California Press: 1495 books
Flesh and Fish Blood
Postcolonialism, Translation, and the Vernacular
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Flesh and Fish Blood Subramanian Shankar breaks new ground in postcolonial studies by exploring the rich potential of vernacular literary expressions. Shankar pushes beyond the postcolonial Anglophone canon and works with Indian literature and film in English, Tamil, and Hindi to present one of...
The Fish in the Forest
Salmon and the Web of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
The Fish in the Forest is an elegantly written, beautifully illustrated exploration of the complex web of relationships between the salmon of the Pacific Northwest and the surrounding ecosystem. Dale Stokes shows how nearly all aspects of this fragile ecosystem—from streambeds to treetops, from...
Creating a Common Polity
Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle...
How to Read a Protest
The Art of Organizing and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
**"Explores protesting as an act of faith . . . How to Read a Protest argues that the women's marches of 2017 didn't just help shape and fuel a moment—they actually created one."—Masha Gessen, *The New Yorker *
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O, the Oprah Magazine’s “14 Best Political Books to Read Before...
Playing the Farmer
Representations of Rural Life in Vergil’s Georgics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergil’s Georgics, a vibrant work written by Rome’s premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time connects the poem’s idyllic, and idealized,...
In the Image of Origen
Eros, Virtue, and Constraint in the Early Christian Academy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The most prominent Christian theologian and exegete of the third century, Origen was also an influential teacher. In the famed Thanksgiving Address, one of his students—traditionally thought to be Gregory Thaumaturgus, later bishop of Cappadocia—delivered an emotionally charged account of his...
Divine Deliverance
Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Does martyrdom hurt? The obvious answer to this question is “yes.” L. Stephanie Cobb, asserts, however, that early Christian martyr texts respond to this question with an emphatic “no!” Divine Deliverance examines the original martyr texts of the second through fifth centuries, concluding...
The World's Beaches
A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet’s most dynamic environments—from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical shores. The World’s...
Incorruptible Bodies
Christology, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
In the early sixth-century eastern Roman empire, anti-Chalcedonian leaders Severus of Antioch and Julian of Halicarnassus debated the nature of Jesus's body: Was it corruptible prior to its resurrection from the dead? Viewing the controversy in light of late antiquity’s multiple images of the ‘body...
Controlling Contested Places
Late Antique Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
From constructing new buildings to describing rival-controlled areas as morally and physically dangerous, leaders in late antiquity fundamentally shaped their physical environment and thus the events that unfolded within it. Controlling Contested Places maps the city of Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) through...
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and...
Learning Love from a Tiger
Religious Experiences with Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans’ sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings...
Migrating Tales
The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Migrating Tales situates the Babylonian Talmud, or Bavli, in its cultural context by reading several rich rabbinic stories against the background of Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, much of it Christian in origin. In this nuanced...