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| 1. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Information and organizations  Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Rethinking American history in a global age Author: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | Historiography Publisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Modern Japanese organization and decision-making Author: Vogel, Ezra F Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies | Sociology | Economics and Business Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the West Publisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Public Policy | Sociology Publisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Smallpox: the fight to eradicate a global scourge Author: Koplow, David A 1951- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | Disease Publisher's Description: Though smallpox was eradicated from the planet two decades ago, recent terrorist acts have raised the horrific possibility that rogue states, laboratories, or terrorist groups are in possession of secret stockpiles of the virus that causes the disease, and may be preparing to unleash it on target po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective Author: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latin American History | Postcolonial Studies | Urban Studies | Immigration | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Reclaiming America: Nike, clean air, and the new national activism Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Have activists taken the bumper-sticker adage "Think Globally, Act Locally" too literally? Randy Shaw argues that they have, with destructive consequences for America. Since the 1970s, activist participation in national struggles has steadily given way to a nearly exclusive focus on local issues. Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Shadows of war: violence, power, and international profiteering in the twenty-first century Author: Nordstrom, Carolyn 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Economics and Business | Global Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power brokers, to vast extra-legal networks that fuel war and international profiteering. She captures the human face of the front li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: China's new nationalism: pride, politics, and diplomacy Author: Gries, Peter Hays 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | China | International Relations Publisher's Description: Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a "barbaric" and intentional "criminal act," the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the role . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Over the edge: remapping the American West Author: Matsumoto, Valerie J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies | California and the West | Popular Culture | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | German Studies Publisher's Description: From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature, and redraws the boundaries of the American West with absorbing . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Konspira: Solidarity underground Author: Łopiński, Maciej Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Konspira bares the soul and mind of Solidarity not long before the movement's stunning emergence as Poland's political vanguard. Written while martial law still gripped the country, Konspira tells the inside story of this inspiring contemporary workers' movement. The authors taped, then consolidated . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Re-imaging Japanese women Author: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | Japan Publisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more] Similar Items |