University Of California Press: 1479 books
Germ Wars
The Politics of Microbes and America's Landscape of Fear
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biological attacks in modern American history. Germ Wars argues that bioterrorism has emerged as a prominent fear in the modern age, arising with the production...
Migrants in Translation
Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe....
Mountain Geography
Physical and Human Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas. The global importance of mountains is recognized particularly because they provide critical resources, such as water, food and wood; contain high levels of biological...
Tearing Down the Gates
Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007
We often hear about the growing divide between rich and poor in America. This compelling exposé, backed by up-to-date research, locates the source of this trend where we might least expect to find it—in our schools. Written for a wide audience, Tearing Down the Gates is a powerful indictment of...
Veiled Sentiments
Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
First published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality,...
Imagined Empires
A History of Revolt in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Through a microhistory of a small province in Upper Egypt, this book investigates the history of five world empires that assumed hegemony in Qina province over the last five centuries. Imagined Empires charts modes of subaltern rebellion against the destructive policies of colonial intruders and collaborating...
by Michael Heads
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Molecular studies reveal highly ordered geographic patterns in plant and animal distributions. The tropics illustrate these patterns of community immobilism leading to allopatric differentiation, as well as other patterns of mobilism, range expansion, and overlap of taxa. Integrating Earth history...
The Heart of Power, With a New Preface
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick, take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors monitored a suspicious shadow on his own...
Born Out of Place
Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2013
They change color depending on their mood. They possess uniquely adapted hands and feet distinct from other tetrapods. They feature independently movable eyes. This comprehensive volume delves into these fascinating details and thorough research about one of the most charismatic families of reptiles—Chameleonidae.
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A Sea of Glass
Searching for the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
"The author makes an eloquent plea for marine biodiversity conservation."—Library Journal
"Harvell seems to channel the devotion that motivated the Blaschkas."—The Guardian
Winner of the 2016 National Outdoor Book Award, Environment Category
It started with a glass...
Plastic Reason
An Anthropology of Brain Science in Embryogenetic Terms
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, neuronal researchers knew the adult human brain to be a thoroughly fixed and immutable cellular structure, devoid of any developmental potential. Plastic Reason is a study of the efforts of a few Parisian neurobiologists to overturn this rigid conception of the central...
by Richard G. Botzler, Richard N. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Foundations of Wildlife Diseases is a comprehensive overview of the basic principles that govern the study of wildlife diseases. The authors integrate theoretical foundations with a thorough examination of the factors that can affect the health and fitness of animals. They include specific information...
In Search of Safety
Confronting Inequality in Women's Imprisonment
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women’s prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women’s pathways to prison. Women must negotiate...