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University of California Press
This is the first comprehensive environmental history of Californias Great Central Valley, where extensive freshwater and tidal wetlands once provided critical habitat for tens of millions of migratory waterfowl. Weaving together ecology, grassroots politics, and public policy, Philip Garone tells …
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Employment and Growth in France, 1974-2014
University of California Press
France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization. Yet its economy has not fallen by the wayside and has even resisted the great recession that began in 2008. …
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The Power and Meaning of the Christian Serpent-Handling Tradition
University of California Press
Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practiceand one that is far more stereotyped than understood. Ralph W. Hood, Jr. and W. Paul Williamson have spent fifteen years touring serpent-handling churches in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, …
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Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam
University of California Press
In Hymns for the Fallen, Todd Decker listens closely to forty years of Hollywood combat films produced after Vietnam. Ever a noisy genre, post-Vietnam war films have deployed music and sound to place the audience in the midst of battle …
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Stories from Bolivias Challenge to Globalization
University of California Press
Dignity and Defiance is a powerful, eyewitness account of Bolivia's decade-long rebellion against globalization imposed from abroad. Based on extensive interviews, this story comes alive with first-person accounts of a massive Enron/Shell oil spill from an elderly woman whose livelihood …
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The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns
University of California Press
Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of …
University of California Press
Andre Bazins writings on cinema are among the most influential reflections on the medium ever written. Even so, his critical interests ranged widely and encompassed the "new media" of the 1950s, including television, 3D film, Cinerama, and CinemaScope. Fifty-seven of …
University of California Press
"A must-read for any wine grape grower or winemaker who has ever wrestled with the most important myths of winegrowing or debated them with colleaguesand that would be all of us! It is also a great read for any wine …
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Bold, Bright, and Dry
University of California Press
"What makes the book so encompassing, informative, and relevant is that Haeger has avoided focusing on viticulture or enology or economy in isolation, and has instead looked at all of them in their historic and contemporary scientific and socio-cultural context. …
View book details for Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods
Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation
University of California Press
The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms. This book provides an essential primer and manual for using fossil bone histology to investigate the biology …
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Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea
University of California Press
K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean economic and cultural transformations. John Lie …
University of California Press
Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier. For a long time, problems with access and the lack of tools …
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From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University
University of California Press
These invaluable essays offer an insiders perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds …
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Quita Manaquita and Palo Praise in Cuba
University of California Press
In a riveting first-person account, Todd Ramon Ochoa explores Palo, a Kongo-inspired "society of affliction" that is poorly understood at the margins of Cuban popular religion. Narrated as an encounter with two teachers of Palo, the book unfolds on the …
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Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio
University of California Press
The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place …
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Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America
University of California Press
Twilight of the Idols revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the star system and by exploring the careers of individual starsWallace Reid, …
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The Man Who Discovered <i>Tyrannosaurus rex</i>
University of California Press
From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (18731963), spending most of it searching for fossilsand sometimes oilin every corner …
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Motion Pictures' Greatest Year
University of California Press
In Hollywood 1938, Catherine Jurca brings to light a tumultuous year of crisis that has been neglected in histories of the studio era. With attendance in decline, negative publicity about stars that were "poison at the box office," and a …
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Representations of Rural Life in Vergils Georgics
University of California Press
Playing the Farmer reinvigorates our understanding of Vergils Georgics, a vibrant work written by Romes premier epic poet shortly before he began the Aeneid. Setting the Georgics in the social context of its day, Philip Thibodeau for the first time …
View book details for A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3
The Storm Clouds Descend, 19551957
University of California Press
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s. The third volume in Melvyn Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, The Calm before the Storm, examines the …
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Biology and Conservation
University of California Press
In what is certain to be the key reference on iguanas for years to come, some of the world's leading experts offer a clear and accessible account of the latest research on the evolution, behavioral ecology, and conservation of these …
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Imprisonment, Escape, and Brainwashing
University of California Press
This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap …
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A Doctor's Journal
University of California Press
Intensive Care is an affecting view from the trenches, a seasoned doctor's minute-by-minute and day-by-day account of life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a major inner-city hospital, San Francisco General. John F. Murray, for many years Chief of …
University of California Press
This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to Californias spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when the La Perouse Expedition arrived at Monterey, to the Death Valley expedition in …
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Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy
University of California Press
Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. …
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