Product Description: Tribes of California is an authoritative overview of Native American tribes in California.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control...read more

A debut collection of short fiction by the author of The Art of Getting Over uses a pop art vernacular in an anthology that includes 'Waylon Saul,' about a young boy's clever scheme to defeat a schoolyard bully, and 'Mutual Funds,' about a cocky con man who falls victim to a con. Mature.

Product Description: Is the American judiciary still the least dangerous branch, as Alexander Hamilton and legal scholar Alexander Bickel characterized it? Unlike legislatures or administrative agencies, courts do not make policy so much as direct and redirect policy as it is implemented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An insider in the world of graffiti examines its influence on today's society, exploring the history of outdoor, uncensored art, interviewing early artists as well as current ones and providing readers with full-color illustrations of some important works. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: American motion pictures still dominate the world market with an impact that is difficult to measure. Their role in American culture has been a powerful one since the 1930s and is a hallmark of our culture today. Though much has been written about the film industry, there has been very little systematic attention paid to the ideology of its creative elite...read more

Product Description: This classic of American Indian ethnography, originally published in 1877, is again available in its complete form. In the summers of 1871 and 1872 Powers visited Indian groups in the northern two-thirds of California. A journalist by profession, he was untrained in ethnography, but was nonetheless an astonishingly intelligent observer who had a gift for writing in a spirited manner...read more