California Press: 1495 books
The Persistence of Sentiment
Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotional power, even though their music is considered vulgar or second rate? In The Persistence of Sentiment, Mitchell Morris gives a critical account of a group of American popular music...
The Maternal Factor
Two Paths to Morality
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
In this provocative new book, renowned educator and philosopher Nel Noddings extends her influential work on the ethics of care toward a compelling objective—global peace and justice. She asks: If we celebrate the success of women becoming more like men in professional life, should we not simultaneously...
Ubiquitous Listening
Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How does the constant presence of music in modern life—on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television—affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such passive listening? In Ubiquitous Listening,...
Bringing the War Home
The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2004
In this first comprehensive comparison of left-wing violence in the United States and West Germany, Jeremy Varon focuses on America's Weather Underground and Germany's Red Army Faction to consider how and why young, middle-class radicals in prosperous democratic societies turned to armed struggle...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region....
The Nicest Kids in Town
American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national...
Counterplay
An Anthropologist at the Chessboard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2011
"Chess gets a hold of some people, like a virus or a drug," writes Robert Desjarlais in this absorbing book. Drawing on his lifelong fascination with the game, Desjarlais guides readers into the world of twenty-first-century chess to help us understand its unique pleasures and challenges,...
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults...
Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia
Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
It is widely believed that the Emperor Constantine’s conversion to Christianity politicized religious allegiances, dividing the Christian Roman Empire from the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire and leading to the persecution of Christians in Persia. This account, however, is based on Greek ecclesiastical...
The Fourth Trimester
Understanding, Protecting, and Nurturing an Infant through the First Three Months
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The first three months of a baby’s life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation for the real world. The fourth trimester has more in common with the nine months that came before than with the lifetime that follows. This comprehensive,...
The Untold History of Ramen
How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen has become an international symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly original account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan, George Solt traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor...
Cheap Meat
Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Cheap Meat follows the controversial trade in inexpensive fatty cuts of lamb or mutton, called "flaps," from the farms of New Zealand and Australia to their primary markets in the Pacific islands of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and Fiji. Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington address the evolution...
Word of Mouth
What We Talk About When We Talk About Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices....
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen
Cooking, Skill, and Everyday Life on an Aegean Island
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Secrets from the Greek Kitchen explores how cooking skills, practices, and knowledge on the island of Kalymnos are reinforced or transformed by contemporary events. Based on more than twenty years of research and the author’s videos of everyday cooking techniques, this rich ethnography treats the...