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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion \| Asian Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930 Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry \| American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The attic: memoir of a Chinese landlord's son Author: Cao, Guanlong 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literature in Translation \| China \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Novelist Guanlong Cao's autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the forty turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. Forced to the bottom of Chinese society as "class enemies," Cao's family eked out a meager existence in a cramp . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Environmental Studies \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Sociology \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Gender Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The American musical landscape Author: Crawford, Richard 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: In this refreshingly direct and engaging historical treatment of American music and musicology, Richard Crawford argues for the recognition of the distinct and vital character of American music. What is that character? How has musical life been supported in the United States and how have Americans u . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Appeasement or resistance and other essays on New Testament Judaism Author: Daube, David Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Acts of implication: suggestion and covert meaning in the works of Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Austen Author: Ehrenpreis, Irvin 1920- Published: University of California Press, 1981 Subjects: Literature Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: American homo: community and perversity Author: Escoffier, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| American Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: AIDS: the making of a chronic disease Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Medicine \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: When AIDS was first recognized in 1981, most experts believed that it was a plague, a virulent unexpected disease. They thought AIDS, as a plague, would resemble the great epidemics of the past: it would be devastating but would soon subside, perhaps never to return. By the middle 1980s, however, it . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: AIDS: the burdens of history Author: Fee, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Publisher's Description: The AIDS epidemic has posed more urgent historical questions than any other disease of modern times. How have societies responded to epidemics in the past? Why did the disease emerge when and where it did? How has it spread among members of particular groups? And how will the past affect the future . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	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
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Arnolfini betrothal: medieval marriage and the enigma of Van Eyck's double portrait Author: Hall, Edwin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Criticism \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Commonly known as the "Arnolfini Wedding" or "Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride," Jan van Eyck's double portrait, painted in 1434, is probably the most widely recognized panel painting of the fifteenth century. One of the great masterpieces of early Flemish art, this enigmatic picture has also arouse . . . [more] Similar Items

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