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| 21. |  | Title: The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue  Author: Sargent, Peter Published: Sargent, 1979 Subjects: Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography | California and the West | Marine and Freshwater Sciences | Geology | Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: The second gold rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II Author: Johnson, Marilynn S Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | American Studies | California and the West | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: More than any event in the twentieth century, World War II marked the coming of age of America's West Coast cities. Almost overnight, new war industries prompted the mass urban migration and development that would trigger lasting social, cultural, and political changes. For the San Francisco Bay Are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | Medicine Publisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Popular Culture | French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Seeds of the sixties Author: Jamison, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | American Studies | Social Theory Publisher's Description: "The Sixties." The powerful images conveyed by those two words have become an enduring part of American cultural and political history. But where did Sixties radicalism come from? Who planted the intellectual seeds that brought it into being? These questions are answered with striking clarity in And . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Seeing double: intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Author: Stephens, Susan A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Seeing through Zen: encounter, transformation, and genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism Author: McRae, John R 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Religion | China | Buddhism Publisher's Description: The tradition of Chan Buddhism - more popularly known as Zen - has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and - ultimately - productive assessmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Selected letters Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Letters Publisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | Women's Studies | European Studies | Literature in Translation | Autobiography | European History | Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical Philosophy | Theatre Publisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Sensory biographies: lives and deaths among Nepal's Yolmo Buddhists Author: Desjarlais, Robert R Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Buddhism | Aging Publisher's Description: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Sentimental men: masculinity and the politics of affect in American culture Author: Chapman, Mary 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Popular Culture | History | Men and Masculinity | United States History | Art History | American Studies Publisher's Description: The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Sentinel for health: a history of the Centers for Disease Control Author: Etheridge, Elizabeth W Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Medicine Publisher's Description: In the only history of its kind, Etheridge traces the development of the Centers for Disease Control from its inception as a malaria control unit during World War II through the mid-1980s . The eradication of smallpox, the struggle to identify an effective polio vaccine, the unraveling of the secret . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: Setting safety standards: regulation in the public and private sectors Author: Cheit, Ross E Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In this highly original and meticulously researched comparison of public and private standards-setting, Ross Cheit questions the old maxim that government-set safety standards are too severe while those set by the private sector are too lenient. Identifying the comparative institutional advantages o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: Setting the Virgin on fire: Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán peasants, and the redemption of the Mexican Revolution Author: Becker, Marjorie 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Anthropology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this beautifully written work, Marjorie Becker reconstructs the cultural encounters which led to Mexico's post-revolutionary government. She sets aside the mythology surrounding president Lázaro Cárdenas to reveal his dilemma: until he and his followers understood peasant culture, they could not . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items |