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UglyTown/UglyTown Kids
Exhibiting with Publishers Group West. Featured:Williams Bucket by Mark Conard; The Manipulated by Nathan Walpow; The Legend of Devil's Graveyard by Rodney Johnson; Kill Whitey by Ken Harvill; Hung Out to Die by Brett Battles. Discounts: see PGW booth for details. Booth: 2744.

Ulysses Press
Exhibiting with Publishers Group West. Featured:Hidden Puerta Vallarta; Hidden Florida Keys and Everglades (updated); Hidden Kauai (updated); Paradise Family Guides Maui (updated); A Chorus of Wisdom by Sorah Dubitsky; The Wisdom of Yo Meow Ma by Keith Armstrong; Weights for 50+ by Karl Knopf, M.D.; Prediabetes Wake-up Call by Beth Ann Petro Roybal; Sexploration by Suzi Godson, illus. by Peter Stemmler; Gathas by Barbara Ann Kipfer. Discounts: see PGW booth for details. Booth: 2742.

Umbrella Publishing
Publishes, packages, agents books and related products; exhibiting with Publishers Assn. (U.K.). Booth: 2745.

Unbridled Books
This first-time exhibitor publishes fiction and narrative nonfiction with an emphasis on new writers. Featured:Breath and Bones by Susann Cokal; Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha and Wolf Point, both by Edward Falco; The Education of Arnold Hitler and Insect Dreams, both by Marc Estrin; Lucky Strike by Nancy Zafris; Pearl by Deborah Noyes. Giveaways: galleys of Wolf Point. Booth: 3854.

Unemployed Philosophers Guild
Booth: 1315.

Unistar Books
Featured:Past the Line by E.T. Milligan. Booth: 1814.

United Plastics Technologies
Booth: 3224.

United States Playing Card
Booth: 1618.

Universal Map
Booths: 347, 4533.

Universidad del País Vasco

Servicio Editorial
Publishes scholarly, professional and trade books, textbooks, journals and monographs in various subjects of current interest; exhibiting with the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España. Booth: 2338.

Université de Bruxelles
Publishes textbooks; exhibiting with the Bureau Int'l de l'Edition Française. Booth: 2321.

University Games
Exhibiting with Publishers Group West. Booth: 2758.

University Health Publishing
Exhibiting with the Publishers Marketing Assn. Featured:Johns Hopkins Symptoms & Remedies; Johns Hopkins Consumer Guide to Drugs; The Johns Hopkins Medical Guide to Health After 50. Giveaways: Johns Hopkins special reports and bulletins; newsletters from UC Berkeley Wellness. Drawings: leave business card to be eligible for a full set of Johns Hopkins White Papers. Discounts: 55% (90-day dating). Booth: 2543.

Univ. of Alabama Press
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:Satchel Paige's America by William Price Fox; The Freedom Quilting Bee by Nancy Callahan; Antisubmarine Warrior in the Pacific by John A. Williamson; America's Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War by Otto J. Lehrack; Double Vision by George Garrett; To the Boathouse by Mary Ann Caws; Impact Zone: The Battle of the DMZ in Vietnam, 1967/1968 by Jim Brown. Giveaways: art posters, greeting cards. Discounts: 30%. Booth: 4476.

Univ. of Arizona Press
Featured:Beyond the Reach of Time and Change by Simon Ortiz; Encyclopedia of Native Music by Brian Wright-McLeod; Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat; Navajo Weaving in the 20th Century by Ann Lane Hedlund. Drawings: for a collection of Native-American titles. Discounts: 47% on trade titles and free freight on show orders. Booth: 2944.

Univ. of California Press
Featured Univ. of California Press:In Search of Myths and Heroes by Michael Wood; Trees of the World by Hugh Johnson; World Atlas of Great Apes by Julian Caldecott and Lera Miles; A Seat at the Table: Conversations with Huston Smith on Native American Religious Freedom by Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau; The Wines of the Northern Rhone by John Livingstone-Learmonth; Cities of the World: A History in Maps by Peter Whitfield; 100 Myths About the Middle East by Fred Halliday; The State of China Atlas, edited by Stephanie Donald and Robert Benewick. From Sierra Club Books:Ecological Literacy, edited by Michael K. Stone and Zenobia Barlow; Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide to Map, Compass & GPS, Second Edition, by W. S. Kals; The Quest for Environmental Justice, edited by Robert D. Bullard. From Huntington Library Press:Jack London and the Klondike by Franklin Walker; Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose by Kate Greenaway; Book of Hours, with intro./commentary by James Thorpe. From the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences:50 Designers/50 Costumes by Jeffrey Kurland and Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Discounts: 48% on backlist orders of 10 or more books (nine-unit maximum per title). Booth: 3621.

Univ. of Chicago Press
Featured:Power to Make War by John Yoo; Great Latke-Hamantash Debate by Ruth Cernea; Headless Males Make Great Lovers by Marty Crump; Synthetic Worlds by Edward Castronova; America's First Wall Street by Robert Wright; Sprawl by Robert Bruegmann; Demons in Eden by Jonathan Silvertown. Discounts: 47% on one order of 10 or more books. Booth: 3521.

Univ. of Georgia Press
Featured:Equiano, The African by Vincent Carretta; Campus Sexpot by David Carkeet; Real Punks Don't Wear Black by Frank Kogan; The Lost Boys of Sudan by Mark Bixler; The Bear Bryant Funeral Train by Brad Vice; Copy Cats by David Crouse. Giveaways: galleys, Equiano; blads, Real Punks Don't Wear Black. Drawings: for signed copies of Real Punks Don't Wear Black. Discounts: 47% (one order; retail/library accounts). Booth: 4175.

Univ. of Hawai'i Press
Featured:Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture, edited by Victor H. Mair, Nancy S. Steinhardt and Paul R. Goldin; Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific by John E. Randall; Watching Your Back: Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine by Anthony L. Schmieg. Giveaways: Hawaiian macadamia nut chocolates. Discounts: 50% (no minimums). Booth: 3627.

Univ. of Illinois Press
Featured:Zane Grey by Thomas H. Pauly; William Maxwell by Barbara Burkhardt; Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay by Louis Cantor; Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe by Bob Black; The Colossal P.T. Barnum Reader by Pheneas T. Barnum; Figure Skating: A History by James R. Hines; Marian McPartland's Jazz World by Marian McPartland. Drawings: for four book packages open to booksellers and media: Fiction Meets Biography; Literary Memories; Elvis and Me; Classic Jazz; see booth for details. Discounts: 45% on front- and backlist (trade/short discounts; no minimums). Booth: 3434.

Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Featured:Sports: The First Five Millennia by Allen Guttmann; Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writing, 1930—1950 by Dorothy West; Such Sweet Thunder: Views on Black American Music, edited by Mark Baszak; Baseball's Greatest Season, 1924 by Reed Browning; The Emily Dickinson Handbook, edited by Gudrun Grabher et al. Discounts: 46% on 10 or more backlist titles. Booth: 3732.

Univ. of Michigan Press
Featured:My Body Politic by Simi Linton; Baghdad Bulletin by David Enders; The Goat Bridge by T.M. McNally; American Prophet by Peter Richardson; Justice Imperiled by Douglas Morris; Paul Wellstone by Bill Lofy. Giveaways: ARCs of featured titles. Discounts: 45% (retail booksellers) on orders of two or more titles. Booth: 4080.

Univ. of Minnesota Press
Featured:Politics the Wellstone Way by Wellstone Action; The Truth About Stories by Thomas King; Divided Korea by Roland Bleiker; Words to Our Now by Thomas Glave; Kathleen and Christopher: Christopher Isherwood's Letters to His Mother by Christopher Isherwood; The Cinema, Or the Imaginary Man by Edgar Morin; Exploring the Boundary Waters by Daniel Pauly; The Swedish Table by Helene Henderson; Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diane Fujino; China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann. Giveaways: "What Would Wellstone Do" bracelets. Discounts: 3% on backlist orders. Booth: 3451.

Univ. of Missouri Press
Featured:Friend to Friend: The Ernest Hemingway/A.E. Hotchner Correspondence by Albert J. DeFazio; Growing Up on Radio by Gerald Eskenazi; No Ordinary Joe: The Life of Joseph Pulitzer III by Daniel Pfaff; Schauinsland: Oliver Schuchard Photographs, 1967—2005 by Oliver Schuchard; Crossroads to Khorassan by Lucy Ferriss. Giveaways: themed items; bags; candy. Discounts: 46%, free freight on orders of 10 or more books. Booth: 2214.

Univ. of Nebraska Press
Featured: Flyover Fiction series, including The Usual Mistakes by Erin Flanagan; Beyond Armageddon series; At Table series; A World of Light by Floyd Skloot; Out of Joint by Mary Felsteiner; Sports Heroes, Fallen Idols by Stanley H. Teitelbaum; Seeing Yellowstone in 1871 by Albert Peale; Race Work by Matthew C. Whitaker; Recovering Our Ancestor's Gardens by Devon Abbott Mihesuah; Tris Speaker by Timothy Gay. Giveaways: ARCs, balsawood gliders. Discounts: free freight on one order, front- or backlist (five-book minimum). Booth: 4644.

Univ. of North Carolina Press
Featured:Mama Dip's Family Cookbook by Mildred Council; Matzoh Ball Gumbo by Marcie Cohen Ferris; Dining at Monticello, edited and with recipes by Damon Lee Fowler; Retreat from Gettysburg by Kent Masterson Brown; Hatteras Blues by Tom Carlson; The Southern Diaspora by James N. Gregory. Discounts: 50% (one order; retail/library accounts). Booth: 4181.

Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Featured:Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana by Demetria Martinez; Calamity Jane by James D. McLaird; Michener: A Writer's Journey by Stephen J. May; High Country by Willard Wyman; Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in a Promised Land, 1820—1875 by Gary Clayton Anderson; To Save the Wild Bison by Mary Ann Franke; Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now by James Brust, Brian Pohanka and Sandy Bernard. Discounts: free freight. Booth: 3853.

Univ. of Pennsylvania Press
Celebrating Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday. Featured:The Life of Benjamin Franklin by Leo Lemay; Dr. Franklin's Medicine by Stanley Finger; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (new edition) by Benjamin Franklin; Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents by Elaine Showalter; Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture by Lisa L. Rhodes; Hitler's Face by Claudia Schmölders; Criminal Case 40/61, The Trial of Adolf Eichmann: An Eyewitness Account by Harry Mulisch; The Origins of Freemasonry by Margaret C. Jacob; Folktales from Iraq, edited and trans. by C.G. Campbell, illus. by John Buckland Wright; The Teapot Book by Steve Woodhead; Sculpture, Glass, and American Museums by Martha Drexler Lynn. Giveaways: Ben Franklin souvenir photo; beer coasters with Franklin quotes. Discounts: 45%, free freight on 10 or more backlist titles. Booth: 2833.

Univ. of South Carolina Press
Featured:Writers and Personality by Louis Auchincloss; A Gentleman of Charleston and the Manner of His Death by William P. Baldwin; High Seas and Yankee Gunboats by Roger S. Durham; Aliens in the Backyard by John Leland. Drawings: enter to win five autographed books. Discounts: 49%, free freight on orders of 10 or more units. Booth: 4484.

Univ. of Tennessee Press
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:A Land Imperiled by John Nolt; Life Beyond the Holocaust by Mira Kimmelman; James Agee Rediscovered by Michael Lofaro; From Sandlots to the Super Bowl by Craig Coenen; Cherokee National Forest Hiking Guide by William Skelton; Jook Right On by Barry Pearson; Fire on Mt. Maggiore by John Parras; Southern Seen by Larry McGehee; Invitation to Vernacular Architecture by Thomas Carter. Discounts: 48%, trade titles (assorted; six-book minimum). Booth: 4473.

Univ. of Virginia Press
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough by Helen C. Rountree; Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil and Eugene M. Tobin; Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield; The Mint Julep by Richard Barksdale Harwell; Lincoln Perry's Charlottesville by Lincoln Perry; Imagining Eden by Lyle Gomes; The Meaning of Independence by Edmund S. Morgan; Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life by Elaine Neil Orr. Discounts: 50% on backlist. Booth: 4474.

Univ. of Washington Press
Featured:The Linguistics of Lying and Other Essays by Harlad Weinrich; The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 by Brian Atwater, Amalia Amaki, Andrea Barnwell et al.; Language of the Geckos by Gary Yong Ki Pak. Discounts: 50% on 10 or more trade books (backlist); annual BEA white sale. Booth: 4052.

Univ. Press of Kansas
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why by Gerald D. McKnight; The CIA and Congress by David M. Barrett; Sister in the Band of Brothers: Embedded with the 101st Airborne in Iraq by Katherine M. Skiba; Sea Dragons by Richard Ellis; The German Way of War by Robert M. Citino; To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge of Allegiance by Richard J. Ellis. Discounts: 50%, backlist titles (retailers). Booth: 4179.

Univ. Press of Kentucky
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen D. Youngkin; Blood in the Sand by Stephen Eric Bronner; Secrets of the Sideshows by Joe Nickell; Bees in America by Tammy Horn; Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation Revolution by Richard Fleischer; The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers; Street Smart: The New York of Lumet, Allen, Scorsese, and Lee by Richard A. Blake; The Philosophy of Film Noir, edited by Mark T. Conard; Thomas Merton's Gethsemane by Harry L. Hinkle and Monica Weis; African American Fraternities and Sororities, edited by Tamara L. Brown, Gregory S. Parks and Clarenda M. Phillips. Giveaways: "Bees in America" honey sticks, galleys. Drawings: for Betty Boop merchandise. Discounts: 45%, free freight on in-stock titles (no minimum). Booth: 4182.

Univ. Press of Mississippi
Exhibiting with the AAUP. Featured:Katherine Anne Porter by Darlene Harbour Unrue; Early Escapades by Eudora Welty; Poe by James M. Hutchisson; Faulkner: A Biography by Joseph Blotner; The Writing Life by Ellen Gilchrist; Christmas Stories from Georgia, edited by Dorothy Dodge Robbins and Kenneth Robbins; Living Life Inside the Lines by Martha Sigall; The Reverend by James Perry Walker; Bike Week at Daytona Beach, text and photos by Roby Page; From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music, text and photos by Stephanie P. Ledgin. Discounts: 48%, free freight on five or more backlist titles (one address). Booth: 4180.

Univ. Press of New England
Featured:Running the Bulls by Cathie Pelletier; Spoonwood by Ernest Hebert; Harvard's Civil War by Richard Miller; Bad Lie by John Corrigan; Trumball Park by Frank London Brown; From Madness to Mutiny by Amy Neustein and Michael Lesher; Disability and the Media by Charles A. Riley II. Discounts: 50% on backlist. Booth: 4178.

UPS
UPS is the world's largest express carrier and package delivery company, serving more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Booth: 1323.

Urban Books
Distributed by Kensington Publishing Corp. Giveaways: books, promotional items. Discounts: see Kensington booth for details. Booths: 3720, 3721.

Urim Publications
Distributed by National Book Network. Booth: 4439.

URJ Press/UAHC Press
Booth: 920.

U.S.A. Books Abroad
Certified by the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Export Trading Act of 1982, bringing opportunities to U.S. publishers abroad; exhibiting with the Combined Book Exhibit. Booth: 2439.

U.S. Games Systems
Booth: 3929.

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