California Press: 1495 books
1500 California Place Names
Their Origin and Meaning, A Revised version of 1000 California Place Names by Erwin G. Gudde, Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 1998
This is the new "pocket" version of the classic California Place Names, first published by California in 1949. Erwin G. Gudde's monumental work, which went through several editions during its author's lifetime, has now been released in an expanded and updated edition by William Bright. The...
by Greg de Nevers, Deborah Stanger Edelman, Adina Merenlender
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
The California Naturalist Handbook provides a fun, science-based introduction to California’s natural history with an emphasis on observation, discovery, communication, stewardship and conservation. It is a hands-on guide to learning about the natural environment of California. Subjects covered...
The Digital Jepson Manual
Vascular Plants of California
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The second edition of The Jepson Manual thoroughly updates this acclaimed work, the single most comprehensive resource on California's amazingly diverse flora. This work integrates the latest science, the results of intensive fieldwork, institutional collaboration, and the efforts of hundreds of contributing...
by John D. Stuart, John O. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2001
California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs. This is the first book to combine the trees and shrubs of California in one accessible field guide. Trees and Shrubs of California identifies and describes...
Inside the California Food Revolution
Thirty Years That Changed Our Culinary Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
In this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national...
Phylogeography of California
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Phylogeography of California examines the evolution of a variety of taxa—ancient and recent, native and migratory—to elucidate evolutionary events both major and minor that shaped the distribution, radiation, and speciation of the biota of California. The book also interprets evolutionary history...
by Robert C. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth. Many of these taxa have unique ecological and morphological specializations, and their management is an important conservation...
The Atlas of California
Mapping the Challenge of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
California is at a crossroads. For decades a global leader, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions, the state has recently faced double-digit unemployment, multi-billion dollar budget deficits and the loss of trillions in home values. This atlas brings together the latest research and statistics...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state,...
Natural State
A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
This is the first anthology of nature writing that celebrates California, the most geographically diverse state in the union. Readers—be they naturalists or armchair explorers—will find themselves transported to California's many wild places in the company of forty noted writers whose works span...
California
The Great Exception
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1999
In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years—its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that have...
Coastal Sage
Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. *Coastal Sage *chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving...
by California Coastal Commission
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
From the majestic redwoods and rocky shores in the north to the palm trees and wide, sandy beaches in the south, the California coast is an area of unsurpassed beauty and diversity. This thoroughly revised and expanded 7th edition of the California Coastal Access Guide is an essential travel handbook...
La Nueva California
Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential study, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino...