University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
It's Not Like I'm Poor
How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
The world of welfare has changed radically. As the poor trade welfare checks for low-wage jobs, their low earnings qualify them for a hefty check come tax time—a combination of the earned income tax credit and other refunds. For many working parents this one check is like hitting the lottery, offering...
Gaza
An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein's study stands alone."—Noam Chomsky
"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book."
—The Intercept
The...
Out of Our Minds
What We Think and How We Came to Think It
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2019
"A stimulating history of how the imagination interacted with its sibling psychological faculties—emotion, perception and reason—to shape the history of human mental life."—The Wall Street Journal
To imagine—to see what is not there—is the startling ability that has fueled human development...
Out of War
Violence, Trauma, and the Political Imagination in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Out of War draws on Mariane C. Ferme’s three decades of ethnographic engagements to examine the physical and psychological aftereffects of the harms of Sierra Leone's civil war. Ferme analyzes the relationship between violence, trauma, and the political imagination, focusing on “war times”—the...
Blind Spot
How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2014
Neoliberalism has been the defining paradigm in global health since the latter part of the twentieth century. What started as an untested and unproven theory that the creation of unfettered markets would give rise to political democracy led to policies that promoted the belief that private markets...
Imagining the Future of Climate Change
World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers...
Globalization
Culture and Education in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and large-scale...
First Life
Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life’s connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin...
The Paradox of Hope
Journeys through a Clinical Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Grounded in intimate moments of family life in and out of hospitals, this book explores the hope that inspires us to try to create lives worth living, even when no cure is in sight. The Paradox of Hope focuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them...
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Queer Methods in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This provocative collection showcases the work of emerging and established sociologists in the fields of sexuality and gender studies as they reflect on what it means to develop, practice, and teach queer methods. Located within the critical conversation about the possibilities and challenges of...
Deviance
Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Deviance: Social Constructions and Blurred Boundaries draws on up-to-date scholarship across a wide spectrum of deviance categories, providing a symbolic interactionist analysis of the deviance process. The book addresses positivistic theories of deviant behavior within a description of the deviance...
Solitary
The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“When I testify in court, I am often asked: ‘What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?’ . . . Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms even though outwardly they may appear emotionally stable. The damage from isolation is dreadfully...
Embryos in Deep Time
The Rock Record of Biological Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first...