Spring/Summer 2010 Volume 23, Issue 1 www.ucpress.edu

Board of Trustees

The UC Pr e s s Fo undat io n Board of Trustees oversees UC Press’s fundraising activities and allocates publishing grants from endowment income. Board members include community leaders from Northern and Southern California.

Imprints Staff

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Janelle Cavanagh, Chuck Crumly, Kathryn Leung, Naomi Schneider, Eugenie C. Scott, Lynne Witheycon t r i b u to r s

Frances Bacadesi g ne r

Photos: Cover photo, Janelle Cavanagh portrait, and bottom right event photo © Peg Skorpinski.

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Stephen A. Arditti, ChairElizabeth Birka-WhiteJames H. Clark, Ex OfficioRichard DammMary DingmanSonia Holden EversCarol FieldSukey Garcetti*

Harriett Gold*

Brett GottliebGary K. HartAdele M. HayutinPatricia KlausWatson M. LaetschR. Marilyn LeeJudith Kafka MaxwellMichael McCone

Jack Miles*

James NaifyWilliam NolanRichard C. Otter*

Barbara Z. OttoMartin Paley*

Lucinda K. ReinoldLoren R. RothschildJennifer Basye SanderDiana P. ScottLisa See*

Meryl SeligStephen M. SilbersteinAnna WeidmanLynne Withey

*Emeritus

News in Brief

UC Press Foundation strategic planning group Janelle Cavanagh, Marilyn Lee, Judy Maxwell, Lucinda Reinold, Adele Hayutin, Lynne Withey, Willie Nolan, and Steve Arditti.

The UC Press Foundation welcomes four new Trustees. Gary K. Hart is a former California State Secretary of Education and California State Senator and the founder of the California State University Institute for Education Reform. He serves as a Board member for the Public Policy Institute of California, Cotsen Family Foundation, and California Campaign for College Opportunity. Patricia Klaus is an accomplished equestrian who owns a premier equestrian facility north of San Francisco. An independent scholar, she previously taught British history at Yale University. Barbara Z. Otto is a retired Bank of America executive and a trustee of St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Jew-ish Family and Children’s Services, and Marin Education Fund. Diana P. Scott is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in labor and employment law who serves as a member of the Alumni Board of the University of the Pacific and was named Woman of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Stephen A. Arditti has been appointed Chair of the UC Press Foundation. He joined the Board in 2008 after retir-ing as the University of California’s Assistant Vice President and Director of State Governmental Relations. Director Lynne Withey notes, “We are truly grateful to former Chair Jim Naify for his dedication during the Voice for Great Ideas Campaign and look forward to achieving continued success with the lead-ership of Steve Arditti.”

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, by Keith Waldrop, has won the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry. The National Book Foundation said of Waldrop: “If transcendental immanence were possible, it would be because Keith Waldrop had invented it; he’s the only one who could—and in Transcen-dental Studies he has.”

Gastronomica, UC Press’s groundbreaking food studies journal, is celebrating its first decade with a special tenth- anniversary issue, events across the country, and publication of The Gastronomica Reader (see inside). International in scope and ahead of its time in recognizing the importance of looking at serious issues surrounding food, the scholarly magazine has carved out a distinctive place for itself since it launched in 2001.

Authors Imprint contributors Barbara Metcalf and Erich Gruen, both longtime authors and supporters, celebrate the Author Campaign at a reception in San Francisco.

by Director Lynne Withey

One o f t he mo st grat ify ing features of our recently con-cluded $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign, for me, was working with a team of UC Press authors to create an endow-ment dedicated to publishing books by first-time authors. From the outset of the campaign, our staff and Trustees knew it would be important to enlist the support of our authors and believed they would find it appealing to contribute to a collective fund that could have a major impact on our publishing programs.

With this in mind, we sought advice from a number of our authors who have also been long-term supporters of UC Press. High-profile scholars all, with multiple books to their credit, they were moved by the challenges faced by younger colleagues to get their work published. The Author Campaign Advisory Committee was born, and we began seeking support from both UC Press authors and friends who publish elsewhere to reach our $250,000 goal for the Authors Imprint.

Clearly the idea of banding together to support fellow authors resonated. Writers from around the world, and a wide range of disciplines, have helped make this endowed imprint a reality, and I received many notes and even phone calls commending us for supporting first books. As of the new year, we have raised

Members & EventsUC Press in Pictures

Loren Partridge, author of Art of Renaissance Florence, enjoys an evening reception for members and friends hosted by Trustee Sonia Evers.

Melva Arditti, Foundation Chair Steve Arditti, Editor Blake Edgar, John De Luca, Steve Nation, and Director Lynne Withey gather for a discussion about UC Press’s food and wine publications.

Author Dianne Macleod (center) presents Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects to guests at the home of Trustee Elizabeth Birka-White and David Birka-White.

Ann and Paul Karlstrom, Karen Tsujimoto, and Patricia Unterman celebrate the success of the Voice for Great Ideas Campaign at the Wattis Room in San Francisco.

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Our editors nominated half a dozen forthcoming titles to be the first to carry the imprint designation, all of them stellar works of superior scholarship. We finally selected The Pastoral Clinic by Angela Garcia and From the Indian Ocean to the Medi-terranean by Sebouh Aslanian. Garcia, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine, writes about heroin addiction and public responses to it in the Española Valley near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work combines ethnography, medicine, and history in a powerfully moving literary style. Aslanian provides a remarkable study of a community of Armenian silk merchants living in central Iran during the 1600s and 1700s, who maintained a vast trading network ranging from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean is based on his prize-winning PhD disserta-tion at Columbia University, and he is a fellow in world history at Cornell University.

Supporting first books has spe-cial meaning for me—perhaps because I too was once an untested author, long before I became a publisher! I am proud that UC Press is dedicated to fostering work by scholars in the early stages of their careers. Our editors have a remarkable ability to spot new talent, and indeed, some of our most successful publications have been first books—works like Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod, The Birth of Bebop by Scott DeVeaux, Geisha by Liza Dalby, Race Music by Guthrie Ramsey, and AIDS and Accusation by Paul Farmer. The Authors Imprint is an important step toward ensuring that we continue to publish the next generations of outstanding scholars and writers.

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Greetings from Janelle Cavanagh

Is there a phrase for the opposite of “the perfect storm”? Perhaps “the perfect recipe”? I feel excited to be leading the UC Press Foundation during a time of momentous success—both in publishing fascinating and prominent publications and in fundraising.

Mark Twain asked that his autobiography not be published until 100 years after his death, and the Foundation is proud to help meet his wishes (volume 1 is coming soon). At a time when addressing health care and rebuilding in Haiti are critical to sav-ing lives, UC Press has issued an important compilation of Paul Farmer’s writings. See Recent & Recommended for more infor-mation about this and other major new publications, many of which received support from the Foundation this year.

As the most adventurous nonprofit publisher in the world, UC Press preserves culture and knowledge through academic inquiry, and considers worthy content rather than commercial viability when acquiring books. I am pleased to partner with supporters like you so that the Foundation can provide nearly $1 million each year to make UC Press’s acclaimed programs possible, including supporting the majority of new books.

I am fortunate to be working with dedicated and influential Trustees and a strong staff, who together successfully exceeded the $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign goal last June. The Board and I are now putting the finishing touches on a stra-tegic plan that will give us a clear and effective map for the next several years. These ingredients and more enable UC Press and the UC Press Foundation to extend the reach of important ideas and excite many more passionate readers.

Executive Director, UC Press Foundation

Eugenie C. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and, along with President Barack Obama and other luminaries, was recently named one of the Scientific American 10 for

“guiding science for humanity.” She is also the recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Public Wel-fare Medal for 2010 and has written

extensively on the evolution-creationism controversy, includ-ing the UC Press book Evolutionism vs. Creationism. She was interviewed for Imprints by Science Publisher Chuck Crumly.

Why is there so much resistance, especially in America, to evolution—one of the best supported theories in all of science?

Evolution more than any other scientific explanation has consequences for the way people look at themselves and their relationship to the rest of the world. Evolution therefore has consequences for religion. Although Catholicism and main-stream Protestantism long ago made their peace with evolution, conservative Christianity, with its focus on biblical inerrancy, finds the naturalism of evolution difficult to deal with. And in the U.S., we have a more conservative form of Christianity than in Europe or Great Britain, because Fundamentalism was invented here during the early 1900s.

Where does the evidence for evolution come from?

From all of the places where Darwin found it, plus new sources not known to him: biogeography, comparative anatomy, the fossil record, embryology—and today, molecular biology and genetics. To anyone willing to look, the evidence is omnipres-ent. A famous geneticist once said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” meaning that evolution tells us why biological organisms are like they are instead of some other way. That species can be arrayed in a hierarchical arrangement that looks like a family tree reflects the common ancestry of all living things.

How is the relationship between science and religion affected by the acceptance of evolutionary theory?

Contrary to a popular misconception, there is not an inherent “warfare” between science and religion, though there certainly are Christian theological views that are not compatible with what we’ve learned from science. But the question perhaps focuses on one area of overlap, when science and religion pri-marily are answering different questions. Science explains the natural world using natural causes, and does a superior job at this task. Most people don’t turn to science to explain the mean-

ing of life. Similarly, even if some religions make claims about the natural world, people really don’t turn to religion for the answer to why water flows downhill. Religion speaks to other needs of humans—needs nonbelievers meet not through sci-ence but through philosophy.

What do you hope to accomplish through your work?

My goal as director of the National Center for Science Educa-tion is to help people understand the nature of science, and the science of evolution. I would like people to learn that evolution is an exciting science that their children should be taught in school. When I am reading evolutionary biology or geology, or cosmology, I often think to myself, “wouldn’t it be great if school kids could hear about this!” because there are so many exciting new ideas coming out in these fields.

Why is the separation of church and state so important with respect to the teaching of science in public schools?

Some Americans strongly hold religious views at odds with secular American society, and the schools, being the places where much of our culture is passed on to the next generation, become the battlegrounds for these “culture wars.” Science is only one discipline that is affected, by the way: social studies and history are also battlegrounds. And you can imagine what goes on in “health” (i.e., sex education) classes! But the First Amendment to the Constitution calls for governmental institu-tions to be religiously neutral, which means that religion can be neither advanced nor inhibited. To some Americans, teach-ing evolution is offensive to their religion, so they try to get it removed from the curriculum, or “balanced” with some form of creationism, or denigrate it as something not to be taken seriously (“theory, not fact”). To other Americans, doing any of these things promotes a sectarian religious view, and should be avoided. Courts universally have sided with the latter, properly, in my opinion, since antievolutionism is uniformly the prod-uct of religious opposition.

Learn more at www.ucpress.edu and www.ncse.com.

Fro m o u r l e a ding a u t ho rs to our programs in ground-breaking fields, UC Press is known for publishing books and journals that matter. Below are just a few exceptional examples from our Spring 2010 catalog that are sure to become must-reads for every library. Browse our entire cata-log at www.ucpress.edu.

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemensby Jerome Loving

$34.95 (cloth)

In this new biography published on the centennial of Mark Twain’s death, Jerome Loving sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the famous humorist. Bolstered by recently discov-

ered archival materials, his re-examination of Twain’s life is the most complex view of the man and writer to date.

Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviourby Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton

$39.95 (cloth)

This spectacular companion book to the new Discovery Channel/bbc series tells the compelling

story of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive. Beautifully written and illustrated, Life brims with information and unforgettable high-definition images of both familiar and rare species.

Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthologyby Randall Grahm

$34.95 (cloth)

This eclectic collection brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. Grahm’s

writings offer a passionate and highly entertaining account of “the truth of all things that may be found in the unlikely medium of a wineglass.”

The Gastronomica Readeredited by Darra Goldstein

$39.95 (cloth)

This sumptuous volume offers some of the best essays, poetry, inter-views, memoirs, and artwork from the award-winning journal Gas-tronomica’s first decade. Informed throughout by a keen sense of the

pleasures of eating, tasting, and sharing food, it inspires read-ers to think seriously about what goes onto their plates.

Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Readerby Paul Farmer

$60 (cloth), $27.50 (paper)

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has treated patients in some of the most impov-erished places on earth. Illuminating his work in epidemiology, global health

care, and public health policy, Partner to the Poor demonstrates how this dedicated doctor has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.

To Order

Order these and other UC Press titles at our web site, www.ucpress.edu. Or you may call 800-777-4726 to place your order by phone.

Member Discounts

UC Press members enjoy significant discounts on book pur-chases, from 20 to 40 percent. Join now to take advantage of this membership benefit!

To join, visit membership.ucpress.edu and click on Donate Now or Join Online. Or complete and return the membership form on the back of this page.

Misplaced your discount code? Contact Kathryn Leung at kleung@ucpress.edu or 510-642-9828.

Recent & RecommendedImportant Voices, Great Ideas

Author Spotlight: Eugenie C. ScottSafeguarding Science Education

Fundraising & Publishing NewsNew Leadership, Fond Goodbyes

A Salute to Stan Holwitz

Dorothy and Stanley Wolpert, Stan Holwitz, and Randy Heyman.

by Executive Editor Naomi Schneider

If you notice a bittersweet tinge to the ambience of UC Press these days, it might be due to the recent retirement of one of our most beloved editors, Stan Holwitz. In his 31 years at UC Press, Stan has not only served in leadership capacities, but also acquired some of the seminal works on our social science list. Hailing from the Bronx, Stan did his apprenticeship in publish-ing in New York, leading divisions of Macmillan, D.C. Heath, and Academic Press before being recruited by former Director James Clark to spearhead UC Press’s Los Angeles office.

For almost 25 years Stan worked on the UCLA campus, develop-ing and broadening our programs in anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and political science before he came up to Berkeley. Some of Stan’s impressive acquisitions include Why Viet Nam? by Al Patti, a soldier’s inside account of the U.S.’s early maneu-vering in Vietnam after World War ii; Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf, which has sold more than 100,000 copies; AIDS and Accusation by Paul Farmer, winner of the MacArthur “genius” award; and Barry Moser’s beautifully illus-trated editions of the Divine Comedy, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass.

What has made Stan Holwitz such a key member of the edito-rial team is his unerring editorial instinct, consisting of equal parts intellectual initiative, emotional intelligence, a keen gut response, and a well-honed sense of empathy. But Stan is valued here for more than his formidable achievements as an editor; for his colleagues, Stan’s affectionate, menschy persona has won a place in our hearts. Many of us miss our daily squeeze on the elbow from Stan as he made his ebullient morning peregri-nations around the building to welcome us each day. For his immense kindness as well as for his towering contributions to the success of UC Press, we salute Stan Holwitz.

Join the Legacy Society

Include UC Press in your will or estate plan and join the Legacy Society, a group of donors whose generosity gives voice to great ideas for generations to come. A mutually beneficial way to give to UC Press, such contributions can avoid both income and estate taxes. To request an estate planning kit or to find out more, please contact our Direc-tor of Development at 510-643-8465.

evolution more than any

other scientific explanation

has consequences for the way

people look at themselves

and their relationship to the

rest of the world.—Eugenie C. Scott

Greetings from Janelle Cavanagh

Is there a phrase for the opposite of “the perfect storm”? Perhaps “the perfect recipe”? I feel excited to be leading the UC Press Foundation during a time of momentous success—both in publishing fascinating and prominent publications and in fundraising.

Mark Twain asked that his autobiography not be published until 100 years after his death, and the Foundation is proud to help meet his wishes (volume 1 is coming soon). At a time when addressing health care and rebuilding in Haiti are critical to sav-ing lives, UC Press has issued an important compilation of Paul Farmer’s writings. See Recent & Recommended for more infor-mation about this and other major new publications, many of which received support from the Foundation this year.

As the most adventurous nonprofit publisher in the world, UC Press preserves culture and knowledge through academic inquiry, and considers worthy content rather than commercial viability when acquiring books. I am pleased to partner with supporters like you so that the Foundation can provide nearly $1 million each year to make UC Press’s acclaimed programs possible, including supporting the majority of new books.

I am fortunate to be working with dedicated and influential Trustees and a strong staff, who together successfully exceeded the $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign goal last June. The Board and I are now putting the finishing touches on a stra-tegic plan that will give us a clear and effective map for the next several years. These ingredients and more enable UC Press and the UC Press Foundation to extend the reach of important ideas and excite many more passionate readers.

Executive Director, UC Press Foundation

E u g e ni e C . S cott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and, along with President Barack Obama and other luminaries, was recently named one of the Scientific American 10 for

“guiding science for humanity.” She is also the recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Public Wel-fare Medal for 2010 and has written

extensively on the evolution-creationism controversy, includ-ing the UC Press book Evolutionism vs. Creationism. She was interviewed for Imprints by Science Publisher Chuck Crumly.

Why is there so much resistance, especially in America, to evolution—one of the best supported theories in all of science?

Evolution more than any other scientific explanation has consequences for the way people look at themselves and their relationship to the rest of the world. Evolution therefore has consequences for religion. Although Catholicism and main-stream Protestantism long ago made their peace with evolution, conservative Christianity, with its focus on biblical inerrancy, finds the naturalism of evolution difficult to deal with. And in the U.S., we have a more conservative form of Christianity than in Europe or Great Britain, because Fundamentalism was invented here during the early 1900s.

Where does the evidence for evolution come from?

From all of the places where Darwin found it, plus new sources not known to him: biogeography, comparative anatomy, the fossil record, embryology—and today, molecular biology and genetics. To anyone willing to look, the evidence is omnipres-ent. A famous geneticist once said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” meaning that evolution tells us why biological organisms are like they are instead of some other way. That species can be arrayed in a hierarchical arrangement that looks like a family tree reflects the common ancestry of all living things.

How is the relationship between science and religion affected by the acceptance of evolutionary theory?

Contrary to a popular misconception, there is not an inherent “warfare” between science and religion, though there certainly are Christian theological views that are not compatible with what we’ve learned from science. But the question perhaps focuses on one area of overlap, when science and religion pri-marily are answering different questions. Science explains the natural world using natural causes, and does a superior job at this task. Most people don’t turn to science to explain the mean-

ing of life. Similarly, even if some religions make claims about the natural world, people really don’t turn to religion for the answer to why water flows downhill. Religion speaks to other needs of humans—needs nonbelievers meet not through sci-ence but through philosophy.

What do you hope to accomplish through your work?

My goal as director of the National Center for Science Educa-tion is to help people understand the nature of science, and the science of evolution. I would like people to learn that evolution is an exciting science that their children should be taught in school. When I am reading evolutionary biology or geology, or cosmology, I often think to myself, “wouldn’t it be great if school kids could hear about this!” because there are so many exciting new ideas coming out in these fields.

Why is the separation of church and state so important with respect to the teaching of science in public schools?

Some Americans strongly hold religious views at odds with secular American society, and the schools, being the places where much of our culture is passed on to the next generation, become the battlegrounds for these “culture wars.” Science is only one discipline that is affected, by the way: social studies and history are also battlegrounds. And you can imagine what goes on in “health” (i.e., sex education) classes! But the First Amendment to the Constitution calls for governmental institu-tions to be religiously neutral, which means that religion can be neither advanced nor inhibited. To some Americans, teach-ing evolution is offensive to their religion, so they try to get it removed from the curriculum, or “balanced” with some form of creationism, or denigrate it as something not to be taken seriously (“theory, not fact”). To other Americans, doing any of these things promotes a sectarian religious view, and should be avoided. Courts universally have sided with the latter, properly, in my opinion, since antievolutionism is uniformly the prod-uct of religious opposition.

Learn more at www.ucpress.edu and www.ncse.com.

Fro m o u r l e a ding a u t ho rs to our programs in ground-breaking fields, UC Press is known for publishing books and journals that matter. Below are just a few exceptional examples from our Spring 2010 catalog that are sure to become must-reads for every library. Browse our entire cata-log at www.ucpress.edu.

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemensby Jerome Loving

$34.95 (cloth)

In this new biography published on the centennial of Mark Twain’s death, Jerome Loving sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the famous humorist. Bolstered by recently discov-

ered archival materials, his re-examination of Twain’s life is the most complex view of the man and writer to date.

Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviourby Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton

$39.95 (cloth)

This spectacular companion book to the new Discovery Channel/bbc series tells the compelling

story of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive. Beautifully written and illustrated, Life brims with information and unforgettable high-definition images of both familiar and rare species.

Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthologyby Randall Grahm

$34.95 (cloth)

This eclectic collection brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. Grahm’s

writings offer a passionate and highly entertaining account of “the truth of all things that may be found in the unlikely medium of a wineglass.”

The Gastronomica Readeredited by Darra Goldstein

$39.95 (cloth)

This sumptuous volume offers some of the best essays, poetry, inter-views, memoirs, and artwork from the award-winning journal Gas-tronomica’s first decade. Informed throughout by a keen sense of the

pleasures of eating, tasting, and sharing food, it inspires read-ers to think seriously about what goes onto their plates.

Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Readerby Paul Farmer

$60 (cloth), $27.50 (paper)

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has treated patients in some of the most impov-erished places on earth. Illuminating his work in epidemiology, global health

care, and public health policy, Partner to the Poor demonstrates how this dedicated doctor has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.

To Order

Order these and other UC Press titles at our web site, www.ucpress.edu. Or you may call 800-777-4726 to place your order by phone.

Member Discounts

UC Press members enjoy significant discounts on book pur-chases, from 20 to 40 percent. Join now to take advantage of this membership benefit!

To join, visit membership.ucpress.edu and click on Donate Now or Join Online. Or complete and return the membership form on the back of this page.

Misplaced your discount code? Contact Kathryn Leung at kleung@ucpress.edu or 510-642-9828.

Recent & RecommendedImportant Voices, Great Ideas

Author Spotlight: Eugenie C. ScottSafeguarding Science Education

Fundraising & Publishing NewsNew Leadership, Fond Goodbyes

A Salute to Stan Holwitz

Dorothy and Stanley Wolpert, Stan Holwitz, and Randy Heyman.

by Executive Editor Naomi Schneider

If you not i c e a bittersweet tinge to the ambience of UC Press these days, it might be due to the recent retirement of one of our most beloved editors, Stan Holwitz. In his 31 years at UC Press, Stan has not only served in leadership capacities, but also acquired some of the seminal works on our social science list. Hailing from the Bronx, Stan did his apprenticeship in publish-ing in New York, leading divisions of Macmillan, D.C. Heath, and Academic Press before being recruited by former Director James Clark to spearhead UC Press’s Los Angeles office.

For almost 25 years Stan worked on the UCLA campus, develop-ing and broadening our programs in anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and political science before he came up to Berkeley. Some of Stan’s impressive acquisitions include Why Viet Nam? by Al Patti, a soldier’s inside account of the U.S.’s early maneu-vering in Vietnam after World War ii; Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf, which has sold more than 100,000 copies; AIDS and Accusation by Paul Farmer, winner of the MacArthur “genius” award; and Barry Moser’s beautifully illus-trated editions of the Divine Comedy, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass.

What has made Stan Holwitz such a key member of the edito-rial team is his unerring editorial instinct, consisting of equal parts intellectual initiative, emotional intelligence, a keen gut response, and a well-honed sense of empathy. But Stan is valued here for more than his formidable achievements as an editor; for his colleagues, Stan’s affectionate, menschy persona has won a place in our hearts. Many of us miss our daily squeeze on the elbow from Stan as he made his ebullient morning peregri-nations around the building to welcome us each day. For his immense kindness as well as for his towering contributions to the success of UC Press, we salute Stan Holwitz.

Join the Legacy Society

Include UC Press in your will or estate plan and join the Legacy Society, a group of donors whose generosity gives voice to great ideas for generations to come. A mutually beneficial way to give to UC Press, such contributions can avoid both income and estate taxes. To request an estate planning kit or to find out more, please contact our Direc-tor of Development at 510-643-8465.

evolution more than any

other scientific explanation

has consequences for the way

people look at themselves

and their relationship to the

rest of the world.—Eugenie C. Scott

Greetings from Janelle Cavanagh

I s ther e a phrase for the opposite of “the perfect storm”? Perhaps “the perfect recipe”? I feel excited to be leading the UC Press Foundation during a time of momentous success—both in publishing fascinating and prominent publications and in fundraising.

Mark Twain asked that his autobiography not be published until 100 years after his death, and the Foundation is proud to help meet his wishes (volume 1 is coming soon). At a time when addressing health care and rebuilding in Haiti are critical to sav-ing lives, UC Press has issued an important compilation of Paul Farmer’s writings. See Recent & Recommended for more infor-mation about this and other major new publications, many of which received support from the Foundation this year.

As the most adventurous nonprofit publisher in the world, UC Press preserves culture and knowledge through academic inquiry, and considers worthy content rather than commercial viability when acquiring books. I am pleased to partner with supporters like you so that the Foundation can provide nearly $1 million each year to make UC Press’s acclaimed programs possible, including supporting the majority of new books.

I am fortunate to be working with dedicated and influential Trustees and a strong staff, who together successfully exceeded the $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign goal last June. The Board and I are now putting the finishing touches on a stra-tegic plan that will give us a clear and effective map for the next several years. These ingredients and more enable UC Press and the UC Press Foundation to extend the reach of important ideas and excite many more passionate readers.

Executive Director, UC Press Foundation

Eugenie C. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education and, along with President Barack Obama and other luminaries, was recently named one of the Scientific American 10 for

“guiding science for humanity.” She is also the recipient of the National Academy of Science’s Public Wel-fare Medal for 2010 and has written

extensively on the evolution-creationism controversy, includ-ing the UC Press book Evolutionism vs. Creationism. She was interviewed for Imprints by Science Publisher Chuck Crumly.

Why is there so much resistance, especially in America, to evolution—one of the best supported theories in all of science?

Evolution more than any other scientific explanation has consequences for the way people look at themselves and their relationship to the rest of the world. Evolution therefore has consequences for religion. Although Catholicism and main-stream Protestantism long ago made their peace with evolution, conservative Christianity, with its focus on biblical inerrancy, finds the naturalism of evolution difficult to deal with. And in the U.S., we have a more conservative form of Christianity than in Europe or Great Britain, because Fundamentalism was invented here during the early 1900s.

Where does the evidence for evolution come from?

From all of the places where Darwin found it, plus new sources not known to him: biogeography, comparative anatomy, the fossil record, embryology—and today, molecular biology and genetics. To anyone willing to look, the evidence is omnipres-ent. A famous geneticist once said, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” meaning that evolution tells us why biological organisms are like they are instead of some other way. That species can be arrayed in a hierarchical arrangement that looks like a family tree reflects the common ancestry of all living things.

How is the relationship between science and religion affected by the acceptance of evolutionary theory?

Contrary to a popular misconception, there is not an inherent “warfare” between science and religion, though there certainly are Christian theological views that are not compatible with what we’ve learned from science. But the question perhaps focuses on one area of overlap, when science and religion pri-marily are answering different questions. Science explains the natural world using natural causes, and does a superior job at this task. Most people don’t turn to science to explain the mean-

ing of life. Similarly, even if some religions make claims about the natural world, people really don’t turn to religion for the answer to why water flows downhill. Religion speaks to other needs of humans—needs nonbelievers meet not through sci-ence but through philosophy.

What do you hope to accomplish through your work?

My goal as director of the National Center for Science Educa-tion is to help people understand the nature of science, and the science of evolution. I would like people to learn that evolution is an exciting science that their children should be taught in school. When I am reading evolutionary biology or geology, or cosmology, I often think to myself, “wouldn’t it be great if school kids could hear about this!” because there are so many exciting new ideas coming out in these fields.

Why is the separation of church and state so important with respect to the teaching of science in public schools?

Some Americans strongly hold religious views at odds with secular American society, and the schools, being the places where much of our culture is passed on to the next generation, become the battlegrounds for these “culture wars.” Science is only one discipline that is affected, by the way: social studies and history are also battlegrounds. And you can imagine what goes on in “health” (i.e., sex education) classes! But the First Amendment to the Constitution calls for governmental institu-tions to be religiously neutral, which means that religion can be neither advanced nor inhibited. To some Americans, teach-ing evolution is offensive to their religion, so they try to get it removed from the curriculum, or “balanced” with some form of creationism, or denigrate it as something not to be taken seriously (“theory, not fact”). To other Americans, doing any of these things promotes a sectarian religious view, and should be avoided. Courts universally have sided with the latter, properly, in my opinion, since antievolutionism is uniformly the prod-uct of religious opposition.

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Fro m o u r l e a ding a u t ho rs to our programs in ground-breaking fields, UC Press is known for publishing books and journals that matter. Below are just a few exceptional examples from our Spring 2010 catalog that are sure to become must-reads for every library. Browse our entire cata-log at www.ucpress.edu.

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemensby Jerome Loving

$34.95 (cloth)

In this new biography published on the centennial of Mark Twain’s death, Jerome Loving sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the famous humorist. Bolstered by recently discov-

ered archival materials, his re-examination of Twain’s life is the most complex view of the man and writer to date.

Life: Extraordinary Animals, Extreme Behaviourby Martha Holmes and Michael Gunton

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This spectacular companion book to the new Discovery Channel/bbc series tells the compelling

story of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive. Beautifully written and illustrated, Life brims with information and unforgettable high-definition images of both familiar and rare species.

Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthologyby Randall Grahm

$34.95 (cloth)

This eclectic collection brings to a wide audience the irreverent, zany voice of Randall Grahm, visionary California winemaker and founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard. Grahm’s

writings offer a passionate and highly entertaining account of “the truth of all things that may be found in the unlikely medium of a wineglass.”

The Gastronomica Readeredited by Darra Goldstein

$39.95 (cloth)

This sumptuous volume offers some of the best essays, poetry, inter-views, memoirs, and artwork from the award-winning journal Gas-tronomica’s first decade. Informed throughout by a keen sense of the

pleasures of eating, tasting, and sharing food, it inspires read-ers to think seriously about what goes onto their plates.

Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Readerby Paul Farmer

$60 (cloth), $27.50 (paper)

For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has treated patients in some of the most impov-erished places on earth. Illuminating his work in epidemiology, global health

care, and public health policy, Partner to the Poor demonstrates how this dedicated doctor has fundamentally changed the way we think about health, international aid, and social justice.

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If you notice a bittersweet tinge to the ambience of UC Press these days, it might be due to the recent retirement of one of our most beloved editors, Stan Holwitz. In his 31 years at UC Press, Stan has not only served in leadership capacities, but also acquired some of the seminal works on our social science list. Hailing from the Bronx, Stan did his apprenticeship in publish-ing in New York, leading divisions of Macmillan, D.C. Heath, and Academic Press before being recruited by former Director James Clark to spearhead UC Press’s Los Angeles office.

For almost 25 years Stan worked on the UCLA campus, develop-ing and broadening our programs in anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and political science before he came up to Berkeley. Some of Stan’s impressive acquisitions include Why Viet Nam? by Al Patti, a soldier’s inside account of the U.S.’s early maneu-vering in Vietnam after World War ii; Europe and the People Without History by Eric Wolf, which has sold more than 100,000 copies; AIDS and Accusation by Paul Farmer, winner of the MacArthur “genius” award; and Barry Moser’s beautifully illus-trated editions of the Divine Comedy, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass.

What has made Stan Holwitz such a key member of the edito-rial team is his unerring editorial instinct, consisting of equal parts intellectual initiative, emotional intelligence, a keen gut response, and a well-honed sense of empathy. But Stan is valued here for more than his formidable achievements as an editor; for his colleagues, Stan’s affectionate, menschy persona has won a place in our hearts. Many of us miss our daily squeeze on the elbow from Stan as he made his ebullient morning peregri-nations around the building to welcome us each day. For his immense kindness as well as for his towering contributions to the success of UC Press, we salute Stan Holwitz.

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evolution more than any

other scientific explanation

has consequences for the way

people look at themselves

and their relationship to the

rest of the world.—Eugenie C. Scott

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Brett GottliebGary K. HartAdele M. HayutinPatricia KlausWatson M. LaetschR. Marilyn LeeJudith Kafka MaxwellMichael McCone

Jack Miles*

James NaifyWilliam NolanRichard C. Otter*

Barbara Z. OttoMartin Paley*

Lucinda K. ReinoldLoren R. RothschildJennifer Basye SanderDiana P. ScottLisa See*

Meryl SeligStephen M. SilbersteinAnna WeidmanLynne Withey

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UC Press Foundation strategic planning group Janelle Cavanagh, Marilyn Lee, Judy Maxwell, Lucinda Reinold, Adele Hayutin, Lynne Withey, Willie Nolan, and Steve Arditti.

The UC Press Foundation welcomes four new Trustees. Gary K. Hart is a former California State Secretary of Education and California State Senator and the founder of the California State University Institute for Education Reform. He serves as a Board member for the Public Policy Institute of California, Cotsen Family Foundation, and California Campaign for College Opportunity. Patricia Klaus is an accomplished equestrian who owns a premier equestrian facility north of San Francisco. An independent scholar, she previously taught British history at Yale University. Barbara Z. Otto is a retired Bank of America executive and a trustee of St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Jew-ish Family and Children’s Services, and Marin Education Fund. Diana P. Scott is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in labor and employment law who serves as a member of the Alumni Board of the University of the Pacific and was named Woman of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Stephen A. Arditti has been appointed Chair of the UC Press Foundation. He joined the Board in 2008 after retir-ing as the University of California’s Assistant Vice President and Director of State Governmental Relations. Director Lynne Withey notes, “We are truly grateful to former Chair Jim Naify for his dedication during the Voice for Great Ideas Campaign and look forward to achieving continued success with the lead-ership of Steve Arditti.”

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, by Keith Waldrop, has won the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry. The National Book Foundation said of Waldrop: “If transcendental immanence were possible, it would be because Keith Waldrop had invented it; he’s the only one who could—and in Transcen-dental Studies he has.”

Gastronomica, UC Press’s groundbreaking food studies journal, is celebrating its first decade with a special tenth- anniversary issue, events across the country, and publication of The Gastronomica Reader (see inside). International in scope and ahead of its time in recognizing the importance of looking at serious issues surrounding food, the scholarly magazine has carved out a distinctive place for itself since it launched in 2001.

Authors Imprint contributors Barbara Metcalf and Erich Gruen, both longtime authors and supporters, celebrate the Author Campaign at a reception in San Francisco.

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One o f t he mo st grat ify ing features of our recently con-cluded $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign, for me, was working with a team of UC Press authors to create an endow-ment dedicated to publishing books by first-time authors. From the outset of the campaign, our staff and Trustees knew it would be important to enlist the support of our authors and believed they would find it appealing to contribute to a collective fund that could have a major impact on our publishing programs.

With this in mind, we sought advice from a number of our authors who have also been long-term supporters of UC Press. High-profile scholars all, with multiple books to their credit, they were moved by the challenges faced by younger colleagues to get their work published. The Author Campaign Advisory Committee was born, and we began seeking support from both UC Press authors and friends who publish elsewhere to reach our $250,000 goal for the Authors Imprint.

Clearly the idea of banding together to support fellow authors resonated. Writers from around the world, and a wide range of disciplines, have helped make this endowed imprint a reality, and I received many notes and even phone calls commending us for supporting first books. As of the new year, we have raised

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Jack miles

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Carolyn see

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Janelle Cavanagh, Chuck Crumly, Kathryn Leung, Naomi Schneider, Eugenie C. Scott, Lynne Witheycontributors

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Stephen A. Arditti, ChairElizabeth Birka-WhiteJames H. Clark, Ex OfficioRichard DammMary DingmanSonia Holden EversCarol FieldSukey Garcetti*

Harriett Gold*

Brett GottliebGary K. HartAdele M. HayutinPatricia KlausWatson M. LaetschR. Marilyn LeeJudith Kafka MaxwellMichael McCone

Jack Miles*

James NaifyWilliam NolanRichard C. Otter*

Barbara Z. OttoMartin Paley*

Lucinda K. ReinoldLoren R. RothschildJennifer Basye SanderDiana P. ScottLisa See*

Meryl SeligStephen M. SilbersteinAnna WeidmanLynne Withey

*Emeritus

News in Brief

UC Press Foundation strategic planning group Janelle Cavanagh, Marilyn Lee, Judy Maxwell, Lucinda Reinold, Adele Hayutin, Lynne Withey, Willie Nolan, and Steve Arditti.

The UC Press Foundation welcomes four new Trustees. Gary K. Hart is a former California State Secretary of Education and California State Senator and the founder of the California State University Institute for Education Reform. He serves as a Board member for the Public Policy Institute of California, Cotsen Family Foundation, and California Campaign for College Opportunity. Patricia Klaus is an accomplished equestrian who owns a premier equestrian facility north of San Francisco. An independent scholar, she previously taught British history at Yale University. Barbara Z. Otto is a retired Bank of America executive and a trustee of St. Francis Memorial Hospital, Jew-ish Family and Children’s Services, and Marin Education Fund. Diana P. Scott is a Los Angeles attorney specializing in labor and employment law who serves as a member of the Alumni Board of the University of the Pacific and was named Woman of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Stephen A. Arditti has been appointed Chair of the UC Press Foundation. He joined the Board in 2008 after retir-ing as the University of California’s Assistant Vice President and Director of State Governmental Relations. Director Lynne Withey notes, “We are truly grateful to former Chair Jim Naify for his dedication during the Voice for Great Ideas Campaign and look forward to achieving continued success with the lead-ership of Steve Arditti.”

Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy, by Keith Waldrop, has won the prestigious National Book Award for Poetry. The National Book Foundation said of Waldrop: “If transcendental immanence were possible, it would be because Keith Waldrop had invented it; he’s the only one who could—and in Transcen-dental Studies he has.”

Gastronomica, UC Press’s groundbreaking food studies journal, is celebrating its first decade with a special tenth- anniversary issue, events across the country, and publication of The Gastronomica Reader (see inside). International in scope and ahead of its time in recognizing the importance of looking at serious issues surrounding food, the scholarly magazine has carved out a distinctive place for itself since it launched in 2001.

Authors Imprint contributors Barbara Metcalf and Erich Gruen, both longtime authors and supporters, celebrate the Author Campaign at a reception in San Francisco.

by Director Lynne Withey

One o f t he mo st grat ify ing features of our recently con-cluded $5 million Voice for Great Ideas Campaign, for me, was working with a team of UC Press authors to create an endow-ment dedicated to publishing books by first-time authors. From the outset of the campaign, our staff and Trustees knew it would be important to enlist the support of our authors and believed they would find it appealing to contribute to a collective fund that could have a major impact on our publishing programs.

With this in mind, we sought advice from a number of our authors who have also been long-term supporters of UC Press. High-profile scholars all, with multiple books to their credit, they were moved by the challenges faced by younger colleagues to get their work published. The Author Campaign Advisory Committee was born, and we began seeking support from both UC Press authors and friends who publish elsewhere to reach our $250,000 goal for the Authors Imprint.

Clearly the idea of banding together to support fellow authors resonated. Writers from around the world, and a wide range of disciplines, have helped make this endowed imprint a reality, and I received many notes and even phone calls commending us for supporting first books. As of the new year, we have raised

Members & EventsUC Press in Pictures

Loren Partridge, author of Art of Renaissance Florence, enjoys an evening reception for members and friends hosted by Trustee Sonia Evers.

Melva Arditti, Foundation Chair Steve Arditti, Editor Blake Edgar, John De Luca, Steve Nation, and Director Lynne Withey gather for a discussion about UC Press’s food and wine publications.

Author Dianne Macleod (center) presents Enchanted Lives, Enchanted Objects to guests at the home of Trustee Elizabeth Birka-White and David Birka-White.

Ann and Paul Karlstrom, Karen Tsujimoto, and Patricia Unterman celebrate the success of the Voice for Great Ideas Campaign at the Wattis Room in San Francisco.

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over $135,000 from 150 donors. And we continue to receive new contributions, many from repeat donors who have given to the fund annually.

Our editors nominated half a dozen forthcoming titles to be the first to carry the imprint designation, all of them stellar works of superior scholarship. We finally selected The Pastoral Clinic by Angela Garcia and From the Indian Ocean to the Medi-terranean by Sebouh Aslanian. Garcia, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine, writes about heroin addiction and public responses to it in the Española Valley near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work combines ethnography, medicine, and history in a powerfully moving literary style. Aslanian provides a remarkable study of a community of Armenian silk merchants living in central Iran during the 1600s and 1700s, who maintained a vast trading network ranging from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean is based on his prize-winning PhD disserta-tion at Columbia University, and he is a fellow in world history at Cornell University.

Supporting first books has spe-cial meaning for me—perhaps because I too was once an untested author, long before I became a publisher! I am proud that UC Press is dedicated to fostering work by scholars in the early stages of their careers. Our editors have a remarkable ability to spot new talent, and indeed, some of our most successful publications have been first books—works like Veiled Sentiments by Lila Abu-Lughod, The Birth of Bebop by Scott DeVeaux, Geisha by Liza Dalby, Race Music by Guthrie Ramsey, and AIDS and Accusation by Paul Farmer. The Authors Imprint is an important step toward ensuring that we continue to publish the next generations of outstanding scholars and writers.

Author CAmpAIGn

AdvIsory CommIttee

Joyce Appleby

Gene Brucker

Liza dalby

sam davis

William deverell

Carol Field

d. Kern holoman

dianne macleod

robert middlekauff

Jack miles

robert C. ritchie

Carolyn see

Lisa see

neil smelser

patricia trenton

John Walton

stanley Wolpert

Authors Give Back to Foster New Generation of Scholars