University Of California Press: 1479 books
Sustainability through Soccer
An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the quest for sustainability, we strive to meet our present needs without sacrificing the same opportunity for future generations. Our success or failure depends on our ability to think in “systems,” integrating environmental, social, and economic considerations. But how do we learn systems-thinking?...
by Charlotte Greenhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further...
Destroying Yemen
What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led international coalition of forces—supported by Britain and the United States—has waged devastating war in Yemen. Largely ignored by the world’s media, the resulting humanitarian disaster and full-scale famine threatens millions. Destroying Yemen offers the first...
by Orvar Löfgren, Billy Ehn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "doing nothing," Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies,...
Instant Recess
Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
This lively, inspiring, and informative book zeroes in on the state of American fitness—persistently sedentary, plagued by obesity—and issues a clarion call to action that reaches across economic, racial, and educational lines. Toni Yancey finds that despite our best intentions and repeated resolutions...
Tribal Modern
Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up...
Down by the Bay
San Francisco's History between the Tides
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times*, Down by the Bay* reveals the ongoing role of nature in...
Real Collaboration
What It Takes for Global Health to Succeed
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Essential reading for those who work in global health, this practical handbook focuses on what might be the most important lesson of the last fifty years: that collaboration is the best way to make health resources count for disadvantaged people around the world. Designed as a learning resource to...
Birthing a Mother
The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork...
Good Quality
The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China’s twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand...
Sex Cells
The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Unimaginable until the twentieth century, the clinical practice of transferring eggs and sperm from body to body is now the basis of a bustling market. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Although both men and women are usually drawn...
Pacific Connections
The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed...
Shadow Mothers
Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Shadow Mothers shines new light on an aspect of contemporary motherhood often hidden from view: the need for paid childcare by women returning to the workforce, and the complex bonds mothers forge with the "shadow mothers" they hire. Cameron Lynne Macdonald illuminates both sides of an unequal...
Creativity and Copyright
Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to...