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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: Emerson: the mind on fire: a biography Author: Richardson, Robert D 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Social and Political Thought \| United States History Publisher's Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Art \| Art and Architecture \| Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fractious nation?: unity and division in contemporary American life Author: Rieder, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Politics \| Religion \| Sociology \| Immigration Publisher's Description: What are we to make of the speed with which the new climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? In truth, The Fractious Nation? makes clear, the contrast of the time of divisiveness before an . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pious passion: the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran Author: Riesebrodt, Martin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Religion \| Sociology \| Social Theory \| Middle Eastern Studies \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements - in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran - he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as prote . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Asylia: territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic world Author: Rigsby, Kent J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Politics \| Classical History \| Classical Religions \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coin . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History \| Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: Six screenplays Author: Riskin, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dao de jing: the book of the way Author: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| China \| Asian History \| Asian Literature \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our o . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nothing but history: reconstruction and extremity after metaphysics Author: Roberts, David D 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: What is the role of history in our "postmetaphysical" age? Surveying two centuries of philosophical writing, David Roberts offers a thoughtful guide to the philosophy of history before the recent challenges associated with deconstructive postmodernism. He then argues for a moderate intellectual trad . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: Takarazuka: sexual politics and popular culture in modern Japan Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Cultural Anthropology \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Women's Studies \| Theatre \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its complicated and complicit performance history. In this s . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: Native and newcomer: making and remaking a Japanese city Author: Robertson, Jennifer Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Japan \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This expertly crafted ethnography examines the ways in which native and new citizens of Kodaira, a Tokyo suburb, have both remade the past and imagined the future of their city in a quest for an "authentic" Japanese community. Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health care Author: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Medicine \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more] Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Freud and his critics Author: Robinson, Paul A 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Psychology \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Wars against Freud have been waged along virtually every front during the past decade. Now Paul Robinson takes on three of Freud's most formidable critics, mounting a thoughtful, witty, and ultimately devastating critique of the historian of science Frank Sulloway, the psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: Toil and toxics: workplace struggles and political strategies for occupational health Author: Robinson, James C. (James Claude) 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Labor Studies \| Sociology \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Social and Political Thought \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin America in the 1940's: war and postwar transitions Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Latin America in the 1940s addresses the significant impact that World War II and the onset of the Cold War had on the political development of Latin America. During the middle of this crucial decade many Latin American countries turned from authoritarian regimes toward democracy and the rapid growt . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: Authoritarian Argentina: the Nationalist movement, its history, and its impact Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century Ar . . . [more] Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: The quiet revolution: Hermann Kolbe and the science of organic chemistry Author: Rocke, Alan J 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Physical Sciences \| European History Publisher's Description: Organic chemist Hermann Kolbe (1818-1884) is the subject of this vigorously contextualized biography, which combines the approaches of cognitive and social history of science. Kolbe was one of the most outstanding chemists during the remarkable period in which German science, like the wider manifest . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cognition: an introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , the philosopher's first and perhaps greatest work, is the most important philosophical treatise of the nineteenth century. In this companion volume to his general introduction to Hegel, Tom Rockmore offers a passage-by-passage guide to the Phenomenology for first-ti . . . [more] Similar Items

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