.
Gerhardt could have created a purely scientific report of what’s been happening to such far-flung places as Lnnui Mnukuk, the Mi’kmaq name for Lennox Island in Canada’s North Atlantic provinces, and the Republic of Nauru in the Pacific, the world’s smallest independent island nation. Instead, she considers her artfully designed book a “transportive atlas” that incorporates maps, essays, poetry and images, along with brief histories outlining the impacts of colonialism and imperialism, providing more of a holistic and multi-media experience.
Gerhardt lets islanders, from ordinary folk to presidents, speak for themselves, with an emphasis on indigenous and Black voices. Hilda Heine, the former president of the Marshall Islands, which, according to estimates, may be underwater in the next 20 to 50 years, describes how sea water frequently breaches a sea wall and floods her property.
Though the science is disheartening — a 2018 report found that the melting in Greenland could lead to twice as much sea level rise as previously thought — the book doesn’t end without hope.
“If climate change necessitates a radical retooling of our economies and infrastructures, why not do so in a way that deals not only with the climate threat but also with social justice, economic justice, and racial justice in a way that ensures environmental justice.” The book includes ideas to do just that.
Take the island nation of Tokelau in the Pacific, which became the world’s first country to be fully solar powered in 2012. Tokelau plans to use the $829,000 it previously spent annually on importing fossil fuels on health care and education.
This Is Not Who We Are: America’s Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
By Zachary Shore Cambridge University Press, 333 pages, $28
Zachary Shore’s fifth book poses the question, “What kind of country is America?” and answers it by examining some of the most morally muddled moments of World War II, from moving Japanese Americans to internment camps to imposing a punishing peace on Germany and dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
As he explored the process that led to such decisions, Shore expected that racism and wartime hatreds would explain them. “To my surprise, the majority of key decision makers, along with much of the American public, opposed these harsh measures,” he writes. Yet a minority pushed their policies through. “The most remarkable aspect of these policies was precisely how little support and how much ambivalence they actually produced,” he writes.
Shore, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies, devotes the first part of the book to exploring how and why America’s vengeful policies were adopted and the second part to how leaders sought to “atone for some of its own wartime cruelties.” By the end of the war, Shore describes an America that was feeding the hungry, rebuilding Western Europe and Japan and airlifting supplies to a blockaded Berlin, transforming its image in the eyes of the world.
Brown Eyes from Russell Street
By Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs University of California Press, 376 pages, $30
In June, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the unemployment rate has been holding steady at around 3.6%. And that’s good news for workers, according to the authors of this new book. They contend that very low unemployment boosts wages at the bottom, lengthens job ladders and pulls the unemployed into a booming job market.
The authors share an expertise in worker-related issues. Berkeley resident Katherine S. Newman is provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at UC Berkeley and the author of 14 books on topics that include the working poor and social mobility. Elisabeth S. Jacobs is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and cofounder of WorkRise, a research-to-action network on jobs, workers and mobility, where she serves as deputy director.
Their research draws on more than 70 years of quantitative data and interviews with employers, job seekers and longtime residents of low-income neighborhoods.
In addition to investigating the positive consequences of tight labor markets, they also consider the downside of “overheated economies that can ignite surging rents and spur outmigration.” So they are calling for governmental policies that will maintain those low unemployment rates and prepare for any slowdowns that may lie ahead.
The Making of American Buddhism
By Scott A. Mitchell Oxford University Press, 233 pages, $30
According to this new book, there were 3 million to 4 million Buddhists in America as of 2010, and now are likely more. Author Scott A. Mitchell seeks to explain how that happened.
Though the Bay Area has long been a hotbed of American Buddhism, beginning with the arrival of Chinese and Japanese immigrants in the 19th century, popularized by Beat generation writers like Kerouac and institutions like the San Francisco Zen Center and Spirit Rock in Woodacre in the 20th century, Mitchell focuses on the community he is most familiar with: the Institute of Buddhist Studies, which in the 1960s became the study center for the Berkeley Buddhist Temple, established in 1911. Mitchell is the institute’s dean of students and faculty affairs and holds its Yoshitake Tamai Professional Chair.
The book explores the intersection of race and religion in the United States before, during and after World War II, “when Nisei Buddhists reacted to the trauma of racial and religious discrimination by laying claim to an American identity inclusive of their religious identity,” Mitchell writes.
Though he admits that some readers might suspect his position doesn’t provide him with distance from his subject matter, he insists that it gave him access to people, archives and histories not available to the general public. That’s clear in his focus. Mitchell’s primary source is the Berkeley Bussei , a temple-supported magazine published from 1939 to 1960, where Nisei Buuddhists “argued that Buddhism was both what made them good Americans and what they had to contribute to America, a rational and scientific religion of peace.”
Turning Words: Transformative Encounters with Buddhist Teachers
By Hozan Alan Senauke Shambhala Publications, 152 pages, $19
Hozan Alan Senauke, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center since 2021, has had a nearly 40-year practice in Zen Buddhism and “engaged Buddhism,” an activist Buddhism that engages with social and political issues. Senauke founded the Berkeley-based Clear View Project, a nonprofit supporting humanitarian projects in Asia, most recently by aiding the cause of the Burmese people against the repression of a military junta. He has also served on the board of the Nevada Desert Experience, which protests nuclear testing.
Given his long history in Buddhism, Senauke has met many of the world’s most prominent teachers and influential leaders and shares what he’s learned from them in a new book. Turning Words relays more than 30 encounters he’s had with Buddhist luminaries who include the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Halifax and Joanna Macy. The vignettes touch on topics such as meditation, insight, social action, race and family matters and offer lessons from the masters, like how to take one’s work seriously without taking oneself seriously.
Nondual Love: Awakening to the Loving Nature of Reality
By A.H. Almaas Shambhala Publications, 248 pages, $21.95
Almaas is the pen name for A. Hameed Ali, the creator of the Berkeley-based Diamond Approach, which dubs itself as “a modern-day spiritual approach” that combines ancient spiritual wisdom with modern psychology. Since 1976, the organization has guided students through its Berkeley-based Ridhwan School , which now has a global reach.
Almaas has written 20 books for Shambhala on spirituality and this one, the second volume in a trilogy on love, is a follow-up to his 2020 book, Love Unveiled . In that book, Almaas explores the idea of spiritual love.
This volume explores “divine love,” aka nondual or universal love, “when our spiritual nature manifests its unbounded infinity as a shoreless ocean of sweetness, softness, and goodness.” Almaas describes the ways this type of love can be experienced, as well as the obstructions that might hinder it. The main obstacle, he notes, is the belief in a separate self, along with other types of conditioning that “stand in the way of true nature manifesting itself as this expanse of pure selfless love.”
The Sun Walks Down
By Fiona McFarlane Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 352 pages, $28
Fiona McFarlane’s third novel was inspired by a hike she took in her native Australia’s Flinders Ranges, where 19th-century Europeans quickly set up — and then abandoned — settlements that became ruins in the middle of the bush. That landscape and its complicated history become the setting for the novel, which follows the disappearance of a boy named Denny Wallace during a dust storm. The narrative brings together the many characters of an Australian colonial town, from indigenous trackers to railwaymen, cameleers and landowners, along with the various ways they perceived the landscape.
“From the beginning of European settlement onwards, the story of the white child lost in the bush or the wilderness has been a really important part of our national mythology — often predicated on the idea that the bush itself is sinister in some way,” McFarlane told The Bookseller in December. “I wanted to approach the landscape from multiple points of view because for some people it does feel barren and strange and empty and hostile, but for others it feels full of life.”
MacFarlane garnered international attention with the publication of her first novel in 2013, The Night Guest , which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. She teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley.
Tell the Rest
By Lucy Jane Bledsoe Akashic Books, 320 pages, $29
Bledsoe’s seventh novel tackles conversion therapy, aimed at turning queer folks straight, as practiced by certain evangelical Christian churches. Bledsoe recently told Berkeleyside that she came to this topic “from my complete dismay that people who call themselves Christians are driving some of the most hateful campaigns in this country.” She did not, however, want to tackle that topic by arguing, but by showing how “community and friendship and love do overcome hate.”
The novel starts with Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham meeting as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy program. After witnessing a tragedy, they escape in the night to their respective homes. Many years later, circumstances bring them together again and they are forced to grapple with the repercussions of the conversion therapy and the necessity of remaining steadfast in one’s truth.
By Barry Gifford Seven Stories Press, 169 pages, $17
In “Writers on a Train,” Gypsy Rose Lee squeezes into a seat next to Willa Cather on a trip from Chicago to new York in 1945, then proceeds to tells Cather about her career as a “striptease artist,” her mother’s preference for women and how she doesn’t wear undergarments because “they get in the way.”
That’s one of 19 fantastical vignettes in the book, in which Gifford throws together famous writers and imagines seeing them at their most vulnerable. Though Gifford realizes each is written in play form and can be performed as plays, they are mainly intended to be read as stories.
In addition to Cather and Lee, Gifford gives us Albert Camus chatting with a young prostitute while staring at himself in the mirror of a New York City hotel room; André Gide and Georges Simenon discussing their wildly different approaches to narrative; and Marcel Proust imploring the angel of death as a delirious Arthur Rimbaud lies dying in a hospital bed.
In an author’s note, Gifford admits taking lots of liberties with “what in several cases has passed for biographical information,” but insists that “the facts are to be found in what they wrote.”
Gifford’s written more than 40 works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including Roy’s World: Stories 1973-2020 . He’s probably best known for the 1989 novel Wild at Heart , which became a Palme d’Or-winning film.
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1. keywords; phrase searches; filtering
"language policy"
filter (on the left): language: esperanto
NOTE: if your language doesn't appear on the list, try adding it to the search, ex:
"language policy" AND esperanto
and then check the filters (they can only list a limited number of languages under filters)
quotes keep two or more words together
other filters, limit to scholarly/peer reviewed articles; or limit to format (books, articles)
2. variant word endings
translat* AND korea*
(limit by language: korean)
* = truncation symbol/wildcard; child* = child, childs, children, childhood, childish...
3. alternative terms/spellings
chewa OR nyanja OR chichewa OR chinyanja
limit by language (you'll have to check off multiple options)
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Exploring the Arts during Black History Month
“The A&AePortal is committed to featuring groundbreaking and authoritative books on African Americans and the arts . Here are some highlights—see what might be helpful in your teaching, coursework, or research!” – from the A&Ae Portal Website.
Explore the Arts and Architecture E Portal from Yale University Press provided to you by UC Berkeley Library. Click the link to see these and other titles about the African American and Black Diaspora.
Visit the Art History/ Classics library to view more new books on Black and African American Artists now on display in 308 Doe.
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Cover Image: From the painting “Solemn Confusion” by Fernando Campos (acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches) // Fernando Campos is the Acquisitions Coordinator for the University of Virginia Press. As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he served as an associate editor for Berkeley Fiction Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and The Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal at UC Berkeley (CLUJ). He also served as a Senior Advisor for CLUJ. He completed a senior thesis on ekphrastic poetry and graduated with honors in the UC Berkeley English Department.
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UPB CLOSED FOR REGULAR BUSINESS After 49 years in business, University Press Books has pretty much stepped into history. Back in the '70s, what at first seemed a far-fetched gleam in William McClung's eye quickly became a go-to resource for Berkeley scholars as well as intellectuals, artists, and activists of the East Bay and beyond.
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our January 2024 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the … Read More > Resources For Book Authors
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University Press Books Scholars, students, activists, authors , artists, and curious readers turn to us for books published by presses associated with universities. We also carry savvy titles from trade houses. When visiting Berkeley, find our sales space inside the Musical Offering Cafe & Music Shop.
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From 1974, University Press Books has stoked the blaze of well over ten thousand minds on fire, carrying new scholarship published by the great university presses in the English-speaking world. After our founding, we added quality fiction and creative non-fiction to our selection, without drfiting from our mission to showcase top new texts introduced by university presses. Let well-wrought ...
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After 46 years of serving up an array of books from university presses around the globe, and hosting thousands of author talks, book clubs and gatherings, University Press Books at 2430 Bancroft Way has shuttered for good.
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Eastwind Books of Berkeley. ... University Press Books. Just down the street from campus, University Press is a small and cozy shop. You can buy some schoolbooks here, but unlike the campus store ...
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UPB open Tuesday through Friday 1PM - 6PM, Saturday Noon - 5pm 2430 Bancroft Way. The store known for serving pure brain food has returned to our old digs for a few months to sell down inventory and bid fare thee well to our decades of in-store customers.
University of California Press. UC Berkeley Library continues to support open access book publishing via Luminos, the open access arm of the University of California Press.The Library membership with Luminos means that UC Berkeley authors who have books accepted for publication through the UC Press can publish their book open access with a heavily discounted book processing charge.
By Judith Butler. Columbia University Press, 144 pages, $18 (paperback) and $80 (hardcover) Judith Butler is a philosopher and gender theorist at UC Berkeley who explores in this book how the political, economic, social and ecological consequences of COVID-19 have challenged us to reconsider our sense of the world.
Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2019 / 2019. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0499-8. Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981. David Montejano. Publisher: University of Texas Press / 2010. ... University of California, Berkeley. 506 Social Science Building ...
Posted on February 7, 2024 by Timothy Vollmer UC Berkeley supports a variety of ways our authors can participate in open access publishing. At its heart, open access literature is "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions" (Suber, 2019). Open access materials can be read and used by anyone.
Karen and Bill had met while working at the University of California Press. They had agreed there should be a bookstore in Berkeley that would stock the more academic titles published by university presses, which most bookstores didn't find it made economic sense to carry. A partnership of 25 people raised $35,000 and founded the store in 1974.
Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. By Christina Gerhardt. University of California Press, 320 pages, $35. The word "island" is practically synonymous with paradise, writes UC Berkeley senior fellow and environmental journalist Christina Gerhardt in her new book. Yet life on islands around the world is no fantasy.
The store at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) on campus carries more than 30 books by UC Berkeley authors. Eva Kalea. ... From Duke University Press: "In Puta Life, Juana María Rodríguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies ...
UC Library Search. UC Library Search is the University of California's unified discovery and borrowing system. Access it directly or from the Library homepage to find most UC books, articles, media, archival collections, and more. See the UC Library Search User Guide and ask for research help 24/7 for more information.
"The A&AePortal is committed to featuring groundbreaking and authoritative books on African Americans and the arts. Here are some highlights—see what might be helpful in your teaching, coursework, or research!" - from the A&Ae Portal Website. Explore the Arts and Architecture E Portal from Yale University Press provided to you by UC Berkeley Library.
Cover Image: From the painting "Solemn Confusion" by Fernando Campos (acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches) // Fernando Campos is the Acquisitions Coordinator for the University of Virginia Press. As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he served as an associate editor fo…