California Press: 1495 books
Dear Mark Twain
Letters from His Readers
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world—children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates...
San Diego in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to America's Finest City
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city’s culture, roadside attractions, and history—from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records—tidbits such as the bloodiest...
Latin American Cinema
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This book charts a comparative history of Latin America’s national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodríguez weaves close...
Performing Ethnomusicology
Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2004
Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays...
Hitchcock on Hitchcock, Volume 2
Selected Writings and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
This second volume of Alfred Hitchcock’s reflections on his life and work and the art of cinema contains material long out of print, not easily accessible, and in some cases forgotten or unknown. Edited by Sidney Gottlieb, this new collection of interviews, articles with the great director's byline,...
Radio
Essays in Bad Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio’s central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a founding technology of twentieth-century mass culture, radio drew the attention of theoretical and...
Funnybooks
The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Funnybooks is the story of the most popular American comic books of the 1940s and 1950s, those published under the Dell label. For a time, "Dell Comics Are Good Comics" was more than a slogan—it was a simple statement of fact. Many of the stories written and drawn by people like Carl Barks...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1966
All of these selections in this volume were comosed between 1896 and 1905. Mark Twain wrote them after the disasters of the early and middle nineties that had included the decline into bankruptcy of his publishing business, the failure of the typsetting machine in which he invested heavily, and the...
The FBI and Religion
Faith and National Security before and after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence. As early as 1917, the Bureau began to target religious communities and groups it believed were hotbeds of anti-American politics. Whether these religious communities...
by Huston Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
For more than sixty years, Huston Smith has not only written and taught about the world’s religions, he has lived them. This Reader presents a rich selection of Smith’s writings, covering six decades of inquiry and exploration, and ranging from scholarship to memoir. Over his long academic career,...
In Search of Lost Meaning
The New Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
In this new collection of essays, Adam Michnik—one of Europe’s leading dissidents—traces the post-cold-war transformation of Eastern Europe. He writes again in opposition, this time to post-communist elites and European Union bureaucrats. Composed of history, memoir, and political critique,...
by Anson Rabinbach, Sander L. Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
No documentation of National Socialism can be undertaken without the explicit recognition that the "German Renaissance" promised by the Nazis culminated in unprecedented horror—World War II and the genocide of European Jewry. With The Third Reich Sourcebook, editors Anson Rabinbach and...
Downcast Eyes
The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1993
Long considered "the noblest of the senses," vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity...
Henry Thoreau
A Life of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this new biography, based on a reexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full nineteenth century context.