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On California explores this world-class wine region with some of the most respected writers to have written about it. A beautiful volume for all wi...

Theodor W Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetic...

Climb aboard the California Comet and join Harrison Beck as he solves the case of a kidnapped passenger in the second exciting Adventures on Trains...

Features thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of th...

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In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challen...

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Reducere. A wondrous, uproarious, and surprisingly informative account of a year spend surfing, Caught Inside marks the arrival of an exuberant new voice of ...

An exploration of why innumerable boys were castrated for singing between the mid-sixteenth and late-nineteenth centuries. It shows that the entire...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): David BordwellIllustration(s): 16 color illustrations, 536 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 327P...

Reducere. 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/...

Reducere. How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that unde...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Megan Tobias NeelyIllustration(s): 1 line illustration, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 336Publication...

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understa...

DescriptionFrom the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universiti...

A collection that contains - Aristotle's "The Constitution of Athens"; Xenophon's "The Politeia of the Spartans"; "The Constitution of the Athenian...

DescriptionRichard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insid...

Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symboli...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Gabrielle SelzIllustration(s): 22 b-w photos, 11 color photosNumber of pages: 392Publication da...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Andre BazinTranslator: Natasa DurovicovaNumber of pages: 436Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kristian Karlo SaguinIllustration(s): 14 b-w illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 21...

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is ...

Reducere. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working cl...

Reducere. "Fanatic, " "dogmatic, " "fundamentalist"-these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this bo...

Reducere. Sporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest bl...

Reducere. This wonderfully detailed account of a solo journey taken along the back roads, shoreline trails and mountain paths of coastal California is a comp...

Reducere. This wonderfully detailed account of a solo journey taken along the back roads, shoreline trails and mountain paths of coastal California is a comp...

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

Reducere. DescriptionDoyle Hollister has written a paradise/paradise lost/paradise regained personal narrative about his heart- and soul-felt relationship to...

Takes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a...

The Ling Shu, also known as the Ling Shu Jing, is part of a unique and seminal trilogy of ancient Chinese medicine, together with the Su Wen and Na...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Khalil HabrihIllustration(s): 45 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 316Publication date: 2021Dim...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

How, then, do people decide which risks to take and which to ignore? On what basis are certain dangers guarded against and others relegated to seco...

Reducere. In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air...

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Presents the history of Western ideas about the nature of human experience. This book explores Western discourse since the sixteenth century onward...

Reducere. Americans have been intrigued with the idea of finding gold deposits since the California Gold Rush of 1848. There is a thrill to finding that firs...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

DescriptionThe hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. Whi...

Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): William B SecrestNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 156 x 229 x 31Cover type: Pape...

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, more than 14 million U.S. homeowners filed for foreclosure. Focusing on the hard-hit Sacramento Vall...

Ella Baker (1903-1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes w...

Chronicles the lives of a group of fishermen from Ghana who took the long and dangerous journey to Southern Italy in search of work in a cutthroat ...

Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnanc...

DescriptionGen Z's first "existential toolkit" for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice. A youth movement is reener...

DescriptionLives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in human...

Lives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in humanitarian aid...

Allan Kaprow's "happenings" and "environments" were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful,...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Aya GruberNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paper...

Reducere. DescriptionIn her timely new book, Teresa M. Mares explores the intersections of structural vulnerability and food insecurity experienced by migran...

Reducere. In this diverse anthology, over 80 of the Golden State 's finest poets hold forth on the theme of crows and ravens offering passionate, vivid, some...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): David CutlerIllustration(s): 33 line illustrations, 8 tablesNumber of pages: 240Collection: Wil...

DescriptionWhat happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not tho...

Reducere. In 1938 Wittgenstein delivered a short course of lectures on aesthetics to a small group of students at Cambridge. The present volume has been comp...

Contributor(s): Author: Paul FarmerForeword by: Amartya SenPathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to i...

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Reducere. In the late summer of 2011, 35-year old Aaron Bassler, an allegedly mentally disturbed resident of Mendocino County, California, shot and killed tw...

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The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface and encompasses many thousands of islands, which are home to numerous human societies and...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels-and their baffled e...