University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
by Tim Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, kayak, and raft, it offers an interpretive approach that reveals geology, plant and wild life, hydrologic...
The Atlas of California
Mapping the Challenge of a New Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
California is at a crossroads. For decades a global leader, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions, the state has recently faced double-digit unemployment, multi-billion dollar budget deficits and the loss of trillions in home values. This atlas brings together the latest research and statistics...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state,...
The California Nitrogen Assessment
Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits...
California on the Breadlines
Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
California on the Breadlines is the compelling account of how Dorothea Lange, the Great Depression’s most famous photographer, and Paul Taylor, her labor economist husband, forged a relationship that was private—they both divorced spouses to be together—collaborative, and richly productive....
Inland Shift
Race, Space, and Capital in Southern California
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The subprime crash of 2008 revealed a fragile, unjust, and unsustainable economy built on retail consumption, low-wage jobs, and fictitious capital. Economic crisis, finance capital, and global commodity chains transformed Southern California just as Latinxs and immigrants were turning California...
California
The Great Exception
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 1999
In 1949, lawyer, historian, and journalist Carey McWilliams stepped back to assess the state of California at the end of its first one hundred years—its history, population, politics, agriculture, and social concerns. As he examined the reasons for the prodigious growth and productivity that have...
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi
A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi takes us inside the secret, amusing, and sometimes mundane world of a California fraternity around 1900. Gleaning history from recent archaeological excavations and from such intriguing sources as oral histories, architecture, and photographs, Laurie A. Wilkie uncovers details...
by Rich Stallcup, Jules Evens
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The Northern California coast--from Monterey County to the Oregon border--is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American continent. Field Guide to Birds of the Northern California Coast provides a comprehensive ecological overview of this extensive and diverse region. It features...
Coastal Sage
Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California's Shore
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
There are moments when we forget how fortunate we are to have the California coast. The state is home to 1,100 miles of uninterrupted coastline defined by long stretches of beach and jagged rocky cliffs. *Coastal Sage *chronicles the career and accomplishments of Peter Douglas, the longest-serving...
The Other California
Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The Other California is the story of working-class communities and how they constituted the racially and ethnically diverse landscape of Baja California. Packed with new and transformative stories, the book examines the interplay of land reform and migratory labor on the peninsula from 1850 to 1954,...
Surf, Sand, and Stone
How Waves, Earthquakes, and Other Forces Shape the Southern California Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Southern California is sandwiched between two tectonic plates with an ever-shifting boundary. Over the last several million years, movements of these plates have dramatically reshuffled the Earth’s crust to create rugged landscapes and seascapes riven with active faults. Movement along these faults...
by David Carle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This thoroughly engaging, concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource, tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods. Along the way, we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers, lakes, wetlands,...
by James P. Smith Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Grasses and grasslands are of increasing interest to conservationists, biologists, and gardeners. There are more than 300 species of native California grasses and they are found in almost every climate—from cool, wet forests to hot, dry deserts. Native grasses are also important to land restoration...