University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Steven W. Buskirk
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Wild Mammals of Wyoming and Yellowstone National Park provides the scholar, conservationist, and interested lay reader with information on the state's 117 wild mammalian species from grizzly bears to pygmy shrews. It describes the history of mammalogy in Wyoming, the zoogeography of Wyoming mammals,...
Frozen Earth
The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation—nearly three billion years ago—to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic...
Sexual Selections
What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once...
Maps of Time
An Introduction to Big History
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning with the Big Bang, David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent...
Drama Kings
Players and Publics in the Re-creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2007
In this colorful and detailed history, Joshua Goldstein describes the formation of the Peking opera in late Qing and its subsequent rise and re-creation as the epitome of the Chinese national culture in Republican era China. Providing a fascinating look into the lives of some of the opera’s key...
Why Geology Matters
Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes—geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall...
The Face of the Earth
Natural Landscapes, Science, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains—volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests—to explore how humans have made sense of our planet’s marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth...
A Social Revolution
Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan Harris convincingly demonstrates how they are wrong. Previous studies...
The Book of Yokai
Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers....
Expectations of Modernity
Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Once lauded as the wave of the African future, Zambia's economic boom in the 1960s and early 1970s was fueled by the export of copper and other primary materials. Since the mid-1970s, however, the urban economy has rapidly deteriorated, leaving workers scrambling to get by. Expectations of Modernity...
Owners of the Map
Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
On May 19, 2010, the Royal Thai Army deployed tanks, snipers, and war weapons to disperse the thousands of Red Shirts protesters who had taken over the commercial center of Bangkok to demand democratic elections and an end to inequality. Key to this mobilization were motorcycle taxi drivers, who slowed...
by Trevor Paglen
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Human civilizations' longest lasting artifacts are not the great Pyramids of Giza, nor the cave paintings at Lascaux, but the communications satellites that circle our planet. In a stationary orbit above the equator, the satellites that broadcast our TV signals, route our phone calls, and process...
Uncorking the Past
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In a lively tour around the world and through the millennia, Uncorking the Past tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. Following a tantalizing trail of archaeological, chemical, artistic, and textual clues, Patrick E. McGovern, the leading authority...
by Mark A. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
"A must-read for any wine grape grower or winemaker who has ever wrestled with the most important myths of winegrowing or debated them with colleagues—and that would be all of us! It is also a great read for any wine consumer interested in looking at 'the man behind the curtain,' so to speak:...