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Contesting Crime Science

Ronald Kramer, James C Oleson

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this eye-opening critique, Ronald Kramer and James C. Oleson interrogate the promises of crime science and target our misplaced faith in technology... Lees meer

Just Get on the Pill

Krystale E Littlejohn

• Paperback | Engels | Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
• Understanding the social history and urgent social implications of gendered compulsory birth control, an unbalanced and unjust approach to pregnancy p... Lees meer

Fragments of the City

Colin McFarlane

• Hardcover | Engels
• Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing,... Lees meer

Japan, the Sustainable Society

John Lie

• Paperback | Engels
• By the late twentieth century, Japan had gained worldwide attention as an economic powerhouse. Having miraculously risen from the ashes of World War I... Lees meer

Contested Ground

Dan A Farber

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Trump presidency was not the first to spark contentious debates about presidential power, but its impact on these debates will reverberate far bey... Lees meer

Scholars and Gypsies

Walter Starkie

• Hardcover | Engels
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

Pindar

Gilbert Norwood

• Paperback | Engels | Sather Classical Lectures
• This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the bri... Lees meer

The Ottoman World

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Ottoman lands, which extended from modern Hungary to the Arabian peninsula, were home to a vast population with a rich variety of cultures. The Ot... Lees meer

Russia's Women

• Paperback | Engels
• By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women--and women's reactions to these efforts--have shaped poli... Lees meer

Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil

Stuart B Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels
• While the Spanish enterprise in America is relatively well known to the English-reading public, the Portuguese tropical empire in Brazil has remained ... Lees meer

The New Voices of Islam

• Paperback | Engels
• At a time in our post-9/11 world when fundamentalist forces appear to dominate Islam, a vibrant and consequential discourse has emerged from many prom... Lees meer

Labor and the Locavore

Margaret Gray

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the blizzard of attention around the virtues of local food production, food writers and activists place environmental protection, animal welfare, a... Lees meer

To Be Cared for

Nathaniel Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Christianity | nr. 20
• To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits ("untouchables") in the South Indian city of Chennai. Fo... Lees meer

Women's Empowerment and Global Health

• Paperback | Engels
• What is women's empowerment, and how and why does it matter for women's health? These are questions that the University of California Global Health In... Lees meer

God's Laboratory

Elizabeth F S Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels
• Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do... Lees meer

In Quest of Justice

Khaled Fahmy

• Paperback | Engels
• In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on... Lees meer

Natural Security

• Hardcover | Engels
• Arms races among invertebrates, intelligence gathering by the immune system and alarm calls by marmots are but a few of nature's security strategies t... Lees meer

Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project

Paul Lawrence Rose

• Paperback | Engels
• No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic ... Lees meer

Breaking Through

Edward F Ricketts

• Hardcover | Engels
• Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the... Lees meer

Curtain, Gong, Steam

Gundula Kreuzer

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-centu... Lees meer

Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch

Alexandre M Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Berkeley Postclassical Islamic Scholarship | nr. 3
• What happened to ancient Greek thought after Antiquity? What impact did Abrahamic religions have on medieval Byzantine and Islamic scholars who adapte... Lees meer

Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat

Janet Poppendieck

• Paperback | Engels | California Studies in Food and Culture | nr. 53
• At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the go... Lees meer

Male Bodies Unmade

Jongwoo Jeremy Kim

• Hardcover | Engels
• Male Bodies Unmade explores white men's disunified physicality in modern and contemporary art while attending to erotic polysemy that questions the vi... Lees meer

New Arctic Cinemas

Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport

• Paperback | Engels
• For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. I... Lees meer