California Press: 1495 books
Land of Blue Helmets
The United Nations and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in 1945, the United Nations came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding...
The Atlas of Climate Change
Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
This highly acclaimed atlas distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing field. Since the 2006 publication of the first edition, climate change has climbed even higher up the global agenda. This new edition reflects the latest developments...
Scratching Out a Living
Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
How has Latino immigration transformed the South? In what ways is the presence of these newcomers complicating efforts to organize for workplace justice? Scratching Out a Living takes readers deep into Mississippi’s chicken processing plants and communities, where large numbers of Latin American...
Dinosaur Odyssey
Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascinating animals in a broad ecological and evolutionary context, leading dinosaur expert Scott D. Sampson...
Paradoxes of Green
Landscapes of a City-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social—in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous—a radical contrast...
by Neil J. Smelser, John S. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social...
Domestica
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
by Bill Sharpsteen
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
The Docks is an eye-opening journey into a giant madhouse of activity that few outsiders ever see: the Port of Los Angeles. In a book woven throughout with riveting novelist detail and illustrated with photographs that capture the frenetic energy of the place, Bill Sharpsteen tells the story of the...
God in Proof
The Story of a Search from the Ancients to the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this tour of the history of arguments for and against the existence of God, Nathan Schneider embarks on a remarkable intellectual, historical, and theological journey through the centuries of believers and unbelievers—from ancient Greeks, to medieval Arabs, to today’s most eminent philosophers...
Transmedia Frictions
The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing the term "transmedia" with "transnational," they show that the movement beyond specific media...
Cleopatra
A Sphinx Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Cleopatra—a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could—continues to fascinate centuries after she...
My Los Angeles
From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country’s densest...
Brunello di Montalcino
Understanding and Appreciating One of Italy’s Greatest Wines
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
For fans of Italian wine, few names command the level of respect accorded to Brunello di Montalcino. Expert wine writer Kerin O’Keefe has a deep personal knowledge of Tuscany and its extraordinary wine, and her account is both thoroughly researched and readable. Organized as a guided tour through...
Fit to Be Citizens?
Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina...