University Of California Press: 1479 books
Better Safe Than Sorry
How Consumers Navigate Exposure to Everyday Toxics
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
How toxic are the products we consume on a daily basis? Whether it’s triclosan in toothpaste, formaldehyde in baby shampoo, endocrine disruptors in water bottles, or pesticides on strawberries, chemicals in food and personal care products are of increasing concern to consumers. This book chronicles...
Hard to Get
Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history—twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience...
States of Separation
Transfer, Partition, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Across the Middle East in the post–World War I era, European strategic moves converged with late Ottoman political practice and a newly emboldened Zionist movement to create an unprecedented push to physically divide ethnic and religious minorities from Arab Muslim majorities. States of Separation...
Nothing About Us Without Us
Disability Oppression and Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1998
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
Moral Wages
The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Moral Wages offers the reader a vivid depiction of what it is like to work inside an agency that assists victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Based on over a year of fieldwork by a man in a setting many presume to be hostile to men, this ethnographic account is unlike most research on...
Working Hard, Drinking Hard
On Violence and Survival in Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2008
"Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas—violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry—Pine explores the daily...
Performing Piety
Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2011
The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected...
The Wherewithal of Life
Ethics, Migration, and the Question of Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
The Wherewithal of Life engages with current developments in the anthropology of ethics and migration studies to explore in empirical depth and detail the life experiences of three young men – a Ugandan migrant in Copenhagen, a Burkina Faso migrant in Amsterdam, and a Mexican migrant in Boston –...
Constructions of Terrorism
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective...
From Village to City
Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city. FromVillage to**City paints a vivid portrait...
Kendo
Culture of the Sword
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Kendo is the first in-depth historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship, from its beginnings in military training and arcane medieval schools to its widespread practice as a global sport today. Alexander Bennett shows how kendo evolved through...
by Joanne O'Brien, Martin Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The world's religions have emerged as one of the greatest geopolitical forces now shaping our lives. Now available in an updated edition, this authoritative atlas is an essential resource for understanding the powerful role of religion around the globe. In an accessible text packed with information,...
by Clive Coates M. W.
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Ten years after the publication of the highly acclaimed, award-winning Côte D'Or: A Celebration of the Great Wines of Burgundy, the "Bible of Burgundy," Clive Coates now offers this thoroughly revised and updated sequel. This long-awaited work details all the major vintages from 2006 back...
by Daniel Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
With Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema, Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the most notoriously difficult works in contemporary cinema. Through detailed analyses of extended sequences,...