California Press: 1495 books
Lead Wars
The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. Lead Wars details how the nature of the epidemic has changed and highlights the dilemmas public health...
American Nightmares
Social Problems in an Anxious World
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
In an accessible and droll style, well-known sociologist Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream—to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement—recent generations have been told...
by Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, Peter Lindert
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
The size of government is arguably the most controversial discussion in United States politics, and this issue won't fade from prominence any time soon. There must surely be a tipping point beyond which more government taxing and spending harms the economy, but where is that point? In this accessible...
Gray Divorce
What We Lose and Gain from Mid-Life Splits
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
After 20, 30, or even 40 years of marriage, countless vacations, raising well-adjusted children, and sharing property and finances, what could go wrong?
Gray Divorce is a provocative look at the rising rate of marital splits after the age of 50. Renowned author and researcher Jocelyn Elise...
by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Kathleen Wong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks,...
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok
Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy...
Science and Sensibility
Negotiating an Ecology of Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While...
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects...
Europe's Promise
Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe. A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe's Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe's...
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply...
Thank You, Anarchy
Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters to cover the phenomenon. Nathan Schneider chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried...
Global Africa
Into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations,...
by J. Edward Taylor, Travis J. Lybbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development...
by Susan L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this...