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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Christianity Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Divided loyalties: nationalism and mass politics in Syria at the close of Empire Author: Gelvin, James L 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Politics Publisher's Description: James L. Gelvin brings a new and distinctive perspective to the perennially fascinating topic of nationalism in the Arab Middle East. Unlike previous historians who have focused on the activities and ideas of a small group of elites, Gelvin details the role played by non-elites in nationalist politi . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Sociology \| Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Culture and the senses: bodily ways of knowing in an African community Author: Geurts, Kathryn Linn 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cultural Anthropology \| African Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Interpreting a classic: Demosthenes and his ancient commentators Author: Gibson, Craig A 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Rhetoric \| Classical History Publisher's Description: Demosthenes (384-322 b.c.) was an Athenian statesman and a widely read author whose life, times, and rhetorical abilities captivated the minds of generations. Sifting through the rubble of a mostly lost tradition of ancient scholarship, Craig A. Gibson tells the story of how one group of ancient sch . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest village Author: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History \| China \| Social Science Publisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies \| History \| American Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Literature \| Women's Studies \| Psychiatry \| Medicine Publisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: The novel according to Cervantes Author: Gilman, Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| European History \| Literature in Translation \| Intellectual History Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engendering the Chinese revolution: radical women, communist politics, and mass movements in the 1920s Author: Gilmartin, Christina K Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Christina Kelley Gilmartin rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with this compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. For the first time, Gilmartin reveals the extent to which revolutionaries in the 1920s were comm . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reconcilable differences?: congress, the budget process, and the deficit Author: Gilmour, John B Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gilmour traces the development of the congressional budget process from its origin through the emergence of reconcilliation and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings. He shows how changes in process have brought about far-reaching shifts in congressional power, and explains why they have failed to control the explo . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Body work: beauty and self-image in American culture Author: Gimlin, Debra L 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types of "body work." Filled with the voices of real women, this book unravels the complicated emotional an . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Media worlds: anthropology on new terrain Author: Ginsburg, Faye D Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Electronic Media \| Postcolonial Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Sociology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media - film, television, video - are used in societies around the globe, often in places . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tobacco war: inside the California battles Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies \| California and the West \| Public Policy \| Politics \| Social Problems \| Economics and Business \| Medicine \| Environmental Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Tobacco War charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. Beginning with the activities of a small band of activists who, in the 1970s, put forward the radical notion that people should not have to breathe second-hand tobacco smoke, Stanton . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Law \| United States History Publisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: The power of collective purse strings: the effects of bank hegemony on corporations and the state Author: Glasberg, Davita Silfen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Sociology Similar Items

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