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Sarah Abrevaya Stein's 'Extraterritorial Dreams' tracks the immigration of Sephardi Jews from the Ottoman Empire.

For a child, getting a library card for the first time is a tangible expression of growth, opportunity and responsibility. It's a pre-driver's license of sorts.

After reading the book over the summer, new students participated in activities last week aimed at deepening their engagement with it.

In ‘Imagining Extinction,’ English professor Ursula Heise asks why people care about endangered species, why some animals become symbols and what that reveals about us.

Lubow reads from his new book, 'Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer,' at the Hammer Museum.

The all-time Bruin basketball great has been a prolific writer and advocate for equality.

A new book co-edited by UCLA Luskin professor Laura Abrams gives a voice to volunteers, including prisoners, who donate their time to improving lives.

Author, critic and UCLA emerita English professor Carolyn See, 82, died July 13 in Santa Monica as a result of congestive heart failure.

The professor of history and art history is recognized for her article examining the controversy surrounding Belgium's Royal Museum for Central Africa.

Inveterate readers on staff at the UCLA Library recommend their favorite books in UCLA Library Staff Picks.

Gerstel was honored for 'Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium,' the product of more than 20 years of fieldwork in Greece.

'The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire' offers a new perspective on the history of race and racial ideologies in modern East Asia.

The concept of separating students by sex as a tool for education reform has fallen into a minefield of limited and dubious data as to its effectiveness.

Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center, recently edited a book with the Rev. James Lawson, a renowned civil rights activist who worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped launch key campaigns for social justice.

'Transitions' was lauded for candid view of developmental adaptation of immigrant children to new cultures, languages and social structures.

The Rev. James Lawson Jr., one of the most important social justice leaders of our time, and Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center, will be discussing their new book at the Hammer Museum.

Director of pediatric otolaryngology and a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Shapiro is co-editor of a new book for health care professionals.

Rabbis have been ruling on copyright law since the dawn of print, law professor Netanel makes clear in his new book.

The Premio Municipal de Literatura goes to the professor of Spanish and Portuguese for 'Evolution in Liberty: Chilean Cinema of the Late 1960s.'

Last chance to see the UCLA Clark Library collection that sparked a wave of practices that fine press printing and publishing houses still use today.

UCLA history professor examines how the evictions of Mexican-American residents from the community to make way for a ballpark had deep-seated effects on civil rights, Chicano/a culture and more.

Laure Murat, an award-winning author, came to UCLA as a professor of French and Francophone studies after taking a nontraditional route to a Ph.D.

UCLA history professor Juan Gómez-Quiñones’ new book is called “Theorizing on the Mexican Revolution: Interpretations by Historians and Chroniclers.”

Ana Muniz, director of the Dream Resource Center at the UCLA Labor Center, recently published "Power, Police, and the Production of Racial Boundaries," a book on policing in Los Angeles.

English professor Eric Jager shares lessons learned from his experiences pitching his work to the trade market. Hint: get a good literary agent.