University Of California Press: 1479 books
Braided Waters
Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to...
by Laura Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Dark archive: The purpose of a dark archive is to function as a repository for information that can be used as a failsafe during disaster recovery.
Laura Mullen’s fourth collection is a sequence of beautifully interrelated poems that explores how to accurately represent the reality of change...
Transcendental Style in Film
Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
With a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplation of slow cinema over the past fifty years. Unlike the style of psychological realism, which dominates film, the transcendental style expresses a spiritual state by means of austere camerawork,...
Go Nation
Chinese Masculinities and the Game of Weiqi in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Go (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. As Chinese politics have changed over the last...
Shaped by the West, Volume 1
A History of North America to 1877
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Shaped by the West is a two-volume primary source reader that rewrites the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics, race, freedom, and property. William Deverell and Anne F. Hyde provide a nuanced look...
by Kerry Driscoll
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples is the first book-length study of the writer’s evolving views regarding the aboriginal inhabitants of North America and the Southern Hemisphere, and his deeply conflicted representations of them in fiction, newspaper sketches, and speeches....
Reflections of Amma
Devotees in a Global Embrace
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Globally known as Amma, meaning "Mother," Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the "hugging saint," a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day...
Wide-Open Town
A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant milieu...
Hymns for the Fallen
Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle and to provoke reflection on the experience of combat. Considering...
The Invention of Judaism
Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Most people understand Judaism to be the Torah and the Torah to be Judaism. However, in *The *Invention of Judaism, John J. Collins persuasively argues this was not always the case. The Torah became the touchstone for most of Judaism’s adherents only in the hands of the rabbis of late antiquity....
The Forge of Vision
A Visual History of Modern Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations, and material practice. David Morgan argues that the history of religions may therefore be studied through the lens of...
The Cylinder
Kinematics of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
The Cylinder investigates the surprising proliferation of cylindrical objects in the nineteenth century, such as steam engines, phonographs, panoramas, rotary printing presses, silos, safety locks, and many more. Examining this phenomenon through the lens of kinematics, the science of forcing motion,...
Evolution's Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and...
The Fossil Chronicles
How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the...