41. | | Title: Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectivesAuthor: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Social and Political Thought | European History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison . Beginning where tha . . . [more]Similar Items |
42. | | Title: Letters from prison and other essaysAuthor: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | European HistorySimilar Items |
43. | | Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South AsiaAuthor: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Politics | Asian History | ReligionPublisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more]Similar Items |
44. | | Title: Lewis & Clark: legacies, memories, and new perspectives Author: Fresonke, Kris 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | American Studies | American Literature | Native American EthnicityPublisher's Description: Two centuries after their expedition awoke the nation both to the promise and to the disquiet of the vast territory out west, Lewis and Clark still stir the imagination, and their adventure remains one of the most celebrated and studied chapters in American history. This volume explores the legacy o . . . [more]Similar Items |
45. | | Title: Liberalization in the process of economic development Author: Krause, Lawrence B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Economic growth in all developing countries is guided, and often accelerated, by generally intrusive policies implemented by governments intent on playing an active role in furthering development. As economies have grown and become more complex, however, even small market distortions are magnified, . . . [more]Similar Items |
46. | | Title: Licensing entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 Author: Warner, William Beatty Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | European History | Print Media | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. William Warner shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early . . . [more]Similar Items |
47. | | 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 AnthropologyPublisher'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 |
48. | | Title: The life of BuddhismAuthor: Reynolds, Frank 1930- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | BuddhismPublisher's Description: Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. . . . [more]Similar Items |
49. | | Title: The life of JudaismAuthor: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Jewish Studies | JudaismPublisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more]Similar Items |
50. | | Title: The life of the law: anthropological projectsAuthor: Nader, Laura Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | LawPublisher's Description: Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the s . . . [more]Similar Items |
51. | | 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 PolicyPublisher'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 |
52. | | Title: LifePlace: bioregional thought and practiceAuthor: Thayer, Robert L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Public Policy | California and the West | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, stressful modern lives. LifePlace is a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to l . . . [more]Similar Items |
53. | | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
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55. | | Title: Life's origin: the beginnings of biological evolutionAuthor: Schopf, J. William 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Paleontology | Astronomy | Evolution | Earth Sciences | Physical SciencesPublisher's Description: Always a controversial and compelling topic, the origin of life on Earth was considered taboo as an area of inquiry for science as recently as the 1950s. Since then, however, scientists working in this area have made remarkable progress, and an overall picture of how life emerged is coming more clea . . . [more]Similar Items |
56. | | 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 | FilmPublisher'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 |
57. | | Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Asian LiteraturePublisher'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 |
58. | | Title: Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake TiticacaAuthor: Orlove, Benjamin S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Environmental Studies | Latin American Studies | ConservationPublisher's Description: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters . . . [more]Similar Items |
59. | | Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about womenAuthor: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Fiction | Southeast Asia | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more]Similar Items |
60. | | Title: Lise Meitner: a life in physicsAuthor: Sime, Ruth Lewin 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Physics | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's Studies | History | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physi . . . [more]Similar Items |