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101. | | | 102. | | Title: St. Teresa of Avila: author of a heroic life Author: Slade, Carole Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle , and other works? What does the self-portrait of t . . . [more]Similar Items | 103. | | Title: Entangled edens: visions of the AmazonAuthor: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Literature | Folklore and Mythology | Natural History | Latin American Studies | History of SciencePublisher's Description: Candace Slater takes us on a journey into the Amazon that will forever change our ideas about one of the most written-about, filmed, and fought-over areas in the world. In this book she deftly traces a rich and marvelous legacy of stories and images of the Amazon that reflects the influence of widel . . . [more]Similar Items | 104. | | Title: City steeple, city streets: saints' tales from Granada and a changing Spain Author: Slater, Candace Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Literary Theory and Criticism | European LiteraturePublisher's Description: Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusse . . . [more]Similar Items | 105. | | Title: The power of Thetis: allusion and interpretation in the Iliad Author: Slatkin, Laura M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | ClassicsPublisher's Description: In The Power of Thetis, Laura M. Slatkin reveals the full importance of mythic allusion in Homeric composition and in the experience of Homer's audience. Similar Items | 106. | | Title: American Klezmer: its roots and offshootsAuthor: Slobin, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Jewish Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | EthnomusicologyPublisher's Description: Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth . . . [more]Similar Items | 107. | | Title: The social edges of psychoanalysisAuthor: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | PsychologyPublisher's Description: For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic sociology, and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic writings are less familiar to his readers. In fa . . . [more]Similar Items | 108. | | Title: Problematics of sociology: the Georg Simmel lectures, 1995Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: These skillfully written essays are based on the Georg Simmel Lectures delivered by Neil J. Smelser at Humboldt University in Berlin in the spring of 1995. A distillation of Smelser's reflections after nearly four decades of research, teaching, and thought in the field of sociology, the essays ident . . . [more]Similar Items | 109. | | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth centuryAuthor: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | EducationPublisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more]Similar Items | 110. | | Title: American empire: Roosevelt's geographer and the prelude to globalizationAuthor: Smith, Neil Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Geography | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | International RelationsPublisher's Description: An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geogra . . . [more]Similar Items | 111. | | Title: The political landscape: constellations of authority in early complex politiesAuthor: Smith, Adam T Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | Political Theory | GeographyPublisher's Description: How do landscapes - defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations - contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic re . . . [more]Similar Items | 112. | | Title: Christian America?: what evangelicals really wantAuthor: Smith, Christian (Christian Stephen) 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Sociology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: In recent decades Protestant evangelicalism has become a conspicuous and--to many Americans, worrisome--part of this country's cultural and political landscape. But just how unified is the supposed constituency of the Christian Coalition? And who exactly are the people the Christian Right claims to . . . [more]Similar Items | 113. | | Title: Mallarmé's children: symbolism and the renewal of experienceAuthor: Smith, Richard Cándida Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | Art | European Studies | LiteraturePublisher's Description: In a narrative gracefully combining intellectual and cultural history, Richard Cándida Smith unfolds the legacy of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), the poet who fathered the symbolist movement in poetry and art. The symbolists found themselves in the midst of the transition to a world in which new med . . . [more]Similar Items | 114. | | Title: William Grant Still: a study in contradictions Author: Smith, Catherine Parsons 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Composers | African American Studies | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, . . . [more]Similar Items | 115. | | Title: Writing tricksters: mythic gambols in American ethnic literature Author: Smith, Jeanne Rosier 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | Asian Literature | Native American StudiesPublisher's Description: Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's . . . [more]Similar Items | 116. | | Title: A heart at fire's center: the life and music of Bernard HerrmannAuthor: Smith, Steven C Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Contemporary Music | ComposersPublisher's Description: No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. In this first major biography of the composer, Steven C. Smith explores the interrelationships between Herr . . . [more]Similar Items | 117. | | | 118. | | | 119. | | Title: Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920Author: Smith, Thomas C. (Thomas Carlyle) 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: Native Sources is a collection of seminal essays on the demographic, economic, and social history of Tokugawa and modern Japan by one of the most eminent historians of Japan in this country. Gathered together for the first time and made accessible to students and scholars, Professor Smith's essays a . . . [more]Similar Items | 120. | | Title: The unchanging American voter Author: Smith, Eric R. A. N Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: Have the American people grown more politically sophisticated in the past three decades, or do they remain relatively ignorant of the political world? Did a "great leap forward" take place during the 1960s in which our citizenry became involved and adept voters? In this important book, Eric Smith ad . . . 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