California Press: 1495 books
Crimes against Nature
Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing,...
Shaped by the West, Volume 1
A History of North America to 1877
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look...
by Kerry Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches....
LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence
Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Nationally representative studies confirm that LGBTQ individuals are at an elevated risk of experiencing intimate partner violence. While many similarities exist between LGBTQ and heterosexual-cisgender intimate partner violence, research has illuminated a variety of unique aspects of LGBTQ intimate...
Reflections of Amma
Devotees in a Global Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Globally known as Amma, meaning "Mother," Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the "hugging saint," a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day...
Wide-Open Town
A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu...
Hymns for the Fallen
Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to provoke reflection on the experience of combat. Considering...
The Invention of Judaism
Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in *The *Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism’s adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity....
Slow Fade to Black
The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Slow Fade to Black completes Richard B. Jewell’s richly detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, published in 2012. This second volume charts the studio’s fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period,...
The Forge of Vision
A Visual History of Modern Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. David Morgan argues that the history of religions may therefore be studied through the lens of...
The Cylinder
Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, and many more. Examining this phenomenon through the lens of kinematics, the science of forcing motion,...
by Stephen Rumph
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
In this groundbreaking, historically-informed semiotic study of late eighteenth-century music, Stephen Rumph focuses on Mozart to explore musical meaning within the context of Enlightenment sign and language theory. Illuminating his discussion with French, British, German, and Italian writings on...
by Richard A. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Spiders are among the most diverse groups of terrestrial invertebrates, yet they are among the least studied and understood. This first comprehensive guide to all 68 spider families in North America beautifully illustrates 469 of the most commonly encountered species. Group keys enable identification...
Evolution's Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and...