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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: The philosopher's gaze: modernity in the shadows of enlightenment Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy \| Gender Studies \| Art History \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze . Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Benjamin, Merleau-Ponty, and Lévinas, using our culturally dominant . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modernity and the hegemony of vision Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| Ethics Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: At the dawn of modernity: biology, culture, and material life in Europe after the year 1000 Author: Levine, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| European History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Looking at a neglected period in the social history of modernization, David Levine investigates the centuries that followed the year 1000, when a new kind of society emerged in Europe. New commercial routines, new forms of agriculture, new methods of information technology, and increased population . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: Vale of tears: revisiting the Canudos massacre in northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897 Author: Levine, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: The massacre of Canudos In 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, Levine challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as op . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Outspoken: free speech stories Author: Levinson, Nan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| United States History \| Media Studies \| Public Policy \| Sociology \| Law \| Public Policy \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America's enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our fr . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ana Pauker: the rise and fall of a Jewish Communist Author: Levy, Robert 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Politics \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes t . . . [more] Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: In the beginning: the Navajo genesis Author: Levy, Jerrold E 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| California and the West \| Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Religion \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Jerrold E. Levy's masterly analysis of Navajo creation and origin myths shows what other interpretations often overlook: that the Navajo religion is as complete and nuanced an attempt to answer humanity's big questions as the religions brought to North America by Europeans. Looking first at the hist . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the organization of a traditional Newar city in Nepal Author: Levy, Robert I. (Robert Isaac) 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Tibet \| Hinduism \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Mesocosm is a study of Hinduism in its most fully realized form as a symbolic system for organizing the life of a particular kind of city - what the author terms an "archaic" city. The work is a detailed description and analysis of the symbolic world of Bhaktapur, a unicultural city in the Kathmandu . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Our mother-tempers Author: Levy, Marion J. (Marion Joseph) 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This book boldly states and deeply analyzes a commonplace observation about us all: our mothers play a powerful role in making us the kind of people we are. By the age of three, four, or five, virtually all children have learned to walk, talk, eat, sleep, control bodily functions, interact with othe . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Gorbachev phenomenon: a historical interpretation Author: Lewin, Moshe 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Sociology \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years - developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial h . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: Wagering the land: ritual, capital, and environmental degradation in the Cordillera of northern Luzon, 1900-1986 Author: Lewis, Martin W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Geography \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: Legal hermeneutics: history, theory, and practice Author: Leyh, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Postcolonial Studies \| Law \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and constructive directions. Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| China Publisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more] Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public disputation, power, and social order in late antiquity Author: Lim, Richard 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Religion \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and sel . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexican ballads, Chicano poems: history and influence in Mexican-American social poetry Author: Limón, José Eduardo Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Latin American History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the politically motivated Chicano poetry of the 60s and 70s. He bases his analyses on Harold Bloom's theories of l . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Weak foundations: the economy of El Salvador in the nineteenth century Author: Lindo-Fuentes, Héctor 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes provides the first in-depth economic history of El Salvador during the crucial decades of the nineteenth century. Before independence in 1821, the isolated territory that we now call El Salvador was a subdivision of the Captaincy General of Guatemala and had only 250,000 inhabit . . . [more] Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: Death Valley & the Amargosa: a land of illusion Author: Lingenfelter, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dangerous emotions Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy \| Cultural Anthropology \| Literature \| Social and Political Thought \| Travel Publisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more] Similar Items

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