University Of California Press: 1479 books
Beginning to End Hunger
Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition,...
Risk-Based Policing
Evidence-Based Crime Prevention with Big Data and Spatial Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Risk-based policing is a research advancement that improves public safety, and its applications prevent crime specifically by managing crime risks. In Risk-Based Policing, the authors analyze case studies from a variety of city agencies including Atlantic City, New Jersey; Colorado Springs, Colorado;...
Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes
Patterns and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Marine fishes represent astonishing diversity with respect to practically every aspect of their biology. Reproductive modes and sexual patterns are especially fascinating and provide deep insight into general evolutionary problems. In this volume, chapters focus on reproduction and sexuality among...
Coral Whisperers
Scientists on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted...
Consecrating Science
Wonder, Knowledge, and the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Debunking myths behind what is known collectively as the new cosmology—a grand, overlapping set of narratives that claim to bring science and spirituality together—Lisa H. Sideris offers a searing critique of the movement’s anthropocentric vision of the world. In Consecrating Science, Sideris...
The Seer and the City
Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city’s founder and his dependence on Delphi, the...
More than Night
Film Noir in Its Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
"Film noir" evokes memories of stylish, cynical, black-and-white movies from the 1940s and '50s—melodramas about private eyes, femmes fatales, criminal gangs, and lovers on the run. James Naremore's prize-winning book discusses these pictures, but also shows that the central term is more...
Paisanos Chinos
Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Paisanos Chinos tracks Chinese Mexican transnational political activities in the wake of the anti-Chinese campaigns that crossed Mexico in 1931. Threatened by violence, Chinese Mexicans strengthened their ties to China—both Nationalist and Communist—as a means of safeguarding their presence. Paisanos...
Ants of Africa and Madagascar
A Guide to the Genera
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to weaver ants, there are over 2,000 species in Africa alone and over 600 in Madagascar.
Ants of Africa and Madagascar introduces readers to the fascinating...
Shameless
The Canine and the Feminine in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The figure of the dog is a paradox. As in so many cultures, past and present, the dog in ancient Greece was seen as the animal closest to humans, even as it elicited from them the most negative representations. Still a loaded term today, the word bitch not only signified shamelessness and a lack of...
Vita
Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad,...
by Federico Finchelstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
What is fascism and what is populism? What are their connections in history and theory, and how should we address their significant differences? What does it mean when pundits call Donald Trump a fascist, or label as populist politicians who span left and right such as Hugo Chávez, Juan Perón, Rodrigo...
Divided by Borders
Mexican Migrants and Their Children
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage...
Diva Nation
Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Diva Nation explores the constructed nature of female iconicity in Japan. From ancient goddesses and queens to modern singers and writers, this edited volume critically reconsiders the female icon, tracing how she has been offered up for emulation, debate or censure. The research in this book culminates...