California Press: 1495 books
Mining Capitalism
The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature....
by Margaret D. Lowman, Timothy Schowalter, Jerry Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools and methods suitable for monitoring these complex bioscapes...
Slum Health
From the Cell to the Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. *Slum Health *exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy;...
Data Mining for the Social Sciences
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible...
by Ben Crow, Suresh K. Lodha
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Drawing on research from around the world, this atlas gives shape and meaning to statistics, making it an indispensable resource for understanding global inequalities and an inspiration for social and political action. Inequality underlies many of the challenges facing the world today, and The Atlas...
Mean Girl
Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
"Astute."—New York Times
Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference...
Life on the Other Border
Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry,...
Exposed Science
Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to...
Healing Elements
Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has...
Our Energy Future
Introduction to Renewable Energy and Biofuels
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Our Energy Future is an introductory textbook for the study of energy production, alternative and renewable fuels, and ways to build a sustainable energy future. Jones and Mayfield explore the creation and history of fossil fuels, their impact on the environment, and how they have become critical...
Renovating Democracy
Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work—and how they fail. The impact of globalism and digital capitalism is forcing worldwide attention to the starker divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots,” challenging...
Wine and Place
A Terroir Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of terroir is one of the most celebrated and controversial subjects in wine today. Most will agree that well-made wine has the capacity to express “somewhereness,” a set of consistent aromatics, flavors, or textures that amount to a signature expression of place. But for every advocate...
Playing War
Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold proposition: that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace....
Community-Based Archaeology
Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required...