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61. | | Title: Rosenzweig and Heidegger: between Judaism and German philosophyAuthor: Gordon, Peter Eli Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | German Studies | Religion | Judaism | European History | Intellectual History | Jewish Studies | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. The architect of a unique kind of existential theology, and an important influence upon such philos . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Postwar Japan as historyAuthor: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors des . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | Title: Labor and imperial democracy in prewar JapanAuthor: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Politics | Asian History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can bes . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Public health law and ethics: a readerAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health CarePublisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraintAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Medicine | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Transforming free speech: the ambiguous legacy of civil libertarianism Author: Graber, Mark A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: The protocol of the gods: a study of the Kasuga cult in Japanese historyAuthor: Grapard, Allan G Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion | Asian History | JapanPublisher's Description: The Protocol of the Gods is a pioneering study of the history of relations between Japanese native institutions (Shinto shrines) and imported Buddhist institutions (Buddhist temples). Using the Kasuga Shinto shrine and the Kofukuji Buddhist temple, one of the oldest and largest of the shrine-temple . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migrationAuthor: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: An obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and The diary Author: Graver, Lawrence 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | HistoryPublisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | Title: Biblical prose prayer: as a window to the popular religion of ancient Israel Author: Greenberg, Moshe Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: ReligionPublisher's Description: The Psalms are the best known and most widely used prayer texts of the Bible. But the prayers of the Israelite took another form: the prose prayers that we find embedded in biblical narrative. Prose prayer was spoken by persons of all ranks. Male and female, Israelite and foreigner, all enjoyed equa . . . [more]Similar Items | 73. | | Title: New world encountersAuthor: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American HistoryPublisher's Description: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter b . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | PoetryPublisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: Re-reading Sappho: reception and transmissionAuthor: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | PoetryPublisher's Description: Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: Snakes: the evolution of mystery in natureAuthor: Greene, Harry W 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Biology | Natural HistoryPublisher's Description: This is a book about some of nature's most alluring and forbidding creatures, written by a man with an abiding passion for snakes, as well as for science, the fate of the planet, and the wonder of life. Harry Greene presents every facet of the natural history of snakes - their diversity, evolution, . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: A passion for polka: old-time ethnic music in AmericaAuthor: Greene, Victor R Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Music | American Studies | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s.Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic painAuthor: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Medical Anthropology | Physical Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Medicine | Gender Studies | Sociology | Social Problems | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: A question of balance: Charles Seeger's philosophy of musicAuthor: Greer, Taylor Aitken 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Musicology | ComposersPublisher's Description: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now the . . . [more]Similar Items |
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