University Of California Press: 1479 books
Wetland Habitats of North America
Ecology and Conservation Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Wetlands are prominent landscapes throughout North America. The general characteristics of wetlands are controversial, thus there has not been a systematic assessment of different types of wetlands in different parts of North America, or a compendium of the threats to their conservation. Wetland Habitats...
by Clive Coates M. W.
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
In this book, Clive Coates, a Master of Wine who has spent four decades of his distinguished career in Burgundy, shares his vast insider’s knowledge of one of the world’s most exciting, complex, and intractable wine regions. Personal rather than encyclopedic, and informed by Coates’s unparalleled...
Tales of High Priests and Taxes
The Books of the Maccabees and the Judean Rebellion against Antiochos IV
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible—the ancient Near East—came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochos IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed...
Late Ancient Knowing
Explorations in Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late...
Everyday Illegal
When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
What does it mean to be an illegal immigrant, or the child of immigrants, in this era of restrictive immigration laws in the United States? As lawmakers and others struggle to respond to the changing landscape of immigration, the effects of policies on people's daily lives are all too often overlooked.
In...
In Pursuit of the Good Life
Aspiration and Suicide in Globalizing South India
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development...
by Rick Shine
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
In 1935, an Australian government agency imported 101 specimens of the Central and South American Cane Toad in an attempt to manage insects that were decimating sugar-cane harvests. In Australia the Cane Toad adapted and evolved with abandon, voraciously consuming native wildlife and killing predators...
Disarming Words
Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2011
In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the colonial context. She examines the afterlives of two occupations of Egypt—by the French in 1798 and...
by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent...
Scenting Salvation
Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusing on the importance of smell in ancient Mediterranean culture. Following its legalization in the fourth century Roman Empire, Christianity cultivated a dramatically flourishing...
A Portrait of America
The Demographic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Portrait of America describes our nation’s changing population and examines through a demographic lens some of our most pressing contemporary challenges, ranging from poverty and economic inequality to racial tensions and health disparities. Celebrated authorJohn Iceland covers various topics, including...
Critical Christianity
Translation and Denominational Conflict in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
In Critical Christianity*,* Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as "the body of Christ." Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of denominational schism—long relegated to...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II
Pure Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside 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...
Addicted to Christ
Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
How are spiritual power and self-transformation cultivated in street ministries? In Addicted to Christ, Helena Hansen provides an in-depth analysis of Pentecostal ministries in Puerto Rico that were founded and run by self-identified “ex-addicts,” ministries that are also widespread in poor Black...