Browse Books: Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists

The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. By Leta McCollough Seletzky Cover Image
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
By Leta McCollough Seletzky
$27.00
Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States By Samantha Allen Cover Image
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States (Paperback)
By Samantha Allen
$17.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Kanye West: The Biography of a Hip-Hop Superstar Billionaire and his Quest for Jesus (Artists) By United Library Cover Image
Kanye West: The Biography of a Hip-Hop Superstar Billionaire and his Quest for Jesus (Artists) (Paperback)
By United Library
$10.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs By Alonzo Vereen, Gordon Rowe (Illustrator) Cover Image
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs (Hardcover)
By Alonzo Vereen, Gordon Rowe (Illustrator)
$26.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women By Susan Burton, Cari Lynn, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by) Cover Image
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women (Paperback)
By Susan Burton, Cari Lynn, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by)
$17.99
Unavailable
Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist By Jenn Budd Cover Image
Against the Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist (Paperback)
By Jenn Budd
$20.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Healing the World: Gustavo Parajón, Public Health and Peacemaking Pioneer By Daniel Buttry, Dámaris Albuquerque Cover Image
Healing the World: Gustavo Parajón, Public Health and Peacemaking Pioneer (Paperback)
By Daniel Buttry, Dámaris Albuquerque
$27.49
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story By Jacob Tobia Cover Image
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story (Paperback)
By Jacob Tobia
$18.00
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement By Tarana Burke Cover Image
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement (Paperback)
By Tarana Burke
$17.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture #78) By Marion Nestle Cover Image
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture #78) (Hardcover)
By Marion Nestle
$29.95
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs By Nury Turkel Cover Image
No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs (Hardcover)
By Nury Turkel
$28.99
Ships from Warehouse, Usually in 1-8 Days
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller By Max Wallace Cover Image
After the Miracle: The Political Crusades of Helen Keller (Hardcover)
By Max Wallace
$30.00
Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now

Pages

Front facade of University Press Books

From 1974, University Press Books has stoked the blaze of well over ten thousand minds on fire, carrying new scholarship published by the great university presses in the English-speaking world.

Order from us. Shop us. Let well-wrought words churn and burn within.