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81. | | Title: From c-numbers to q-numbers: the classical analogy in the history of quantum theory Author: Darrigol, Olivier Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | PhysicsPublisher's Description: The history of quantum theory is a maze of conceptual problems, through which Olivier Darrigol provides a lucid and learned guide, tracking the role of formal analogies between classical and quantum theory. From Planck's first introduction of the quantum of action to Dirac's formulation of quantum m . . . [more]Similar Items | 82. | | Title: From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York CityAuthor: Sánchez Korrol, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements - "colonias" . . . [more]Similar Items | 83. | | Title: From craft to profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century AmericaAuthor: Woods, Mary N 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cite . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: From fascism to libertarian communism: Georges Valois against the Third RepublicAuthor: Douglas, Allen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Georges Valois is the enigma who stands at the center of French fascism. Writer, publisher, economic and political organizer, Valois went from adolescent anarchism to fascism and finally to libertarian socialism. His career has mystified scholars, as it did his contemporaries. From Fascism to Libert . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | Title: From friend to comrade: the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927Author: Van de Ven, Hans J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | China | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, From Friend to Comrade demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.Hans J . . . [more]Similar Items | 86. | | Title: From Genesis to genetics: the case of evolution and creationismAuthor: Moore, John Alexander 1915- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Science | Christianity | History of SciencePublisher's Description: The clash between evolution and creationism is one of the most hotly contested topics in education today. This book, written by one of America's most distinguished science educators, provides essential background information on this difficult and important controversy. Giving a sweeping and balanced . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: From monuments to traces: artifacts of German memory, 1870-1990Author: Koshar, Rudy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | History | Architectural History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many writers and scholars shortsighted, Koshar surveys . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: From my grandmother's bedside: sketches of postwar Tokyo Author: Field, Norma 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Asian History | Japan | PoliticsPublisher's Description: From My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor , returne . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | Title: From popular sovereignty to the sovereignty of law: law, society, and politics in fifth-century AthensAuthor: Ostwald, Martin 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Classics | Classics | Classical History | Classical PoliticsPublisher's Description: Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistr . . . [more]Similar Items | 90. | | Title: From revolutionary cadres to party technocrats in socialist China Author: Lee, Hong Yung 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a wide variety of sources previously unavailable, Hong Yung Lee offers for the first time a theoretical and historical perspective on China's ruling elite, examining their politics and the bureaucratic system in which they participate. He traces the evolution of these cadres from the guerrilla . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | SociologyPublisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more]Similar Items | 92. | | Title: From the fat of our souls: social change, political process, and medical pluralism in BoliviaAuthor: Crandon-Malamud, Libbet Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Medical Anthropology | MedicinePublisher's Description: From the Fat of Our Souls offers a revealing new perspective on medicine, and the reasons for choosing or combining indigenous and cosmopolitan medical systems, in the Andean highlands. Closely observing the dialogue that surrounds medicine and medical care among Indians and Mestizos, Catholics and . . . [more]Similar Items | 93. | | Title: From the royal to the republican body: incorporating the political in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France Author: Melzer, Sara E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Literature | Cinema and Performance Arts | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the sacralization of the king's body through a gendered textual and visual rhetoric. Others show how the monarchy . . . [more]Similar Items | 94. | | Title: From the soil, the foundations of Chinese society: a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo ; with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang ZhengAuthor: Fei, Xiaotong Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | China | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contr . . . [more]Similar Items | 95. | | Title: The frontier in American culture: an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995Author: White, Richard 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Native American EthnicityPublisher's Description: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick . . . [more]Similar Items | 96. | | Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | European Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Christianity | Judaism | Islam | ChristianityPublisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more]Similar Items | 97. | | Title: The frontiers of Catholicism: the politics of ideology in a liberal worldAuthor: Burns, Gene 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Religion | Social Theory | Gender Studies | Christianity | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Gene Burns examines the origins of contemporary diversity and conflict in the Catholic Church, illuminating as well the processes of ideological change. Similar Items | 98. | | Title: Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990Author: Klein, Kerwin Lee 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Anthropology | United States History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood . . . [more]Similar Items | 99. | | Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | PhysicsPublisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more]Similar Items | 100. | | Title: The fruits of natural advantage: making the industrial countryside in CaliforniaAuthor: Stoll, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: The once arid valleys and isolated coastal plains of California are today the center of fruit production in the United States. Steven Stoll explains how a class of capitalist farmers made California the nation's leading producer of fruit and created the first industrial countryside in America. This . . . [more]Similar Items |
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