California Press: 1495 books
The Modern World-System III
The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s–1840s
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.
Mexico
Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology,...
Spacefaring
The Human Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2001
The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions;...
The Modern World-System IV
Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914
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...
Rediscovering America
Japanese Perspectives on the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by...
The Conscientious Gardener
Cultivating a Garden Ethic
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In his influential A Sand County Almanac, published at the beginning of the environmental movement in 1949, Aldo Leopold proposed a new ecological ethic to guide our stewardship of the planet. In this inspiring book, Sarah Hayden Reichard tells how we can bring Leopold’s far-reaching vision to our...
Writing Immigration
Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Bringing nuance, complexity, and clarity to a subject often seen in black and white, Writing Immigration presents a unique interplay of leading scholars and journalists working on the contentious topic of immigration. In a series of powerful essays, the contributors reflect on how they struggle to...
by John E. McDonough
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This indispensable guide to the Affordable Care Act, our new national health care law, lends an insider’s deep understanding of policy to a lively and absorbing account of the extraordinary—and extraordinarily ambitious—legislative effort to reform the nation’s health care system. Dr. John...
Admonitions on Governing the People
Manual for All Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
This is the first English translation of one of Korea’s most celebrated historical works, a pre-modern classic so well known to Koreans that it has inspired contemporary literature and television. Written in 1821 by Chong Yagyong (Tasan), Admonitions on Governing the People (Mongmin simso) is a...
by Tom Adam Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this...
One Land, Two States
Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict. "If the land cannot be shared by geographical division, and if a one-state solution remains unacceptable," the book asks, "can the land...
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides...
Living Color
The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the...
Deceit and Denial
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players,...