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| 81. |  | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminism Author: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Sociology Publisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 82. |  | Title: Broken tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix  Author: Ribner, Jonathan P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies | European Literature | European History | Law Publisher's Description: In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 83. |  | Title: Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio Author: Cox-Rearick, Janet Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History Publisher's Description: Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel - saints, symbols, and scriptural stories - hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 154 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 84. |  | Title: Brushes with power: modern politics and the Chinese art of calligraphy Author: Kraus, Richard Curt Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | China | Art Publisher's Description: Chinese calligraphy has traditionally been an emblem of the ruling class and its authority. After a century of mass revolution, what is the fate of this elite art? Richard Kraus explores the relationship beween politics and the art of writing in China today to explicate the complex relationship betw . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 85. |  | 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 |
| 86. |  | Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Gender Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Immigration Publisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 87. |  | Title: Buddhism in contemporary Tibet: religious revival and cultural identity Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 88. |  | Title: The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana Author: Lofgren, Donald L 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Science | Paleontology Publisher's Description: Bug Creek assemblages from Montana, transitional in composition between typical Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate faunas, are critical to K-T extinction debates because they have been used to support both gradual and catastrophic K-T extinction scenarios. Geological and palynological data from McG . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 89. |  | Title: Building a better race: gender, sexuality, and eugenics from the turn of the century to the baby boom Author: Kline, Wendy 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Gender Studies | American Studies | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and sexuality, especially female sexuality, during th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 90. |  | Title: The building program of Herod the Great Author: Roller, Duane W Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Architecture | Ancient History | Archaeology Publisher's Description: Herod the Great, King of Judaea from 444 B.C., is known as one of the world's great villains. This notoriety has overshadowed his actual achievements, particularly his role as a client king of Rome during Augustus's reign as emperor. An essential aspect of Herod's responsibilities as king of Judaea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 91. |  | Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in Mexico Author: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the polit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 92. |  | Title: Building with our hands: new directions in Chicana studies Author: Torre, Adela de la Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latin American Studies | Latino Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Chicano Studies Publisher's Description: This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 93. |  | Title: Buñuel and Mexico: the crisis of national cinema Author: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Latin American History | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Though Luis Buñuel, one of the most important filmmakers of the twentieth century, spent his most productive years as a director in Mexico, film histories and criticism invariably pay little attention to his work during this period. The only English-language study of Buñuel's Mexican films, this boo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 94. |  | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 95. |  | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | China Publisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 96. |  | Title: Bureaucratic authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in comparative perspective Author: O'Donnell, Guillermo A Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 97. |  | Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | Ecology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 98. |  | Title: Business of the heart: religion and emotion in the nineteenth century Author: Corrigan, John 1952- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The "Businessmen's Revival" was a religious revival that unfolded in the wake of the 1857 market crash among white, middle-class Protestants. Delving into the religious history of Boston in the 1850s, John Corrigan gives an imaginative and wide-ranging interpretive study of the revival's significanc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 99. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 100. |  | Title: By popular demand: revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections Author: Gastil, John Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of representative democracy in the United States. Gastil argues that American citizens have difficulty developing clear policy interes . . . [more] Similar Items |