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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Observations in Lower California Author: Baegert, Jacob 1717-1772 Published: University of California Press, 1979 Subjects: History \| United States History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Observatory seismology: an anniversary symposium on the occasion of the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley seismographic stations Author: Litehiser, J. J. (Joe J.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| Geology Publisher's Description: The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to contro . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: An obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and The diary Author: Graver, Lawrence 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| American Studies \| History \| European History Publisher's Description: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Obstinate Hebrews: representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815 Author: Schechter, Ronald Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| European History \| Jewish Studies \| Intellectual History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this unusuall . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology Author: Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik) 1888-1957 Published: Prentice-Hall, 1942 Subjects: Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Urban Studies \| United States History \| American Literature \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Law \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Of one blood: abolitionism and the origins of racial equality Author: Goodman, Paul 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. In his final book, historian Paul Goodman, who died in 1995, presents a new and important interpretation of abolitionism. Goodman pays . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories Author: Bardhan, Kalpana Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories - stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical struc . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Off with her head!: the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture Author: Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion \| Women's Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Classical Religions \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head . The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ecology \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Oil and revolution in Mexico Author: Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Anyone contemplating the consequences of foreign investment in Latin America will profit from reading this book. As Jonathan Brown shows, the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the domination of foreign capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring, conditions similar to . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Old, alone, and neglected: care of the aged in the United States and Scotland Author: Kayser-Jones, Jeanie Schmit Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Aging \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine Publisher's Description: As the median age of the population increases, the care and housing of the elderly in the U.S. are of increasing concern. Jeanie Kayser-Jones compares a typical private institution in the U.S. with a government-owned home in Scotland.Her analysis compels attention to the systematic abuse of the inst . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: On account of sex: the politics of women's issues, 1945-1968 Author: Harrison, Cynthia Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| United States History Publisher's Description: Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: On her own terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the rise of science in the American West Author: Stein, Barbara R 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies \| History of Science \| Paleontology \| California and the West \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: At a time when women could not vote and very few were involved in the world outside the home, Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) was an intrepid explorer, amateur naturalist, skilled markswoman, philanthropist, farmer, and founder and patron of two natural history museums at the University of Cali . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: On her their lives depend: munitions workers in the Great War Author: Woollacott, Angela 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I.Munitions work offered working-class women - for the first time - independe . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: On holiday: a history of vacationing Author: Löfgren, Orvar Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Anthropology \| Travel \| American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Popular Culture \| Criminology Publisher's Description: Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teachin . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Intellectual History \| Rhetoric \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: On Roman time: the codex-calendar of 354 and the rhythms of urban life in late antiquity Author: Salzman, Michele Renee Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Religion \| Classical History Publisher's Description: Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome. The Codex-Calendar of 354 miraculously survived the Fall of Rome. Although it was subsequently lost, the copies made in the Renaissance rema . . . [more] Similar Items

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