University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Breaking Through Concrete
Building an Urban Farm Revival
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael...
Peter Selz
Sketches of a Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This absorbing biography, often conveyed through Peter Selz’s own words, traces the journey of a Jewish-German immigrant from Hitler’s Munich to the United States and on to an important career as a pioneer historian of modern art. Paul J. Karlstrom illuminates key historical and cultural events...
The $800 Million Pill
The Truth behind the Cost of New Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
Why do life-saving prescription drugs cost so much? Drug companies insist that prices reflect the millions they invest in research and development. In this gripping exposé, Merrill Goozner contends that American taxpayers are in fact footing the bill twice: once by supporting government-funded research...
My Name Is Jody Williams
A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, "Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and...
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned...
Republican Lens
Gender, Visuality, and Experience in the Early Chinese Periodical Press
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
What can we learn about modern Chinese history by reading a marginalized set of materials from a widely neglected period? In Republican Lens, Joan Judge retrieves and revalorizes the vital brand of commercial culture that arose in the period surrounding China’s 1911 Revolution. Dismissed by high-minded...
Smart Girls
Success, School, and the Myth of Post-Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting girls’ academic success. Girls are said to outperform boys in high school exams, university entrance and graduation rates, and professional certification. As a result, many in...
by Clifford Ando
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2000
The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller...
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3
The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The surprising final chapter of a great American life.
When the first volume of Mark Twain’s uncensored Autobiography was published in 2010, it was hailed as an essential addition to the shelf of his works and a crucial document for our understanding of the great humorist’s life and times....
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography." Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his...
An Archive of Hope
Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. An Archive of Hope is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a...
Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health...
by Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, Peter Lindert
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible...
Compassion, Inc.
How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing—American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74%. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates...