Given the popularity of all types of skating-on the ice, on the boards, and on the streets-why isn’t roller skating an Olympic event? The answers -and there are many-are likely…

Also By J. G. Greenhough, J. Morgan Gibbon, W. J. Townsend, D. Rowlands, T. Rhondda Williams, And P. Carnegie Simpson.

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach…

An examination of technical information and decision-making in state legislatures, which suggests ways to improve science and technology support to legislatures through staff, state universities and other groups. It reports…

Since 1993, Supreme Court precedent has asked judges to serve as gatekeepers to their expert witnesses, admitting only reliable scientific testimony. Seeking a balance between undue deference and undeserved skepticism…

This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been…

Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining…