University Of California Press: 1479 books
Making All Black Lives Matter
Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"A powerful — and personal — account of the movement and its players."—The Washington Post
“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.”—Publishers Weekly
The...
The Student Loan Mess
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
This illuminating investigation uncovers the full dimensions of the student loan disaster. A father and son team—one a best-selling sociologist, the other a former banker and current quantitative researcher—probes how we’ve reached the point at which student loan debt—now exceeding $1 trillion...
Tsukiji
The Fish Market at the Center of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2004
Located only blocks from Tokyo's glittering Ginza, Tsukiji—the world's largest marketplace for seafood—is a prominent landmark, well known but little understood by most Tokyoites: a supplier for countless fishmongers and sushi chefs, and a popular and fascinating destination for foreign tourists....
Food Politics
How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories...
by Gayle Greene
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
I can't work, I can't think, I can't connect with anyone anymore. . . . I mope through a day's work and haven't had a promotion in years. . . . It's like I'm being sucked dry, eaten away, swallowed up, coming unglued. . . . These are voices of a few of the tens of millions who suffer from chronic...
Unequal Childhoods
Class, Race, and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their...
The Googlization of Everything
(And Why We Should Worry)
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission—"To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible"—and...
Chinese Characters
Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
An artist paints landscapes of faraway places that she cannot identify in order to find her place in the global economy. A migrant worker sorts recyclables and thinks deeply about the soul of his country, while a Taoist mystic struggles to keep his traditions alive. An entrepreneur capitalizes on...
Dao De Jing
The Book of the Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our...
Reinventing the Wheel
Milk, Microbes, and the Fight for Real Cheese
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
In little more than a century, industrial practices have altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the Wheel explores what has been lost as raw-milk, single-farm cheeses have given way...
Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new...
One Land, Two States
Israel and Palestine as Parallel States
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
One Land, Two States imagines a new vision for Israel and Palestine in a situation where the peace process has failed to deliver an end of conflict. "If the land cannot be shared by geographical division, and if a one-state solution remains unacceptable," the book asks, "can the land...
Reimagining Global Health
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides...
Living Color
The Biological and Social Meaning of Skin Color
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Living Color is the first book to investigate the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body’s most visible trait influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. In a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion, Nina G. Jablonski begins with the...