University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Drunken Monkey
Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. In this accessible book, Robert Dudley presents an intriguing evolutionary interpretation to explain the persistence of alcohol-related problems. Providing a deep-time, interdisciplinary perspective on...
by Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s...
Twilight of the Idols
Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual stars—Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, and Mabel...
Videoland
Movie Culture at the American Video Store
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Videoland offers a comprehensive view of the "tangible phase" of consumer video, when Americans largely accessed movies as material commodities at video rental stores. Video stores served as a vital locus of movie culture from the early 1980s until the early 2000s, changing the way Americans...
Plane Queer
Labor, Sexuality, and AIDS in the History of Male Flight Attendants
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
In this vibrant new history, Phil Tiemeyer details the history of men working as flight attendants. Beginning with the founding of the profession in the late 1920s and continuing into the post-September 11 era, Plane Queer examines the history of men who joined workplaces customarily identified as...
A Passion for Facts
Social Surveys and the Construction of the Chinese Nation-State, 1900–1949
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The Sociology of Development Handbook gathers essays that reflect the range of debates in development sociology and in the interdisciplinary study and practice of development. The essays address the pressing intellectual challenges of today, including internal and international migration, transformation...
Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat
Food Assistance in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived...
by Achille Mbembe
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2001
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some...
Distribution Revolution
Conversations about the Digital Future of Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Distribution Revolution is a collection of interviews with leading film and TV professionals concerning the many ways that digital delivery systems are transforming the entertainment business. These interviews provide lively insider accounts from studio executives, distribution professionals, and...
Teardown
Memoir of a Vanishing City
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
After living in San Francisco for 15 years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and "star" of the Michael Moore documentary Roger & Me. Hoping to rediscover and help a place that once boasted one...
Honey, Olives, Octopus
Adventures at the Greek Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Combining the best of memoir, travel literature, and food writing, Christopher Bakken delves into one of the most underappreciated cuisines in Europe in this rollicking celebration of the Greek table. He explores the traditions and history behind eight elements of Greek cuisine—olives, bread, fish,...
by Roberta Pearson, Máire Messenger Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production, Star Trek: The Original Series. In Star Trek and American Television, Pearson and Messenger Davies, take their cue from the words of the program’s...