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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Medicine \| Economics and Business \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: A life's mosaic: the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala Author: Ntantala, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| African Studies \| Autobiography \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: "Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of s . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: A life's mosaic: the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala Author: Ntantala, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Literature \| Gender Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Women's Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Light moving in time: studies in the visual aesthetics of avant-garde film Author: Wees, William C. (William Charles) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: To view a film is to see another's seeing mediated by the technology and techniques of the camera. By manipulating the cinematic apparatus in unorthodox ways, avant-garde filmmakers challenge the standardized versions of seeing perpetuated by the dominant film industry and generate ways of seeing th . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Women's Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Literary architecture: essays toward a tradition: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marcel Proust, Henry James Author: Frank, Ellen Eve Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lithuania awakening Author: Senn, Alfred Erich Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika released new forces throughout Soviet society. In Lithuania this process resulted in a psychological-cultural revolution. Deep-rooted feelings, long suppressed, exploded, demonstrations and mass meetings ensued, and the face of the society changed. Although . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv Author: Weiner, Douglas R 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Politics \| History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Ecology Publisher's Description: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led mo . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Livelihood and resistance: peasants and the politics of land in Peru Author: Smith, Gavin Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lives at risk: public health in nineteenth-century Egypt Author: Kuhnke, LaVerne Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Lives at Risk describes the introduction of Western medicine into Egypt. The two major innovations undertaken by Muhammad Ali in the mid-nineteenth century were a Western-style school of medicine and an international Quarantine Board. The ways in which these institutions succeeded and failed will gr . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lives together/worlds apart: mothers and daughters in popular culture Author: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played b . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: The longest night: polemics and perspectives on election 2000 Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Social and Political Thought \| Law Publisher's Description: The American presidential election of 2000 was perhaps the most remarkable, and in many ways the most unsettling, that the country has yet experienced. The millennial election raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legit . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Losing face: status politics in Japan Author: Pharr, Susan J Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Japan \| Politics Publisher's Description: How does a "homogeneous" society like Japan treat the problem of social inequality? Losing Face looks beyond conventional structural categories (race, class, ethnicity) to focus on conflicts based on differences in social status. Three rich and revealing case studies explore crucial asymmetries of a . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Lovis Corinth Author: Uhr, Horst 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: This splendid and generously illustrated monograph by Horst Uhr is the first comprehensive study of one of the great individualists in the history of art. Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) has long been recognized as a major figure in German painting, along with Emile Nolde and Max Beckmann. Spanning a trem . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance History \| Christianity \| Rhetoric \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items

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