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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Sabra: the creation of the new Jew Author: Almog, Oz Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer fore . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Demography \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rethinking home: a case for writing local history Author: Amato, Joseph Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| United States History \| Writing Publisher's Description: Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural hi . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Computer Science \| Physics Publisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman Empire Author: Ando, Clifford 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smalle . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London Author: Andrew, Donna T 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| European History \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figur . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| History of Science \| Psychology \| Social Problems \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Asian Studies \| China Publisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and tropology: the rise and fall of metaphor Author: Ankersmit, F. R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challen . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar culture Author: Ankum, Katharina von Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: German Studies \| Women's Studies \| European Literature \| Film \| European History Publisher's Description: Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide r . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History \| Classical Philosophy \| Philosophy \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shoshaman: a tale of corporate Japan Author: Arai, Shinya Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Japan \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen - high-powered professionals within Japan's integrated trading companies - serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? Shoshaman takes us inside the world of Japan Inc. to explore the daily lives of the people who inhab . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Sociology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present Author: Arkush, R. David 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| United States History \| China \| American Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 year . . . [more] Similar Items

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