University Of California Press: 1479 books
Deceit and Denial
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players,...
by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto, Kathleen Wong
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks,...
The Intimate Economies of Bangkok
Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy...
Science and Sensibility
Negotiating an Ecology of Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While...
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects...
Thank You, Anarchy
Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters to cover the phenomenon. Nathan Schneider chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried...
by Susan L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In this accessible, engaging, and up-to-date course book, Susan L. Brown employs ethnographic vignettes and demographic data to introduce students to twenty-first century perspectives on contemporary families. Appropriate as a primary or secondary text in classes on family and marriage, this...
Authentic Wine
Toward Natural and Sustainable Winemaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
"A great primer. . . . If you're new to the natural/organic/biodynamic wine debates, Authentic Wine is the place to start."—Huffington Post
"This is one of the most engaging, thoughtful and enlightening books on contemporary wine. . . . A manifesto for an industry looking to...
American Wine Economics
An Exploration of the U.S. Wine Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The U.S. wine industry is growing rapidly and wine consumption is an increasingly important part of American culture. American Wine Economics is intended for students of economics, wine professionals, and general readers who seek to gain a unified and systematic understanding of the economic organization...
The Myth of Silent Spring
Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Since its publication in 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring has often been celebrated as the catalyst that sparked an American environmental movement. Yet environmental consciousness and environmental protest in some regions of the United States date back to the nineteenth century, with the...
A Malleable Map
Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Kären Wigen probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup d’état of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing...
by Andrew Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1991
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can best...
Regression Models for Categorical, Count, and Related Variables
An Applied Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Social science and behavioral science students and researchers are often confronted with data that are categorical, count a phenomenon, or have been collected over time. Sociologists examining the likelihood of interracial marriage, political scientists studying voting behavior, criminologists counting...
Land of Blue Helmets
The United Nations and the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Born in 1945, the United Nations came to life in the Arab world. It was there that the UN dealt with early diplomatic challenges that helped shape its institutions such as peacekeeping and political mediation. It was also there that the UN found itself trapped in, and sometimes part of, confounding...