California Press: 1495 books
Encountering Correctional Populations
A Practical Guide for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
While many researchers study offenders and offending, few actually journey into the correctional world to meet offenders face to face. This book offers researchers, practitioners, and students a step-by-step guide to effectively research correctional populations, providing field-tested advice for...
Contested Illnesses
Citizens, Science, and Health Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
The politics and science of health and disease remain contested terrain among scientists, health practitioners, policy makers, industry, communities, and the public. Stakeholders in disputes about illnesses or conditions disagree over their fundamental causes as well as how they should be treated...
Public Health Law
Power, Duty, Restraint
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Lawrence O. Gostin’s seminal Public Health Law is widely acclaimed as the definitive statement on public health law at the turn of the twenty-first century. In this bold third edition, Gostin is joined by Lindsay F. Wiley to analyze major health threats of our time such as chronic diseases, emerging...
Artifacts and Allegiances
How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
What can we learn about nationalism by looking at a country’s cultural institutions? How do the history and culture of particular cities help explain how museums represent diversity? Artifacts and Allegiances takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making...
The Saint in the Banyan Tree
Christianity and Caste Society in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Saint in the Banyan Tree is a nuanced and historically persuasive exploration of Christianity’s remarkable trajectory as a social and cultural force in southern India. Starting in the seventeenth century, when the religion was integrated into Tamil institutions of caste and popular religiosity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In 1970 photography curator Peter C. Bunnell organized an exhibition called Photography into Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The project, which brought together twenty-three photographers and artists from the United States and Canada, was among the first exhibitions to recognize...
by Rebecca M. Blank
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed...
Everyday Ethics
Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This book explores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. Drawing on years of fieldwork in a community psychiatry outreach team, Brodwin traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. On the street,...
Interpreting the Internet
Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Every user knows the importance of the “@” symbol in internet communication. Though the symbol barely existed in Latin America before the emergence of email, Spanish-speaking feminist activists immediately claimed it to replace the awkward “o/a” used to indicate both genders in written text,...
Regulating Style
Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Fashion knockoffs are everywhere. Even in the out-of-the-way markets of highland Guatemala, fake branded clothes offer a cheap, stylish alternative for people who cannot afford high-priced originals. Fashion companies have taken notice, ensuring that international trade agreements include stronger...
Discipline and Debate
The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
The Dalai Lama has represented Buddhism as a religion of non-violence, compassion, and world peace, but this does not reflect how monks learn their vocation. This book shows how monasteries use harsh methods to make monks of men, and how this tradition is changing as modernist reformers—like the...
Does Policy Analysis Matter?
Exploring Its Effectiveness in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that policy-analytic...
The Gender Effect
Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South? Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of research in the...
by Aaron D. Smith, J. Edward Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only...