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| 101. |  | Title: Early Daoist scriptures Author: Bokenkamp, Stephen R 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | China | Classical Literature and Language | Taoism Publisher's Description: For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | Title: Behind the label: inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry Author: Bonacich, Edna Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | California and the West | Labor Studies | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | American Studies | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare st . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 103. |  | Title: Sainthood: its manifestations in world religions Author: Bond, George Doherty 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Renaissance History | European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Popular Culture | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | Art Criticism | History | European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt  Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: Precious nonsense: the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night Author: Booth, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature Publisher's Description: Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: Twilight zones: the hidden life of cultural images from Plato to O.J Author: Bordo, Susan 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Popular Culture | Politics | Social and Political Thought | Gender Studies | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.J. Simpson trial, Susan Bordo deciphers the hidden life of cultural images and the impact they have on our lives. She builds on the provocative themes introduced in her acclaimed work . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Western music and its others: difference, representation, and appropriation in music Author: Born, Georgina Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Cultural Anthropology | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how mus . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: Representation of places: reality and realism in city design Author: Bosselmann, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: Los Angeles and the automobile: the making of the modern city Author: Bottles, Scott L Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: American Studies | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history. Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Paul Bowles on music Author: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | American Literature | Film Publisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Jewish Studies | Social Theory Publisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: Carnal Israel: reading sex in Talmudic culture Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Judaism | Gender Studies | Comparative Religions | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a "carnal" religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church - Daniel Boyarin argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: The Ethnography of reading Author: Boyarin, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature Publisher's Description: Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple ru . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Wide-open town: a history of queer San Francisco to 1965 Author: Boyd, Nan Alamilla 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Ethnic Studies | United States History | Sociology | California and the West Publisher's Description: Wide-Open Town traces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball changed the course of queer history. Bringing to life the striking personalities and vibrant mili . . . [more] Similar Items |