California Press: 1495 books
by Mark A. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
"A must-read for any wine grape grower or winemaker who has ever wrestled with the most important myths of winegrowing or debated them with colleagues—and that would be all of us! It is also a great read for any wine consumer interested in looking at 'the man behind the curtain,' so to speak:...
Better Safe Than Sorry
How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
How toxic are the products we consume on a daily basis? Whether it’s triclosan in toothpaste, formaldehyde in baby shampoo, endocrine disruptors in water bottles, or pesticides on strawberries, chemicals in food and personal care products are of increasing concern to consumers. This book chronicles...
Green Criminology
Crime, Justice, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action. *Green Criminology *draws attention to the ways in which the political-economic organization of capitalism causes ecological destruction and disorganization. Focusing on real-world...
Hard to Get
Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history—twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience...
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
How Chiefs Became Kings
Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex...
Risk Terrain Modeling
Crime Prediction and Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Imagine using an evidence-based risk management model that enables researchers and practitioners alike to analyze the spatial dynamics of crime, allocate resources, and implement custom crime and risk reduction strategies that are transparent, measurable, and effective.
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM)...
States of Separation
Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Across the Middle East in the post–World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. States of Separation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen...
We Demand
The University and Student Protests
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“Puts campus activism in a radical historic context.”—New York Review of Books
In the post–World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led movements, women, minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people demanded that universities adapt to better...
Nothing About Us Without Us
Disability Oppression and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1998
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
Ain't No Trust
How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Ain’t No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.—at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers—and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it’s failing the very people it is...
Moral Wages
The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on...
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies provides an intimate examination of the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in our contemporary food system. An anthropologist and MD in the mold of Paul Farmer and Didier Fassin, Holmes shows how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine...