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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ultimate art: essays around and about opera Author: Littlejohn, David 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music \| Opera Publisher's Description: Anyone who cares about opera will find The Ultimate Art a thoroughly engaging book. David Littlejohn's essays are exciting, provocative, sometimes even outrageous. They reflect his deep love of opera - that exotic, extravagant, and perpetually popular hybrid performing art form - and his fascination . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| Women's Studies \| California and the West \| Californian and Western History \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The unchanging American voter Author: Smith, Eric R. A. N Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Have the American people grown more politically sophisticated in the past three decades, or do they remain relatively ignorant of the political world? Did a "great leap forward" take place during the 1960s in which our citizenry became involved and adept voters? In this important book, Eric Smith ad . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Under the medical gaze: facts and fictions of chronic pain Author: Greenhalgh, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Medical Anthropology \| Physical Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Medicine \| Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. It is a medical whodunit full of mysterious misdiagnosis, subtle power play . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding heart disease Author: Selzer, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Publisher's Description: Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prema . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding relativity: a simplified approach to Einstein's theories Author: Sartori, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Science \| Physics \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Nonspecialists with no prior knowledge of physics and only reasonable proficiency with algebra can now understand Einstein's special theory of relativity. Effectively diagrammed and with an emphasis on logical structure, Leo Sartori's rigorous but simple presentation will guide interested readers th . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Understanding Vietnam Author: Jamieson, Neil L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The American experience in Vietnam divided us as a nation and eroded our confidence in both the morality and the effectiveness of our foreign policy. Yet our understanding of this tragic episode remains superficial because, then and now, we have never grasped the passionate commitment with which the . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The unending frontier: an environmental history of the early modern world Author: Richards, J. F Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| European History \| United States History \| Environmental Studies \| Asian Studies \| African Studies Publisher's Description: It was the age of exploration, the age of empire and conquest, and human beings were extending their reach - and their numbers - as never before. In the process, they were intervening in the world's natural environment in equally unprecedented and dramatic ways. A sweeping work of environmental hist . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics \| Southeast Asia \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life Author: Lareau, Annette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Anthropology \| Education Publisher's Description: Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unheroic conduct: the rise of heterosexuality and the invention of the Jewish man Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Jewish Studies \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: In a book that will both enlighten and provoke, Daniel Boyarin offers an alternative to the prevailing Euroamerican warrior/patriarch model of masculinity and recovers the Jewish ideal of the gentle, receptive male. The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: The unity of the common law: studies in Hegelian jurisprudence Author: Brudner, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Law \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Countering the influential view of Critical Legal Studies that law is an incoherent mixture of conflicting political ideologies, this book forges a new paradigm for understanding the common law as being unified and systematic. Alan Brudner applies Hegel's legal and moral philosophy to fashion a comp . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The University of California Press: the early years, 1893-1953. [ON ORDER FOR CAL & CAL] Author:* Muto, Albert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Reference \| Publishing Publisher's Description: In 1893, when the University of California was just twenty-five years old, its governing board took a bold step in voting the money to set up a publishing program for the works of its faculty. Like many of the American universities established in the late nineteenth century, California followed the . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: An unmastered past: the autobiographical reflections of Leo Lowenthal Author: Lowenthal, Leo Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| Social and Political Thought Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unpacking culture: art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worlds Author: Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Social Science \| Art History \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Tourist art production is a global phenomenon and is increasingly recognized as an important and authentic expression of indigenous visual traditions. These thoughtful, engaging essays provide a comparative perspective on the history, character, and impact of tourist art in colonized societies in th . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unpacking Duchamp: art in transit Author: Judovitz, Dalia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Literature Publisher's Description: Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic ambiguity with greater effect - and greater controversy - than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unsnarling the world-knot: consciousness, freedom, and the mind-body problem Author: Griffin, David Ray 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists - those who accept the reality of the physical world - the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consen . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The unvarnished truth: personal narratives in nineteenth-century America Author: Fabian, Ann Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| American Literature Publisher's Description: The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nine . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of form Author: Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Economics and Business \| Social Science \| Architecture \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| French Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items

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