| Author | : Dale Peterson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 2013-09-09 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0520266854 |
Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.
| Author | : Dale Peterson |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 749 |
| Release | : 2023-12-22 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0520942949 |
Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.
| Author | : Neil J. Smelser |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : 2010-03-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520946006 |
These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism—in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley—political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.
| Author | : Therese-Adèle Husson |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2002-02-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0814795382 |
In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a world recorded by an unlikely historical figure. Reflections is one of the earliest recorded manifestations of group solidarity among people with the same disability, advocating self-sufficiency and independence on the part of blind people, encouraging education for all blind children, and exploring gender roles for both men and women. Resolutely defying the sense of "otherness" which pervades discourse about the disabled, Husson instead convinces us that that blindness offers a fresh and important perspective on both history and ourselves. In rescuing this important historical account and recreating the life of an obscure but potent figure, Weygand and Kudlick have awakened a perspective that transcends time and which, ultimately, remaps our inherent ideas of physical sensibility
| Author | : Ellen Chang Huang |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Art, Asian |
| ISBN | : 9781557291936 |
"This volume's research essays span two millennia and nearly the full territorial extent of East and Inner Asia. Contributed by Patricia Berger's advisees, they highlight her vast range of expertise as well as general themes that run through her work. Topics include art's relationship to political power and collective memory, the cultural and material fluency of Qing objects and texts, multiplicity and self-fashioning through portraiture and dance, and conformity and authority in relation to selfhood in modern and contemporary art"--
| Author | : Paul Rabinow |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2016-08-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0520933893 |
In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.
| Author | : Paul Cartledge |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2003-07-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780520231245 |
"This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, and (just as important) the nature and state of play of contemporary Spartan studies. And it will be accessible for the well informed lay reader as well."—Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens "Paul Cartledge's aim, in this powerful collection of essays, is to shed light in dark places, to demythicize... Cartledge is shrewd, realistic, and far from starry-eyed. Over a quarter-century's exhaustive research, now updated, has gone into these densely documented and tightly argued essays. These Spartans, in the last resort, are exploitative slave-drivers, obsessed with keeping their serfs down (by annually killing off any resisters, among other things)... Modern idealizers of cold baths, black broth, mindless discipline and long route marches should read this book and, hopefully, have second thoughts."—Peter Green, author of Alexander to Actium
| Author | : Amanda J. Lucia |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2014-03-14 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0520281144 |
Originally presented as the author's dissertation (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 2010).
| Author | : Neal I. Rosenthal |
| Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2008-04-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429957786 |
A leading importer of limited-production wines of character and quality takes us on an intimate tour through family-owned vineyards in France and Italy and reflects upon the last three decades of controversy, hype, and change in the world of wine In the late 1970s, Neal I. Rosenthal set out to learn everything he could about wine. Today, he is one of the most successful importers of traditionally made wines produced by small family-owned estates in France and Italy. Rosenthal has immersed himself in the culture of Old World wine production, working closely with his growers for two and sometimes three generations. He is one of the leading exponents of the concept of "terroir"—the notion that a particular vineyard site imparts distinct qualities of bouquet, flavor, and color to a wine. In Reflections of a Wine Merchant, Rosenthal brings us into the cellars, vineyards, and homes of these vignerons, and his delightful stories about his encounters, relationships, and explorations—and what he has learned along the way—give us an unequaled perspective on winemaking tradition and what threatens it today. Rosenthal was featured in the documentary film Mondovino and is one of the more outspoken figures against globalization, homogenization, and the "critic-ization" of the wine business. He was also a major subject in Lawrence Osborne's The Accidental Connoisseur. His is an important voice in defense of the individual and the artisanal, and their contribution to our quality of life.
