University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Homeric Hymns
A Translation, with Introduction and Notes
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. Thirty-four...
Expression and Truth
On the Music of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2012
Expression and truth are traditional opposites in Western thought: expression supposedly refers to states of mind, truth to states of affairs. Expression and Truth rejects this opposition and proposes fluid new models of expression, truth, and knowledge with broad application to the humanities. These...
Lorine Niedecker
Collected Works
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
"The Brontës had their moors, I have my marshes," Lorine Niedecker wrote of flood-prone Black Hawk Island in Wisconsin, where she lived most of her life. Her life by water, as she called it, could not have been further removed from the avant-garde poetry scene where she also made a home....
Trans
A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted...
Waste Away
Working and Living with a North American Landfill
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Though we are the most wasteful people in the history of the world, very few of us know what becomes of our waste. In Waste Away, Joshua O. Reno reveals how North Americans have been shaped by their preferred means of disposal: sanitary landfill. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a common laborer...
Healing from Hate
How Young Men Get Into—and Out of—Violent Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
By the time Matthias was in seventh grade, he felt he’d better belong to some group, lest he be alone and vulnerable. The punks and anarchists were identifiable by their tattoos and hairstyles and music. But it was the skinheads who captured his imagination. They had great parties, and everyone...
by Ted Berrigan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Following the highly acclaimed Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, poets Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan, and Edmund Berrigan have collaborated again on this new selection of poems by one of the most influential and admired poets of his generation. Reflecting a new editorial approach, this volume demonstrates...
by Nikhil Pal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency in 2016, which placed control of the government in the hands of the most racially homogenous, far-right political party in the Western world, produced shock and disbelief for liberals, progressives, and leftists globally. Yet most of the immediate analysis...
Acts of Faith
Explaining the Human Side of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish—and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach. Acknowledging that science cannot assess the supernatural side of religion...
The History of Human Rights
From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008
Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies...
The Country of Football
Soccer and the Making of Modern Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and...
Restless Dead
Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient...
Laughter Out of Place
Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday...
From the Soil
The Foundations of Chinese Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting...