University Of California Press: 1479 books
Europe's Promise
Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
A quiet revolution has been occurring in post-World War II Europe. A world power has emerged across the Atlantic that is recrafting the rules for how a modern society should provide economic security, environmental sustainability, and global stability. In Europe's Promise, Steven Hill explains Europe's...
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply...
Global Africa
Into the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Global Africa is a striking, original volume that disrupts the dominant narratives that continue to frame our discussion of Africa, complicating conventional views of the region as a place of violence, despair, and victimhood. The volume documents the significant global connections, circulations,...
by J. Edward Taylor, Travis J. Lybbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development...
Friendship
Development, Ecology, and Evolution of a Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Friends-they are generous and cooperative with each other in ways that appear to defy standard evolutionary expectations, frequently sacrificing for one another without concern for past behaviors or future consequences. In this fascinating multidisciplinary study, Daniel J. Hruschka synthesizes an...
The World in the Long Twentieth Century
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the...
Caring
A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child.
In Caring—now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance...
Engineering Happiness
A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the...
Bottled Up
How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program’s tagline was "The journey to parenthood . . . from pregnancy to delivery and beyond." Barston valiantly...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
This groundbreaking book takes us around the world in search of birth models that work in order to improve the standard of care for mothers and families everywhere. The contributors describe examples of maternity services from both developing countries and wealthy industrialized societies that apply...
Beyond Bioethics
Toward a New Biopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social...
by Neil J. Smelser, John S. Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
This volume is a one-of-a-kind contribution to applied social science and the product of a long collaboration between an established, interdisciplinary sociologist and a successful banking executive. Together, Neil Smelser and John Reed use a straightforward approach to presenting substantive social...
Domestica
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
Cleopatra
A Sphinx Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Cleopatra—a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could—continues to fascinate centuries after she...