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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: Paris as revolution: writing in the nineteenth-century city Author: Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Social Theory \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution offered a virtuoso metaphor by which the city could be known and a vital principle . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: The colonial elite of early Caracas: formation & crisis, 1567- 1767 Author: Ferry, Robert J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo Author: Field, Norma 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Asian History \| Japan \| Politics Publisher's Description: From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returne . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Magic lands: western cityscapes and American culture after 1940 Author: Findlay, John M 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| United States History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes - Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair - John Findlay shows how . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Author: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| European History \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Kitchens: the culture of restaurant work Author: Fine, Gary Alan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. He provides a riveting exploration of . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Heavy drinking: the myth of alcoholism as a disease Author: Fingarette, Herbert Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Science \| Medicine Publisher's Description: Heavy Drinking informs the general public for the first time how recent research has discredited almost every widely held belief about alcoholism, including the very concept of alcoholism as a single disease with a unique cause. Herbert Fingarette presents constructive approaches to heavy drinking, . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tracing the veins: of copper, culture, and community from Butte to Chuquicamata Author: Finn, Janet L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| American Studies \| California and the West \| Economics and Business \| Environmental Studies \| Latino Studies Publisher's Description: This tale of two cities - Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile - traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, Janet Finn shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel proces . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies \| African Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| Social Problems \| Autobiography \| Education \| African History Publisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Voyage of rediscovery: a cultural odyssey through Polynesia Author: Finney, Ben R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| United States History \| East Asia Other \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In the summer of 1985, a mostly Hawaiian crew set out aboard Hokule'a, a reconstructed ancient double canoe, to demonstrate what skeptics had steadfastly denied: that their ancestors, sailing in such canoes and navigating solely by reading stars, ocean swells, and other natural signs, could intentio . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Galileo affair: a documentary history Author: Finocchiaro, Maurice A 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making environmental policy Author: Fiorino, Daniel J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Public Policy \| Ecology Publisher's Description: Who speaks for the trees, the water, the soil, and the air in American government today? Which agencies confront environmental problems, and how do they set priorities? How are the opposing claims of interest groups evaluated? Why do certain issues capture the public's attention?In Making Environmen . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: America calling: a social history of the telephone to 1940 Author: Fischer, Claude S 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| United States History \| Technology and Society \| History and Philosophy of Science \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology - how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histori . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal Author: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Romain Rolland and the politics of intellectual engagement Author: Fisher, David James Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| European History Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Returning cycles: contexts for the interpretation of Schubert's impromptus and last sonatas Author: Fisk, Charles Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Composers Publisher's Description: This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| Comparative Literature \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items

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