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81.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items
82.	Requires cookie*	Title: Placing movies: the practice of film criticism Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Jonathan Rosenbaum, longtime contributor to such publications as Film Quarterly, Sight and Sound, and The Village Voice , is arguably the most eloquent, insightful film critic writing in America today. Placing Movies , the first collection of his work, gathers together thirty of his most distinctive . . . [more] Similar Items
83.	Requires cookie*	Title: Habermas on law and democracy: critical exchanges Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Law \| Politics Publisher's Description: In the first essay, Habermas himself succinctly presents the centerpiece of his theory: his proceduralist paradigm of law. The following essays comprise elaborations, criticisms, and further explorations by others of the most salient issues addressed in his theory. The distinguished group of contrib . . . [more] Similar Items
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items
85.	Requires cookie*	Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Classical Philosophy \| Theatre Publisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more] Similar Items
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Military History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items
87.	Requires cookie*	Title: The research universities and their patrons Author: Rosenzweig, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Sociology \| Sociology Similar Items
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Baʾal Shem Tov Author: Rosman, Murray Jay Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Judaism Publisher's Description: This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of t . . . [more] Similar Items
89.	Requires cookie*	Title: The custom of the castle: from Malory to Macbeth Author: Ross, Charles Stanley Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| European History \| English Literature \| Medieval Studies \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality - daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twelfth century and widely imitated in medieval French . . . [more] Similar Items
90.	Requires cookie*	Title: Khubilai Khan: his life and times Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| Asian History \| China \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great . . . [more] Similar Items
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: China among equals: the Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th-14th centuries Author: Rossabi, Morris Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Asian Studies \| China Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: Good with their hands: boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust Belt Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Literature \| Labor Studies \| Urban Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy G . . . [more] Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Urban Studies \| United States History \| American Literature \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| Public Policy Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: The grit beneath the glitter: tales from the real Las Vegas Author: Rothman, Hal 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Politics \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Geography \| Environmental Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a live . . . [more] Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people Author: Roughgarden, Joan Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies \| EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Anthropology \| Evolution \| Health Care \| Social Problems \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social scie . . . [more] Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Politics Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Religion \| African American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items
99.	Requires cookie*	Title: Basil of Caesarea Author: Rousseau, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Classics \| Ancient History \| Christianity \| Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his pasto . . . [more] Similar Items
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Medicine \| History and Philosophy of Science \| European History \| European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Similar Items

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