California Press: 1495 books
The Googlization of Everything
(And Why We Should Worry)
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission—"To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible"—and...
by Charles Saylan, Daniel Blumstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education—along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators alike, Saylan and Blumstein boldly argue that...
Chinese Characters
Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on...
El Mall
The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption...
Dao De Jing
The Book of the Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our...
by Gerald Asher
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those...
The Makers of American Wine
A Record of Two Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry...
Reinventing the Wheel
Milk, Microbes, and the Fight for Real Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In little more than a century, industrial practices have altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the Wheel explores what has been lost as raw-milk, single-farm cheeses have given way...
The Activist's Handbook
Winning Social Change in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama. Shaw details how activists can best use the Internet and social media,...
Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new...
Control and Protect
Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this book...
Twilight Policing
Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and...
The Modern World-System II
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.