California Press: 1495 books
A Bat Man in the Tropics
Chasing El Duende
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2003
The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world’s leading bat biologists, wonderfully conveys...
Laughter in Ancient Rome
On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear—a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What...
Edward Said
A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable...
by Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2003
This eminently practical volume demystifies legal writing, outlines the causes and consequences of bad writing, and prescribes straightforward, easy-to-apply remedies that will make your writing readable. Complete with usage notes that address lawyers' most common errors, this well-organized book...
Metropolis in the Making
Los Angeles in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban sprawl and reliance on the automobile, its prominence as a financial and industrial center, and the rise of Hollywood as the film capital of the world. This collection of original...
America's Favorite Holidays
Candid Histories
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
America’s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America’s culturally important holidays—Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving—came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information...
Darkness Moves
An Henri Michaux Anthology, 1927-1984
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 1994
Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux’s work "is without equal in the literature of our time."...
Oprah
The Gospel of an Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
"Today on Oprah," intoned the TV announcer, and all over America viewers tuned in to learn, empathize, and celebrate. In this book, Kathryn Lofton investigates the Oprah phenomenon and finds in Winfrey’s empire—Harpo Productions, O Magazine, and her new television network—an uncanny...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical...
Ride, Boldly Ride
The Evolution of the American Western
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, True Grit, and Cowboys & Aliens. While providing fresh perspectives on landmarks such as Stagecoach, Red River, The Searchers,...
Media Archaeology
Approaches, Applications, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, with contributions from internationally prominent scholars...
Ex-Cinema
From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
What does it mean for film and video to be experimental? In this collection of essays framed by the concept "ex-"—meaning from, outside, and no longer—Akira Mizuta Lippit explores the aesthetic, technical, and theoretical reverberations of avant-garde film and video. Ex-Cinema is a sustained...
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief
The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows their voyages of discovery across the Pacific in this fascinating history of Hawaiian culture from about one thousand years ago. Combining more than four...
by Jeremy Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years, and the greatest mass extinction since the time of the dinosaurs appears to be underway. Such far-reaching changes suggest something remarkable: the...