University Of California Press: 1479 books

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by Lisa Jarnot
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012

This definitive biography gives a brilliant account of the life and art of Robert Duncan (1919–1988), one of America’s great postwar poets. Lisa Jarnot takes us from Duncan’s birth in Oakland, California, through his childhood in an eccentrically Theosophist household, to his life in San Francisco...
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Serpentine

The Evolution and Ecology of a Model System

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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011

Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned about major questions in earth history, evolution, ecology, conservation, and restoration from the...
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This City Belongs to You

A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996

by Heather Vrana
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later...
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Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can)

Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution

by Peter Matthiessen
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

In the summer of 1968 Peter Matthiessen met Cesar Chavez for the first time. They were the same age: forty-one. Matthiessen lived in New York City, while Chavez lived in the Central Valley farm town of Delano, where the grape strike was unfolding. This book is Matthiessen’s panoramic yet finely...
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by Doug Shafer
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

At the age of 47, when he a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of...
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by Catherine Mulholland
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2000

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct—a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal—that brought...
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Neuropsychedelia

The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain

by Nicolas Langlitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012

Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late 1960s, a new generation of hallucinogen...
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America's Social Arsonist

Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century

by Gabriel Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016

"A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire."—Fred Ross Raised by conservative parents who hoped he would “stay with his own kind,” Fred Ross instead became one of the most influential community organizers in American history. His activism began...
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Black against Empire

The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party

by Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016

This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality...
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The West without Water

What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow

by Frances Malamud-Roam, B. Lynn Ingram
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources. Looking at the region’s current water crisis from the perspective of its climate...
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American Rhone

How Maverick Winemakers Changed the Way Americans Drink

by Patrick J. Comiskey
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016

**"Thoughtfully conceived and very well written, this is essential somm reading."—The Somm Journal ** "This is the most important wine book of the year, perhaps in many years."—The Seattle Times "Crisply written, impeccably researched, balanced if fundamentally enthusiastic,...
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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight

Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles

by Eric Avila
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2004

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern...
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Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left

Radical Activism in Los Angeles

by Laura Pulido
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006

Laura Pulido traces the roots of third world radicalism in Southern California during the 1960s and 1970s in this accessible, wonderfully illustrated comparative study. Focusing on the Black Panther Party, El Centro de Acción Social y Autonomo (CASA), and East Wind, a Japanese American collective,...
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The Hakka Cookbook

Chinese Soul Food from around the World

by Linda Lau Anusasananan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012

Veteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple migrations. Beginning in her grandmother’s kitchen in California, Anusasananan travels to her family’s...
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