California Press: 1495 books
Off the Page
Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of scripts in the context of the screenwriting paraindustry—from “how to write a winning script”...
Road Out
A Teacher's Odyssey in Poor America
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty? The Road Out is a gripping account of one teacher’s journey of hope and discovery with her students—girls...
House on Fire
The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
A story of courage and risk-taking, House on Fire tells how smallpox, a disease that killed, blinded, and scarred millions over centuries of human history, was completely eradicated in a spectacular triumph of medicine and public health. Part autobiography, part mystery, the story is told by a man...
by Robert A. Norman
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Written by a leading dermatologist, The Blue Man and Other Stories of the Skin provides a compelling and accessible introduction to the life of our largest organ, while also recounting the author’s experiences with memorable patients he has treated who suffer from mysterious skin conditions. Robert...
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution
Twentieth Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance:...
Incarcerating the Crisis
Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
The United States currently has the largest prison population on the planet. Over the last four decades, structural unemployment, concentrated urban poverty, and mass homelessness have also become permanent features of the political economy. These developments are without historical precedent, but...
Spanish Legacies
The Coming of Age of the Second Generation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s...
Immigrant America
A Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.
Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political,...
Christian Moderns
Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2007
Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East...
Spirits of Protestantism
Medicine, Healing, and Liberal Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Spirits of Protestantism reveals how liberal Protestants went from being early-twentieth-century medical missionaries seeking to convert others through science and scripture, to becoming vocal critics of missionary arrogance who experimented with non-western healing modes such as Yoga and Reiki. Drawing...
Anatomy of Sound
Norman Corwin and Media Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This collection examines the work of Norman Corwin—one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time—as a critical lens to view the history of multimedia authorship and sound production. Known as the “poet laureate” of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas,...
Life Beside Itself
Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940s to the early 1960s) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980s to the present). Along the way,...
The Biography of Ancient Israel
National Narratives in the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the...
The Music of Tragedy
Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides’ allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures...