California Press: 1495 books
Among African Apes
Stories and Photos from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes—and at the lives of the humans who study...
The Hellenistic Far East
Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual...
by Michael Heads
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history...
The Heart of Power, With a New Preface
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own...
Epigenetics
Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of the gene. With chapters written by leading authorities, this volume...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
Technologies for Intuition
Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for...
Born Out of Place
Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these...
Colonial Project, National Game
A History of Baseball in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
They change color depending on their mood. They possess uniquely adapted hands and feet distinct from other tetrapods. They feature independently movable eyes. This comprehensive volume delves into these fascinating details and thorough research about one of the most charismatic families of reptiles—Chameleonidae.
Written...
Pheromone Communication in Moths
Evolution, Behavior, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone that induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume. Since the chemical pheromone of the domesticated silk moth was identified in 1959, a steady increase in the number of moth species whose pheromone attractants have...
A Sea of Glass
Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal
"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The Guardian
Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category
It started with a glass...
Writing Women's Worlds
Bedouin Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
How Would You Rule?
Legal Puzzles, Brainteasers, and Dilemmas from the Law's Strangest Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How Would You Rule is a lighthearted introduction to fundamental concepts of law through strange but true legal cases. Each chapter tells the story of a different case and presents the main arguments of the opposing parties. The twist? Before the ruling of the court is revealed, readers are challenged...