This Father’s Day let dad brush up on his Pittsburgh sports history with The Slide: Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh Pirates by father-son writing duo Richard and Stephen Peterson and Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work by Michael MacCambridge. The Petersons trace Pirates baseball history from the 1970s to today, including the twenty-year bump along the road. MacCambridge gives life to the man who brought the Pittsburgh Steelers to the forefront of the National Football League, but removed himself from the spotlight. This is the first comprehensive biography of Chuck Noll.  With both books, you get a newfound understanding of the…

In a comprehensive guide, Butterflies of Pennsylvania: a field guide by James L. Monroe and David M. Wright, the butterflies that traverse the state are described in stunning detail, with over 900 color photos to complement them.  Here is a selection of ten out of the one hundred and eighty-six species that make up Pennsylvania’s unique butterfly population. Zebra Swallowtail So aptly named for the mammal that it resembles, male Zebra Swallowtails puddle, or rest in sandy or gravely areas to absorb salts and amino acids, which aid in their reproduction. Diana Fritillary The Diana Fritillary is incredibly rare, and…

Get inspired by some of our recent books featuring a feminist perspective. Scald Denise Duhamel POETRY “As much a manifesto as it is a book of poems, Scald is Denise Duhamel’s great feminist statement—by way of pantoums and villanelles, of course. But more than a feminist, I would say that Duhamel is a humanitarian. Her words dignify the disenfranchised. Glory to Denise Duhamel for her formal ingenuity and her gleeful political imagination.”—David Trinidad   Blood Memory Colleen McElroy POETRY “She is the last woman of her line. Her new poems end and begin with A. Phillip Randolph and Pullman Porters,…

We’re giving away 50 poetry books! Enter to win. WHY Pitt Poetry Series is celebrating its 50th Anniversary—and we’re giving you the gifts! WHAT Ten lucky poetry fans will get their pick of any five Pitt poetry books in print. HOW Stop by our booth (355) at the 2017 AWP conference in Washington, DC (February 8-11) and sign up OR enter your info on the entry form below. Contest ends on February 28, 2017 at 11:59pm. Five winners will be chosen from the AWP entries and five winners will be chosen from the online entries. The ten winners will receive an email notification…

Listen to a special interview of Johann Egvall, author of The State as Investment Market by Sean Guillory on Sean’s Russia Blog. In it, he describes the model of corruption in Kyrgyzstan that is endemic not only to the region of Central Asia, but also to Russia, the Ukraine, and elsewhere. Sean Guillory also gives special mention to University of Pittsburgh Press’ Central Eurasia in Context Series, edited by Douglas Northrop, that has published numerous book on the region of Central Eurasia.  The State as Investment Market  Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective Johan Engvall                Johan Engvall is a…