University Of California Press: 1479 books
Indispensable and Other Myths
Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Prodded by economists in the 1970s, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEOs with hopes of boosting their companies’ fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return for...
Poverty in America
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
The United States is among the most affluent nations in the world and has its largest economy; nevertheless, it has more poverty than most countries with similar standards of living. Growing income inequality and the Great Recession have made the problem worse. In this thoroughly revised edition of...
Capitalism
The Future of an Illusion
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped...
Fast-Forward Family
Home, Work, and Relationships in Middle-Class America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Called "the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted" by the New York Times, this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily...
Pet Food Politics
The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste,...
Falling Behind
How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With a timely new foreword by Robert Frank, this groundbreaking book explores the very meaning of happiness and prosperity in America today. Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances. To pay for them,...
Promises I Can Keep
Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them...
by Charles Saylan, Daniel Blumstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
At a time when wild places everywhere are vanishing before our eyes, Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein offer this passionate indictment of environmental education—along with a new vision for the future. Writing for general readers and educators alike, Saylan and Blumstein boldly argue that...
El Mall
The Spatial and Class Politics of Shopping Malls in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption...
by Gerald Asher
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Every wine has a story. In this collection of elegantly written essays from the past thirty years, updated with a new introduction and endnotes, renowned author Gerald Asher informs wine enthusiasts with insightful, engrossing accounts of wines from Europe and America that offer just as much for those...
The Makers of American Wine
A Record of Two Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Americans learned how to make wine successfully about two hundred years ago, after failing for more than two hundred years. Thomas Pinney takes an engaging approach to the history of American wine by telling its story through the lives of 13 people who played significant roles in building an industry...
The Activist's Handbook
Winning Social Change in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist's Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama. Shaw details how activists can best use the Internet and social media,...
Control and Protect
Collaboration, Carceral Protection, and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this book...
Twilight Policing
Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and...