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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| Labor Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The faces of Buddhism in America Author: Prebish, Charles S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion \| Buddhism \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the United States, with adherents estimated in the several millions. But what exactly defines a "Buddhist"? This has been a much-debated question in recent years, particularly in regard to the religion's bifurcation into two camps: the so-called "imported" . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Faces of power: Alexander's image and Hellenistic politics Author: Stewart, Andrew F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Art \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Alexander the Great changed the face of the ancient world. During his life and after his death, his image in works of art exerted an unprecedented influence?on marbles, bronzes, ivories, frescoes, mosaics, coins, medals, even painted pottery and reliefware. Alexander's physiognomy became the most fa . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Factory daughters: gender, household dynamics, and rural industrialization in Java Author: Wolf, Diane L Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Southeast Asia \| Anthropology Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translation Author: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| History \| Latin American History \| Politics \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D Author: Lenski, Noel Emmanuel 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Failure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (a.d. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat amon . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975 Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Demography \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Families of the forest: the Matsigenka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon Author: Johnson, Allen W Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ecology \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The idea of a family level society, discussed and disputed by anthropologists for nearly half a century, assumes moving, breathing form in Families of the Forest. According to Allen Johnson's deft ethnography, the Matsigenka people of southeastern Peru cannot be understood or appreciated except as a . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Family and frontier in colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822 Author: Metcalf, Alida C 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial families in the Brazilian town of Santana de Parnaíba lived on the fringe of settlement in a vast and perilous continent. In her revealing community history, Metcalf tells how these settlers pursued family strategies that adapted European custom to the American environment. Turning to recor . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Family life in a Northern Thai village: a study in the structural significance of women Author: Potter, Sulamith Heins Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Gender Studies \| Southeast Asia Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The family on trial in revolutionary France Author: Desan, Suzanne 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| European Studies \| French Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In a groundbreaking book that challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution, Suzanne Desan offers an insightful analysis of the ways the Revolution radically redefined the family and its internal dynamics. She shows how revolutionary politics and laws brought about a . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The family romance of the French Revolution Author: Hunt, Lynn Avery Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a multidisciplinary investigation of the foundations of modern politics. "Family Romance" was coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and joining one of higher social standing. . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The family silver: essays on relationships among women Author: Krieger, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Sociology \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: In an inventive and controversial collection of essays, sociologist Susan Krieger considers the many forms of wealth, both material and emotional, that women pass on to each other. This domestic heritage - the "family silver" - is the keystone for a discussion of mother-daughter relationships, intim . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Family size and achievement Author: Blake, Judith Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology \| Demography Publisher's Description: The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to come primarily from small families - families of three or fewer children. Judith Blake calls this momentous change the sibsize revolution, and this book focuses on the cognitive and educational consequences . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village Author: Hinton, William Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| China \| Anthropology \| Asian History Publisher's Description: More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century Author: Milkman, Ruth 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology \| Politics Publisher's Description: This study exposes the human side of the decline of the U.S. auto industry, tracing the experiences of two key groups of General Motors workers: those who took a cash buyout and left the factory, and those who remained and felt the effects of new technology and other workplace changes. Milkman's ext . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: A fascination for fish: adventures of an underwater pioneer Author: Powell, David C 1927- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Natural History \| Ichthyology \| Oceanography \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: This engaging memoir presents one man's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pioneering a . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fascist modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 Author: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: European Studies \| History \| Intellectual History \| European History Publisher's Description: Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a ne . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Fascist spectacle: the aesthetics of power in Mussolini's Italy Author: Falasca-Zamponi, Simonetta 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| European History \| Popular Culture \| European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussol . . . [more] Similar Items

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