California Press: 1495 books
Beyond Reason
Wagner contra Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Beyond Reason relates Wagner’s works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career:* Der Ring des Nibelungen*, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Parsifal. Karol Berger seeks to penetrate...
AIDS and Masculinity in the African City
Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
AIDS has been a devastating plague in much of sub-Saharan Africa, yet the long-term implications for gender and sexuality are just emerging. AIDS and Masculinity in the African City tackles this issue head on and examines how AIDS has altered the ways masculinity is lived in Uganda—a country known...
Partner to the Poor
A Paul Farmer Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated...
Menus for Movieland
Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture, 1913–1916
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
At the turn of the past century, the main function of a newspaper was to offer “menus” by which readers could make sense of modern life and imagine how to order their daily lives. Among those menus in the mid-1910s were several that mediated the interests of movie manufacturers, distributors,...
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases...
Hygienic Modernity
Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004
Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese...
by Mark Twain
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
This landmark anniversary edition contains a selection of Twain's hard-to-find letters and notes expressing his always-engaging opinions on the publication of Tom Sawyer.
Earth Sound Earth Signal
Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Earth Sound Earth Signal is a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmissions of the present day. Douglas Kahn begins by evoking the Aeolian sphere music that Henry David Thoreau heard blowing along telegraph...
Fruits of the Cross
Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri*—*sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday—Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly...
The War Comes Home
Washington's Battle against America's Veterans
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, levels...
The Art of Eating Cookbook
Essential Recipes from the First 25 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
From his first newsletter, issued in 1986, through today’s beautiful full-color magazine, Edward Behr has offered companionship and creativity to avid culinary enthusiasts, including some of America’s most famous chefs. This book collects the best recipes of the magazine’s past twenty-five years—from...
Dude, You’re a Fag
Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and...
Smart Girls
Success, School, and the Myth of Post-Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Are girls taking over the world? It would appear so, based on magazine covers, news headlines, and popular books touting girls’ academic success. Girls are said to outperform boys in high school exams, university entrance and graduation rates, and professional certification. As a result, many in...
Trans Kids
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
*Trans Kids *is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their...