California Press: 1495 books
Embryos in Deep Time
The Rock Record of Biological Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
How can we bring together the study of genes, embryos and fossils? Embryos in Deep Time is a critical synthesis of the study of individual development in fossils. It brings together an up-to-date review of concepts from comparative anatomy, ecology and developmental genetics, and examples of different...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as "the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and "an historically unparalleled compendium of information." This second, fully revised edition continues in the same vein as the first...
by Michel Laurin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod...
The Trouble with Marriage
Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of lawyer-free family courts and mediations of rape and domestic violence charges in India, Srimati Basu depicts everyday life...
Germ Wars
The Politics of Microbes and America's Landscape of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in modern American history. Germ Wars argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the production...
Beyond Cladistics
The Branching of a Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics—an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history—took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period—the 1960s and 1970s—much of the foundation of modern systematic...
Migrants in Translation
Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe....
Mountain Geography
Physical and Human Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importance of mountains is recognized particularly because they provide critical resources, such as water, food and wood; contain high levels of biological...
Tearing Down the Gates
Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposé, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it—in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of...
Skin
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are....
Veiled Sentiments
Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality,...
by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among...
by Roger S. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people—from...
Imagined Empires
A History of Revolt in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating...