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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: A sheep's song: a writer's reminiscences of Japan and the world Author: Katō, Shūichi 1919- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Asian History \| Japan \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This critically acclaimed autobiography was an instant bestseller in Japan, where it has gone through more than forty printings since its first publication. Cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician, Kato Shuichi reconstructs his dramatic spiritual and intellectual journey f . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: The short, swift time of gods on earth: the Hohokam chronicles Author: Bahr, Donald M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual Author: George, Kenneth M 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: Showing Signs of Violence deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual - no actual heads are taken - but its rhetoric of violence is unmistak . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Silence at Boalt Hall: the dismantling of affirmative action Author: Guerrero, Andrea 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Sociology \| African American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Politics \| Gender Studies \| Law \| Politics \| Politics Publisher's Description: In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of stud . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: A silent minority: deaf education in Spain, 1550-1835 Author: Plann, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Language and Linguistics \| Medieval History \| European History \| Education \| European Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This timely, important, and frequently dramatic story takes place in Spain, for the simple reason that Spain is where language was first systematically taught to the deaf. Instruction is thought to have begun in the mid-sixteenth century in Spanish monastic communities, where the monks under vows of . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: A simple matter of salt: an ethnography of nutritional deficiency in Spain Author: Fernandez, Renate Lellep Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Singular women: writing the artist Author: Frederickson, Kristen 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Art Theory \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking volume, contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. Singular Women proposes a new feminist investigation of the history of art by considering how a historian's theoretical approach a . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Six screenplays Author: Riskin, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Reference \| Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature Author: Steinberg, Theodore 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Law \| Environmental Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere - from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor.Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonst . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: Small property versus big government: social origins of the property tax revolt Author: Lo, Clarence Y. H Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Public Policy \| Law \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Tax reformers, take note. Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: The snow lion and the dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Asian History \| China \| Cultural Anthropology \| Tibet Publisher's Description: Tensions over the "Tibet Question" - the political status of Tibet - are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social change and modernity Author: Haferkamp, Hans 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Politics Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Social importance of self-esteem Author: Mecca, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Is the well-being of a society dependent on the well-being of its citizenry? Does individual self-esteem play a causal role in chronic social problems such as child abuse, school drop-out rates, teenage pregnancy, alcohol and drug abuse, welfare dependency?In an attempt to answer these questions, th . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social order/mental disorder: Anglo-American psychiatry in historical perspective Author: Scull, Andrew T Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychiatry \| United States History \| European History \| Psychology Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: Socialization as cultural communication: development of a theme in the work of Margaret Mead Author: Schwartz, Theodore Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla Author: Bagge, Sverre 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Heimskringla is the best known and most important book of Old Norse kings' sagas. A medieval masterpiece, the collection was written by Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century. The sagas have been studied primarily as literary sources and chronicles of specific historical events . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Solidarity of strangers: feminism after identity politics Author: Dean, Jodi 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Women's Studies \| Politics \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Solidarity of Strangers is a crucial intervention in feminist, multicultural, and legal debates that will ignite a rethinking of the meaning of difference, community, and participatory democracy. Arguing for a solidarity rooted in a respect for difference, Dean offers a broad vision of the shape of . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Some trouble with cows: making sense of social conflict Author: Roy, Beth Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology \| South Asia \| Politics \| Hinduism Publisher's Description: Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.Using first-person acco . . . [more] Similar Items

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