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There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth.--Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them In this short companion to his book From...

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"--late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z--is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take...

A fascinating journey through the history of Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state...

Author: A. Naomi PaikPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: May 26, 2020Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520305124ISBN-13: 9780520305120

This is the essential English edition of the complete poems of the eminent Japanese master of the haiku, Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho (1644?1694) is arguably the greatest figure in the history of...

The Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., its enigmatic verses have...

This restored edition reflects Theresa Hak Kyung Cha?s original vision and intentions for Dictee, a foundational and unparalleled text of modern Asian American literature. Dictee is the best-known...

Author: Patrick ModianoPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: November 07, 2014Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520218787ISBN-13:...

Author: Zachary ShorePublisher: University Of California PressPublication Date: Jan 05, 2016Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520288300ISBN-13: 9780520288300

After twenty years, Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, but instead of receiving the homecoming he had hoped for finds himself caught in an intense battle of wills with his faithful and...

The first English translation of a Kalmyk epic nearly lost to history. This is the first English translation of Jangar, the heroic epic of the Kalmyk nomads, who are the Western Mongols of Genghis...

This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. In License to Travel,...

Ayn Rand?s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the...

An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy- and myth-making in the United States in...

Author: Felipe Fern?ndez-ArmestoPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: Oct 06, 2020Number of Pages: 480 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520377508ISBN-13:...

In 1688, five years after the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna, a young Muslim soldier surrendered to the Austrian army and became a prisoner of war. Osman of Timisoara would spend the next twelve...

An elegant translation of the beloved epic tale of Prince Rama Few works of literature have inspired so vast an audience across so many radically different languages and cultures as the Ramayana,...

Author: James M. LawsonPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: Feb 01, 2022Number of Pages: 160 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0520387848ISBN-13: 9780520387843

These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's...

Sidewalking is an impressionistic take on Los Angeles in its current moment, which is a flashpoint of great transition, as the city verticalizes and densifies. It is also a meditation on the history,...

Author: Maxine GordonPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 284 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520350790ISBN-13: 9780520350793

Author: Ibrahim Muhawi, Sharif KanaanaPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: Nov 02, 2021Number of Pages: 464 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0520385845ISBN-13:...

The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from...

An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about...

Uncovering an ancient foundation myth, and literary tour de force, obscured within the modern Bible. Embedded within the Bible lies a largely unknown story of the founding of ancient Israel and its...

?I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.? This inscription in Tutankhamun?s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, archaeologist Robert L. Kelly explains how the study of our cultural past can...

How we lost control of the internet--and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical...

The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter GreenAuthor: HomerPublisher: University of California PressPublication Date: February 23, 2019Number of Pages: 608 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

More than seventy years ago, the world changed forever when American forces exploded the first atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, starting a massive firestorm that...

The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are...