Collection: University Press Week
This week recognizes the impact that a global community of university presses has on every one of us. Check out this collection of events, reading list, and more celebrating UP Week.
Enter code UPWEEK2026 for 25% off all books on this page through the month of November!
List of publishers featured on this page:
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Bristol University Press Columbia University Press Fordham University Press Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press Manchester University Press |
McGill Queens University Press Stanford University Press The American University at Cairo Press University Of California Press University of Notre Dame Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
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Fusionism
A compelling and necessary history of how the American conservative movement lost its philosophical compass—and a case for why it must be recovered.In Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, Stephanie Slade tells the story of a forgotten idea that once defined American c...
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A Gathering of Leaves
A lively and wide-ranging collection from David Bentley Hart, A Gathering of Leaves invites readers to rediscover the sheer joy of reading.David Bentley Hart brings together reflections on everything from literature and music to baseball and tortoises in his newest book. The pieces roam freely in...
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Silence and Seizure
Stewart-Nuñez recounts chasing a diagnosis for her son’s seizure disorder and learning to be his advocate while confronting her my own lack of knowledge about disability. With the wisdom of disabled writers threaded throughout, this book captures how she developed tactics for living a more comple...
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Wildness
In and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo articulates how Thoreau was enmeshed in a decades-spanning project of crafti...
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Early Modern Maritime Recipes
Meticulously researched, this important historical work features more than eighty pre-1800 recipes that reveal a wide array of sources, ingredients, and techniques, reflecting a cosmopolitan intellectual and social life shaped – and limited – by eighteenth-century colonialism.
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The Calf Who Butted the Oak
The Calf Who Butted the Oak is the definitive version of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s classic memoir of the grotesque fever dream that passed for “literary life” in the Soviet ’60s and ’70s.Originally appearing in English as The Oak and the Calf, the narrative begins in 1956, when Solzhenitsyn return...
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Bird on the Street
Blending natural history with science memoir, Bird on the Street traces how starlings illuminate the mechanisms of evolution and the relationship between humans and wildlife.
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A Fragile Alliance
A major reassessment of New York City’s first Black mayor and the fragile coalition politics that reshaped urban AmericaCharting the rise and fall of New York City’s first African American mayor, A Fragile Alliance offers a vivid, deeply researched account of governance, coalition-building, and p...
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AI in Higher Education
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping university learning, both challenging and empowering educators and students. Covering the history, technology, ethics, and educational applications of AI, this book provides concrete examples of how students and teachers are already integrating these tools in m...
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What Is Free Speech For?
Free speech drives conflicts about who speaks, but who is heard is rarely considered. As digital media push deeper into our lives, free speech involves not only limits, but seemingly limitless communication, transforming what is at stake on tech platforms and in political protests, in universitie...
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Cracking the Class Code
Reveals the class markers that operate within the world’s most powerful firms and outlines the practical steps for leading employers to dismantle class barriers. Class, so the narrative goes, has been banished to the past in our modern meritocratic world. Yet across the world’s major economies, e...
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What Is Space Exploration For?
In an era of unprecedented climate challenges, should we still be trying to explore space or should all our scientific attention be focused here on Earth? If space is becoming a playground for billionaires, will that enflame tensions between superpowers with potentially disastrous results? What ...
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Algorithms of War
Shows the human impact of war through the voices of the victims themselves. AI and algorithms now drive modern warfare, shaping surveillance and targeting. While promising precision, these systems often mask significant, hidden civilian harm. Algorithms of War moves past the binary debate of pro...
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From Despair to Dignity
In From Despair to Dignity, Mushtaque Chowdhury provides a definitive insider account of how Bangladesh transformed itself from a war-torn nation into a global beacon of social and economic development.Growing up amid the trauma of the 1971 Liberation War, Mushtaque Chowdhury witnessed his countr...
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Beginning Irish Studies
An Introduction to the discipline of Irish Studies that will be of use to both students and academics.
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I'm Glad I'm Not Me
I’m Glad I’m Not Me explores Bob Dylan’s appearances and depictions on screen, offering a new view of the life and work of one of the most influential yet least knowable celebrities in American history.
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New York, 1860
This book is a biography of New York City in the year before the Civil War, from the moment the telegraph brought news of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry in October 1859 to the first shots on Fort Sumter in the spring of 1861.
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Albert Moll
Medical historian Andreas-Holger Maehle provides the first scientific biography of the influential and controversial Berlin physician Albert Moll, whose work helped establish psychotherapy, sexology, and medical ethics as scientific disciplines.
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Doing Harm
Doing Harm recounts a critical chapter in the recent history of psychology: the field’s enmeshment in the “war on terror,” and the ensuing reckoning over do-no-harm ethics during times of threat. Eidelson exposes the challenges that the American Psychological Association faced when government age...
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Flexible Faces
Flexible Faces traces the long history of facial recognition. It argues that the significance of current facial recognition technologies is not technical prowess but the sustained desire to render all subjects legible to the state.
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Hamlet-911
A new edition of Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Hamlet-911, an incisive and satirical play in which a famous actor about to perform Hamlet at the Stratford Festival suddenly finds himself in the Underworld.
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All the World in Thee
All the World in Thee presents a selection of poems about LGBTQ+ experiences.
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Thoughtful Data
Thoughtful Data is a guide to practicing data work ethically, empathetically, and inclusively.
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Seasons in the Academy
A collection of academics from across Canada contribute their long views of careers in academia. It illustrates the many challenges navigating the role, juggling research, teaching, and service, as well as leading change as we move forward.
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Renshi
Master poets Ooka Makoto, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kim Yong-jik and Roseann O’Reilly Runte wrote a linked-verse poem in four languages simultaneously: English, French, Japanese and Korean. This Renga was composed in Tokyo on the day the Soviet Parliament was stormed and reflects the poets’ shared belie...
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Americans Without Borders
Inspired by the story of a distant cousin, investigative journalist Julia Harte explores the rich and hidden history of American citizens who fought against imperialism and dictatorship abroad, only to be excoriated at home. One night in 1940, a group of Stalinists opened fire on Leon Trotsky's ...
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Shakespeare's Tragedies
A lively and provocative introduction to Shakespeare's five major tragedies, revealing their profoundly sympathetic and illuminating exploration of human experience. Shakespeare's Tragedies illuminates the majestic beauties and subtle insights of the great playwright's greatest works. Building f...
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In a Land of Aid
An urgent examination of Palestine's humanitarian crisis—revealing international aid as both a lifeline and an instrument of colonial power. For decades, the international community, Israeli occupation, and Palestinian elites have engineered the humanitarianization of the Palestinian Territories...
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Chekhov's Antidotes
A rousing tour through Chekhov's stories and plays, with lessons for managing troubled times For all his immense literary fame, Anton Chekhov is underappreciated as a thinker. Widely regarded as a purveyor of gloom and indecision, Chekhov was in fact a reparative moral philosopher who fought bac...
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Critical histories of the Arts and Crafts movement
From indigo dyeing at William Morris’s factory to contemporary Indigenous textile weaving in Cote d’Ivoire, this book examines the complexities and contradictions of the Arts and Crafts movement, offering new critical analyses of familiar and little-known figures, practices, ideologies, objects a...
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Automated Islamophobia
Automating Islamophobia exposes how AI perpetuates global Islamophobia. It challenges the myth of AI’s objectivity, questioning if change is possible in a system rooted in historical biases. As nations vie for AI dominance, the book calls for critical engagement to resist its role in amplifying i...
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Virtue reconsider’d
Reassessing the lives of married English women in the long eighteenth century, this multidisciplinary volume challenges assumptions of wifely domesticity and docility, and reveals how wives navigated law, literature and economy to exercise agency within – and beyond – the confines of marriage.
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One Boy!
One Boy by Benjamin Maiangwa is a raw memoir of life in a Catholic boarding school in Nigeria, where he navigates sectarian divides, personal conflict, and the contradictions of faith, identity, and friendship in a world that felt both sacred and deeply hostile.
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Dawaa
Dawaa: The Space Between is a beautiful book of poetry inspired by the world views of Anishnaabemowin, the Ojibwe language.
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Quest for Beauty
Quest for Beauty: The Photographic Journey of Malak of Ottawa, is the authorized biography of one of Canada’s great photographic artists, one whose relentless, impassioned search for colour, beauty and joy illustrated to the world the magnificence of Canada and its capital City of Ottawa.
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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
This is the first in-depth account of Betty Willis, the designer behind the iconic Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign. It tells her story and the story of Las Vegas in the 1950s and 1960s, recreating a world of seediness and glamour and shining a light on the remarkable people who made it what it...
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Everything Is Everything
In the tradition of The Old, Weird America and Deliver Me from Nowhere, cultural critic Steven E. Jones explores American pop culture through the work of record producer Tom Wilson, and the artists with whom he collaborated in the miraculous year 1966. 1966 was a transformative year in popular ...
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Staging Blackface in Canada
Long before Canada had a national broadcaster or any mandate to promote its own culture, its stages were already shaping how Canadians saw race — and, just as often, undermining it. Staging Blackface in Canada uncovers a twenty-year period, roughly 1898 to 1919, when the same Canadian stages ...
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Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Narratives
Challenges the conventional idea of the "wild" in North America showing how assumptions of colonial mastery and Indigenous erasure are present in outdoor adventure narratives. With the intention of decolonizing the Western separation of human and "nature," Phillips places these settler stories in...
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Reading with My Grandmother
Reading With My Grandmother is an analysis of a range of Chinese Canadian literature that deepens the scholarly engagement by using elements of the author’s family’s story—her grandmother’s letters and and photographs.This engagement allows the author to simultaneously illustrate and participate ...
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Arab Techno for the People
Ethnography of Arab electronic music in Montreal and Toronto. Its primary concern is with the performance and production of self for Arab individuals living in Canada who produce, play, and dance to this music and who have varying relations to home, diaspora, nation, gender, sexuality, and their ...
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Queer as folklore
This book takes the reader around the world on a journey to discover the queer stories behind the characters of folklore, from werewolves and faeries to demons and aliens.
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New York's Family Grocer
From pushcart to pantry staple in the city that never sleepsNew York’s Family Grocer tells how a neighborhood name became part of the city’s daily rhythm. Patsy and Nicholas D’Agostino arrived from Italy, learned their trade on crowded sidewalks, and opened a small shop in 1932. The idea was simp...
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Fabulous Fountains of New York
2025 INDIES Finalist, Regional (Adult Nonfiction)A stunning exploration of New York’s most enchanting fountains New York City’s fountains are more than just decorative features—they are historical landmarks, cultural icons, and dynamic works of art that shape the city’s landscape. In Fabulous Fou...
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Stories in Fabric
The untold history of a pioneering Black design company in Bed-Stuy whose creativity garnered national attention in the 1970sIn Stories in Fabric: The Design Works of Bedford Stuyvesant, design historian Phyllis Ross uncovers the rise of a groundbreaking African American textile studio founded in...
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Colorful Palate
WINNER, 2025 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTIONWINNER, 2025 IPPY AWARD, MULTICULTURAL NON-FICTION - ADULT (GOLD)WINNER, 2024 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD, CULINARY MEMOIRWINNER, 2024 LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR - MALE (BRONZE)A LITHUB 2026 PAPERBACK PICK! • A NEW...
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