University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Gholam Reza Afkhami
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in...
Savannas of Our Birth
People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.
Our ancient...
Dangerous Digestion
The Politics of American Dietary Advice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Throughout American history, ingestion (eating) has functioned as a metaphor for interpreting and imagining this society and its political systems. Discussions of American freedom itself are pervaded with ingestive metaphors of choice (what to put in) and control (what to keep out). From the country’s...
The New Latino Studies Reader
A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding...
Barnum Brown
The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873–1963), spending most of it searching for fossils—and sometimes oil—in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous...
by Keya Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Although revered as one of the world’s great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contributions...
Land of the Unconquerable
The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Reaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists—most with extended experience inside Afghanistan—examine...
Class Acts
Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range...
by Charles Tilly
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 1998
Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exploring...
Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens
Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or streaming media. Annual video revenues have exceeded box office returns for over twenty-five years. In short, video has become the structuring discourse...
by Jacob Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape....
The Iliad
A New Translation by Peter Green
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned scholar and acclaimed translator Peter Green captures the Iliad in all its surging...
Seeing through Zen
Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2004
The tradition of Chan Buddhism—more popularly known as Zen—has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and—ultimately—productive assessment...
The Poems of Exile
Tristia and the Black Sea Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2005
In the year A.D. 8, Emperor Augustus sentenced the elegant, brilliant, and sophisticated Roman poet Ovid to exile—permanently, as it turned out—at Tomis, modern Constantza, on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. The real reason for the emperor's action has never come to light, and all of Ovid's...