California Press: 1495 books
Paisanos Chinos
Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China—both Nationalist and Communist—as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos...
Patriarchs on Paper
A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The truth of Chan Buddhism—better known as “Zen”—is regularly said to be beyond language, and yet Chan authors—medieval and modern—produced an enormous quantity of literature over the centuries. To make sense of this well-known paradox, Patriarchs on Paper explores several genres of...
Image Brokers
Visualizing World News in the Age of Digital Circulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images,* Image Brokers *ruptures the self-evidence of the journalistic photograph by revealing the many factors determining how news audiences are shown people, events, and the world. News images, Zeynep...
Voicing Subjects
Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Voicing Subjects traces the relation between public speech and notions of personal interiority in Kathmandu. It explores two seemingly distinct formations of voice that have emerged in the midst of the country’s recent political and economic upheavals: a political voice associated with civic empowerment...
The Biopolitics of Beauty
Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Using ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author shows how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. The book historically...
by Tom Goldstein, Jethro K. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
In this critically acclaimed book, Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman demystify legal writing, outline the causes and consequences of poor writing, and prescribe easy-to-apply remedies to improve it. Reflecting changes in law practice over the past decade, this revised edition includes new sections...
Ants of Africa and Madagascar
A Guide to the Genera
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to weaver ants, there are over 2,000 species in Africa alone and over 600 in Madagascar.
Ants of Africa and Madagascar introduces readers to the fascinating...
Shameless
The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the animal closest to humans, even as it elicited from them the most negative representations. Still a loaded term today, the word bitch not only signified shamelessness and a lack of...
Return to the Sea
The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals—from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of the origin of various marine mammal lineages, some...
Vita
Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad,...
by Federico Finchelstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chávez, Juan Perón, Rodrigo...
Divided by Borders
Mexican Migrants and Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage...
Diva Nation
Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates...
by Helene P. Foley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows...