California Press: 1495 books
Destroying Yemen
What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first...
by Orvar Löfgren, Billy Ehn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "doing nothing," Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies,...
Drift
Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
“This book was written late in the North American night, with the rumbling thuds and booming train horns of the nearby rail yard echoing through my windows, reminding me of the train hoppers and gutter punks out there rolling through the darkness.”
In Drift, Jeff Ferrell shows how dislocation...
Instant Recess
Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness—persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity—and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines. Toni Yancey finds that despite our best intentions and repeated resolutions...
Crossing the Kingdom
Portraits of Saudi Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could...
Tribal Modern
Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up...
Down by the Bay
San Francisco's History between the Tides
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times*, Down by the Bay* reveals the ongoing role of nature in...
Last Weapons
Hunger Strikes and Fasts in the British Empire, 1890–1948
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Last Weapons explains how the use of hunger strikes and fasts in political protest became a global phenomenon. Exploring the proliferation of hunger as a form of protest between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, Kevin Grant traces this radical tactic as it spread through trans-imperial...
Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate
The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2007
Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises,...
Real Collaboration
What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to...
Birthing a Mother
The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork...
Good Quality
The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand...
Sex Cells
The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn...
In the Clutches of the Law
Clarence Darrow's Letters
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This volume presents a selection of 500 letters by Clarence Darrow, the pre-eminent courtroom lawyer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Randall Tietjen selected these letters from over 2,200 letters in archives around the country, as well as from one remarkable find—the kind of...