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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The red rooster scare: making cinema American, 1900-1910 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Only once in cinema history have imported films dominated the American market: during the nickelodeon era in the early years of the twentieth century, when the Pathé company's "Red Rooster" films could be found "everywhere." Through extensive original research, Richard Abel demonstrates how crucial . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| French Studies \| European History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| African American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law \| Sociology \| Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement Author: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Politics \| Sociology \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema Author: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this boo . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Polyeideia: the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition Author: Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other gen . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry Author: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Gender Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Interstate arbitrations in the Greek world, 337-90 B.C. Author: Ager, Sheila L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jazz cultures Author: Ake, David Andrew 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Jazz \| Ethnomusicology \| American Studies \| African American Studies \| Jazz Publisher's Description: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities h . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking \| Renaissance History \| History of Science \| History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lost lullaby Author: Alecson, Deborah Golden 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Medicine \| Ethics \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Lost Lullaby makes one think the unthinkable: how a loving parent can pray for the death of her child. It is Deborah Alecson's story of her daughter, Andrea, who was born after a full-term, uneventful pregnancy, weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces, perfectly formed and exquisitely featured. But an inexplica . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visions of charity: volunteer workers and moral community Author: Allahyari, Rebecca Anne 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion \| Ethics \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In the United States, public talk about charity for the poor is highly moralistic, even in our era of welfare reform. But how do we understand the actual experience of caring for the poor? This study looks at the front lines of volunteer involvement with the poor and homeless to assess what voluntee . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nuptial arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the fatal number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic Author: Allen, Michael J. B Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Medieval Studies \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric o . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Permitted and prohibited desires: mothers, comics, and censorship in Japan Author: Allison, Anne 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| Japan Publisher's Description: This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons. Anne Allison . . . [more] Similar Items

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