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81. | | Title: Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectivesAuthor: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Social and Political Thought | European History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison . Beginning where tha . . . [more]Similar Items | 82. | | Title: Letters from prison and other essaysAuthor: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | European HistorySimilar Items | 83. | | Title: The Mathers: three generations of Puritan intellectuals, 1596-1728Author: Middlekauff, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | ChristianityPublisher's Description: In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers - Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mathe . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: Benjamin Franklin and his enemiesAuthor: Middlekauff, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Autobiographies and Biographies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality - his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships - political . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | Title: Temples and towns in Roman Iberia: the social and architectural dynamics of sanctuary designs from the third century B.C. to the third century A.DAuthor: Mierse, William E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Archaeology | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.C. until the decline of urban life on the peninsula in the third century A.D. During this period, the peninsula became an influential cultu . . . [more]Similar Items | 86. | | Title: Religion in Hellenistic Athens Author: Mikalson, Jon D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Religion | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Until now, there has been no comprehensive study of religion in Athens from the end of the classical period to the time of Rome's domination of the city. Jon D. Mikalson provides a chronological approach to religion in Hellenistic Athens, disproving the widely held belief that Hellenistic religion d . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth centuryAuthor: Milkman, Ruth 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | PoliticsPublisher's Description: This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's ext . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sourcesAuthor: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | SportsPublisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | Title: Armenia: portraits of survival and hopeAuthor: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Religion | SociologyPublisher's Description: A remarkable view of how geopolitics affects ordinary people, this book documents, in words and pictures, the lives of Armenians in the last two decades. Based on intimate interviews with three hundred Armenians and featuring Jerry Berndt's superb photographs, it brings together firsthand testimony . . . [more]Similar Items | 90. | | Title: Late modernism: politics, fiction, and the arts between the world wars Author: Miller, Tyrus 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Art Theory | Cinema and Performance Arts | Politics | Political Theory | HistoryPublisher's Description: Tyrus Miller breaks new ground in this study of early twentieth-century literary and artistic culture. Whereas modernism studies have generally concentrated on the vital early phases of the modernist revolt, Miller focuses on the turbulent later years of the 1920s and 1930s, tracking the dissolution . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | Title: Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the new millenniumAuthor: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | SociologyPublisher's Description: During the past thirty years the American religious landscape has undergone a dramatic change. More and more churches meet in converted warehouses, many have ministers who've never attended a seminary, and congregations are singing songs whose melodies might be heard in bars or nightclubs. Donald E. . . . [more]Similar Items | 92. | | Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more]Similar Items | 93. | | Title: Survivors: an oral history of the Armenian genocideAuthor: Miller, Donald E. (Donald Earl) 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | ReligionPublisher's Description: Between 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. Thousands of other Armenians suffered torture, brutality, deportation. Yet their story has received scant attention. Through interviews with a hundred elderly Armen . . . [more]Similar Items | 94. | | Title: Arete: Greek sports from ancient sourcesAuthor: Miller, Stephen G Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | History | Ancient History | SportsPublisher's Description: From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources - Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on lite . . . [more]Similar Items | 95. | | Title: Nemea: a guide to the site and museum Author: Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | History | Archaeology | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but serv . . . [more]Similar Items | 96. | | | 97. | | | 98. | | Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | Literature | United States History | LettersPublisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more]Similar Items | 99. | | Title: Caught in the middle: Korean merchants in America's multiethnic citiesAuthor: Min, Pyong Gap 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Urban Studies | American Studies | California and the West | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and L . . . [more]Similar Items | 100. | | Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more]Similar Items |
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