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101. | | Title: Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo VecchioAuthor: Cox-Rearick, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel - saints, symbols, and scriptural stories - hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 154 . . . [more]Similar Items | 102. | | Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Sociology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual StudiesPublisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more]Similar Items | 103. | | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in BoliviaAuthor: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | MedicinePublisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more]Similar Items | 104. | | Title: Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism Author: Crane, Gregory 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Politics | Political Theory | History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as . . . [more]Similar Items | 105. | | Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more]Similar Items | 106. | | Title: Cleomedes' lectures on astronomy: a translation of The heavensAuthor: Cleomedes Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Science | Astronomy | History of Science | Classical PhilosophyPublisher's Description: At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from . . . [more]Similar Items | 107. | | Title: Encomium of Ptolemy PhiladelphusAuthor: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | PoetryPublisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more]Similar Items | 108. | | Title: Plato's ParmenidesAuthor: Plato Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a colle . . . [more]Similar Items | 109. | | Title: The Bodhidharma anthology: the earliest records of ZenAuthor: Bodhidharma 6th cent Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attribute . . . [more]Similar Items | 110. | | Title: The private orations of ThemistiusAuthor: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more]Similar Items | 111. | | Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan BahuAuthor: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Poetry | Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Islam | South AsiaPublisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more]Similar Items | 112. | | Title: Hesiod's Works and daysAuthor: Hesiod Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Classics | Sociology | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and an . . . [more]Similar Items | 113. | | Title: The memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: the autobiographical writings of a Crown Princess of eighteenth-century KoreaAuthor: Hyegyŏnggung Hong Ssi 1735-1815 Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Autobiography | Women's Studies | East Asia OtherPublisher's Description: Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean propor . . . [more]Similar Items | 114. | | Title: The humanities in American life: report of the Commission on the Humanities Author: Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Social ScienceSimilar Items | 115. | | Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more]Similar Items | 116. | | Title: The fractured community: landscapes of power and gender in rural Zambia Author: Crehan, Kate A. F Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This study examines the lives of the women and men living in two small rural communities in Zambia on the eve of the collapse of the one-party state in the 1980s. Moving beyond the limits of traditional ethnography, Kate Crehan traces the often complex ways in which local, day-to-day realities are l . . . [more]Similar Items | 117. | | Title: Trials of authorship: anterior forms and poetic reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare Author: Crewe, Jonathan V Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: For more than a decade, the English Renaissance has been the scene of trial for the critical methodologies of deconstruction, feminism, new historicism, psychoanalytic poststructuralism, and cultural studies. Jonathan Crewe argues that the commitment in the prevailing criticism to innovation, transg . . . [more]Similar Items | 118. | | Title: A translucent mirror: history and identity in Qing imperial ideologyAuthor: Crossley, Pamela Kyle Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Drawi . . . [more]Similar Items | 119. | | Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in scienceAuthor: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | SciencePublisher's Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MI . . . [more]Similar Items | 120. | | Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more]Similar Items |
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