California Press: 1495 books
The Exultant Ark
A Pictorial Tour of Animal Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Nature documentaries often depict animal life as a grim struggle for survival, but this visually stunning book opens our eyes to a different, more scientifically up-to-date way of looking at the animal kingdom. In more than one hundred thirty striking images, The Exultant Ark celebrates the full range...
The Blood of Strangers
Stories from Emergency Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 1999
Reminiscent of Chekhov's stories, The Blood of Strangers is a visceral portrayal of a physician's encounters with the highly charged world of an emergency room. In this collection of spare and elegant stories, Dr. Frank Huyler reveals a side of medicine where small moments—the intricacy of suturing...
Birds of the Sierra Nevada
Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and...
Born in the USA
How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in hospitals across the country, a longtime medical insider and international authority on childbirth assesses the flawed American maternity care system, powerfully demonstrating how it fails to deliver safe, effective care for both mothers and...
Traveling the 38th Parallel
A Water Line around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern...
Hard Work
Remaking the American Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2004
This concise overview of the labor movement in the United States focuses on why American workers have failed to develop the powerful unions that exist in other industrialized countries. Packed with valuable analysis and information, Hard Work explores historical perspectives, examines social and political...
Unruly Equality
U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The first intellectual and social history of American anarchist thought and activism across the twentieth century
In this highly accessible history of anarchism in the United States, Andrew Cornell reveals an astounding continuity and development across the century. Far from fading away, anarchists...
Boreal Birds of North America
A Hemispheric View of Their Conservation Links and Significance
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America’s boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet. It is critical habitat for billions of birds; more than 300 species regularly breed there. After the breeding season, many boreal birds migrate...
Abusive Endings
Separation and Divorce Violence against Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Abusive Endings offers a thorough analysis of the social-science literature on one of the most significant threats to the health and well-being of women today—abuse at the hands of their male partners. The authors provide a moving description of why and how men abuse women in myriad ways during...
Across Atlantic Ice
The Origin of America's Clovis Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World...
Protecting Life on Earth
An Introduction to the Science of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, Protecting Life on Earth offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the growing field of conservation science. This multifaceted exploration of our current biodiversity crisis delivers vivid examples throughout, including features...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2011
This pioneering encyclopedia illuminates a topic at the forefront of global ecology—biological invasions, or organisms that come to live in the wrong place. Written by leading scientists from around the world, Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions addresses all aspects of this subject at a global...
How Not to Be Eaten
The Insects Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and...
Melania
Early Christianity through the Life of One Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late...