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Film and Its Techniques
In a manner completely acceptable to the professional film maker, yet thoroughly understandable and of great value to the amateur cinematographer, Spottiswoode presents the essential, unwritten lore ...
University of California Press1d
Health Care Off the Books
Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an ...
University of California Press10d
Actual Malice
"A detailed examination of . . . the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for journalists."—The New York Times Book Review A deeply researched legal ...
University of California Press11d
The United States of War
A provocative examination of how the U.S. military has shaped our entire world, from today’s costly, endless wars to the prominence of violence in everyday American life. Our authors reflect on what ...
University of California Press14d
Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
When I began writing Women, Faith, and Family, I couldn’t help but see the complex tensions that shape conversations around women’s rights in Muslim societies—especially in Iran. In many of these ...
University of California Press14d
UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (JRPC) is joining UC Press's journals publishing program. The first issue published by UC Press will be Volume 37, No. 1, in ...
University of California Press15d
System-affected academics are building a movement — and transforming the academy
In October of 2002, I was sitting in the commons area of a cellblock in the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, waiting my turn to catch a prison plane to my assigned penitentiary. It was always ...
University of California Press15d
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 Press16d
Ask Our Staff: What is Copyediting
Copyediting is expert but not arbitrary. Your copyeditor brings years of experience editing book-length works and has a reason for every mark they make, suggesting style and usage guidelines that fit ...
University of California Press22d
How California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s Soaps, a family-owned business based in Vista, California known for the colorful and text-laden, spiritual messaging of its packaging. Yet behind this ...
University of California Press24d
Housing discrimination is a public health disaster — and we need widespread social mobilization to fix it
Nearly a century ago, Walter Benjamin observed that what those who live in comfort perceive as states of emergency are the normal conditions experienced by the oppressed. Throughout history, oppressed ...
University of California Press27d
Native land claims and culture are inseparable
My interest in Indigenous territorial claims began in my childhood. I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands ...