California Press: 1495 books
Plastic Reason
An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central...
by Richard G. Botzler, Richard N. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Foundations of Wildlife Diseases is a comprehensive overview of the basic principles that govern the study of wildlife diseases. The authors integrate theoretical foundations with a thorough examination of the factors that can affect the health and fitness of animals. They include specific information...
In Search of Safety
Confronting Inequality in Women's Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women’s pathways to prison. Women must negotiate...
Enduring Bonds
Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Enduring Bonds, Philip N. Cohen, renowned sociologist and blogger of the wildly popular and insightful Family Inequality, examines the complex landscape of today's diverse families. Through his interpretive lens and lively discussions, Cohen encourages us to alter our point of view on families,...
Gender in the Twenty-First Century
The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, “not far enough.” This engaging and accessible work, aimed at students studying gender and social inequality, provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution...
by Kimberly A. Goyette
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Education in America provides an essential, comprehensive introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing on social inequality, Kimberly A. Goyette calls into question Horace Mann’s famous proclamation that education is the “great equalizer”...
Wetland Habitats of North America
Ecology and Conservation Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Wetlands are prominent landscapes throughout North America. The general characteristics of wetlands are controversial, thus there has not been a systematic assessment of different types of wetlands in different parts of North America, or a compendium of the threats to their conservation. Wetland Habitats...
Illegality, Inc.
Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically,...
by Clive Coates M. W.
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In this book, Clive Coates, a Master of Wine who has spent four decades of his distinguished career in Burgundy, shares his vast insider’s knowledge of one of the world’s most exciting, complex, and intractable wine regions. Personal rather than encyclopedic, and informed by Coates’s unparalleled...
Tales of High Priests and Taxes
The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed...
Late Ancient Knowing
Explorations in Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late...
Taking Baby Steps
How Patients and Fertility Clinics Collaborate in Conception
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Taking Baby Steps, Jody Lyneé Madeira takes readers inside the infertility experience, from dealing with infertility-related emotions to forming treatment relationships with medical professionals and confronting difficult medical decisions. Based on hundreds of interviews, this book investigates...
Everyday Illegal
When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked.
In...
In Pursuit of the Good Life
Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development...