California Press: 1495 books
Hellboy's World
Comics and Monsters on the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy's world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality....
Emerson
The Mind on Fire
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life...
by Robert Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
This magisterial work, long awaited and long the subject of passionate speculation, is an unprecedented exploration of modern poetry and poetics by one of America’s most acclaimed and influential postwar poets. What began in 1959 as a simple homage to the modernist poet H.D. developed into an expansive...
Lost Names
Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead,...
The Odyssey
A New Translation by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers...
To Life!
Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm’s anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow’s 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked...
The Noodle Narratives
The Global Rise of an Industrial Food into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Tasty, convenient, and cheap, instant noodles are one of the most remarkable industrial foods ever. Consumed around the world by millions, they appeal to young and old, affluent and impoverished alike. The authors examine the history, manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of instant noodles. By...
Making Modern Meals
How Americans Cook Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks—witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table—Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship...
Safe Food
The Politics of Food Safety
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately...
Can't Catch a Break
Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can’t Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and...
by Martin Duberman
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker
The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin Duberman, has been...
Gentrification of the Mind
Witness to a Lost Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981–1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Schulman takes us back to...
There Is No Crime for Those Who Have Christ
Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
"There is no crime for those who have Christ," claimed a fifth-century zealot, neatly expressing the belief of religious extremists that righteous zeal for God trumps worldly law. This book provides an in-depth and penetrating look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in...
Beyond the Pale
The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2002
A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans...