University Of California Press: 1479 books
Jazz/Not Jazz
The Music and Its Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
What is jazz? What is gained—and what is lost—when various communities close ranks around a particular definition of this quintessentially American music? Jazz/Not Jazz explores some of the musicians, concepts, places, and practices which, while deeply connected to established jazz institutions...
Ubiquitous Listening
Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
How does the constant presence of music in modern life—on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television—affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only partially present to us, is the act of listening degraded by such passive listening? In Ubiquitous Listening,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region....
The Nicest Kids in Town
American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national...
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
Even as they see their wages go down and their buying power decrease, many parents are still putting their kids' material desires first. These parents struggle with how to handle children's consumer wants, which continue unabated despite the economic downturn. And, indeed, parents and other adults...
The Fourth Trimester
Understanding, Protecting, and Nurturing an Infant through the First Three Months
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
The first three months of a baby’s life is an outside-the-uterus period of intense development, a biological bridge from fetal life to preparation for the real world. The fourth trimester has more in common with the nine months that came before than with the lifetime that follows. This comprehensive,...
Why Calories Count
From Science to Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Calories—too few or too many—are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today’s globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In Why Calories Count, Marion Nestle...
Reading between the Wines
With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Acclaimed importer and wine guru Terry Theise, long known for his top-notch portfolio and his illustrious writing, now offers this opinionated, idiosyncratic, and beautifully written testament to wine. What constitutes beauty in wine, and how do we appreciate it? What role does wine play in a soulful,...
Listening to Killers
Lessons Learned from My Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence...
by Jerry D. Moore
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Many animals build shelters, but only humans build homes. No other species creates such a variety of dwellings. Drawing examples from across the archaeological record and around the world, archaeologist Jerry D. Moore recounts the cultural development of the uniquely human imperative to maintain domestic...
Lise Meitner
A Life in Physics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1996
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics...
A Half Century of Occupation
Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the world’s most polarizing confrontations. Its current phase, Israel’s “temporary” occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, turned a half century old in June 2017. In these timely and provocative essays, Gershon Shafir asks three questions—What...
The Separation Solution?
Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. The Separation Solution? provides an in-depth analysis of controversies sparked by recent...
A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas...