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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Twain \| American Literature \| American Studies Publisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Getting to be Mark Twain Author: Steinbrink, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some ti . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Traveling in Mark Twain Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| American Literature Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death Author: Montano, Linda 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Print Media \| Public Policy \| Science Publisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Thing knowledge: a philosophy of scientific instruments Author: Baird, Davis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Philosophy \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of phenomena. This absorbing book challenges this fundamental notion by showing how objects themselves, specifically scientific instruments, can express knowledge. As he considers num . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Author: Lutgendorf, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| South Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text - the epic Ramcaritmanas - and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers intereste . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater Author: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Contemporary Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Opera \| Musicology \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: A scientist's voice in American culture: Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method Author: Moyer, Albert E 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| United States History Publisher's Description: In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the most of it. Officially a mathematical astronomer heading a government agency, Newcomb spent as much of his life out of the observatory as in it, acting as . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The festive state: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance Author: Guss, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a col . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Prematurity in scientific discovery: on resistance and neglect Author: Hook, Ernest B 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Science \| History of Science \| Social and Political Thought \| Geology \| Evolution \| Physics \| History of Medicine Publisher's Description: For centuries, observers have noted the many obstacles to intellectual change in science. In a much-discussed paper published in Scientific American in 1972, molecular biologist Gunther Stent proposed an explicit criterion for one kind of obstacle to scientific discovery. He denoted a claim or hypot . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The lure of the edge: scientific passions, religious beliefs, and the pursuit of UFOs Author: Denzler, Brenda 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hosti . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taming the wind of desire: psychology, medicine, and aesthetics in Malay shamanistic performance Author: Laderman, Carol Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychology \| Southeast Asia \| Medicine Publisher's Description: Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits - the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore - in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthro . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy Author: Findlen, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| European History \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of nature, . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rich democracies: political economy, public policy, and performance Author: Wilensky, Harold L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics \| Social Theory \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In this landmark work, the culmination of 30 years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of 19 rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: (1) What is distinctly modern about modern societies--in what ways are they becoming alike? (2) How do variations in types of political economy sha . . . [more] Similar Items