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Features the ethnic history of California since the late nineteenth-century Anglo-American conquest and the institutionalization of 'white supremacy' in the state. This work provides a portrait of ethnic, racial, and class relationships during this tumultuous time.

Features the story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. This work investigates a band of reformers at the turn of the twentieth century who were determined to modernize the American diet through a 'scientific' approach to cooking.

Explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts. This work features the story of the interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. It features five essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.

Offers a view into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. This work explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on questions of love, family, and community.

Gathers selections from the poetry and manifestos of canonical poets, as well as the work of lesser-known but equally radical poets. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, this title features prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry. It also explores romanticism outside the European orbit.

Presents a readable translation of a poem that is crucial to the history of ancient thought. This title offers an elaboration of Greek Epicurean physics and psychology. It argues that the soul is mortal, that pleasure is the object of life, and that humanity has free will, among other ideas.

The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. This title examines cultural sites and representations in postdictatorship Chile - what the author calls "memory symbolics" - to uncover the impact of state-sponsored violence.

Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. This history of the women and men who worked on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay tells the story of US-Cuban relations from a fresh perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people.

Offers a history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco. This book provides a picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.

Charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to see the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes.

Tells the story of the influential group of creative artists - Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, William Maginnis, and Tony Martin - who connected music to technology during a legendary era in California's cultural history. This title presents a comprehensive history of the San Francisco Tape Music Center.

A biography that looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. It shows how these women deliberately created their public lives.

Placing the dual-career marriage in its economic and social context, this book goes beyond the media image of dual-career couples as self-sufficient units and compels the reader to confront the dilemmas and possibilities of modern marriages.

Tagalog is the language spoken in the Philippines. This text intends to impart oral control of Tagalog, and provides the means for additional independent study that leads to a full mastery of the structures and a vocabulary. It also provides information about the patterns of Filipino culture that enable a student to understand the social customs.

Metal and punk enjoyed a charged, intimate relationship that informed both genres in terms of sound, image, and discourse. This book traces this connection back to the early 1970s, when metal first asserted its identity and punk arose independently.

During the years between the world wars, a small but dynamic community of African American jazz musicians left the US and settled in Paris. This book looks at this cultural moment, one in which African American musicians could flee the racism of the United States to pursue their lives and art in the relatively free context of bohemian Europe.

Features essays that combine research, critical analyses and theoretical approaches regarding the meaning and value of amateur and archival films. This book identifies home movies as methods of visually preserving history. It defines a genre of film studies and establishes the home movie as a tool for extracting historical and social insights.

This text studies conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in an aim to show how representative democracy in the USA could be revitalized. The author draws on research with juries and deliberative polling to give ways of improving the current process.

Whether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. The poetry itself is the movement's best definition. Including bilingual text en face, an introduction, and notes, this work contains some forty selected poems of that movement.

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. Working from texts of European and American writers, this work analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.

In the past half-century, California has been both model and anti-model for the nation and often the world. This work explains how many current "solutions" exacerbate the very problems they're supposed to solve and analyzes a variety of possible state and federal policy alternatives to restore government accountability and a vital democracy.

Useful for understanding the complex issues - scientific, religious, ethical, and political - that fuel public debate about stem cell research, this book aims to bring together leading scientists, ethicists, political scientists, and doctors to explain this scientific development and explore its ramifications.

Claudio Monteverdi was the first important composer of opera. This work examines the composer's celebrated final works - "Il ritorno d'Ulisse" and "L'incoronazione di Poppea". It casts light on the conflict between a world of emotional propriety and restraint and one of hedonistic abandon.

Confronts the crisis facing professional journalism in this era of rapid technological transformation. This work combines elements of memoir with media research to explore critical contemporary issues ranging from reporting on the Iraq War, to American race relations, to the exploitation of the image of journalism by advertisers and politicians.

Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a British artist and theorist, coined the term 'telematic art' to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. This book explores Ascott's ideas on how networked communication has shaped behavior and consciousness within and beyond the realm of art.

Includes comprehensive coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, and life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation, and extinction. This book offers documentation of dinosaur distribution through time and space, and discussion of the interface between geology and biology.

German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich. This title draws together over eighty documents crucial to the understanding of German Expressionism.

Includes preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.

Recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, this edition of Virgil's epic poems contains fourteen renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.

Focuses on the Imperial mission to promote the unity of the Church, the State's involvement in intensely-debated doctrinal questions, and the calling by the Emperor of two major Church Councils at Ephesus, in 431 and 449. This work also includes material that illustrates the working of government and the involvement of State and the church.