California Press: 1495 books
A Skeptic Among Scholars
August Frugé on University Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1993
When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the...
Racial Propositions
Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual...
The California Wildlife Habitat Garden
How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This attractive, practical guide explains how to transform backyard gardens into living ecosystems that are not only enjoyable retreats for humans, but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, this book provides easy-to-follow recommendations for...
The Worlds of Junipero Serra
Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious...
Reflections on the University of California
From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues...
States of Delinquency
Race and Science in the Making of California's Juvenile Justice System
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
This unique analysis of the rise of the juvenile justice system from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries uses one of the harshest states—California—as a case study for examining racism in the treatment of incarcerated young people of color. Using rich new untapped archives, States of Delinquency...
The Immigrant and the University
Peder Sather and Gold Rush California
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery...
After the Grizzly
Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Thoroughly researched and finely crafted, After the Grizzly traces the history of endangered species and habitat in California, from the time of the Gold Rush to the present. Peter S. Alagona shows how scientists and conservationists came to view the fates of endangered species as inextricable from...
Entrepreneurial President
Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995–2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Richard C. Atkinson was named president of the University of California in August 1995, barely four weeks after the UC Regents voted to end affirmative action. How he dealt with the admissions wars—the political, legal, and academic consequences of that historic and controversial decision, as well...
by Lawrence Mark Elbroch, Michael Kresky, Jonah Evans
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Spotting an animal’s fresh footprints in the wild can conjure a world for the hiker: Why did the deer tracks disappear? Where did the cougar turn off the trail? What does it mean when two sets of footprints seem to coincide? This beautifully illustrated field guide, the first devoted to the tracks...
Orderly Anarchy
Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity...
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Complete Reader's Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This is the first authoritative edition of one of the most significant children’s books of the twentieth century. Winner of the 1961 Newbery Medal, Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of a girl left alone for eighteen years in the aftermath of violent encounters with Europeans on her home...
by Robert Sommer, Mike Davis, John Menge
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
California and the Western States are rich in abundant and diverse species of mushrooms. Amateur mushroom collectors and mycologists alike will find over 300 species of the region’s most common, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms profiled in this comprehensive field guide. It provides...
Becoming Dr. Q
My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir,...