California Press: 1495 books
by Stephen T. Ross Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view...
The State of China Atlas
Mapping the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
This magnificently produced atlas provides a unique visual survey of the profound economic, political, and social changes taking place in China, as well as their implications for the world at large.
China has the world's fastest-growing economy and is the second-largest trading nation. With...
by Richard O. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The poems in Writing the Silences represent more than 60 years of Richard O. Moore’s work as a poet. Selected from seven full-length manuscripts written between 1946 and 2008, these poems reflect not only Moore’s place in literary history—he is the last of his generation of the legendary group...
We Sell Drugs
The Alchemy of US Empire
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This history of US-led international drug control provides new perspectives on the economic, ideological, and political foundations of a Cold War American empire. US officials assumed the helm of international drug control after World War II at a moment of unprecedented geopolitical influence embodied...
Dangerous Games
What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous...
Our Most Troubling Madness
Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia—long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness—are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to...
Miracle Cures
Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer’s making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnology and medicine, do...
by John Iceland
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Race and Ethnicity in America examines patterns and trends in racial and ethnic inequality over recent decades. John Iceland shows how color lines have generally softened over time in the United States but deep-seated inequalities remain—generally, blacks, American Indians, and some Hispanics fare...
Climbin' Jacob's Ladder
The Black Freedom Movement Writings of Jack O’Dell
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
This book collects for the first time the black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell and restores one of the great unsung heroes of the civil rights movement to his rightful place in the historical record. Climbin' Jacob's Ladder puts O'Dell's historically significant essays in context and reveals...
Beyond the Borderlands
Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2011
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they...
Enduring Violence
Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a...
Social Collateral
Women and Microfinance in Paraguay’s Smuggling Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world’s poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.
Social...
Remix
Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Celebrating the diversity of institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Canada, Remix aims to change the discourse about museums from the inside out, proposing a new, “panarchic”—nonhierarchical and adaptive—vision for museum practice. Selma Holo and Mari-Tere Álvarez offer an...
by Albie Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
On April 7, 1988, Albie Sachs, an activist South African lawyer and a leading member of the ANC, was car-bombed in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, by agents of South Africa’s security forces. His right arm was blown off, and he lost sight in one eye. This intimate and moving account of his recovery...