Exhibition and Experience

Timothy McNeil

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.

After Tragedy Strikes

Thomas D. Beamish

A “social script” is a term sociologists use to describe the way people take actions based on cultural understanding that fits a recognizable pattern without anyone having to tell them what to do. In his book "After Tragedy Strikes", Beamish suggests this pattern in public reaction reflects what he calls the “trauma script.”

Good Boys, Bad Hombres

Michael V. Singh

Good Boys, Bad Hombres examines the politics of empowerment and inclusion as aspects of youth control in schools. Showing how the promotion of an aspirational form of Latino masculinity is rooted in neoliberal multiculturalism, heteropatriarchy, and antiblackness, Michael V. Singh argues that new narratives and practices are necessary to reimagine Latino manhood in schools and beyond.

A Piece of Good News

Katie Peterson

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).

The Missing Pages

Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

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.

Queering Mesoamerican Diasporas

Susy J. Zepeda

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.

A Thirst for Wine and War

Adam Zientek

Beginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. In his book "A Thirst for Wine and War," assistant professor Adam Zientek explores the French army’s emotional and behavioral conditioning of soldiers through the distribution of a mind-altering drug that was later hailed as one of the army’s “fathers of victory.”

Air Conditioning

Hsuan L. Hsu

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.

Burning Man: Learning from Heterotopia

Linda Noveroske-Tritten

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.

At Every Depth

Tessa Hill

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.