California Press: 1495 books
Friendship
Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an...
The World in the Long Twentieth Century
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the...
Compassion, Inc.
How Corporate America Blurs the Line between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Pink ribbons, red dresses, and greenwashing—American corporations are scrambling to tug at consumer heartstrings through cause-related marketing, corporate social responsibility, and ethical branding, tactics that can increase sales by as much as 74%. Harmless? Marketing insider Mara Einstein demonstrates...
Authentic Wine
Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"A great primer. . . . If you're new to the natural/organic/biodynamic wine debates, Authentic Wine is the place to start."—Huffington Post
"This is one of the most engaging, thoughtful and enlightening books on contemporary wine. . . . A manifesto for an industry looking to...
American Wine Economics
An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The U.S. wine industry is growing rapidly and wine consumption is an increasingly important part of American culture. American Wine Economics is intended for students of economics, wine professionals, and general readers who seek to gain a unified and systematic understanding of the economic organization...
Caring
A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child.
In Caring—now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance...
Engineering Happiness
A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the...
The Myth of Silent Spring
Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
A Malleable Map
Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d’état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing...
by Andrew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best...
Bottled Up
How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program’s tagline was "The journey to parenthood . . . from pregnancy to delivery and beyond." Barston valiantly...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply...
Beyond Bioethics
Toward a New Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social...
Regression Models for Categorical, Count, and Related Variables
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Social science and behavioral science students and researchers are often confronted with data that are categorical, count a phenomenon, or have been collected over time. Sociologists examining the likelihood of interracial marriage, political scientists studying voting behavior, criminologists counting...