W. Royce Adams W. Royce Adams, Professor emeritus of English at Santa Barbara City College, holds degrees from Washington University and California State University, Long Beach. He is a past president of the College Reading and Learning Association.

Me & Jay "... A happy-ending page turner for grades 5 to 8 with a solid message..." -- Today's Librarian, March 2001

Steve Bachmann Steve Bachmann, A.B. (Harvard), M.F.A. (UNO), J.D. (Harvard) is author of The U.S. Constitution for Beginners (illustrated by Pulitzer prize winner Joel Pett); Nonprofit Litigation (John Wiley & Sons); Preach Liberty (Four Walls Eight Windows) and three UP titles.

Lawyers, Law & Social Change "...I used your book in my Law & Social Change course last spring, and it was well received by the students." -- Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., Prescott College

Mark Britzman A licensed psychologist and certified clinical mental health counselor, Mark J. Britzman, Ed.D., teaches Counseling and Human Resource Development at South Dakota State University.

The Lives and Legacies of Everyday Heroes "This inspiring book does what our society is too often unwilling, or unable, to do..." -- Senator Tom Daschle

Terrington Calas Chief critic for the New Orleans Art Review, Calas (B.A., M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D.) teaches art history and philosophy at LSU and Loyola in alternate semesters.

Beyond NOLA: New Orleans Reviews of Art (with Steve Bachmann)

John William Houghton Dr. Houghton holds degrees from Harvard, Indiana, Notre Dame and Yale Universities. He is a former associate editor of River Styx magazine, a contributor to the HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism and has published a variety of articles on art history, theology, ethics and literature.

Rough Magicke “An occult thriller, scary, learned, and charitable in the true tradition of Charles Williams and his fellow Inklings.” -- T. A. Shippey, author of J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), The Road to Middle-Earth (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); editor, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (1994)

Peter Ifland Peter Ifland, Cmdr. USNR (retired), Ph.D., is author of Taking the Stars: Celestial Navigation from Argonauts to Astronauts and a worldwide lecturer on navigation and instruments.

Line of Position Navigation

Carleton Kendrick Harvard educated family therapist Carleton Kendrick, L.C.S.W., Ed.M., has appeared on CBS, Fox, CNN, CNBC, PBS, NPR, and many other broadcast media. He has also been widely quoted by major print media, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Time, and more.

Take Out Your Nose Ring, Honey, We're Going to Grandma's! (With Barbara Cooke) "...And as Dr. Benjamin Spock told parents in his seminal book: Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do." -- The Arizona Republic, July 2003

Sue Lloyd Editor of the worldwide best seller, Roget's Thesaurus, and author of Improve Your Word Power from Longman English Guides

The Man who was Cyrano: A Life of Edmond Rostand

Sarah Matthews Dr. Matthews serves as Sociology Chair at Cleveland State University. She has recently granted rights to excerpt from her book to Oxford University Press.

Sisters and Brothers / Daughters and Sons "...An important contribution to our understanding of the role of each family member... -- American Journal of Sociology, September-December 2003

Arnold S. Trebach A professor, attorney and author of The Heroin Solution from Yale University Press, Trebach has been widely praised by The New York Times, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly and other major media. He has published three books with UP.

The Great Drug War (formerly from Macmillan Publishing)

Special congratulations to Edith Ankersmit Kemp, L.C.S.W. and Jerrold E. Kemp, Ed.D., authors of Older Couples: New Couplings. The book was initially released by UP in May 2001 as a POD paperback. Rights were subsequently acquired by Ten Speed Press, publisher of What Color is your Parachute?, a book that was originally self-published but now has more than 7 million copies in print. The new edition is distrbuted in the U.S. by Celestial Arts; in Canada by Ten Speed Canada, in the U.K. by Airlift Books, in South Africa by Real Books, in New Zealand by Southern Publishers Group, in Southeast Asia by Berkeley Books, and in Australia by Simon & Schuster Australia.

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