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| 1. |  | Title: Permissible dose: a history of radiation protection in the twentieth century Author: Walker, J. Samuel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | American Studies | United States History | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation - caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, expo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy  Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Setting safety standards: regulation in the public and private sectors Author: Cheit, Ross E Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In this highly original and meticulously researched comparison of public and private standards-setting, Ross Cheit questions the old maxim that government-set safety standards are too severe while those set by the private sector are too lenient. Identifying the comparative institutional advantages o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: New world encounters Author: Greenblatt, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Latin American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American History Publisher's Description: The discovery of the Indies, wrote Francisco López de Gómara in 1552, was "the greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." Five centuries have not diminished either the overwhelming importance or the strangeness of the early encounter b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Strategic bankruptcy: how corporations and creditors use Chapter 11 to their advantage Author: Delaney, Kevin J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Public Policy | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In 1982 Johns-Manville, a major asbestos manufacturer, declares itself insolvent to avoid paying claims resulting from exposure to its products. A year later, Continental Airlines, one of the top ten carriers in the United States, claims a deficit when the union resists plans to cut labor costs. Lat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv Author: Weiner, Douglas R 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | Environmental Studies | Politics | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Ecology Publisher's Description: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led mo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Crossing the border: encounters between homeless people and outreach workers Author: Rowe, Michael 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Psychology | American Studies | Urban Studies | Social Problems | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. Crossing the Border , the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this borde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The power of collective purse strings: the effects of bank hegemony on corporations and the state Author: Glasberg, Davita Silfen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Sociology Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia Author: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Encounter: a novel of nineteenth-century Korea Author: Han, Mu-suk 1918- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian Literature | South Asia Publisher's Description: This historical novel, Encounter ( Mannam ), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: What is sexual harassment?: from Capitol Hill to the Sorbonne Author: Saguy, Abigail Cope 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European Studies | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Law | Sociology Publisher's Description: In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United Sta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the Medieval cathedral Author: Scott, Robert A 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Architecture | European Studies | Christianity | European History | Architectural History | Sociology | Sociology Publisher's Description: The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: MeXicana encounters: the making of social identities on the borderlands Author: Fregoso, Rosa Linda Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Chicano Studies | California and the West | Film | Women's Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Latin American Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Middle Eastern History | Popular Culture | Middle Eastern Studies | Ethnic Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | Title: What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Author: Thomas, Robert Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | Sociology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reve . . . [more] Similar Items |