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| 1. |  | Title: The Free Speech Movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s Author: Cohen, Robert 1955 May. 21- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Gender Studies | United States History | Education Publisher's Description: This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Observatory seismology: an anniversary symposium on the occasion of the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley seismographic stations  Author: Litehiser, J. J. (Joe J.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | Geology Publisher's Description: The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to contro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | 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 |
| 5. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Migrant daughter: coming of age as a Mexican American woman Author: Tywoniak, Frances Esquibel 1931- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Women's Studies | Chicano Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this memoir, based on an oral history by Mario T. García, is the powerful and moving testimonio of a young Mexican American . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | California and the West | Intellectual History | Californian and Western History | Autobiography Publisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: What I learned in medical school: personal stories of young doctors Author: Takakuwa, Kevin M Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine | Sociology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Anthropology | Health Care Publisher's Description: Like many an exclusive club, the medical profession subjects its prospective members to rigorous indoctrination: medical students are overloaded with work, deprived of sleep and normal human contact, drilled and tested and scheduled down to the last minute. Difficult as the regimen may be, for those . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Silence at Boalt Hall: the dismantling of affirmative action Author: Guerrero, Andrea 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Sociology | African American Studies | Asian American Studies | Politics | Gender Studies | Law | Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: In 1995, in a marked reversal of progress in the march toward racial equity, the Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action at the University of California. One year later the electorate voted to do the same across the state of California. Silence at Boalt Hall is the thirty-year story of stud . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Targeting autism: what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism and related disorders Author: Cohen, Shirley Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Education | Psychology | Psychiatry | Medicine Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: When a doctor hates a patient, and other chapters in a young physician's life Author: Peschel, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine | Science Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Into one's own: from youth to adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 Author: Modell, John Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | United States History | Aging Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobs Author: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The development of Attic black-figure Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Taking back the streets: women, youth, and direct democracy Author: Kaplan, Temma 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Politics | Anthropology | Latin American Studies | European Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other wa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood Author: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science | Gender Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: A generation divided: the new left, the new right, and the 1960s Author: Klatch, Rebecca E Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, an important war in the fight against com . . . [more] Similar Items |