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81.	Requires cookie*	Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| African American Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Contemporary Music \| Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items
82.	Requires cookie*	Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Politics Similar Items
83.	Requires cookie*	Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Physics \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more] Similar Items
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy Author: Caplan, Eric 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, Mind Games tells the remarkable story of how a widely assort . . . [more] Similar Items
85.	Requires cookie*	Title: The mind's past Author: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Psychology \| Cognitive Science \| Neuroscience Publisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more] Similar Items
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items
87.	Requires cookie*	Title: Minor heresies, major departures: a China mission boyhood Author: Espey, John Jenkins 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies \| China \| Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. There he faced the alley brats' Lady Bandit, heard the shrill screa . . . [more] Similar Items
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more] Similar Items
89.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern Japan Author: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more] Similar Items
90.	Requires cookie*	Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more] Similar Items
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: Missing persons: a critique of the social sciences Author: Douglas, Mary Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social th . . . [more] Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: The missing Spanish creoles: recovering the birth of plantation contact languages Author: McWhorter, John H Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Language and Linguistics \| Linguistic Theory \| African Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintain . . . [more] Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United States Author: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Environmental Studies \| German Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more] Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest village Author: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History \| China \| Social Science Publisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more] Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre \| Rhetoric Publisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more] Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Sociology \| Economics and Business Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modernity and the hegemony of vision Author: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| Ethics Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more] Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects Author: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics \| International Relations \| China Publisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more] Similar Items
99.	Requires cookie*	Title: The molecular biology of plant cells Author: Smith, H. (Harry) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Science \| Botany \| Biology Similar Items
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of money Author: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science \| Philosophy \| Economics and Business \| Social Theory \| European Studies Publisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more] Similar Items

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