University Of California Press: 1479 books
Game Changer
Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa’s Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa’s megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed...
by Stephane Dufoix
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2008
Coined in the third century B.C., the term diaspora has evolved into a buzzword used to describe the migrations of groups as diverse as ethnic populations, religious communities, and even engineers working abroad. This concise book provides a critical introduction to the concept of diaspora, bringing...
The Modern Middle East, Third Edition
A Political History since the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava’s classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse region.
Guerrilla USA
The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This...
Real Indians
Identity and the Survival of Native America
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2003
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and...
by Roger N. Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
One evening, while watching the news, Roger N. Lancaster was startled by a report that a friend, a gay male school teacher, had been arrested for a sexually based crime. The resulting hysteria threatened to ruin the life of an innocent man. In this passionate and provocative book, Lancaster blends...
The Jail
Managing the Underclass in American Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin...
Millennial Monsters
Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese “cool” is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters...
Lives in Limbo
Undocumented and Coming of Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza
Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system,...
Masculine Compromise
Migration, Family, and Gender in China
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as...
Hidden Truth
Young Men Navigating Lives In and Out of Juvenile Prison
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Hidden Truth takes the reader inside a Rhode Island juvenile prison to explore broader questions of how poor, disenfranchised young men come to terms with masculinity and identity. Adam D. Reich, who worked with inmates to produce a newspaper, writes vividly and memorably about the young men he came...
City of God
Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn't just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews...
Parasites
Tales of Humanity's Most Unwelcome Guests
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Hidden away within living tissues, parasites are all around us—and inside us. Yet, despite their unsavory characteristics, as we find in this compulsively readable book, parasites have played an enormous role in civilizations through time and around the globe. Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most...
Restless Souls
The Making of American Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism—all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless...