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81.	Requires cookie*	Title: The social edges of psychoanalysis Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| Psychology Publisher's Description: For several decades the writings of sociologist Neil J. Smelser have won him a vast and admiring audience across several disciplines. Best known for his work on social movements, economic sociology, and British social history, Smelser's psychoanalytic writings are less familiar to his readers. In fa . . . [more] Similar Items
82.	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
83.	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
84.	Requires cookie*	Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| History \| European History \| Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items
85.	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
86.	Requires cookie*	Title: Society and individual in Renaissance Florence Author: Connell, William J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History Publisher's Description: Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relat . . . [more] Similar Items
87.	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
88.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Society of Six: California colorists Author: Boas, Nancy 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Six plein-air painters in Oakland, California, joined together in 1917 to form an association that lasted nearly fifteen years. The Society of Six - Selden Connor Gile, Maurice Logan, William H. Clapp, August F. Gay, Bernard von Eichman, and Louis Siegriest - created a color-centered modernist idiom . . . [more] Similar Items
89.	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
90.	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
91.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Author: Hom, Marlon K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Asian American Studies \| American Literature \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger g . . . [more] Similar Items
92.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs to make the dust dance: the Ryōjin hishō of twelfth-century Japan Author: Kwon, Yung-Hee K Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Asian Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Japan \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Breaking through the long-established image of Heian Japan (794-1185) as a culture dominated by ritualized aristocratic values, Yung-Hee Kim presents the picture of a country in transition, filled with a wide variety of common people responding to very ordinary situations. In popular songs called im . . . [more] Similar Items
93.	Requires cookie*	Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice Author: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law \| Philosophy \| Ethics \| Social and Political Thought \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more] Similar Items
94.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Women's Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Similar Items
95.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sound of two hands clapping: the education of a Tibetan Buddhist monk Author: Dreyfus, Georges B. J Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Buddhism \| Tibet \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Buddhism Publisher's Description: A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education. Georges B. J. Dreyfus, the first Westerner to complete the famous Ge-luk curriculum and achieve the distinguished titl . . . [more] Similar Items
96.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sources of Western Zhou history: inscribed bronze vessels Author: Shaughnessy, Edward L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| China \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: The thousands of ritual bronze vessels discovered by China's archaeologists serve as the major documentary source for the Western Zhou dynasty (1045-771 B.C.). These vessels contain long inscriptions full of detail on subjects as diverse as the military history of the period, the bureaucratic struct . . . [more] Similar Items
97.	Requires cookie*	Title: South Africa, a study in conflict Author: Van den Berghe, Pierre L Published: University of California Press, 1967 Subjects: African Studies Similar Items
98.	Requires cookie*	Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Similar Items
99.	Requires cookie*	Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Geography \| French Studies \| European Studies \| Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Similar Items
100.	Requires cookie*	Title: Spacefaring: the human dimension Author: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science \| Technology and Society \| Psychology Publisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more] Similar Items

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