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121.	Requires cookie*	Title: Louis XIII, the Just Author: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Similar Items
122.	Requires cookie*	Title: The visual culture of American religions Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Art \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals in recent years, giving the impression that art and religion are fundamentally at odds. Yet historically, artistic images have played a profound role in American religious life. This superb collection of essays, with its . . . [more] Similar Items
123.	Requires cookie*	Title: Visual piety: a history and theory of popular religious images Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Art Publisher's Description: This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards - have ass . . . [more] Similar Items
124.	Requires cookie*	Title: Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies Author: Morone, Joseph G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Politics Publisher's Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and gen . . . [more] Similar Items
125.	Requires cookie*	Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Philosophy \| Medicine \| Technology and Society \| Anthropology \| American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items
126.	Requires cookie*	Title: The culture of pain Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science \| Medicine \| Literature \| History Similar Items
127.	Requires cookie*	Title: Russian opera and the symbolist movement Author: Morrison, Simon Alexander 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Opera \| Musicology \| Composers \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: An aesthetic, historical, and theoretical study of four scores, Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement is a groundbreaking and imaginative treatment of the important yet neglected topic of Russian opera in the Silver Age. Spanning the gap between the supernatural Russian music of the nineteenth ce . . . [more] Similar Items
128.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology \| Demography \| Japan \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items
129.	Requires cookie*	Title: California rivers and streams: the conflict between fluvial process and land use Author: Mount, Jeffrey F 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Ecology \| Geography Publisher's Description: California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in . . . [more] Similar Items
130.	Requires cookie*	Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Gender Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Politics \| Social Theory \| Immigration Publisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more] Similar Items
131.	Requires cookie*	Title: Reclaiming identity: realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: "Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a . . . [more] Similar Items
132.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items
133.	Requires cookie*	Title: A scientist's voice in American culture: Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method Author: Moyer, Albert E 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| United States History Publisher's Description: In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the most of it. Officially a mathematical astronomer heading a government agency, Newcomb spent as much of his life out of the observatory as in it, acting as . . . [more] Similar Items
134.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fish: an enthusiast's guide Author: Moyle, Peter B Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences \| Ecology \| Sports \| Biology Publisher's Description: Engagingly written, with both learning and humor, Fish bridges the gap between purely pictorial books and scholarly texts, and provides a succinct summary of fish biology and conservation for students and fish enthusiasts. Similar Items
135.	Requires cookie*	Title: The age of wild ghosts: memory, violence, and place in Southwest China Author: Mueggler, Erik 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| China \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In Erik Mueggler's powerful and imaginative ethnography, a rural minority community in the mountains of Southwest China struggles to find its place at the end of a century of violence and at the margins of a nation-state. Here, people describe the present age, beginning with the Great Leap Famine of . . . [more] Similar Items
136.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Literature in Translation \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more] Similar Items
137.	Requires cookie*	Title: William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles Author: Mulholland, Catherine 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct - a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama Canal - that brought . . . [more] Similar Items
138.	Requires cookie*	Title: Big doctoring in America: profiles in primary care Author: Mullan, Fitzhugh Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine \| Health Care \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The general practitioner was once America's doctor. The GP delivered babies, removed gallbladders, and sat by the bedsides of the dying. But as the twentieth century progressed, the pattern of medical care in the United States changed dramatically. By the 1960s, the GP was almost extinct. The later . . . [more] Similar Items
139.	Requires cookie*	Title: Theory of culture Author: Münch, Richard 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| Political Theory \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its . . . [more] Similar Items
140.	Requires cookie*	Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes . . . [more] Similar Items

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