California Press: 1495 books
The Fossil Chronicles
How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the...
The Drunken Monkey
Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on...
by Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s...
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist
Reading the Hollywood Reds
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held...
Stealing the Show
African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidation of stardom as a potent cultural and industrial force. Petty focuses on five performers whose Hollywood film careers flourished during this period—Louise Beavers, Fredi Washington,...
Twilight of the Idols
Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars—Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel...
The New Food Activism
Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts...
Houston Bound
Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.* Houston Bound* draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through...
Videoland
Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans...
Plane Queer
Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as...
A Passion for Facts
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional...
Getting Sociology Right
A Half-Century of Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
Neil J. Smelser, one of the most important and influential American sociologists, traces the discipline of sociology from 1969 to the early twenty-first century in Getting Sociology Right: A Half-Century of Reflections. Examining sociology as a vocation and building on the work of Talcott Parsons,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today, including internal and international migration, transformation...