California Press: 1495 books
The Fifth Beginning
What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can predict the future of humanity.
In an eminently readable style, Kelly identifies four key pivot...
Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became...
The Complete Poetry
A Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
This first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938) makes available to English speakers one of the greatest achievements of twentieth-century world poetry. Handsomely presented in facing-page Spanish and English, this volume, translated by National Book Award winner...
Of Indigo and Saffron
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence,...
Danger to Self
On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes...
Sand
The Never-Ending Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials. Told by a geologist with a novelist's sense...
Abstract Video
The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history...
Rome and Environs
An Archaeological Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
This superb guide brings the work of Filippo Coarelli, one of the most widely published and well-known scholars of Roman topography, archeology and art, to a broad English-language audience. Conveniently organized by walking tours and illustrated throughout with clear maps, drawings, and plans, Rome...
Holy Harlots
Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure...
by Dean MacCannell
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal...
Mexican New York
Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants...
Categorizing Sound
Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies...
Memory Work
Anne Truitt and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthetic in the 1960s, Truitt was tireless in her pursuit of a strong cultural voice. At the heart of her practice was the key theme of memory, which enabled...
by Kay Schiller, Chris Young
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The 1972 Munich Olympics—remembered almost exclusively for the devastating terrorist attack on the Israeli team—were intended to showcase the New Germany and replace lingering memories of the Third Reich. That hope was all but obliterated in the early hours of September 5, when gun-wielding Palestinians...