University Of California Press: 1479 books
Beyond Cladistics
The Branching of a Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Cladistics, or phylogenetic systematics—an approach to discovering, unraveling, and testing hypotheses of evolutionary history—took hold during a turbulent and acrimonious time in the history of systematics. During this period—the 1960s and 1970s—much of the foundation of modern systematic...
Skin
A Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it. Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This dazzling synthetic overview is a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are....
by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among...
by Roger S. Bagnall
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world—that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution—has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading papyrologist Roger S. Bagnall convincingly argues that ordinary people—from...
Among African Apes
Stories and Photos from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intimate and revealing look at the lives of African wild apes—and at the lives of the humans who study...
The Hellenistic Far East
Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests in the late fourth century B.C., Greek garrisons and settlements were established across Central Asia, through Bactria (modern-day Afghanistan) and into India. Over the next three hundred years, these settlements evolved into multiethnic, multilingual...
Epigenetics
Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, epigenetics seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of the gene. With chapters written by leading authorities, this volume...
Relational Formations of Race
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Relational Formations of Race brings African American, Chicanx/Latinx, Asian American, and Native American studies together in a single volume, enabling readers to consider the racialization and formation of subordinated groups in relation to one another. These essays conceptualize racialization as...
Technologies for Intuition
Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for...
Colonial Project, National Game
A History of Baseball in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In this engrossing cultural history of baseball in Taiwan, Andrew D. Morris traces the game’s social, ethnic, political, and cultural significance since its introduction on the island more than one hundred years ago. Introduced by the Japanese colonial government at the turn of the century, baseball...
Pheromone Communication in Moths
Evolution, Behavior, and Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone that induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume. Since the chemical pheromone of the domesticated silk moth was identified in 1959, a steady increase in the number of moth species whose pheromone attractants have...
Writing Women's Worlds
Bedouin Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
How Would You Rule?
Legal Puzzles, Brainteasers, and Dilemmas from the Law's Strangest Cases
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How Would You Rule is a lighthearted introduction to fundamental concepts of law through strange but true legal cases. Each chapter tells the story of a different case and presents the main arguments of the opposing parties. The twist? Before the ruling of the court is revealed, readers are challenged...
Enduring Bonds
Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Enduring Bonds, Philip N. Cohen, renowned sociologist and blogger of the wildly popular and insightful Family Inequality, examines the complex landscape of today's diverse families. Through his interpretive lens and lively discussions, Cohen encourages us to alter our point of view on families,...