Professional Documents
Culture Documents
SPRING 2009
Lynne Withey
Director
GENERAL INTEREST
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288 pages, 10 x 10-1/2”, 131 color & 2 b/w photographs
Natural History/The Environment/Photography
World
cloth 978-0-520-25377-3 $39.95/£23.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
Gary Y. Okihiro
Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
Jeri Quinzio
Of Sugar and Snow
A History of Ice Cream Making
“This book is a real treat, as fun as running an ice cream store in July!”
Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s Ice Cream
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286 pages, 6 x 8”, 18 color illustrations
Food/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24861-8 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
Dr. Channa Bambaradeniya is the Coordinator of the Asia Regional Species and
Biodiversity Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Cinthya Flores is an international social communications consultant and jour-
nalist. Dr. Joshua Ginsberg is Program Director at the Wildlife Conservation
Society. Dwight Holing is the author of many books on rain forests, coral reefs,
and wilderness in Europe and western America. Dr. Susan Lumpkin is a
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoological Parks.
George McKay chairs the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Advisory
Council, Australia. Dr. John Musick is Marshall Acuff Professor Emeritus in
Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine
Science. Dr. Patrick Quilty is Honorary Research Professor in Earth Sciences at
the University of Tasmania. Dr. Bernard Stonehouse is an environmental biolo-
gist with the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and the
Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. Dr. Eric John Woehler is
an expert on antarctic and subantarctic birds. Dr. David Woodruff is Professor
of Biology at the University of California, San Diego.
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GENERAL INTEREST
David Ward
Alcatraz
The Gangster Years
With Gene Kassebaum
MARCH
576 pages, 6 x 9”, 72 b/w photographs
History/Sociology/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25607-1 $34.95/£19.95
“Once again, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter make us confront a tragic
reality: there are as many as 27 million people trapped in modern
slavery worldwide. In this book, we hear the voices of survivors and
those who are fighting every day for freedom.”
Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
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GENERAL INTEREST
The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They
shape our climate, our culture, and our future. Yet their depths have
remained a mysterious and unchartered expanse. This book, which
accompanies a major BBC television series, draws on the most exciting
stories from the fields of subaquatic archaeology, geology, marine biol-
ogy, and anthropology to reveal an astonishing landscape of forgotten
shipwrecks, submerged volcanoes, and hidden caves. For Oceans,
explorer Paul Rose and his team of expert divers filmed fluorescence in
Red Sea corals for the very first time and explored the undisturbed
waters of the Black Hole off the Bahamas. They witnessed rarely seen
behavior in sperm whales in the Sea of Cortez and discovered a poten-
tially unknown species below the arctic ice pack. Undertaking thrilling
and often dangerous dives, Rose and his team reveal the importance of
the oceans to human existence—and at the same time trace the possi-
ble consequences of climate change
Paul Rose, expedition leader and copresenter of on their delicate balance. Beautifully
the BBC television series Oceans, is a professional illustrated with more than 160 color
diver, polar guide, and mountaineer. He was the photographs, Oceans unravels the
base commander of the British Antarctic Survey
mysteries of the deep and provides
and ran the U.S. Navy’s diver training program.
illuminating insights into this vast
Rose has presented several other BBC television
series, including Voyages of Discovery, Climate undersea domain.
Change, and Take One Museum. Anne Laking’s
programs have won a number of awards. She was
executive producer of the Horizon documentary
The Mystery of the Persian Mummy, as well as the
BBC Four science series Time, Light Fantastic, and
Visions of the Future. She is the executive producer
of Oceans.
Copub: BBC
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240 pages, 8-1/2 x 10-3/4”, 162 color photographs,
4 maps
Natural History/Photography/Oceanography
U.S. & Canada
cloth 978-0-520-26028-3 $34.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
Joan Roughgarden
The Genial Gene
Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness
“Darwin’s Universe is the single best volume ever published that cov-
ers all matters Darwin from A to Z. I have never so enjoyed a scientific
book, plucking out gems of elegant narrative richly supported by
photographs and paintings from the history of evolutionary thought.”
Michael Shermer, author of In Darwin’s Shadow
of readers.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Ben Hoare
Animal Migration
Remarkable Journeys in the Wild
MARCH
176 pages, 10-1/4 x 11-1/2“, 200 color illustrations,
80 maps
Natural History/Ecology
North America and U.S. Territories
cloth 978-0-520-25823-5 $34.95
Dominic Couzens
Top 100 Birding Sites of the World
“My first response after reading this book was to reach for the phone
and start booking tours to go see birds. This book’s combination of
dynamic photography and scope of coverage makes for a truly com-
pelling exploration.” John T. Rotenberry, University of California, Riverside
FEBRUARY
320 pages, 10-1/2 x 12-1/2”, 400 color photographs,
101 maps, 1 table
Natural History/Birds/Travel
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25932-4 $45.00
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GENERAL INTEREST
Even the most powerful men in the world are human—they get sick,
take dubious drugs, drink too much, contemplate suicide, fret about
ailing parents, and bury people they love. Young Richard Nixon
watched two brothers die of tuberculosis, even while doctors moni-
tored a suspicious shadow on his own lungs. John Kennedy received
last rites four times as an adult, and Lyndon Johnson suffered a “belly
buster” of a heart attack. David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
explore how modern presidents have wrestled with their own mortality
—and how they have taken this most human experience to heart as
they faced the difficult politics of health care. Drawing on a trove of
newly released White House tapes, on extensive interviews with White
House staff, and on dramatic archival material that has only recently
come to light, The Heart of Power explores the hidden ways in which
presidents shape our destinies through their own experiences. Taking
a close look at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight
Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon,
Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill
Clinton, and George W. Bush, the book shows what history can teach
David Blumenthal is Samuel O Thier Professor of us as we confront the health care challenges of the twenty-first century.
Medicine and Professor of Health Policy at Harvard
Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts
General Hospital. He has advised Democratic pres-
idential candidates from Michael Dukakis to Barak
Obama. James A. Morone is Professor and Chair
of Political Science at Brown University and the
author of Hellfire Nation and The Democratic
Wish, a New York Times Notable Book and winner
of the Gladys Kammerer Award of the American
Political Science Association.
JUNE
387 pages, 6 x 9”, 15 b/w illustrations
Medicine/Politics/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-26030-6 $26.95/£15.95
Robert Wuthnow
Boundless Faith
The Global Outreach of American Churches
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GENERAL INTEREST
Barry Seldes
Leonard Bernstein
The Political Life of an American Musician
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990,
Leonard Bernstein’s star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing
biography of Bernstein’s political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein’s
career against the backdrop of cold war America—blacklisting by
the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York
Philharmonic in 1951 to avoid its blacklist, signing a humiliating affi-
davit to regain his passport—and the factors that by the mid-1950s
allowed his triumphant return to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes
for the first time links Bernstein’s great concert-hall and musical-
theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to
his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use
of previously untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the
Library of Congress’s Bernstein archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in
which Bernstein’s career intersected with the twentieth century’s most
momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively documented
account of the celebrity-maestro’s life deepens our understanding of an
entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections
of American culture and political power.
Barry Seldes is Professor of Political Science at
Rider University and the author of a wide range of
essays on politics and culture.
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288 pages, 6 x 9”, 10 b/w photographs
Politics/Music/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25764-1 $24.95/£14.95
Ted Genoways
Walt Whitman and the Civil War
America’s Poet during the Lost Years of 1860–1862
“This is one of the most remarkable studies of Whitman that I’ve seen
in many a year. It's penetrating and original.”
Jerome Loving, author of
Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself and The Last Titan
Shortly after the third edition of Leaves of Grass was published, in 1860,
Walt Whitman seemed to drop off the literary map, not to emerge
again until his brother George was wounded at Fredericksburg two
and a half years later. Past critics have tended to read this silence as
evidence of Whitman’s indifference to the Civil War during its critical
early months. In this penetrating, original, and beautifully written
book, Ted Genoways reconstructs those forgotten years—locating
Whitman directly through unpublished letters and never-before-seen
manuscripts, as well as mapping his associations through rare period
newspapers and magazines in which he published. Genoways’s account
fills a major gap in Whitman’s biography and debunks the myth that
Whitman was unaffected by the country’s march
to war. Instead, Walt Whitman and the
Civil War reveals the poet’s active Ted Genoways is the editor of Walt Whitman: The
participation in the early Civil War Correspondence, Volume VII and the author of two
period and elucidates his shock at volumes of poetry. He is also the editor of the
the horrors of war months be- Virginia Quarterly Review.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Amiri Baraka
Digging
The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka has ranked among the most
important commentators on African American music and culture. In
this brilliant assemblage of his writings on music, the first such collec-
tion in nearly twenty years, Baraka blends autobiography, history,
musical analysis, and political commentary to recall the sounds, peo-
ple, times, and places he’s encountered. As in his earlier classics, Blues
People and Black Music, Baraka offers essays on the famous—Max
Roach, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane-—and on those
whose names are known mainly by jazz aficionados—Alan Shorter,
Jon Jang, and Malachi Thompson. Baraka’s literary style, with its deep
roots in poetry, makes palpable his love and respect for his jazz musi-
cian friends. His energy and enthusiasm show us again how much
Coltrane, Albert Ayler, and the others he lovingly considers mattered.
He brings home to us how music itself matters, and how musicians
carry and extend that knowledge from generation to generation, pro-
viding us, their listeners, with a sense of meaning and belonging.
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352 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Music/Jazz/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-25715-3 $26.95/£15.95
Ray Carney
John Cassavetes in Person
John Cassavetes—celebrated as the father of American independent
filmmaking—managed to frustrate biographers with wildly conflicting
“facts” about himself, making it impossible to form an accurate picture
of the man and the artist. In this extraordinary book, Ray Carney
assembles the filmmaker’s statements and writings to present
Cassavetes’s life and work in his own words, vividly revealing the per-
sonal and cultural forces that shaped his career as a writer-director of
fiercely independent films—from Shadows, Faces, and Husbands in the
late 1950s and 1960s to Minnie and Moskowitz, A Woman under the
Influence, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Opening Night, Gloria, and
Love Streams in the decades that followed. Framed by Carney’s com-
prehensive introduction and bolstered by an invaluable timeline of
major developments, including his marriage to actress Gena Rowlands,
John Cassavetes in Person offers a biographical overview unlike any
other. Situating the filmmaker in his films, this book reaches beyond
the press releases to reveal the man behind the masks, the mortal at
the center of the myths, and the artistic hero without the hero worship.
JULY
408 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 b/w photographs
Cinema/Film/American Studies
World
cloth 978-0-520-24571-6 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-24572-3 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
MAY
208 pages, 9-3/4 x 9-3/4, 223 b/w photographs
Art/Photography
North America
cloth 978-0-520-25983-6 $45.00
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GENERAL INTEREST
James P. Delgado
Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet
In Search of a Legendary Armada
In 1279, near what is now Hong Kong, Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan
fulfilled the dream of his grandfather, Genghis Khan, by conquering
China. The Grand Khan now ruled the largest empire the world has
ever seen—one that stretched from the China Sea to the plains of
Hungary. He also inherited the world’s largest navy—more than seven
hundred ships. Yet within fifteen years, Khubilai Khan’s massive fleet
was gone. What actually happened to the Mongol navy, considered for
seven centuries to be little more than legend, has finally been revealed.
Renowned archaeologist and historian James P. Delgado has gone
James P. Delgado is the President of the Institute diving with a Japanese team currently studying the remains of the
of Nautical Archaeology. His many previous books Khan’s lost fleet. Drawing from diverse sources—sunken ships, hand-
include the British Museum Encyclopedia of painted scrolls, drowned bodies, and historical and literary records—
Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, and, most in this gripping account that moves deftly between the present and the
recently, Gold Rush Port: The Maritime past, Delgado pieces together the fascinating tale of Khubilai Khan’s
Archaeology of San Francisco’s Waterfront (UC
maritime forays and unravels one of history’s greatest mysteries: What
Press). Delgado has hosted the National
Geographic television series “The Sea Hunters.”
sank the great Mongol fleet?
MARCH
240 pages, 6 x 9”, 24 b/w illustrations, 4 maps
History/Archaeology/Asian Studies
Also by James P. Delgado (see page 43):
U.S. & Territories, Philippines
cloth 978-0-520-25976-8 $29.95 Gold Rush Port
The Maritime Archaeology of
San Francisco’s Waterfront
World
cloth 978-0-520-25580-7 $45.00sc/£26.95
Aloys Winterling
Caligula
A Biography
Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider
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240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 5 b/w photographs,
1 line illustration
Classical Studies/Biography/History
World
cloth 978-0-520-24895-3 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
David J. Meltzer
First Peoples in a New World
Colonizing Ice Age America
More than 12,000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehis-
tory, humans colonized North America, a continent that was then
truly a new world. Just when and how they did so has been one of the
most perplexing and controversial questions in archaeology. This daz-
zling, cutting-edge synthesis, written for a wide audience by an archae-
ologist who has long been at the center of these debates, tells the
scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when
they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the
vast, unknown landscapes of Ice Age North America. David J. Meltzer
pulls together the latest ideas from archaeology, geology, linguistics,
skeletal biology, genetics, and other fields to trace the breakthroughs
that have revolutionized our understanding in recent years. Among
many other topics, he explores disputes over the hemisphere’s oldest
and most controversial sites and considers how the first Americans
coped with changing global climates. He also confronts some radical
claims: that the Americas were colonized from Europe or that a crash-
ing comet obliterated the Pleistocene megafauna. Full of entertaining
David J. Meltzer is Henderson-Morrison Professor
descriptions of on-site encounters, personalities, and controversies, this
of Prehistory in the Department of Anthropology at is a compelling behind-the-scenes account of how science is illuminat-
Southern Methodist University. He is the author of ing our past.
Folsom: New Archaeological Investigations of a
Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill (UC Press) and
Search for the First Americans, among other books.
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400 pages, 7 x 10”, 14 color & 64 b/w illustrations
Anthropology/Archaeology/Evolution
World
cloth 978-0-520-25052-9 $29.95/£17.95
Michael McLeod
Anatomy of a Beast
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
Part history, part road trip, and part biography, this is the true story
of a remarkable group of men whose obsession with Bigfoot turned
the giant hominid into an American icon. Award-winning journalist
Michael McLeod tells of Bigfoot’s rise to tabloid stardom in a fast-paced
account that begins with his own journey to investigate a famous
1967 film clip of a Bigfoot in a California forest. McLeod proceeds
to uncover a trail of clues reaching from the late nineteenth century,
when a few ambitious, imaginative naturalists and explorers synthe-
sized historical and indigenous folklore with Darwinian ideas and
speculated that a proto-hominid “missing link” might still be alive in
remote areas. That speculation would eventually inspire a colorful cast
of loggers, hunters, con artists, and businessmen in the twentieth cen-
tury to create the modern myth of Bigfoot, all of them angling for a
piece of a monster that the media and the public still can’t get enough
of. Told through vividly narrated interviews and anecdotes, Anatomy
of a Beast offers a unique perspective on the deep roots of counterfactual
thinking—and how obsession and myth are created out of it.
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240 pages, 6 x 9”, 25 b/w photographs
Popular Culture/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25571-5 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
Richard Manning
Rewilding the West
Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
JUNE
262 pages, 6 x 9”, 2 line illustrations, 2 maps
Ecology/Natural History/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25658-3 $24.95/£14.95
Jonah Raskin
Field Days
A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California
Photographs by Paige Green
“Sooner or later, nearly everyone who cares about wine and food
comes to Sonoma”—so begins this lively excursion to a spectacular
region that has become known internationally as a locavore’s paradise.
Part memoir, part vivid reportage, Field Days chronicles how the ren-
aissance in farming organically and eating locally is unfolding in
Northern California. Jonah Raskin writes poetically about the year he
spent on Oak Hill Farm—working the fields, selling produce at farm-
ers’ markets, and following it to restaurants. He also goes behind the
scenes at Whole Foods. Along the way, he introduces a dynamic cast
of characters who conceived and sustain this renaissance, including
farmers, chefs, winemakers, farm workers, and environmentalists.
There are contemporary luminaries here—including Warren Weber at
Star Route Farm, the oldest certified organic farm in Marin County; Jonah Raskin is Professor of Communication
Bob Cannard, who has supplied Chez Panisse with vegetables for Studies at Sonoma State University and the author
decades; Sharon Grossi, the owner of the largest organic farm in most recently of The Radical Jack London: Writings
on War and Revolution (UC Press).
Sonoma; and Craig Stoll, the founder and executive chef at Delfina
in San Francisco. Raskin also offers portraits of renowned historical A Simpson Book in the Humanities
figures, including Luther Burbank, Jack London, and M.F.K. Fisher.
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316 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 22 b/w photographs
Food & Wine/Memoir/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25902-7 $24.95/£14.95
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GENERAL INTEREST
Paul Strang
South-West France
The Wines and Winemakers
Between Bordeaux and the Spanish border, reaching east to the Massif
Central and the river valleys of the Dordogne and Lot, and south to
the foothills of the Pyrenees, lies a unique and little-known viticultural
landscape. South-West France is a wine lover’s paradise that cultivates
an astonishing array of grape varieties, many that grow nowhere else,
and produces a fascinating assortment of wines. In this book, Paul
Strang covers the South-West with enthusiasm and keen expertise,
providing a history of its wine industry, including a near collapse and
unlikely rebirth, and introducing readers to a region that seems to defy
globalization. The outstanding local wines—made by idiosyncratic
growers motivated by a passion for their profession—range from inky
Tannats to honeyed late-harvest Semillons. Intrepid readers are invited
to rediscover this beautiful part of France, already well known for its
cuisine, castles, and cave art, for its earthy and intriguing wines.
JUNE
400 pages, 7-1/2 x 10-1/2”, 70 color illustrations,
14 maps
Wine/French Studies/Viticulture
World
cloth 978-0-520-25941-6 $45.00/£26.95
Richard Mendelson
From Demon to Darling
A Legal History of Wine in America
Foreword by Margrit Biever Mondavi
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GENERAL INTEREST
Ellen Wohl
Of Rock and Rivers
Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West
JUNE
240 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”, 30 b/w photographs
Ecology/Environment/California & the West
World
cloth 978-0-520-25703-0 $24.95/£14.95
Back in print for the first time in over ten years, this classic account of
the numerous struggles—national, state, and local—that have
occurred over western American water rights since the late 1800s is
thoroughly expanded and updated to trace the continuing battles
raging over the West’s most valuable, and contentious, resource.
MAY
480 pages, 6 x 9“, 7 maps, 6 tables
Previous hardcover published in 1975
(978-0–520–027008)
History/California & the West/Environment
World
cloth 978-0-520-26010-8 $60.00tx/£35.00
paper 978-0-520-26011-5 $24.95sc/£14.95
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CALIFORNIA
• More than 450 site listings include beaches, public access ways,
parks, campgrounds, nature preserves, world-class aquariums, and
museums
• 304 color photographs and 52 color maps show recreational sites,
hiking and biking trails, topography, and other features of the region
and state
The California Coastal Commission was created • Easy-to-use charts list key facilities and features, open hours, food
by the voters of California, who adopted an initia- and beverage services, wheelchair accessibility, rules about dogs,
tive measure in 1972 that formed the Commission and other practical information
and gave it broad powers to plan and protect the
coast. Later, the California Coastal Act of 1976
established the Commission as a permanent state
agency with a mission to protect, maintain, and
enhance the quality of the coastal environment.
One of the Commission’s principal goals is to
Also by the California Coastal Commission:
maintain public access and public recreational
opportunities along the coast, in a manner consis-
Experience the
tent with environmental preservation. California Coast
A Guide to Beaches and Parks in
Experience the California Coast, 3 Northern California
Counties Included: Del Norte, Humboldt,
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352 pages, 6 x 9”, 304 color and 6 b/w photographs, World
3 line illustrations, 52 maps paper 978-0-520-24540-2 $24.95/£14.95
Natural History/Recreation/California & the West
World
paper 978-0-520-25852-5 $24.95/£14.95
Glenn Keator
California Plant Families
West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
Illustrations by Margaret J. Steunenberg
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CALIFORNIA
Peter Asmus
Introduction to Energy in California
Foreword by Art Rosenfeld
Afterword by Arthur O’Donnell
JULY
376 pages, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4”, 91 color & 42 line
illustrations, 18 maps, 8 tables
Natural History/California & the West/Conservation
World
cloth 978-0-520-25752-8 $50.00tx/£29.95
paper 978-0-520-25751-1 $18.95/£11.50
David Carle
Introduction to Water in California
Updated with a New Preface
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POETRY
MARCH
New California Poetry, 25
96 pages, 6 x 8”
Poetry/Literature
MARCH
World
79 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/4”
cloth 978-0-520-25875-4 $45.00tx/£26.95
Poetry/Literature
paper 978-0-520-25876-1 $16.95/£9.95
World
cloth 978-0-520-25873-0 $45.00tx/£26.95
paper 978-0-520-25874-7 $16.95/£9.95
The NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY series presents works by emerging and established poets that
reflect UC Press’s commitment to innovative and aesthetically wide-ranging literary traditions.
Keith Waldrop
Transcendental Studies
A Trilogy
“Keith Waldrop has concerned himself with the topology of the world
of writing more consistently and valuably than any poet I can think of
since the late Paul Celan.” A. L. Nielsen, Gargoyle
originals continue to show through. These powerful poems, at once New California Poetry, 27
metaphysical and personal, reconcile Waldrop’s romantic tendencies
with formal experimentation, uniting poetry and philosophy and MARCH
211 pages, 6 x 8”
revealing him as a transcendentalist for the new millennium. Poetry/Literature
World
cloth 978-0-520-25877-8 $50.00tx/£29.95
paper 978-0-520-25878-5 $19.95/£11.95
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Jonathan Marks
Why I Am Not a Scientist
Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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320 pages, 6 x 9”, 9 line illustrations, 18 tables
Anthropology/Medicine/Health Care
World
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ANTHROPOLOGY
This volume offers an integrative approach This innovative work of historical anthro-
to the application of evolutionary theory in pology explores how India’s Dalits, or ex-
studies of cultural transmission and social untouchables, transformed themselves from
evolution and reveals the enormous range stigmatized subjects into citizens. Anupama
of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead Rao’s account challenges standard thinking
to productive empirical research, the touch- on caste as either a vestige of precolonial
The diversity of early bicycle design. Courtesy
stone of any worthwhile theoretical perspec- society or an artifact of colonial gover-
Her Majesty’s Stationery office, UK, and the
Canada Science and Technology Museum. tive. While many recent works on cultural nance. Focusing on western India in the
From Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution.
evolution adopt a specific theoretical frame- colonial and postcolonial periods, she
work, such as dual inheritance theory or shines a light on South Asian historiogra-
human behavioral ecology, Pattern and phy and on ongoing caste discrimination,
Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes to show how persons without rights came
empirical analysis and includes authors who to possess them and how Dalit struggles
employ a range of backgrounds and methods led to the transformation of such terms of
to address aspects of culture from an evolu- colonial liberalism as rights, equality, and
tionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan personhood. Extending into the present,
has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary the ethnographic analyses of The Caste
theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays Question reveal the dynamics of an Indian
cover a broad range of time periods, locali- democracy distinguished not by overcom-
ties, cultural groups, and artifacts. ing caste, but by new forms of violence and
new means of regulating caste.
Stephen Shennan is Professor of Theoretical
Archaeology at University College London and Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of History at
Director of its Institute of Archaeology. Barnard College.
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288 pages, 5- 1/2 x 8-1/4”, 8 tables
Sociology/Anthropology
World
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paper 978-0-520-25901-0 $21.95sc/£12.95
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SOCIOLOGY
Allison J. Pugh
Longing and Belonging
Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture
“In this brilliantly argued, lyrically written, and riveting book, Pugh
asks how kids cope with the incessant ads for the must-have toy, the
latest shoe, the coolest game. A complement to Juliet Schor’s Born
to Buy Pugh’s book is a must-read.”
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Public health has made our lives safer—but Where We Live Now explores the ways in
it often works behind the scenes, without which immigration is reshaping American
our knowledge, that is, “while we are sleep- neighborhoods. In his examination of resi-
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public health works with more than sixty addresses these questions: What evidence
success stories drawn from the area of suggests that immigrants are assimilating
injury and violence prevention. It also pro- residentially? Does the assimilation process
files dozens of individuals who have made change for immigrants of different racial
important contributions to safety and and ethnic backgrounds? How has immi-
health in a range of social arenas. High- gration affected the residential patterns of
lighting examples from the United States as native-born blacks and whites? Drawing on
well as from other countries, While We Were census data and information from other
Sleeping will inform a wide audience of ethnographic and quantitative studies,
readers about what public health actually Iceland affirms that immigrants are becom-
does and at the same time inspire a new ing residentially assimilated in American
generation to make the world a safer place. metropolitan areas. While the future
remains uncertain, the evidence provided in
David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the book suggests that America’s metropoli-
the Harvard School of Public Health, Director of the
tan areas are not splintering irrevocably into
Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and
Director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention
hostile, homogeneous, and ethnically based
Center. neighborhoods. Instead, Iceland’s findings
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In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cul- An unprecedented passion for saving lives
tural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how swept through late Ming society, giving rise
a particular, often seemingly innocent aes- to charitable institutions that transcended
thetic sensibility—present in novels, essays, family, class, and religious boundaries.
popular songs, film, and political writ- Analyzing lecture transcripts, administrative
ings—helped create an “aesthetic of fas- guidelines, didactic tales, and diaries,
cism” in the years leading up to World War Joanna Handlin Smith abandons the facile
II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, explanation that charity was a response to
both real and imagined, these works did poverty and social unrest and examines the
not lead to fascism in any instrumental social and economic changes that stimulated
sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed the fervor for doing good. Skillfully organ-
and inspired spiritual longings quenchable ized and engaging, The Art of Doing Good
only through acts in the real world. Tansman moves from discussions about moral leader-
traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from ship and beliefs to scrutiny of the daily
its beginnings in the 1920s through its operation of soup kitchens and medical dis-
flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in pensaries, and from examining local society
postwar Japan. to generalizing about the just use of resources
and the role of social networks in charitable
Alan Tansman is Agassiz Professor of Japanese in giving.
the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Joanna Handlin Smith is the editor of the Harvard
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This superb collection of essays on late Aizawa Kikutarõ (1866–1963) was born
imperial and modern Chinese history spans into the wealthiest family in Hashimoto, a
the brilliant forty-year career of the late small agricultural village specializing in
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. Appearing for the wheat and silk. By 1925, the village was
first time in one volume, the essays offer undergoing rapid commercial development,
richly textured narratives of critical histori- residents were commuting to factory and Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr.
cal events as well as sweeping analyses of office jobs in cities, and, after serving as
China’s place in world history. They take us mayor for almost twenty years, Aizawa was
from the late Ming dynasty to the People’s working as a bank manager. Taking the
Republic—delving into complex issues of biography of this leading villager as its cen-
Confucianism and intellectual history, the tral focus and incorporating intimate details
nitty-gritty details of Jiangyin localism, of life drawn from Aizawa’s diary, The
wartime Shanghai, and more. Always there Mayor of Aihara chronicles the extraordi-
is engagement with the larger concerns of nary transformation of Hashimoto against
history and the social sciences: the public the background of Japan’s rapid industrial-
sphere, rebellion and revolution, the world ization. By portraying history as it was
crisis of the seventeenth century, and the actually lived by ordinary people, the book
influence of imperialism. offers a rich and compelling perspective on
the modernization of Japan.
Frederic E. Wakeman, Jr. (1937–2006) was
Professor of Chinese History and Haas Professor of Simon Partner, Associate Professor at Duke
Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University, is author of Toshié: A Story of Rural Life
University of California, Berkeley. Among his many in Twentieth Century Japan and Assembled in
books is The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the
Photo courtesy Aizawa family. From The Mayor
Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth- Japanese Consumer (both from UC Press). of Aihara.
Century China (UC Press).
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Witnessing Suburbia is a lively cultural analy- This book examines changing perceptions
sis of the conservative shift in national of sex between men in early Victorian
politics that transformed the United States Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little
during the Reagan-Bush era. Eileen Luhr explored period in the history of Western
focuses on two fundamental aspects of this sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transfor-
shift: the suburbanization of evangelicalism mations of the era—changes in the family
and the rise of Christian popular culture, and in the law, the emergence of the world’s
especially popular music. Taking us from first police force, the growth of a national
the Jesus Freaks of the late 1960s to media, and more—Charles Upchurch asks
Christian heavy metal music to Christian how perceptions of same-sex desire changed
Illustration from Thieves and Prostitutes.
Courtesy of Alexis Neptune and John DiDonna. rock festivals and beyond, she shows how between men, in families, and in the larger
From Witnessing Suburbia.
evangelicals succeeded in “witnessing” to society. To illuminate these questions, he
America’s suburbs in a consumer idiom. mines a rich trove of previously unexam-
Luhr argues that the emergence of a politi- ined sources, including hundreds of articles
cized evangelical youth culture in fact ranks pertaining to sex between men that appeared
as one of the major achievements of “third in mainstream newspapers. The first book
wave” conservatism in the late twentieth to relate this topic to broader economic,
century. social, and political changes in the early
nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new
Eileen Luhr is Assistant Professor in the Department light on the central question of how and
of History at California State University, Long Beach.
when sex acts became identities.
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Stephen G. Miller
The Berkeley Plato
From Neglected Relic to Ancient Treasure,
An Archaeological Detective Story
With an Appendix by John Twilley
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Rita M. Gross
A Garland of Feminist Reflections
Forty Years of Religious Exploration
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This remarkable collection gathers a breath- Today, most indigenous Fijians are Christians,
takingly diverse selection of primary texts and the Methodist Church is the founda-
from the vast repertoire of Islamic stories tion of their social and political lives. Yet, as
about holy men and women—also known this thought-provoking study of life on rural
- - with cows resurrected through his
Manik Pır
- - Courtesy the
- Keccha.
as Friends of God—who were exemplary Kadavu Island finds, Fijians also believe
prayers. From Manik Pır
trustees of the British Museum. From Tales of for their piety, intimacy with God, and that their ancestors possessed an inherent
God’s Friends.
service to their fellow human beings. strength that is lacking in the present day.
Translated from seventeen languages by Looking in particular at the interaction
more than two dozen scholars of Islamic between the church and the traditional
studies, these texts come from the Middle chiefly system, Matt Tomlinson finds that
East, North and sub-Saharan Africa, this belief about the superiority of the past
Central and South Asia, and China and provokes great anxiety, and that Fijians seek
Southeast Asia. Historically, they begin ways of recovering this strength through rit-
with the eighth century and include sam- ual and political action—Christianity itself
ples from medieval, early modern, and simultaneously generates a sense of loss and
modern Muslim societies. Expertly edited the means of recuperation. To unravel the
and introduced by John Renard, Tales of cultural dynamics of Christianity in Fiji,
God’s Friends serves as a companion volume Tomlinson explores how this loss is expressed
to Renard’s Friends of God: Islamic Images of through everyday language and practices.
Piety, Commitment, and Servanthood.
Matt Tomlinson is Lecturer in Anthropology at
John Renard is Professor of Theological Studies at Monash University in Australia.
Kids outside the Methodist church in the Village
of Tavuki, Kadavu Island, Fiji. Photo by Matt Saint Louis University.
Tomlinson. From In God’s Image. The Anthropology of Christianity, 5
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Frontier Constitutions is a pathbreaking Lila Corwin Berman asks why, over the
study of the cultural transformations course of the twentieth century, American
arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born Jews became increasingly fascinated, even
creoles, mestizos (Chinese and Spanish), obsessed, with explaining themselves to
and indigenous colonial subjects in the their non-Jewish neighbors. What she dis-
Philippines during the crisis of colonial covers is that language itself became a cru-
hegemony in the nineteenth century and cial tool for Jewish group survival and
the social anomie that resulted from this integration into American life. Berman
crisis in law and politics. John D. Blanco investigates a wide range of sources—radio
argues that modernity in the colonial and television broadcasts, bestselling books,
Philippines should not be understood as sociological studies, debates about Jewish
an imperfect version of a European model marriage and intermarriage, Jewish mission-
but as a unique set of expressions emerging ary work, and more—to reveal how rabbis,
out of contradictions—expressions that intellectuals, and others created a seemingly
sanctioned new political communities endless array of explanations about why
formed around the precariousness of Spanish Jews were indispensable to American life.
rule. Blanco shows how artists and writers Even as the content of these explanations
struggled to synthesize these contradictions developed and shifted over time, the very
as they attempted to secure the colonial project of self-explanation would become a
order or, conversely, to achieve Philippine core element of Jewishness in the twentieth
independence. century.
John D. Blanco is Assistant Professor of Comparative Lila Corwin Berman is Assistant Professor of
Literature at the University of California, San Diego. History and Religious Studies and Mal and Lea Taping “Tell Thy Son” at a CBS studio in New
York, 1958. Courtesy of the American Jewish
Bank Early Career Professor in Jewish Studies at Commitee. From Speaking of Jews.
Asia Pacific Modern, 4 Pennsylvania State University.
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From the simple assertion that “words matter” in the study of visual
art, this comprehensive but eminently readable volume gathers an
extraordinary selection of words—painters and sculptors writing in
their diaries, critics responding to a sensational exhibition, groups of
artists making stylistic manifestos, and poets reflecting on particular
works of art. Along with a broad array of canonical texts, Sarah Burns
and John Davis have assembled an astonishing variety of unknown,
little known, or undervalued documents to convey the story of
American art through the many voices of its contemporary practition-
ers, consumers, and commentators. American Art to 1900 highlights
such critically important themes as women artists, African American
representation and expression, regional and itinerant artists, Native
Americans and the frontier, popular culture and vernacular imagery,
institutional history, and more. With its hundreds of explanatory
headnotes providing essential context and guidance to readers, this
book reveals the documentary riches of American art and its many
intersecting histories in unprecedented breadth, depth, and detail.
Sarah Burns is Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts
at Indiana University. Among her many books is
Painting the Dark Side: Art and the Gothic “There was a time when the presentation of one’s ‘likeness’
Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America (UC
meant something. It was a sacred thing, exchanged only between
Press). John Davis is Alice Pratt Brown Professor
of Art at Smith College. lovers or married people, kept carefully from unsympathizing
eyes, gazed at in private as a treasure apart. But we have changed
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the gaze of the curious.”
Fanny Fern [Sara Willis Parton],
“Then and Now,” New York Ledger, April 5, 1862.
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Jann Pasler
Composing the Citizen
Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
In a book that challenges modernist ideas about the value and role of
music in Western society, Composing the Citizen demonstrates how
music can help forge a nation. Deftly exploring the history of Third
Republic France, Jann Pasler shows how French people from all classes
and political persuasions looked to music to revitalize the country
after the turbulent crises of 1871. Embraced not as a luxury but for its
“public utility,” music became an object of public policy as integral to
modern life as power and water, a way to teach critical judgment and
inspire national pride. It helped people to forget the past, voice con-
flicting aspirations, and imagine a shared future.
Based on a dazzling survey of archival material, Pasler’s rich inter-
disciplinary work looks beyond elites and the histories their agendas
have dominated to open new windows onto the musical tastes and John Singer Sargent, Rehearsal of the Pasdeloup Orchestra at
the Cirque d'Hiver, ca. 1879–80. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
practices of amateurs as well as professionals. A fascinating history of From Composing the Citizen.
the period emerges, one rooted in political realities and the productive
tensions between the political and the aesthetic. Highly evocative and
deeply humanistic, Composing the Citizen ignites broad debates about Jann Pasler is Professor of Music at the University
music’s role in democracy and its meaning in our lives. of California, San Diego. Among her books is
Confronting Stravinsky: Man, Musician, and
Modernist (UC Press) and Writing Through Music.
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Insomniac
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certainly engage and comfort you—and keep you company—during
those long dark hours that the clock ticks off until dawn.”
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bones up on sleep science. No easy answers—but fascinating.” People
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Earth under Fire
How Global Warming Is Changing the World
With an Afterword by Bill McKibben
Updated Edition
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American Chestnut
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
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Wallace Stegner
and the American West
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Steven H. Miles, MD
Oath Betrayed
America’s Torture Doctors
Second Edition
The news that the United States tortured prisoners in the war on ter-
ror has brought shame to the nation, yet little has been written about
the doctors and psychologists at these prisons. In Oath Betrayed, med-
ical ethics expert and physician Steven H. Miles tells how doctors,
psychologists, and medics cleared prisoners for interrogation, advised
and monitored abuse, falsified documents—including death certifi-
cates—and were largely silent as the scandal unfolded. This updated
Steven H. Miles, MD is Professor of Medicine at and expanded paperback edition gives newly uncovered details about
the University of Minnesota Medical School, a the policies that engage clinicians in torture. It discusses the ongoing
member of its Center for Bioethics, and a practicing furor over psychologists’ participating in interrogations. Most explo-
physician. sively this new edition shows how interrogation psychologists may
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A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 2
The Calm before the Storm, 1951–1955
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Brass Diva
The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman
Broadway star Ethel Merman’s voice was a mesmerizing force and her
vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of La Merm as the
irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and all that she
meant to Americans over so many decades. This marvelously detailed
biography is the first to tell the full story of how the stenographer
Caryl Flinn is Professor at the University of from Queens, New York, became the queen of the Broadway musical
Arizona. She is the author of The New German in its golden age. Mining official and unofficial sources, including
Cinema: Music, History and the Matter of Style interviews with Merman’s family and her personal scrapbooks, Caryl
(UC Press) and Strains of Utopia. Flinn unearths new details of Merman’s life and finds that behind the
high-octane personality was a remarkably pragmatic woman who
A Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book
never lost sight of her roots.
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Life as It Is
Biology for the Public Sphere
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Evolution’s Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
With a New Preface
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On Earth
Last Poems and an Essay
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The Collected Poems of
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AUTHOR INDEX
Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism, 52 Denying History, 93 It’s All for the Kids, 49 Society of Others, 42
Age of Openness, 54 Digging, 20 Jack London and the Klondike, South-West France, 30
Alcatraz, 8 Early Life History of Marine 105 Speaking of Jews, 63
America and the Misshaping of a Fishes, 67 Jack London, 105 State of China Atlas, 81
New World Order, 69 Earth under Fire, 77 James Rosenquist, 72 Station Identification, 74
American Art to 1900, 70 East Wind Melts the Ice, 91 John Cassavetes in Person, 21 Symbolist Art in Context, 71
American Chestnut, 78 Elephant Reflections, 2 Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet, 24 Tactile Eye, 75
Anatomy of a Beast, 27 Encyclopedia of Islands, 65 Language of the Gods in the Tales of God’s Friends, 62
Ancestors and Anxiety, 102 Environment and World History, World of Men, 101 Telling Chinese History, 53
Ancient Commentators on Plato 51 Leonard Bernstein, 18 Thing of Beauty, 88
and Aristotle, 58 Erotic Grotesque Nonsense, 98 Life as It Is, 86 This Ain’t the Summer of Love,
Ancient Scepticism, 58 Evolution’s Rainbow, 87 Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, 66 74
Animal Migration, 14 Extended Case Method, 45 Longing and Belonging, 46 Thomas Eakins and the Cultures
Anna Halprin, 96 Face in the Lens, 22 Los Angeles, 95 of Modernity, 72
Annotated Catalog of the Father of All, 105 Magna Carta Manifesto, 92 Top 100 Birding Sites of the
Type Material of Aphytis Fathering Your Father, 60 Matter of the Gods, 101 World, 15
(Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) Field Days, 29 Mayor of Aihara, 53 Transcendental Studies, 39
in the Entomology Research First Peoples in a New World, 26 Mean Streets, 55 Transnational Transcendence, 60
Museum, University of For the Rock Record, 64 Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate Treasures through Six
California at Riverside, 69 From Demon to Darling, 31 War, and the Rise of Rome, 100 Generations, 104
Army of Shadows, 98 Frontier Constitutions, 63 Moths of Western North Virgil and the Mountain Cat, 38
Art of Doing Good, 52 Garland of Feminist Reflections, America, 68 Wallace Stegner and the American
Backlash 9/11, 43 61 Moving Viewers, 75 West, 79
Beaches and Parks of Southern Gender and Mission Encounters Oath Betrayed, 82 Walt Whitman and the Civil War,
California, 34 in Korea, 69 Oceans, 10 19
Before Wilde, 56 Genial Gene, 12 Odyssey Experience, 48 Water and the West, 33
Being There, 48 Gold Rush Port, 43 Of Rock and Rivers, 32 Western Way of War, 94
Berkeley Plato, 57 Heart of Power, 16 Of Sugar and Snow, 5 Where We Live Now, 47
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 99 History of Modern Tibet, Vol. 2, On Earth, 89 While We Were Sleeping, 47
Between Arab and White, 50 83 Our Nation Unhinged, 23 Who Is Knowledgeable Is Strong,
Biology of Gila Monsters and Human Impacts on Salt Marshes, Pattern and Process in Cultural 54
Beaded Lizards, 99 67 Evolution, 44 Why I Am Not a Scientist, 40
Birth Models that Work, 42 Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife, 6 Pericles, 59 Witnessing Suburbia, 56
Boundless Faith, 17 Image of the Jews in Greek Pineapple Culture, 4
Brass Diva, 84 Literature, 59 Radical Ambition, 49
California Plant Families, 35 In God’s Image, 62 Reluctant Communist, 80
Caligula, 25 Insomniac, 76 Rembrandt, 85
Caste Question, 44 International Advances in the Rewilding the West, 28
Chen Village, 97 Ecology, Zoogeography, and Righteous Dopefiend, 41
China’s Communist Party, 97 Systematics of Mayflies and Russian and Soviet Views of
Composing the Citizen, 73 Stoneflies, 69 Modern Western Art,
Compulsive Acts, 90 Introduction to Energy in 1890s to Mid–1930s, 71
Creationism and Its Critics in California, 36 Seer in Ancient Greece, 100
Antiquity, 102 Introduction to Water in Sequence Alignment, 66
Cultural Revolutions, 50 California, 37 Sight Map, 38
Darwin’s Universe, 13 Inventing Autopia, 55 Slave Next Door, 9
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