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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry \| American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Abuses Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social and Political Thought \| Psychology \| Travel Publisher's Description: Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Environmental Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acting naturally: Mark Twain in the culture of performance Author: Knoper, Randall K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Twain \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The phenomenon of performance is central to Mark Twain's writing and persona. But Twain's performative aspects have usually been dismissed as theatrical and discounted as lowbrow burlesque. Randall Knoper takes Twain's theatricality seriously and shows how Twain's work both echoes and engages the so . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acts of implication: suggestion and covert meaning in the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen Author: Ehrenpreis, Irvin 1920- Published: University of California Press, 1981 Subjects: Literature Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development Author: Leonard, David K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent pu . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Agent-centered morality: an Aristotelian alternative to Kantian internalism Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality , George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, a . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aging in the past: demography, society, and old age Author: Kertzer, David I 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology \| History \| Demography Publisher's Description: Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demo . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: AIDS: the making of a chronic disease Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Medicine \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: AIDS: the burdens of history Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Publisher's Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Sociology \| Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Althusser and the renewal of Marxist social theory Author: Resch, Robert Paul Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Political Theory \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The writings of the French Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser and his associates have figured prominently in the development of contemporary social theory. The Althusserian school of Structural Marxism is a startlingly original synthesis of Marxism and Modernism, which has produced a large body of . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ambiguous angels: gender in the novels of Galdós Author: Jagoe, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The contradictory nature of the work of Benito Pérez Galdós, Spain's greatest modern novelist, is brought to the fore in Catherine Jagoe's innovative and rigorous study. Revising commonly held views of his feminism, she explores the relation of Galdós's novels to the "woman question" in Spain, argui . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Politics \| Postcolonial Studies Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: America becomes urban: the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980 Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an u . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiography \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| American Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more] Similar Items

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