University Of California Press imprint: 1479 books
The Left Coast
California on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Philip L. Fradkin, one of California’s most acclaimed environmental historians, felt drawn to the coast as soon as he arrived in California in 1960. His first book, California: The Golden Coast, captured the wonder of the shoreline’s natural beauty along with the controversies it engendered. In...
by Philip Garone
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of California’s Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells...
Factories in the Field
The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2000
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to...
Big Sur
The Making of a Prized California Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid-twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultrawealthy. This transformation was due in part...
Golden Gulag
Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2007
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world."...
Field Guide to the Common Bees of California
Including Bees of the Western United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States. Full-color illustrations introduce readers to more than 30 genera of native bees,...
Art of the Gold Rush
(Published in association with the Oakland Museum of California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State...
Racial Propositions
Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual...
The California Wildlife Habitat Garden
How to Attract Bees, Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This attractive, practical guide explains how to transform backyard gardens into living ecosystems that are not only enjoyable retreats for humans, but also thriving sanctuaries for wildlife. Beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs, this book provides easy-to-follow recommendations for...
Becoming Dr. Q
My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Today he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central California. In this gripping memoir,...
The Worlds of Junipero Serra
Historical Contexts and Cultural Representations
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
As one of America’s most important missionaries, Junípero Serra is widely recognized as the founding father of California’s missions. It was for that work that he was canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. Less well known, however, is the degree to which Junípero Serra embodied the social, religious...
Uncertain Path
A Search for the Future of National Parks
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In this provocative walking meditation, writer and former park ranger William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for...
Dynamics of the Contemporary University
Growth, Accretion, and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change—labeled structural accretion—that has characterized the history of American...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The UC Natural Reserve System, established in 1965 to support field research, teaching, and public service in natural environments, has become a prototype of conservation and land stewardship looked to by natural resource managers throughout the world. From its modest beginnings of seven sites, the...