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| 41. |  | Title: The cigarette papers  Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Law | United States History Publisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | Politics | California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: City of stone: the hidden history of Jerusalem Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: Civic innovation in America: community empowerment, public policy, and the movement for civic renewal Author: Sirianni, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Print Media | Environmental Studies | Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/dev . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Cocaine politics: drugs, armies, and the CIA in Central America Author: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Public Policy Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: The color bind: California's battle to end affirmative action Author: Chavez, Lydia 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | California and the West Publisher's Description: The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next g . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Contesting citizenship in urban China: peasant migrants, the state, and the logic of the market Author: Solinger, Dorothy J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | China | Anthropology | Labor Studies | Demography | Asian History Publisher's Description: Post-Mao market reforms in China have led to a massive migration of rural peasants toward the cities. Officially denied residency in the cities, the over 80 million members of this "floating population" provide labor for the economic boom in urban areas but are largely denied government benefits tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance Author: Gruber, Judith Emily Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: Controlling corruption Author: Klitgaard, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Economics and Business | African Studies Publisher's Description: Corruption is increasingly recognized as a preeminent problem in the developing world. Bribery, extortion, fraud, kickbacks, and collusion have resulted in retarded economies, predator elites, and political instability. In this lively and absorbing book, Robert Klitgaard provides a framework for des . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Coordination without hierarchy: informal structures in multiorganizational systems Author: Chisholm, Donald William Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health care Author: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Medicine | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 55. |  | Title: Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Social Problems | Autobiography | Education | African History Publisher's Description: William Finnegan's compelling account of a year spent teaching in a colored high school, "across the line," in Cape Town, South Africa brings the irrationality and injustice of apartheid into focus for the American reader. A new preface, written after the author's observation of the historic 1994 el . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 56. |  | Title: A culture of conspiracy: apocalyptic visions in contemporary America Author: Barkun, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Christianity | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet disturbing book, quite a lot. It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. The Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bom . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | Title: Cultures in conflict: social movements and the state in Peru Author: Stokes, Susan Carol Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Anthropology | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: In this vivid ethnography set in contemporary Peru, Susan Stokes provides a compelling analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. Her research strategy is multifaceted; through interviews, participant observation, and survey research she digs deeply into the pop . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 58. |  | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 59. |  | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFK Author: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 60. |  | Title: The deficit and the public interest: the search for responsible budgeting in the 1980s Author: White, Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | American Studies Publisher's Description: Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues - the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyz . . . [more] Similar Items |