University Of California Press: 1479 books
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...
Death in the City
Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
At the turn of the twentieth century, many observers considered suicide to be a worldwide social problem that had reached epidemic proportions. In Mexico City, violent deaths in public spaces were commonplace in a city undergoing rapid modernization. Crime rates mounted, corpses piled up in the morgue,...
The Scholar Denied
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’s ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’s work in the founding of the discipline. Calling into question the prevailing narrative of how sociology developed, Morris,...
Civil War Wests
Testing the Limits of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.
Award-winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, William Deverell, Virginia Scharff, and Stephen Kantrowitz offer original essays on lives,...
by Edward Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
In the late nineteenth century, Mexican citizens quickly adopted new technologies imported from abroad to sew cloth, manufacture glass bottles, refine minerals, and provide many goods and services. Rapid technological change supported economic growth and also brought cultural change and social dislocation.
Drawing...
Uberland
How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding...
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2
The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Mark Twain’s complete, uncensored Autobiography was an instant bestseller when the first volume was published in 2010, on the centennial of the author’s death, as he requested. Published to rave reviews, the Autobiography was hailed as the capstone of Twain’s career. It captures his authentic...
Lost Names
Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead,...
The Odyssey
A New Translation by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers...
To Life!
Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
To Life! Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farm’s anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkow’s 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked...
Making Modern Meals
How Americans Cook Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks—witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table—Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship...
Can't Catch a Break
Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can’t Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and...
Dodging Extinction
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic...
Humanitarian Reason
A Moral History of the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In the face of the world’s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration...