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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hanging out in the virtual pub: masculinities and relationships online Author: Kendall, Lori 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| American Studies \| Technology and Society \| Anthropology \| Electronic Media \| Media Studies \| Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Healing the infertile family: strengthening your relationship in the search for parenthood Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychology Publisher's Description: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couple . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The heart of the pearl shell: the mythological dimension of Foi sociality Author: Weiner, James F Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology Publisher's Description: For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "heart" of their social life. The pearl shell is the exchange item that mediates the creation of their most important sexual and social roles. The Heart of the Pearl Shell analyzes a . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hegemony to empire: the development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C Author: Kallet-Marx, Robert Morstein Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: In one of the most important contributions to the study of Roman imperialism to appear in recent years, Robert Kallet-Marx argues for a less simplistic, more fluid understanding of the evolution of Roman power in the Balkans, Greece, and Asia Minor. He distinguishes between hegemony - the ability of . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Ancient History \| History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing Author: Tauber, Alfred I Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Ethics Publisher's Description: In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Tran . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Heroes of the age: moral fault lines on the Afghan frontier Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure from thi . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Media Studies \| Gender Studies \| Cognitive Science \| Social and Political Thought \| Art \| Sociology Publisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: High culture fever: politics, aesthetics, and ideology in Deng's China Author: Wang, Jing 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Asian Literature \| Asian History \| Politics \| China Publisher's Description: Jing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post-revolutionary era and a pr . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| South Asia Publisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy \| German Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Historical economics: art or science? Author: Kindleberger, Charles Poor 1910- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Economics and Business \| European History \| United States History Publisher's Description: Charles P. Kindleberger's writing has ranged widely in the past, from international economics to such specialized topics as the Marshall Plan. In recent years, however, his perspective has shifted to one that tempers the rigidity of technical economics with the flexibility of the liberal arts. Histo . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and human existence: from Marx to Merleau-Ponty Author: Miller, Jim 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Philosophy \| Religion \| Intellectual History Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: History and tropology: the rise and fall of metaphor Author: Ankersmit, F. R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challen . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: A history of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition Author: Pinney, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Food and Cooking \| United States History \| American Studies \| Wine Publisher's Description: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground dow . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Holland under Habsburg rule, 1506-1566: the formation of a body politic Author: Tracy, James D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Under what conditions were limited forms of self-government possible in medieval and early modern Europe? While many historians have sought an answer by focusing on the development of parliamentary institutions in emerging national monarchies, or investigating the wider autonomy enjoyed by various c . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Film \| United States History \| European History Publisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more] Similar Items

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