Immigrant Rights are Women’s Rights

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23 May 2017 The rights of immigrants and other marginalized communities are linked intimately with those of women. This spring, four women dropped their domestic abuse cases in Denver shortly after a video emerged showing immigrant enforcement (ICE) agents at a...

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The Last Stand of the Pack

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09 May 2017 Critical Edition edited by Andrew Gulliford and Tom Wolf foreword by Stephen J. Leonard A Timberline Book 2018 Colorado Book Award Finalist (Anthology) "In The Last Stand of the Pack, we are offered an opportunity for redemption: to go from vicious...

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Hemming Flames wins the 2017 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award!

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The Challenge Facing Libraries in an Era of Fake News

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14 February 2017 Making sense of information is hard, maybe increasingly so in today’s world. So what role have academic libraries played in helping people make sense of world bursting at the seams with information? This article was originally published on The...

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Decolonizing Research Practice

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30 January 2017 There is still a need for research practices that promote trustworthiness and respect for less powerful participants. Nearly two decades ago, the Havasupai tribe, a Native community that has an overwhelming rate of type 2 diabetes, agreed to...

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Cougars at the Nightstand

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27 December 2016 Bat biologist Rick A. Adams describes harrowing nightime encounters with mountain lions in the course of doing research near Boulder, Colorado. This blog post is excerpted from Into the Night: Tales of Nocturnal Wildlife Expeditions. Most mammals are...

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The Long Count: Stephen E. Nash on Time

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06 December 2016 Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and theologians have all pondered the nature and meaning of time. Time. Astronomers, philosophers, physicists, anthropologists, politicians, geographers, and...

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2016 Holiday Sale!

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30 November 2016 Books make the best gifts. Use promo code HOLIDAY16 to receive 20% off the list price of any book on our site through December 31, 2016! If your preferred bookseller is Amazon, you can support UPC and USUP at no additional cost by selecting us via...

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Tershia d'Elgin speaks at the Tattered Cover Book Store

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25 October 2016 Thank you to the Tattered Cover Book Store for a lovely talk and signing with Tershia d'Elgin, author of The Man Who Thought He Owned Water! The Man Who Thought He Owned Water is Tershia d’Elgin’s fresh take on the gravest challenge of our time—how to...

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Why a University Press Is a Good Investment

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04 October 2016 There’s a minor miracle continually performed by the 142 university presses worldwide who compose the membership of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP). There’s a minor miracle continually performed by the 142 university presses...

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Feminist Politics and the Sounds of a Leader

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02 August 2016 This moment requires us to ask not only how we define leadership but also what leaders sound like, what rhetorical gestures we expect them to make, and how those conceptions are gendered. In a recent New York Magazine article, Rebecca Traister contends...

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"Tale of Tales": Basile's Brutal, Cruel, Immoral, and Just Plain Weird World on Screen

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07 June 2016 The Tale of Tales (Lo cunto de li cunti) is the first collection of fairy tales of the Western world (Naples, 1634–36). For all fairy tale fans, Basile’s book, made of fifty stories, is a fundamental point of reference, although these Italian tales...

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A Plea to Demilitarize US Schools

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19 April 2016 As I follow the current presidential primaries, I find it disturbing to see someone run for US president on a platform of open xenophobia, racism, sexism, and deep intolerance. I find it even scarier that so many people want to vote for him on that...

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Martin Luther King Jr. in Sapphire

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05 April 2016 Perhaps the world’s most unique sculptural tribute to the great civil rights crusader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is Vasily Konovalenko’s Martin Luther King in Sapphire. There are many ways to memorialize the immortal Reverend Martin Luther King...

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Bradly Boner reaches fundraising goal for YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

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Head for the Border

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08 March 2016 For many of us who spent evenings slouched in front of the TV, the phrase “Head for the Border” evokes savory tacos accompanied by bright colors speaking happily of queso, salsa, jalapeños, and, of course, Mexico. Recently, our border with Mexico has...

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Robert R. Crifasi gives talk and signing at the Boulder Book Store

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Day of Remembrance Schedule of Events

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01 February 2016 February 19 marks the 74th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 On February 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe military areas within the United States for "protection...

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Trump's Wall and the Truth about Immigration

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15 December 2015 Anthony Quiroz explains why Americans have nothing to fear from continued immigration. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to...

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Ethan Schmidt Memorial Fund

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23 September 2015 An education fund has been arranged for Ethan Schmidt's three children. We encourage you to make a donation, which can be done here.

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