California Press: 1495 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until now, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. Video...
The Turtles of Mexico
Land and Freshwater Forms
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico. Legler and Vogt draw on more than fifty years of fieldwork to elucidate the natural history of these species. The volume...
The Managed Hand
Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for...
by Rick Shine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming native wildlife and killing predators...
Studying Global Pentecostalism
Theories and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
With its remarkable ability to adapt to many different cultures, Pentecostalism has become the world’s fastest growing religious movement. More than five hundred million adherents worldwide have reshaped Christianity itself. Yet some fundamental questions in the study of global Pentecostalism, and...
Disarming Words
Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2011
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt—by the French in 1798 and...
Moving by the Spirit
Pentecostal Social Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Drawing on two years of ethnographic research, Naomi Haynes explores Pentecostal Christianity in the kind of community where it often flourishes: a densely populated neighborhood in the heart of an extraction economy. On the Zambian Copperbelt, Pentecostal adherence embeds believers in relationships...
by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent...
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing...
A Portrait of America
The Demographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, including...
Critical Christianity
Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
In Critical Christianity*,* Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as "the body of Christ." Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism—long relegated to...
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes
How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes looks at fantasy film, television, and participative culture as evidence of our ongoing need for a mythic vision—for stories larger than ourselves into which we write ourselves and through which we can become the heroes of our own story. Why do we tell and...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II
Pure Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
Addicted to Christ
Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black...