• Rok vydání 2003

UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of…

The author is a literary rarity: at once critically acclaimed as one of the most important poets in the Arabic language, and…

• Rok vydání 2003

It was 1976--twenty-five years after R. Buckminster Fuller introduced geodesic domes when literary critic Hugh Kenner…

Sex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these…

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and…

'I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet…

Explores how Europe's increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target - the clandestine migrant.…

Presenting an ethnographic study about Morocco, this title describes a series of encounters with the author's informants in…

• Čeština

With a combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, this title provides all the rhetorical terms - mostly Greek and…

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local…

Provides an explanation for the increase in number of people in US prisons by more than 450%. This book examines the issue…

• Rok vydání 2023

A radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and…

An essay that outlines a perspective for the study of leadership in administrative organizations. It was written in the…

A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are…

Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global…

A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in…

Gaza is among the most densely populated places in the world. Two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half…

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek…

Challenging widespread assumptions that persons who are preferentially attracted to minors—often referred to as…

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek…

• Rok vydání 2013

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology,…

• Rok vydání 2021

Examining a shocking array of fraud, corruption, theft, and embezzlement cases, this vivid collection reveals the practice…

• Rok vydání 2011

Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and…

• Rok vydání 2014

In this brand new radical analysis of globalization, Cynthia Enloe examines recent events - Bangladeshi garment factory…

• Rok vydání 1997

The Hindu pantheon is rich in images of the divine feminine - deities representing a wide range of symbolic, social, and…

• Rok vydání 1992

In James Joyce's early work, as in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake", meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and…

• Rok vydání 1996

Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other…

• Rok vydání 1992

As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement"…

• Rok vydání 2004

For thirty-five years Visual Thinking has been the gold standard for art educators, psychologists, and general readers…

• Rok vydání 2001

The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable…

The first comprehensive collection of the words and works of a movement-defining artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988)…

• Rok vydání 2017

The question of development is a major topic in courses across the social sciences and history, particularly those focused…

Known for their striking full-body tattoos, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than…

• Rok vydání 2022

A compelling takedown of prevailing myths about human behavior, updated and expanded to meet the current moment. There are…

What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to…

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, the author builds a compelling philosophical argument…

• Rok vydání 2019

When we talk about sex--whether great, good, bad, or unlawful--we often turn to consent as both our erotic and moral savior.…

• Rok vydání 2015

Kendo is the first book in English to provide an in-depth historical, cultural, and political account of the Japanese…

• Rok vydání 2003

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some…

Since the explosion of the buzzword "globalization” in academic and public discourse more than thirty years ago, theoretical…

• Rok vydání 2008

Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali…

• Rok vydání 1992

Mr. Burke contributes an introductory and summarizing remark, "What is involved, when we say what people are doing and why…

• Rok vydání 2013

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden…

• Rok vydání 2016

In 1968 University of California Press published an unusual manuscript by an anthropology student named Carlos Castaneda.…

Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles, this…

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of…

A survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the…

A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of…