University Of California Press: 1479 books
Mining Capitalism
The Relationship between Corporations and Their Critics
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Corporations are among the most powerful institutions of our time, but they are also responsible for a wide range of harmful social and environmental impacts. Consequently, political movements and nongovernmental organizations increasingly contest the risks that corporations pose to people and nature....
by Margaret D. Lowman, Timothy Schowalter, Jerry Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools and methods suitable for monitoring these complex bioscapes...
Slum Health
From the Cell to the Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. *Slum Health *exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy;...
Data Mining for the Social Sciences
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
We live in a world of big data: the amount of information collected on human behavior each day is staggering, and exponentially greater than at any time in the past. Additionally, powerful algorithms are capable of churning through seas of data to uncover patterns. Providing a simple and accessible...
Mean Girl
Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
"Astute."—New York Times
Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference...
Life on the Other Border
Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
In her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migrant farmworkers in the northeastern borderlands of the United States. Through ethnographic portraits of Latinx farmworkers who labor in Vermont’s dairy industry,...
Healing Elements
Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Tibetan medicine has come to represent multiple and sometimes conflicting agendas. On the one hand it must retain a sense of cultural authenticity and a connection to Tibetan Buddhism; on the other it must prove efficacious and safe according to biomedical standards. Recently, Tibetan medicine has...
Our Energy Future
Introduction to Renewable Energy and Biofuels
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Our Energy Future is an introductory textbook for the study of energy production, alternative and renewable fuels, and ways to build a sustainable energy future. Jones and Mayfield explore the creation and history of fossil fuels, their impact on the environment, and how they have become critical...
Wine and Place
A Terroir Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of terroir is one of the most celebrated and controversial subjects in wine today. Most will agree that well-made wine has the capacity to express “somewhereness,” a set of consistent aromatics, flavors, or textures that amount to a signature expression of place. But for every advocate...
Community-Based Archaeology
Research with, by, and for Indigenous and Local Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Archaeology impacts the lives of indigenous, local, or descendant communities. Yet often these groups have little input to archaeological research, and its results remain inaccessible. As archaeologists consider the consequences and benefits of research, the skills, methodologies, and practices required...
by Corinna Kruse
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
In The Social Life of Forensic Evidence, Corinna Kruse provides a major contribution to understanding forensic evidence and its role in the criminal justice system. Arguing that forensic evidence can be understood as a form of knowledge, she reveals that each piece of evidence has a social life and...
French Wine
A History
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
"A fascinating book that belongs on every wine lover’s bookshelf."—The Wine Economist
"It’s a book to read for its unstoppable torrent of fascinating and often surprising details."—Andrew Jefford, Decanter
For centuries, wine has been associated with France...
Making New Music in Cold War Poland
The Warsaw Autumn Festival, 1956-1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Making New Music in Cold War Poland presents a social analysis of new music dissemination at the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music, one of the most important venues for East-West cultural contact during the Cold War. In this incisive study, Lisa Jakelski examines the festival’s...
Maize for the Gods
Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Maize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How...