University of California Press3 年
Their Own Best Creations
A rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV: ...
University of California Press5 年
A People's Guide to Greater Boston
A People's Guide to Greater Boston reveals the region’s richness and vibrancy in ways that are neglected by traditional area guidebooks and obscured by many tourist destinations. Affirming the hopes, ...
University of California Press5 天
Under the Iron Heel
A dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brought down the Wobblies—and how the destruction of their union haunts us to this day. In 1917, the Industrial Workers of ...
University of California Press1 年
Busting the Bankers' Club
An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform. Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in ...
University of California Press1 个月
Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures
Without a doubt the most prevalent type of film manifesto comes from the cinematic avant-garde. This makes a great deal of sense, as manifestos-whether political, aesthetic, or both-can be seen in the ...
University of California Press11 个月
Israel's Black Panthers
"Forces us to con­front the some­times vast dis­tance between con­sti­tu­tion­al aspi­ra­tion and social and polit­i­cal prac­tice."―Jewish Book Council The powerful story of an activist movement that ...
University of California Press1 个月
A Different Nature
Growing up in the Welsh border country, in a world in which television existed but was unheard of by me, I could safely explore ancient oak woodlands, heathlands and marshes and quiet narrow lanes, ...
University of California Press1 个月
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
"We should double the rate of growth, and we should double the size of the American economy!" hailed candidate Jack Kemp during the vice presidential debate of October 9, 1996. Kemp was firing away ...
University of California Press1 个月
Book Authors
Meet the UC Press acquisitions team! Interested in publishing with UC Press? You can find the editors and learn about their specific areas of acquisition from the list below. Before sending an email ...
University of California Press1 个月
The End of Burnout
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and ...
University of California Press1 年
Who Goes First?
Lawrence Altman has authored the only complete history of the controversial and understudied practice of self-experimentation. In telling the stories of pioneering researchers, Altman offers a history ...