Publisher index
University of California Press
Book Reviews
- The Adventures of Ibn Battuta (Ross E. Dunn)
A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
- Agricultural Involution (Clifford Geertz)
The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
- Antigonos the One-Eyed (Richard A. Billows)
And the Creation of the Hellenistic State
- Approaches to the History of Spain (Jaime Vicens Vives)
- short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war
- Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia (Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita)
From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century
- The Argonautika (Apollonios Rhodios)
The Story of Jason and the Quest for the Golden Fleece
- Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B (Kenneth J. Carpenter)
A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure
- **Between Two Worlds (Cemal Kafadar)
The Construction of the Ottoman State
- *Bonobo (Frans de Waal)
The Forgotten Ape
- **The Confusions of Pleasure (Timothy Brook)
Commerce and Culture in Ming China
- *The Creationists (Ronald L. Numbers)
The Evolution of Scientific Creationism
- Cross-Cultural Filmmaking (Ilisa Barbash, Lucien Taylor)
A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos
- *Dance of the Tiger (Björn Kurtén)
A Novel of the Ice Age
- Dirt (David R. Montgomery)
The Erosion of Civilizations
- Disobedience (Michael Drinkard)
- a three-stranded novel wrapped around the history of California
- **Disposable People (Kevin Bales)
- a passionate but scholarly study of modern slavery
- Dolphin Societies (Karen Pryor, Kenneth S. Norris)
Discoveries and Puzzles
- Early India (Romila Thapar)
From the Origins to AD 1300
- Fall 1998
- Fireflies, Honey, and Silk (Gilbert Waldbauer)
- human uses of insects
- Forgotten Empire (John Curtis, Nigel Tallis)
The World of Ancient Persia
- Germany in Transit (Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, Anton Kaes)
Nation and Migration 1955-2005
- *The Greco-Persian Wars (Peter Green)
- an accessible history
- Indochina (Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery)
An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
- Infections and Inequalities (Paul Farmer)
The Modern Plagues
- *The Inner Quarters (Patricia Buckley Ebrey)
Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period
- An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles (Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy)
- taxonomy, anatomy, ecology, and connections with humans
- *The Karma of Words (William R. LaFleur)
Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan
- Kea, Bird of Paradox (Judy Diamond, Alan B. Bond)
The Evolution and Behavior of a New Zealand Parrot
- Land of the Tiger (Valmik Thapar)
A Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
- *The Laughter of Aphrodite (Peter Green)
A Novel about Sappho of Lesbos
- The Legend of Bouvines (Georges Duby)
- the ideology of peace, war, and battle in the 12th century
- Life at the Extremes (Frances Ashcroft)
The Science of Survival
- *Lise Meitner (Ruth Lewin Sime)
A Life in Physics
- *The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings (David Drew)
- a nice introduction to Mayan history and society
- The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 (Mark Whittow)
- as a Greek-speaking, orthodox empire
- Many Ramayanas (Paula Richman)
The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
- *Medieval Iceland (Jesse L. Byock)
Society, Sagas, and Power
- A Mediterranean Society (S.D. Goitein)
- the Jewish community in medieval Cairo
- Mexico (Daniel C. Levy, Kathleen Bruhn)
The Struggle for Democratic Development
- Microcosmos (Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan)
Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
- Modern Mongolia (Morris Rossabi)
From Khans To Commissars to Capitalists
- Nuclear Rites (Hugh Gusterson)
A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
- **On the Road of the Winds (Patrick Vinton Kirch)
An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands before European Conquest
- Painting by Numbers (JoAnn Wypijewski)
Komar and Melamid's scientific guide to art
- Poles Apart (Galen Rowell)
Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic
- **Political Islam (Joel Beinin, Joe Stork)
Essays from Middle East Report
- The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples (Herwig Wolfram)
- Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, ...
- *Sacred Mountains of the World (Edwin Bernbaum)
- religion and spirituality; glorious photographs
- *The Secret Museum (Walter Kendrick)
Pornography in Modern Culture
- *Snakes (Harry W. Greene)
The Evolution of Mystery in Nature
- *The Song of Songs (Ariel Bloch, Chana Bloch)
- a compelling translation of the great Hebrew love poem
- The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump (Sandra Hempel)
John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
- Terror in the Mind of God (Mark Juergensmeyer)
The Global Rise of Religious Violence
- Understanding Relativity (Leo Sartori)
A Simplified Approach to Einstein's Theories
- Vietnam 1946 (Stein Tønnesson)
How the War Began
- World Atlas of Coral Reefs (Spalding, Ravilious, Green)
- reef geography, geology, ecology, and conservation