University Of California Press Publications

Author : Karen Kelsky
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780553419429

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The Professor Is In by Karen Kelsky Pdf

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.

Author : Hannah Higgins,Douglas Kahn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520953734

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Mainframe Experimentalism by Hannah Higgins,Douglas Kahn Pdf

Mainframe Experimentalism challenges the conventional wisdom that the digital arts arose out of Silicon Valley’s technological revolutions in the 1970s. In fact, in the 1960s, a diverse array of artists, musicians, poets, writers, and filmmakers around the world were engaging with mainframe and mini-computers to create innovative new artworks that contradict the stereotypes of "computer art." Juxtaposing the original works alongside scholarly contributions by well-established and emerging scholars from several disciplines, Mainframe Experimentalism demonstrates that the radical and experimental aesthetics and political and cultural engagements of early digital art stand as precursors for the mobility among technological platforms, artistic forms, and social sites that has become commonplace today.

Author : Patricia A. Pelfrey,Margaret Cheney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520243903

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A Brief History of the University of California by Patricia A. Pelfrey,Margaret Cheney Pdf

A reissue of a charming little illustrated volume originally published in 1974 which walks the reader through the highlights of the history of the University of California.

Author : Brianne Donaldson,Ana Bajželj
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520380561

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Insistent Life by Brianne Donaldson,Ana Bajželj Pdf

"Insistent Life is the first full-length interdisciplinary treatment of the foundational principles and principles of application for engaging contemporary bioethics within the Jain tradition. The book fills a significant gap in both the fields of bioethics and Jain studies since Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradition, is strongly focused on the ethics of birth, life, and death, with regard to humans as well as other living beings. Brianne Donaldson and Ana Bajželj analyze a diverse range of Jain texts and contemporary sources on Jain doctrines and practices, alongside bioethics, to identify Jain perspectives on bioethical issues while highlighting the complexity of their personal, professional, and public dimensions. The book also features extensive original data--represented in visual graphs--based on an international survey the authors conducted with Jain medical professionals in India and diaspora communities of North America, Europe, and Africa"--

Author : Jonathan Malesic
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Burn out (Psychology).
ISBN : 9780520391529

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The End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic Pdf

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing. Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But in the absence of understanding what burnout means, the discourse often does little to help workers who suffer from exhaustion and despair. Jonathan Malesic was a burned out worker who escaped by quitting his job as a tenured professor. In The End of Burnout, he dives into the history and psychology of burnout, traces the origin of the high ideals we bring to our jobs, and profiles the individuals and communities who are already resisting our cultural commitment to constant work. In The End of Burnout, Malesic traces his own history as someone who burned out of a tenured job to frame this rigorous investigation of how and why so many of us feel worn out, alienated, and useless in our work. Through research on the science, culture, and philosophy of burnout, Malesic explores the gap between our vocation and our jobs, and between the ideals we have for work and the reality of what we have to do. He eschews the usual prevailing wisdom in confronting burnout ("Learn to say no!" "Practice mindfulness!") to examine how our jobs have been constructed as a symbol of our value and our total identity. Beyond looking at what drives burnout--unfairness, a lack of autonomy, a breakdown of community, mismatches of values--this book spotlights groups that are addressing these failures of ethics. We can look to communities of monks, employees of a Dallas nonprofit, intense hobbyists, and artists with disabilities to see the possibilities for resisting a "total work" environment and the paths to recognizing the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike. In this critical yet deeply humane book, Malesic offers the vocabulary we need to recognize burnout, overcome burnout culture, and acknowledge the dignity of workers and nonworkers alike.

Author : Marlene Smith-Baranzini
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520217705

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A Golden State by Marlene Smith-Baranzini Pdf

A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial.

Author : University of California, Berkeley,Sotheby & Co. (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Wine and wine making
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039684225

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The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine by University of California, Berkeley,Sotheby & Co. (London, England) Pdf

A compilation of fifty-three articles on the history and making of California wine by forty-four authors.

Author : Peter J. Westwick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289062

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Blue Sky Metropolis by Peter J. Westwick Pdf

"Like citrus, oil, movies, radio, and television, aerospace helped create Southern California and embody its values. Blue Sky Metropolis launches an entirely fresh consideration of an iconic industry that answered the immemorial hunger of the human race for flight and the future."--Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "Blue Sky Metropolis presents an intriguing survey of a unique time in Southern California history, when cheap land and benign weather lured massive aerospace enterprises to the region—eventually serving as home to nearly half of the nation’s defense and space fabricators. Before there was a Silicon Valley, high-tech dreamers were on the loose in the Southland, creating inventions as diverse as the Voyager planetary spacecraft and the Stealth bomber. These highly readable essays help us understand how it happened—how Southern California shaped aerospace, and vice versa."—Charles Elachi, Director, Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Peter Westwick has assembled a rich collection of essays that tell a wonderful story about the importance of the aerospace industry to Southern California and the importance of Southern California to the aerospace industry. There's technology, sociology, economics, geography, anthropology, and much more woven through the chapters. It's an ambitious project, but it succeeds in being interesting, informative, and entertaining."—Michael Rich, President and CEO, The RAND Corporation

Author : Haruo Aoki
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780520413283

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Nez Perce Dictionary by Haruo Aoki Pdf

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, linguist Haruo Aoki illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature. In addition, Aoki retranscribes and incorporates words from earlier publications that are recognized by today's Nez Perce speakers. The dictionary includes an English-Nez Perce index, appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names, and illustrations from Nez Perce life. Originally published in 1994, the Nez Perce Dictionary continues to be a reference and resource for new generations of speakers and scholars.

Author : Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520095642

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California slavic studies by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Pdf

Author : Howard Singerman,Sherrie Levine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520267220

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Art History, After Sherrie Levine by Howard Singerman,Sherrie Levine Pdf

For this in-depth examination of artist Sherrie Levine, Howard Singerman surveys a broad range of sources to assess an artist whose work was understood from the outset to oppose the values of the art world in the 1980s but who, by the end of the decade, was exhibiting in some of the most successful commercial galleries in New York.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013877322

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Current History by Anonymous Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Peggy L. Fiedler,Susan Gee Rumsey,Kathleen M. Wong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520272002

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The Environmental Legacy of the UC Natural Reserve System by Peggy L. Fiedler,Susan Gee Rumsey,Kathleen M. Wong Pdf

This book tells the story of how a few forward-thinking UC faculty, who'd had their research plots and teaching spots destroyed by development and habitat degradation, devised a way to save representative examples of many of California's major ecosystems.

Author : H. Samy Alim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520382817

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Freedom Moves by H. Samy Alim Pdf

This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the movement’s origins. Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop cultural history, Freedom Moves travels across generations and beyond borders to understand Hip Hop’s transformative power as one of the most important arts movements of our time. This book gathers critically acclaimed scholars, artists, activists, and youth organizers in a wide-ranging exploration of Hip Hop as a musical movement, a powerful catalyst for activism, and a culture that offers us new ways of thinking and doing freedom. Rooting Hip Hop in Black freedom culture, this state-of-the-art collection presents a globally diverse group of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Arab, European, North African, and South Asian artists, activists, and thinkers. The “knowledges” cultivated by Hip Hop and spoken word communities represent emerging ways of being in the world. Freedom Moves examines how educators, artists, and activists use these knowledges to inform and expand how we understand our communities, our histories, and our futures.

Author : Connie Y. Chiang
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295989778

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Shaping the Shoreline by Connie Y. Chiang Pdf

The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure. Connie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of work, recreation, and environment -- the intersections of which are applicable to communities across the United States and abroad -- she documents the struggles and contests over this magnificent coastal region. By tracing Monterey's shift from what was once the literal Cannery Row to an iconic hub that now houses an aquarium in which nature is replicated to attract tourists, the interactions of people with nature continues to change. Drawing on histories of immigration, unionization, and the impact of national and international events, Chiang explores the reciprocal relationship between social and environmental change. By integrating topics such as race, ethnicity, and class into environmental history, Chiang illustrates the idea that work and play are not mutually exclusive endeavors.