University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical science. Even after more than three centuries and...
Empire in Waves
A Political History of Surfing
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed...
Genesis of the Salk Institute
The Epic of Its Founders
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This work is a personal account of the origins and early years of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Bourgeois crafts an engaging study that draws on her involvement with the Institute and on related archives, interviews, and informal conversations.
The volume discusses the people who...
Shaping the Sierra
Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever-growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the...
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III
The Late Period
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
First published in 1973 – and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 – this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
Volume I outlines the early...
The New Mediterranean Jewish Table
Old World Recipes for the Modern Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
For thousands of years, the people of the Jewish Diaspora have carried their culinary traditions and kosher laws throughout the world. In the United States, this has resulted primarily in an Ashkenazi table of matzo ball soup and knishes, brisket and gefilte fish. But Joyce Goldstein is now expanding...
by Loren Kajikawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music allows...
The Stickup Kids
Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an unprecedented...
by Anne Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Contemporary Indonesia takes readers to the heart of religious musical praxis in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Anne K. Rasmussen explores a rich public soundscape, where women recite the divine texts of the Qur'an, and...
English Heart, Hindi Heartland
The Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally...
Bananas, Beaches and Bases
Making Feminist Sense of International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events—Bangladeshi garment factory deaths, domestic workers in the Persian Gulf, Chinese global tourists, and the UN gender politics of guns—to reveal the crucial role of women in international politics today.
With...
Seriously!
Investigating Crashes and Crises as If Women Mattered
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
In Seriously!, Cynthia Enloe, author of the groundbreaking analysis of globalization, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases, addresses two deeply gendered and contested questions: Who is taken seriously? And who gets to bestow the label "serious" on others? With a strategy of taking both women and...
In Search of Soul
Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how...
The Ghosts of Gombe
A True Story of Love and Death in an African Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr. Jane Goodall’s famous chimpanzee research camp in the Gombe Stream National Park of Tanzania, East Africa, walked out of camp to follow a chimpanzee into the forest. Six days later, her body was found floating in a pool at the base...