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General interest Volume 1, Reader’s Edition Mark Twain Autobiography of Mark Twain Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith and Other Editors of the Mark Twain Project “This first installment of Twain’s autobiography brings us closer to all of him than we have ever come before.” New York Review of Books “Mark Twain is terrific company, plain and simple. He knew everyone, went everywhere, seemed to be interested in everything and is capable of making the reader—in 2010—laugh on nearly every page.” New York Times “His ‘whole frank mind,’ sharp and funny, is seared onto every page.” Entertainment Weekly “Every word beguiles.” Wall Street Journal “I start reading Twain’s Autobiography at any page and don’t want to stop, for the sheer voluptuous pleasure of the prose.” Twitter: Roger Ebert The year 2010 marked the 100th anniversary of Mark Twain’s death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain’s works, UC Press published Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, the first of a projected three-volume edition of the complete, uncensored autobiography. The book became an immediate bestseller and was hailed as the capstone of the life’s work of America’s favorite author. This Reader’s Edition, a portable paperback in larger type, republishes the text of the hardcover Autobiography in a form that is convenient for the general reader, without the editorial explanatory notes. It includes a brief introduction describing the evolution of Mark Twain’s ideas about writing his autobiography, as well as a chronology of his life, brief family biographies, and an excerpt from the forthcoming Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2—a controversial but characteristically humorous attack on Christian doctrine. Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California Honorable Mention in Nonfiction, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association PROSE Award, Association of American Publishers Harriet Elinor Smith is an editor at the Mark Twain Project, which is housed within the Mark Twain Papers, the world’s largest archive of primary materials by this major American writer. Under the direction of General Editor Robert H. Hirst, the Project’s editors are producing the first comprehensive edition of all of Mark Twain’s writings. MARCH 440 pages, 6 x 9”, 45 b/w photographs, 21 line figures, 2 diagrams American Literature/Autobiography/Mark Twain World paper 978-0-520-27225-5 $26.95/£18.95 www.ucpress.edu | 5
General Interest Agustín Fuentes Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You Busting Myths about Human Nature “Fuentes brings together an enormous array of information from diverse fields to counter some of the most pervasive myths about human nature in our society.” Karen B. Strier, author of Primate Behavioral Ecology Agustín Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Evolution of Human Behavior, Biological Anthropology: Concepts and Connections and Core Concepts in Biological Anthropology MAY 277 pages, 6 x 9”, 1 b/w photograph, 8 line illustrations, 1 table Anthropology/Sociology World cloth 978-0-520-26971-2 $27.50/£19.95 There are three major myths of human nature: humans are divided into biological races; humans are naturally aggressive; men and women are truly different in behavior, desires, and wiring. In an engaging and wide-ranging narrative Agustín Fuentes counters these pervasive and pernicious myths about human behavior. Tackling misconceptions about what race, aggression, and sex really mean for humans, Fuentes incorporates an accessible understanding of culture, genetics, and evolution requiring us to dispose of notions of “nature or nurture.” Presenting scientific evidence from diverse fields, including anthropology, biology, and psychology, Fuentes devises a myth-busting toolkit to dismantle persistent fallacies about the validity of biological races, the innateness of aggression and violence, and the nature of monogamy and differences between the sexes. A final chapter plus an appendix provide a set of take-home points on how readers can myth-bust on their own. Accessible, compelling, and original, this book is a rich and nuanced account of how nature, culture, experience, and choice interact to influence human behavior. 6 | University of California Press
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