University Of California Press: 1479 books
Lula of Brazil
The Story So Far
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2008
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil—and the world. This compelling work is the first major English-language biography of the metalworker who became president of Latin America's...
Spider Eaters
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Spider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution. With stunning honesty and a lively, sly humor, Rae Yang records her life from...
by Joan Dayan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1996
In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction...
Grand Canyon For Sale
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research,...
David Brower
The Making of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.
Frequently compared to John Muir, David...
A Taste of Power
Food and American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Since the founding of the United States, culinary texts and practices have played a crucial role in the making of cultural identities and social hierarchies. A Taste of Power examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural...
The Life of Cheese
Crafting Food and Value in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Cheese is alive, and alive with meaning. Heather Paxson’s beautifully written anthropological study of American artisanal cheesemaking tells the story of how craftwork has become a new source of cultural and economic value for producers as well as consumers. Dairy farmers and artisans inhabit a...
Arete
Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female...
Doing the Best I Can
Fatherhood in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine...
The Para-State
An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country’s...
Assassination of a Saint
The Plot to Murder Óscar Romero and the Quest to Bring His Killers to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
"A tale told well that provides valuable insights into the motives and modus operandi of the death squads in El Salvador, and of the financiers who commissioned and facilitated such crimes. It also highlights the difficulties that face those who pursue such cases many years after the crimes...
To Repair the World
Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Here, for the first time, is a collection of short speeches by the charismatic doctor and social activist Paul Farmer. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health equity and social justice, Farmer encourages young people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times. Engaging,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating...
by Vijay Prashad
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to the chaos in Turkey. Mixing thrilling anecdotes from street-level reporting that give readers a sense of what is at stake with a bird's-eye view of the...