California Press: 1495 books
by Richard J. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
With over 40,000 described species, spiders have adapted to nearly every terrestrial environment across the globe. Over half of the world’s spider families live within the three contiguous Pacific Coast states—not surprising considering the wide variety of habitats, from mountain meadows and desert...
Flame and Fortune in the American West
Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand...
Weed Land
Inside America's Marijuana Epicenter and How Pot Went Legit
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Early in the morning of September 5, 2002, camouflaged and heavily armed Drug Enforcement Administration agents descended on a terraced marijuana garden. The DEA raid on the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, a sanctuary for severely ill patients who were using marijuana as medicine, is the...
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl
The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’...
Walkabout Malibu to Mexico
Hiking Inn to Inn on the Southern California Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Leave the car behind and take a walking vacation. Hike from inn-to-inn on the Southern California Coast - a land of sublime swimming beaches, rugged shores with abundant wildlife, inviting seaside villages, great dining, and delightful inns. Walkabout Malibu to Mexico: Hiking Inn to Inn on the Southern...
Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)
Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely...
by Doug Shafer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
At the age of 47, when he a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of...
Washington Wines and Wineries
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
As the global wine industry reinvents itself for twenty first–century palates, Washington is poised to become as important and influential as California on the world stage. National and international attention has brought interest in the state’s wines to an all-time high. Yet, in just the past...
by Catherine Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2000
William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct—a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal—that brought...
Neuropsychedelia
The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late 1960s, a new generation of hallucinogen...
America's Social Arsonist
Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."—Fred Ross
Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would “stay with his own kind,” Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began...
Black against Empire
The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality...
The West without Water
What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate...
Floodplains
Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Floodplains provides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. It synthesizes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and how under appropriate management these processes can provide benefits to society...