California Press: 1495 books
Art of the Gold Rush
(Published in association with the Oakland Museum of California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State...
by Charles E. Olken, Joseph Furstenthal
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries. An encyclopedia, atlas, and buying guide combined in one comprehensive, authoritative work,...
Tending the Wild
Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple...
Trailblazer
A Biography of Jerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than thirty years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history. Son of California political royalty who forged his own political style against the tumultuous backdrop of a huge,...
by Tim Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, kayak, and raft, it offers an interpretive approach that reveals geology, plant and wild life, hydrologic...
by Ronald D. Quinn, Dr. Sterling Keeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The characteristic look of California Chaparral—a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills—is known to millions who have seen it as the backdrop in movies and television productions. This complex ecological community of plants and animals is not just a feature of the hills...
Climate Change in California
Risk and Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
California is synonymous with opportunity, prosperity, and natural beauty, but climate change will certainly influence the state’s future. Changes will affect the economy, natural resources, public health, agriculture, and the livelihoods of its residents. But how big is the risk? How will Californians...
A Natural History of California
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California—a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural...
California in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history,...
The Left Coast
California on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Philip L. Fradkin, one of California’s most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast, captured the wonder of the shoreline’s natural beauty along with the controversies it engendered. In...
Factories in the Field
The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to...
Surf, Sand, and Stone
How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. Over the last several million years, movements of these plates have dramatically reshuffled the Earth’s crust to create rugged landscapes and seascapes riven with active faults. Movement along these faults...
Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world."...
Field Guide to the Common Bees of California
Including Bees of the Western United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States. Full-color illustrations introduce readers to more than 30 genera of native bees,...