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This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature. In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it...

Risible offers an alternative re-telling of the intellectual, technological, and sonic history of laughter, a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for through its causes (such as theories of comedy)...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E...

This book considers the unexpected and mostly unexamined popularity of the Mexican film Yesenia (Alfredo B. Crevenna, 1971) in the Soviet Union. Set during the Second Franco-Mexican war, this...

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban...

Contemporary America is centered around urban society. Most Americans reside in cities or their surrounding suburbs, and both the media and modern American sociology focus disproportionately on urban...

Science and Immortality : The Eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791)Author: Charles B. PaulPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 218...

Uncovering common threads across types of science skepticism to show why these controversial narratives stick and how we can more effectively counter them through storytelling Science v. Story...

In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years...

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past--and future--of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history...

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the...

Pairing in-depth journalism with historical perspectives, this book makes a compelling case for a natural solution to the growing problem of flooding. With Seek Higher Ground, environmental writer...

Setting Safety Standards : Regulation in the Public and Private SectorsAuthor: Ross E. CheitPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 314 pagesLanguage:...

A rare look at the brute-force mechanics of deportation in the United States. In December 2017, U.S. immigration authorities shackled and abused 92 African refugees for two days while attempting to...

In the midst of her groundbreaking career in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm once declared, 'Everyone--with the exception of the black woman herself--has been...

Each year, thousands of youth endure harrowing unaccompanied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand...

In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra weaves together a persuasive unrest narrative, linking police aggression to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving...

Small Property Versus Big Government : Social Origins of the Property Tax RevoltAuthor: Clarence Y. H. LoPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 288...

Social Mobility in Industrial SocietyAuthor: Reinhard Bendix, Seymour Martin LipsetPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 332 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Socialization to Old AgeAuthor: Irving RosowPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 206 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0520415221ISBN-13:...

Solidarity of Strangers : Feminism After Identity PoliticsAuthor: Jodi DeanPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 234 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Songs to Make the Dust Dance : The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century JapanAuthor: Yung-Hee KimPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 242 pagesLanguage:...

Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil : The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609-1751Author: Stuart B. SchwartzPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of...

Standing Guard : Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesAuthor: Charles LipsonPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 352...

Subjects and Sojourners explores how French colonial rule in Indochina extended Indochina's colonial society into France. Perhaps two hundred thousand Indochinese sojourned in France between conquest...

Symeon the Holy Fool : Leontius's Life and the Late Antique CityAuthor: Derek KruegerPublisher: Univ of California PressPublication Date: Jun 21, 2024Number of Pages: 216 pagesLanguage:...

The conflict of religions during the Christianization of the Greco-Roman aristocracy in Late Antiquity is typified by Synesius (ca. A.D. 365/70?414?), an old-fashioned pagan Neoplatonist who studied...

Systems analysis, which is also called cost/benefit analysis, the planning-programming-budgeting system, risk analysis, and technology assessment, has become the major planning and policy tool of...

Duana Fullwiley has penned an intimate chronicle of laboratory life in the genomic age. She presents many of the influential scientists at the forefront of genetics who have redefined how we practice...