California Press: 1495 books
An American Language
The History of Spanish in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos
An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding...
Making the Mexican Diabetic
Race, Science, and the Genetics of Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
This innovative ethnographic study animates the racial politics that underlie genomic research into type 2 diabetes, one of the most widespread chronic diseases and one that affects ethnic groups disproportionately. Michael J. Montoya follows blood donations from "Mexican-American" donors...
The Atlas of Food
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.
By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture,...
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Here, by popular demand, is the updated edition to Joel Best's classic guide to understanding how numbers can confuse us. In his new afterword, Best uses examples from recent policy debates to reflect on the challenges to improving statistical literacy. Since its publication ten years ago, Damned...
Learning in the Global Era
International Perspectives on Globalization and Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in...
Three Kingdoms
A Historical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Updated with a new foreword by Moss Roberts for this fifteenth anniversary edition, Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming...
The Confusions of Pleasure
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1998
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook...
Is It Safe?
BPA and the Struggle to Define the Safety of Chemicals
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
We are all just a little bit plastic. Traces of bisphenol A or BPA, a chemical used in plastics production, are widely detected in our bodies and environment. Is this chemical, and its presence in the human body, safe? What is meant by safety? Who defines it, and according to what information? Is...
American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the...
by Gholam Reza Afkhami
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in...
Weighing In
Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2011
Weighing In takes on the "obesity epidemic," challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. Julie Guthman examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent "obesity" are sensible, efficacious, or ethical. She...
Environmental Flows
Saving Rivers in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend upon them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems....
Savannas of Our Birth
People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This book explores food from a philosophical perspective, bringing together sixteen leading philosophers to consider the most basic questions about food: What is it exactly? What should we eat? How do we know it is safe? How should food be distributed? What is good food? David M. Kaplan’s erudite...