university of california press mär 2025 (32 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A powerful dive into how acts of kindness can ignite your brain, boost happiness, and transform both your life and the world around you. Nicole Karlis brilliantly explores the science behind selflessness, revealing how altruism and empathy shape our minds, well-being, and society. Discover the pathways that light up when we put others first--and how this benefits us all!'--Michael Amster, physician and coauthor of The Power of Awe.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Combining expert qualitative craft with quantitative evidence, Moving the Needle provides ideas, insights, and answers regarding how and why high-pressure labor markets reduce joblessness--and how social policy can prolong those benefits even when the pressure abates.'--David Autor, Ford Professor of Economics, MIT.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Introducing Globalization Theories is as eminently accessible as it is comprehensive. It is brief and synthetic--yet its scope is remarkable, insofar as it covers virtually the entire body of significant scholarship in the field. This 'little' book is destined to become the go-to text for a great many courses.'--William Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A comprehensive, compassionate, and insightful look at a virtually hidden area of medicine and law. Lens covers important topics in a very accessible style. There is nothing like this out there.'--David S. Cohen, coauthor of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'While conversations about young people and technology are drawn into unhelpful binaries and polarizations, Ysabel Gerrard listens carefully to young people's voices and experiences, drawing our attention to intriguing puzzles and paradoxes. A must-read for scholars, policymakers, parents, educators, and anyone with an interest in technology and society.'--Ranjana Das, author of Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A pioneering ethnography of clerical child abuse, bringing to light its transnational dimensions. Unforgivable offers a highly readable narrative that is both thought-provoking and enlightening.'--David Kertzer, author of The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Chris Barcelos has written a beautifully sophisticated yet highly readable introduction to the vibrant world of youth organizing around reproductive justice issues. This primer expanded my vocabulary, deepened my understanding, and inspired me beyond measure.'--Khiara M. Bridges, author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A wonderfully accessible overview of just how easily bias can creep into science, together with solid, practical advice on how to challenge it. A valuable resource for researchers, physicians, and policymakers.'--Angela Saini, author of Superior: The Return of Race Science.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Pregnancy is a problem for autonomy, and yet, along with birth, it is frequently approached as an opportunity for self-actualization. In this study of doula-assisted birth in the Bay Area, Andrea Ford holds a mirror up to middle-class anxieties to reflect broader cultural tensions. Sensitive and erudite, Near Birth is a revelation.'--Heather Anne Paxson, Associate Dean for Faculty, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Keenly juxtaposes the immigrant 'success story' of Little Saigon in California against the tenuous experience of older, lower-income, and disabled residents fighting the corporatized gentrification of their community. I was blown away by the depth of the research and how Jennifer Huynh weaves together analyses of these interrelated issues and sociological dynamics across institutional and individual levels.'--C.N. Le, faculty in Sociology and Director of the Asian & Asian American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Oneya Fennell Okuwobi brilliantly uncovers the hidden costs of diversity initiatives, challenging the superficiality of such programs and the burdens they place on people of color within so-called 'diverse' environments with a powerful, evidence-backed critique. This book is an essential read for anyone committed to creating genuine racial equity in workplaces and institutions.'--Mary Murphy, Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor, Indiana University.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Brian Fauteux's definitive study of satellite radio in North America reveals SiriusXM as both a monument to radio's resilience and continued cultural significance and a prime example of how monopoly and financialization wreak havoc on the music industry.'--Elena Razlogova, author of The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Empire of Labor integrates histories of indigenous and European hired labor in East India Company Bengal to completely alter our understanding of the character of work and flight. Refocusing our attention on law, policing, and violence, it shows how the EIC created new hierarchies of discipline to control the mobility of men, women, and children, override their customary practices, and standardize wages and contracts. In this way, waged work forged new social relations and created new forms of servility that crushed precolonial freedoms and destroyed lifeworlds.'--Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global History.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an extraordinary ethnography of violence--especially gendered violence--in the remote rural village synonymous with 'El Chapo, ' Mexico's largest drug don. A beautifully written, brilliant theoretical work that leaps off the page.'--Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'I adored Anita, as did the entire fashion and literary world. She was four feet nine inches of lithe, slender, dramatic chic.'--Carol Channing'This book celebrates a character as memorable as any Anita Loos created in her writing. She was an indomitable, wise-cracking prodigy who not only helped create Hollywood, but managed to survive it.'--John Sayles'If we can't have the wonderful Anita Loos-smart, witty, literate and fun- writing today's Hollywood movies, at least we can get reacquainted with her and her work through this delightful book. Filled with previously unpublished material, it shows that while gentlemen may have preferred blondes, everyone else in town wisely preferred the irresistible Ms. Loos.'--Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times'This is a wonderful book about a talented, fascinating, and groundbreaking woman. Her life epitomizes a certain era in show business and describes a Hollywood in which few women were allowed to rise to the top. Anita Loos did and we were all the beneficiaries. I loved the book!'--Peter Duchin'Not only is it valuable to have these delightful Anita Loos pieces, but the biographical chapters are fascinating too.'--Kevin Brownlow, author of David Lean: A Biography.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The first book-length English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this book explores a significant but neglected area of this filmmaker's distinguished career and thus fills a gap in our appreciation and understanding of both Buñuel's achievement and the history of Mexican film. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz considers Buñuel's Mexican films-made between 1947 and 1965-within the context of a national and nationalist film industry, comparing the filmmaker's employment of styles, genres, character types, themes, and techniques to those most characteristic of Mexican cinema. In this study Buñuel's films emerge as a link between the Classical Mexican cinema of the 1930s through the 1950s and the 'new' Cinema of the 1960s, flourishing in a time of crisis for the national film industry and introducing some of the stylistic and conceptual changes that would revitalize Mexican cinema.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Jason Cons's ethnography of Bangladesh's Sundarbans is filled with fascinating insights into the multiple and often contradictory entanglements of global warming, crime, politics, development, and projected 'climate solutions.' This important work presents a detailed, ground-level portrait of the region's ongoing transformation, examining the ways in which climate change, economic uncertainty, and historical legacies are shaping its future.' Amitav Ghosh, author of Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'I am confident that it is the finest in its field to include a lyric by me.'--Eric Idle.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Examining anew the value of the documentation that missionaries accomplished, their interactions with the people and places they occupied, and their relationships with other kinds of observers, this volume is a much-needed corrective and an absolutely fascinating read that enriches the ethnomusicology of Indonesia and beyond.'--Anne K. Rasmussen, author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A much-needed addition to scholarship on Kenya and global hip hop studies. RaShelle Peck takes care to not examine hip hop culture in Kenya as if it is completely independent of the culture anywhere else, or as if it is an imitation of American hip hop. Instead, she appropriately places Kenyan hip hop within broader hip hop studies, while recognizing its unique identity.'--Msia Kibona Clark, author of Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A much-needed addition to scholarship on Kenya and global hip hop studies. RaShelle Peck takes care to not examine hip hop culture in Kenya as if it is completely independent of the culture anywhere else, or as if it is an imitation of American hip hop. Instead, she appropriately places Kenyan hip hop within broader hip hop studies, while recognizing its unique identity.'--Msia Kibona Clark, author of Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'The Forger's Creed is the first comprehensive study of forgery practices in early modern China and the underlying cultural, social, and genealogical anxieties that produced this plethora of fabricated texts, forged paintings, and fictitious art histories. J. P. Park's groundbreaking book highlights the ways in which fabrications become legitimate.'--Wu Hung, author of Contemporary Chinese Art.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Black Apocalypse argues that there is no fixing the place of blackness and antiblackness in contemporary radical thought. Tavia Nyong'o contends that neither utopian nor nihilistic schools of thought are properly equipped for the possible futures envisioned in black creative practice: futures that are even worse than we dream of in our philosophy.'--andré carrington, author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'This book makes a significant contribution to the history of Islam and Iran, and its greatest value lies in its synthetic treatment of Sufism and kingship using a comparative, longue durée approach. Given its historical depth and geographical range, there is nothing comparable in circulation.'--A. Azfar Moin, author of The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'While conversations about young people and technology are drawn into unhelpful binaries and polarizations, Ysabel Gerrard listens carefully to young people's voices and experiences, drawing our attention to intriguing puzzles and paradoxes. A must-read for scholars, policymakers, parents, educators, and anyone with an interest in technology and society.'--Ranjana Das, author of Parents Talking Algorithms: Navigating Datafication and Family Life in Digital Societies.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A powerful dive into how acts of kindness can ignite your brain, boost happiness, and transform both your life and the world around you. Nicole Karlis brilliantly explores the science behind selflessness, revealing how altruism and empathy shape our minds, well-being, and society. Discover the pathways that light up when we put others first--and how this benefits us all!'--Michael Amster, physician and coauthor of The Power of Awe.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Empire of Labor integrates histories of indigenous and European hired labor in East India Company Bengal to completely alter our understanding of the character of work and flight. Refocusing our attention on law, policing, and violence, it shows how the EIC created new hierarchies of discipline to control the mobility of men, women, and children, override their customary practices, and standardize wages and contracts. In this way, waged work forged new social relations and created new forms of servility that crushed precolonial freedoms and destroyed lifeworlds.'--Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global History.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Brian Fauteux's definitive study of satellite radio in North America reveals SiriusXM as both a monument to radio's resilience and continued cultural significance and a prime example of how monopoly and financialization wreak havoc on the music industry.'--Elena Razlogova, author of The Listener's Voice: Early Radio and the American Public.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'Pregnancy is a problem for autonomy, and yet, along with birth, it is frequently approached as an opportunity for self-actualization. In this study of doula-assisted birth in the Bay Area, Andrea Ford holds a mirror up to middle-class anxieties to reflect broader cultural tensions. Sensitive and erudite, Near Birth is a revelation.'--Heather Anne Paxson, Associate Dean for Faculty, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'This is an extraordinary ethnography of violence--especially gendered violence--in the remote rural village synonymous with 'El Chapo, ' Mexico's largest drug don. A beautifully written, brilliant theoretical work that leaps off the page.'--Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio.