UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: On the road to tribal extinction: depopulation, deculuration, and adaptive well-being among the Batak of the Philippines Author: Eder, James F Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Publisher's Description: The cultural and even physical extinction of the world's remaining tribal people is a disturbing phenomenon of our time. In his study of the Batak of the Philippines, James Eder explores the adaptive limits of small human populations facing the ecological changes, social stresses, and cultural disru . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cousins and strangers: Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 Author: Moya, Jose C 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: More than four million Spaniards came to the Western Hemisphere between the mid-nineteenth century and the Great Depression. Unlike that of most other Europeans, their major destination was Argentina, not the United States. Studies of these immigrants - mostly laborers and peasants - have been scarc . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Postwar Japan as history Author: Gordon, Andrew 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Japan's catapult to world economic power has inspired many studies by social scientists, but few have looked at the 45 years of postwar Japan through the lens of history. The contributors to this book seek to offer such a view. As they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors des . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine \| Women's Studies \| Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The trouble with nature: sex in science and popular culture Author: Lancaster, Roger N Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Railroad crossing: Californians and the railroad, 1850-1910 Author: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| United States History \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Nothing so changed nineteenth-century America as did the railroad. Growing up together, the iron horse and the young nation developed a fast friendship. Railroad Crossing is the story of what happened to that friendship, particularly in California, and it illuminates the chaos that was industrial Am . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Faultlines: cultural materialism and the politics of dissident reading Author: Sinfield, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance to that social order? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.New h . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies \| History \| American Studies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Law and disorder on the Narova River: the Kreenholm strike of 1872 Author: Zelnik, Reginald E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Labor Studies \| European History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversie . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia Norvell Author: Barry, Robert 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contribut . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical form Author: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music \| Musicology Publisher's Description: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Healing the infertile family: strengthening your relationship in the search for parenthood Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychology Publisher's Description: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couple . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The listening composer Author: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music \| Contemporary Music \| Composers Publisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Temples and towns in Roman Iberia: the social and architectural dynamics of sanctuary designs from the third century B.C. to the third century A.D Author: Mierse, William E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics \| Archaeology \| Art and Architecture \| Architectural History \| Art History Publisher's Description: This is the first comparative study of Roman architecture on the Iberian peninsula, covering six centuries from the arrival of the Romans in the third century B.C. until the decline of urban life on the peninsula in the third century A.D. During this period, the peninsula became an influential cultu . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: In one's own shadow: an ethnographic account of the condition of post-reform rural China Author: Liu, Xin 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| China Publisher's Description: China underwent a dramatic social transformation in the last decade of the twentieth century. This powerful ethnographic study of one community focuses on the logic of everyday practice in post-reform rural China. Enriched with many vivid anecdotes describing life in the village of Zhaojiahe in nort . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 Author: Herbst, Jeffrey Ira Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Economic reform was the most pressing question for African and other Third World countries during the 1980s, and it will continue to dominate their public policy agendas during the coming decade. In this first full-length examination of the political economy of adjustment in Ghana, Jeffrey Herbst de . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristocratic experience and the origins of modern culture: France, 1570-1715 Author: Dewald, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inhe . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	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
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Representation of places: reality and realism in city design Author: Bosselmann, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how t . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Founder of Hasidism: a quest for the historical Baʾal Shem Tov Author: Rosman, Murray Jay Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Judaism Publisher's Description: This book goes farther than any previous work in uncovering the historical Israel ben Eliezer - known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, or the Besht - the eighteenth-century Polish-Jewish mystic who profoundly influenced the shape of modern Judaism. As the progenitor of Hasidism, the Ba'al Shem Tov is one of t . . . [more] Similar Items