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61.	Requires cookie*	Title: Silicon second nature: culturing artificial life in a digital world Author: Helmreich, Stefan 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Computer Science \| Biology \| Technology and Society \| Social Theory \| Cultural Anthropology \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Silicon Second Nature takes us on an expedition into an extraordinary world where nature is made of bits and bytes and life is born from sequences of zeroes and ones. Artificial Life is the brainchild of scientists who view self-replicating computer programs - such as computer viruses - as new forms . . . [more] Similar Items
62.	Requires cookie*	Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selection Author: Henderson, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more] Similar Items
63.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dr. Strangelove's America: society and culture in the atomic age Author: Henriksen, Margot A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Did America really learn to "stop worrying and love the bomb," as the title of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove , would have us believe? Does that darkly satirical comedy have anything in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s impassioned "I Have a Dream" speech or with Elvis Presley's thr . . . [more] Similar Items
64.	Requires cookie*	Title: The natural history of Big Sur Author: Henson, Paul 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Natural History \| Ecology Publisher's Description: Each year millions of people visit the area of rugged California coastline and wild mountains known as Big Sur. Finally here is a book that is both a natural history of this beautiful region and an excellent guide to its extensive public lands. The first section introduces the area's geology, climat . . . [more] Similar Items
65.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more] Similar Items
66.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items
67.	Requires cookie*	Title: The romance of American psychology: political culture in the age of experts Author: Herman, Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science \| American Studies \| Politics \| Psychology \| United States History Publisher's Description: Psychological insight is the creed of our time. A quiet academic discipline two generations ago, psychology has become a voice of great cultural authority, informing everything from family structure to government policy. How has this fledgling science become the source of contemporary America's most . . . [more] Similar Items
68.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rural change and royal finances in Spain at the end of the old regime Author: Herr, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History Similar Items
69.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dangerous pleasures: prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century Shanghai Author: Hershatter, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Women's Studies \| China Publisher's Description: This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassè elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh . . . [more] Similar Items
70.	Requires cookie*	Title: Working families: the transformation of the American home Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Anthropology \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Politics \| Politics Publisher's Description: The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift - the rise of dual-income families - this groundbreaking volume provides a highly informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items
71.	Requires cookie*	Title: More equal than others: women and men in dual-career marriages Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems Similar Items
72.	Requires cookie*	Title: Publishing and cultural politics in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 Author: Hesse, Carla Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Print Media \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary civilization - authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and publishing world fro . . . [more] Similar Items
73.	Requires cookie*	Title: Genethics: moral issues in the creation of people Author: Heyd, David Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| Ethics Publisher's Description: Unprecedented advances in medicine, genetic engineering, and demographic forecasting raise new questions that strain the categories and assumptions of traditional ethical theories. Heyd's approach resolves many paradoxes in intergenerational justice, while offering a major test case for the profound . . . [more] Similar Items
74.	Requires cookie*	Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items
75.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Similar Items
76.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| History \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Similar Items
77.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fluxus experience Author: Higgins, Hannah 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Art Criticism Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking work of incisive scholarship and analysis, Hannah Higgins explores the influential art movement Fluxus. Daring, disparate, contentious - Fluxus artists worked with minimal and prosaic materials now familiar in post-World War II art. Higgins describes the experience of Fluxus f . . . [more] Similar Items
78.	Requires cookie*	Title: Berthe Morisot Author: Higonnet, Anne 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman. She reached a pinnacle of artistic achievement despite the restraints society placed on her sex, adroitly combining her artistic ambitions with a rewarding family lif . . . [more] Similar Items
79.	Requires cookie*	Title: Origins of architectural pleasure Author: Hildebrand, Grant 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture \| Environmental Studies \| Psychology Publisher's Description: Do survival instincts have anything to do with our architectural choices - our liking for a certain room, a special stairway, a plaza in a particular city? In this engaging study Grant Hildebrand discusses ways in which architectural forms emulate some archetypal settings that humans have found appe . . . [more] Similar Items
80.	Requires cookie*	Title: Gold: the California story Author: Hill, Mary 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Geology \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from . . . [more] Similar Items

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