The Exhibition and Experience Design Handbook is an illustrated handbook that explains how to design exhibitions and attractions successfully; contextualize contemporary exhibition design practice through its historical and theoretical underpinnings; and elevate understanding of one of the most rapidly evolving and trans-disciplinary creative disciplines.
In her new collection A Piece of Good News, Katie Peterson, English professor and head of the creative writing program, explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure and shelter. The poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship and happiness. Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Fog and Smoke (2024).
Art history professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice traces eight illustrated pages from a 13th-century Armenian manuscript that disappeared in 1920 to their purchase by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1995.
In her new book Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas: Remembering Xicana Indígena Ancestries , Susy J. Zepeda, an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano studies, highlights the often overlooked yet intertwined legacies of Chicana feminisms and queer decolonial theory through the work of select queer Indígena cultural producers and thinkers.
In Why We Remember, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.
As a technology of environmental comfort, air conditioning aspires to pass unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. In his book Air Conditioning, Professor Hsuan L. Hsu considers questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of air conditioning technologies.
UC Davis alumna and lecturer Linda Noveroske-Tritten centers on a philosophical analysis of creative acts at the Burning Man Festival and their roles in wider social change. With particular focus on the Ten Principles of Burning Man, Noveroske-Tritten posits a re-interpretation of common notions of "self" and "other" as they apply to identity.
While so much of the ocean is still a mystery to us, the beauty and life within it are being affected by our choices as a species. At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans by oceanographer Tessa Hill and writer Eric Simons chronicles those changes through the eyes of the community members closest to the shores. But the book is not a passive volume. Instead, it’s a call to action.
This book gathers the most important advances in the management of sites contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons. It focuses on the current state of practice of LNAPL characterization and remediation and seeks to provide information and a framework that would allow some of these complexities to be better addresses.
In The Evolution of Power: A New Understanding of the History of Life, distinguished Professor Emeritus of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geerat Vermeij talks about findings he’s gleaned from his meticulous study of extinct creatures have yielded broader insights about evolution, humanity, biology, economics and now, the role of power.
