University Of California Press: 1479 books
by Susan Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
California is globally renowned for its biological diversity, including its wealth of unique, or endemic, species. Many reasons have been cited to explain this abundance: the complex geology and topography of its landscape, the special powers of its Mediterranean-type climate, and the historic and...
by Robert C. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth. Many of these taxa have unique ecological and morphological specializations, and their management is an important conservation...
La Nueva California
Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential study, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino...
Women's Empowerment and Global Health
A Twenty-First-Century Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What is women’s empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women’s health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health Institute’s (UCGHI) Center of Expertise (COE) on Women’s Health, Gender, and Empowerment aimed to answer with this book. Since 2009 the COE has...
Tobacco War
Inside the California Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2000
Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton...
From Mission to Microchip
A History of the California Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers’ rights, California unions are embracing working immigrants, and voters are protecting core worker rights. What’s the difference?...
Tending the Wild
Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the grand vistas of Yosemite and the gold and purple...
Trailblazer
A Biography of Jerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than thirty years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history. Son of California political royalty who forged his own political style against the tumultuous backdrop of a huge,...
by Ronald D. Quinn, Dr. Sterling Keeley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2006
The characteristic look of California Chaparral—a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills—is known to millions who have seen it as the backdrop in movies and television productions. This complex ecological community of plants and animals is not just a feature of the hills...
Climate Change in California
Risk and Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
California is synonymous with opportunity, prosperity, and natural beauty, but climate change will certainly influence the state’s future. Changes will affect the economy, natural resources, public health, agriculture, and the livelihoods of its residents. But how big is the risk? How will Californians...
A Natural History of California
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
In this comprehensive and abundantly illustrated book, Allan A. Schoenherr describes the natural history of California—a state with a greater range of landforms, a greater variety of habitats, and more kinds of plants and animals than any area of equivalent size in all of North America. A Natural...
by Lisbeth Haas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 1995
Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mission...
Searching for Utopia
Universities and Their Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today’s research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the...
California in the 1930s
The WPA Guide to the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history,...