University Of California Press: 1479 books
Of Indigo and Saffron
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence,...
Danger to Self
On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The psychiatric emergency room, a fast-paced combat zone with pressure to match, thrusts its medical providers into the outland of human experience where they must respond rapidly and decisively in spite of uncertainty and, very often, danger. In this lively first-person narrative, Paul R. Linde takes...
Abstract Video
The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video addresses a longer history...
by Dean MacCannell
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal...
Mexican New York
Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Drawing on more than fifteen years of research, Mexican New York offers an intimate view of globalization as it is lived by Mexican immigrants and their children in New York and in Mexico. Robert Courtney Smith's groundbreaking study sheds new light on transnationalism, vividly illustrating how immigrants...
Categorizing Sound
Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies...
Memory Work
Anne Truitt and Sculpture
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Memory Work demonstrates the evolution of the pioneering minimalist sculptor Anne Truitt. An artist determined to make her way through a new aesthetic in the 1960s, Truitt was tireless in her pursuit of a strong cultural voice. At the heart of her practice was the key theme of memory, which enabled...
by Kristin Ann Hass
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
For the city’s first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC’s symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty...
Neon Wasteland
On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely...
Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface
Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families—the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others—who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and...
Abandoned in the Heartland
Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known...
The World Hunt
An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Presented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and the early modern world economy. Tracing the massive expansion...
by Dale Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century.
Dale Peterson’s text provides a natural...
by Laura Pulido, Wendy Cheng, Laura R. Barraclough
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related to race, class, gender, and sexuality have occurred. They introduce us to people and events usually...