University Of California Press: 1479 books
The Gnu's World
Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti ecosystems, where eighty percent of the world’s...
Changing Energy
The Transition to a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Changing Energy outlines how humanity established the current energy economy through three previous transitions, and how we now stand poised for a necessary fourth transition. Human societies around the globe have received immense benefits from uses of coal, oil, gas, and uranium sources, yet we...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This major reference is an overview of the current state of theoretical ecology through a series of topical entries centered on both ecological and statistical themes. Coverage ranges across scales—from the physiological, to populations, landscapes, and ecosystems. Entries provide an introduction...
Stat-Spotting
A Field Guide to Identifying Dubious Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Does a young person commit suicide every thirteen minutes in the United States? Are four million women really battered to death by their husbands or boyfriends each year? Is methamphetamine our number one drug problem today? Alarming statistics bombard our daily lives, appearing in the news, on the...
The Women in Blue Helmets
Gender, Policing, and the UN's First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
*The Women in Blue Helmets *tells the story of the first all-female police unit deployed by India to the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in January 2007. Lesley J. Pruitt investigates how the unit was originated, developed, and implemented, offering an important historical record of this unique...
God in the Tumult of the Global Square
Religion in Global Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some religious activists are antagonistic and engage in protests, violent acts, and political challenges. Others are positive and help to shape an emerging...
Invisible Families
Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Mignon R. Moore brings to light the family life of a group that has been largely invisible—gay women of color—in a book that challenges long-standing ideas about racial identity, family formation, and motherhood. Drawing from interviews and surveys of one hundred black gay women in New York City,...
Cut Adrift
Families in Insecure Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Cut Adrift makes an important and original contribution to the national conversation about inequality and risk in American society. Set against the backdrop of rising economic insecurity and rolled-up safety nets, Marianne Cooper’s probing analysis explores what keeps Americans up at night. Through...
Green Criminology
Crime, Justice, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
This groundbreaking text provides students with an overview and assessment of green criminology as well as a call to action. *Green Criminology *draws attention to the ways in which the political-economic organization of capitalism causes ecological destruction and disorganization. Focusing on real-world...
Dark Green Religion
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of "green religions" in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
How Chiefs Became Kings
Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of "archaic states" whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex...
Risk Terrain Modeling
Crime Prediction and Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Imagine using an evidence-based risk management model that enables researchers and practitioners alike to analyze the spatial dynamics of crime, allocate resources, and implement custom crime and risk reduction strategies that are transparent, measurable, and effective.
Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM)...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant’s influential work, brings together fourteen...
Ain't No Trust
How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Ain’t No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.—at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers—and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it’s failing the very people it is...