UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Storm over Mono: the Mono Lake battle and the California water future Author: Hart, John 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Western times and water wars: state, culture, and rebellion in California Author: Walton, John 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Politics \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Social Theory \| Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Water \| Agriculture Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: California rivers and streams: the conflict between fluvial process and land use Author: Mount, Jeffrey F 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Ecology \| Geography Publisher's Description: California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Water and American government: the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Author: Pisani, Donald J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Water \| Public Policy \| Geography \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country - shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art \| Architectural History \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: A river and its city: the nature of landscape in New Orleans Author: Kelman, Ari 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Environmental Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more significantly, the role public spaces play in shaping people's relationships with the natural world. Ari Kelman focuses on the battles fought over New Orle . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Steps under water: a novel Author: Kozameh, Alicia Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mesozoic birds: above the heads of dinosaurs Author: Chiappe, Luis M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Ornithology \| Paleontology \| Evolution Publisher's Description: Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early birds than were previously known, marking the first 85 million years of avian development as a period . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Birds of the Salton Sea: status, biogeography, and ecology Author: Patten, Michael A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Ecology \| Ornithology \| Animals \| California and the West Publisher's Description: The Salton Sea, California's largest inland lake, supports a spectacular bird population that is among the most concentrated and most diverse in the world. Sadly, this crucial stopover along the Pacific Flyway for migratory and wintering shorebirds, landbirds, and waterfowl is dangerously close to c . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles Author: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Water \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles Author: Mulholland, Catherine 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct - a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal - that brought . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake Titicaca Author: Orlove, Benjamin S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Environmental Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Conservation Publisher's Description: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican past Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Chicano Studies \| American Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusion Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920 Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Californian and Western History \| Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Agriculture \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outback Author: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Anthropology \| Ethics \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more] Similar Items