University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
Purchasing Medical Innovation
The Right Technology, for the Right Patient, at the Right Price
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Innovation in medical technology generates a remarkable supply of new drugs, devices, and diagnostics that improve health, reduce risks, and extend life. But these technologies are too often used on the wrong patient, in the wrong setting, or at an unaffordable price. The only way to moderate the...
Wines of South America
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2014
The most comprehensive guide to the wines of the entire continent, Wines of South America introduces readers to the astounding quality and variety of wines that until recently have been enjoyed, for the most part, only locally. Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein leads wine enthusiasts on an exciting...
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained...
The Weight of Obesity
Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A woman with hypertension refuses vegetables. A man with diabetes adds iron-fortified sugar to his coffee. As death rates from heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes in Latin America escalate, global health interventions increasingly emphasize nutrition, exercise, and weight loss—but much goes awry...
Unprepared
Global Health in a Time of Emergency
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in global health emergencies—from SARS to pandemic influenza to Ebola to Zika. Each of these occurrences has sparked calls for improved health preparedness. In Unprepared, Andrew Lakoff follows the history of health preparedness from its beginnings in 1950s...
A Geography of Digestion
Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A Geography of Digestion is a highly original exploration of the legacy of the Kellogg Company, one of America’s most enduring and storied food enterprises. In the late nineteenth century, company founder John H. Kellogg was experimenting with state-of-the-art advances in nutritional and medical...
The Other Side of Assimilation
How Immigrants Are Changing American Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans—those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations?
The Other Side of Assimilation...
The Art of Connection
Risk, Mobility, and the Crafting of Transparency in Coastal Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The Art of Connection narrates the individual stories of artisans and traders of Kenyan arts and crafts as they overcome the loss of physical access to roadside market space by turning to new digital technologies to make their businesses more mobile and integrated into the global economy. Bringing...
Preaching Bondage
John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Preaching Bondage introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom, the late fourth-century priest and bishop. Chris L. de Wet examines the dynamics of enslavement in Chrysostom’s theology, virtue ethics, and biblical interpretation...
by Christopher Ehret
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
This book is about history and the practical power of language to reveal historical change. Christopher Ehret offers a methodological guide to applying language evidence in historical studies. He demonstrates how these methods allow us not only to recover the histories of time periods and places poorly...
Email from Ngeti
An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Email from Ngeti is a captivating story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. When the anthropologist James Smith returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets Ngeti Mwadime, a young man from the Taita Hills who is as...
Death in a Church of Life
Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
This deeply insightful ethnography explores the healing power of caring and intimacy in a small, closely bonded Apostolic congregation during Botswana’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. Death in a Church of Life paints a vivid picture of how members of the Baitshepi Church make strenuous efforts to sustain loving...
Our Bodies Belong to God
Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Why has Egypt, a pioneer of organ transplantation, been reluctant to pass a national organ transplant law for more than three decades? This book analyzes the national debate over organ transplantation in Egypt as it has unfolded during a time of major social and political transformation—including...
Orientalist Aesthetics
Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives,...