University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
San Francisco in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to the City by the Bay
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
"San Francisco has no single landmark by which the world may identify it," according to San Francisco in the 1930s, originally published in 1940. This would surely come as a surprise to the millions who know and love the Golden Gate Bridge or recognize the Transamerica Building’s pyramid....
Clark
The Autobiography of Clark Terry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere,...
Imaging Disaster
Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation—the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923—this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural...
Japan
History and Culture from Classical to Cool
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan’s elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and...
Without Lying Down
Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
Cari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. Frances Marion was Hollywood's highest paid screenwriter—male or female—or almost three decades,...
by Juliana Spahr
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Part planetary love poem, part 24/7 news flash, the hypnotic poems of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs wrap with equal, angular grace around lovers and battleships. These poems hear the tracer fire in a bird's song and capture cell division and troop deployments in the same expansive thought....
One Nation under AARP
The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)—the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses...
Sundance to Sarajevo
Film Festivals and the World They Made
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2002
Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema...
Coming Famine
The Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience. Cribb's comprehensive assessment describes a dangerous confluence of shortages--of water, land, energy,...
Changing Planet, Changing Health
How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice—it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places...
by John Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Charles Mingus is among jazz’s greatest composers and perhaps its most talented bass player. He was blunt and outspoken about the place of jazz in music history and American culture, about which performers were the real thing (or not), and much more. These in-depth interviews, conducted several...
Better Git It in Your Soul
An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Charles Mingus is one of the most important—and most mythologized—composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a bandleader, composer, producer, and record-label owner. His vivid autobiography, Beneath the Underdog, has...
Music Makes Me
Fred Astaire and Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Fred Astaire: one of the great jazz artists of the twentieth century? Astaire is best known for his brilliant dancing in the movie musicals of the 1930s, but in Music Makes Me, Todd Decker argues that Astaire’s work as a dancer and choreographer —particularly in the realm of tap dancing—made...
Jazz Matters
Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this...