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| 1. |  | Title: There's something happening here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI counterintelligence Author: Cunningham, David 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies | History | Politics | Sociology | Law Publisher's Description: Using over twelve thousand previously classified documents made available through the Freedom of Information Act, David Cunningham uncovers the riveting inside story of the FBI's attempts to neutralize political targets on both the Right and the Left during the 1960s. Examining the FBI's infamous co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Performance artists talking in the eighties: sex, food, money/fame, ritual/death Author: Montano, Linda 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art | Art History | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The quiet hand of God: faith-based activism and the public role of mainline Protestantism Author: Wuthnow, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Christianity | Sociology | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Robert Wuthnow and John H. Evans bring together a stellar collection of essays that paints a contemporary portrait of American Protestantism - a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere. Mainline Protestants may have steered clear of the controversial, att . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditation Author: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | Japan Publisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Collected prose Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Poetry | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | Poetry Publisher's Description: The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmoder . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Literature in Translation | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Profane illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of surrealist revolution Author: Cohen, Margaret Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: German Studies | Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Benja . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | Title: The vanguard of the Islamic revolution: the Jamaʿat-i Islami of Pakistan Author: Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | South Asia | Islam Publisher's Description: In this groundbreaking study, Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr examines the origins, historical development, and political strategies of one of the oldest and most influential Islamic revival movements, the Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. He focuses on the inherent tension between the movement's idealized vision . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Symbols, computation, and intentionality: a critique of the computational theory of mind Author: Horst, Steven W 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Psychology Publisher's Description: The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that cognitive states possess the generative and compositional properties of natural languages - has proven enormously influential in recent philosophical studies of cognition. In this carefully argued criti . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemption Author: Wolin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Chicano Studies | Gender Studies | Social and Political Thought | Politics | Social Theory | Immigration Publisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Regarding politics: essays on political theory, stability, and change Author: Eckstein, Harry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory Publisher's Description: After World War II political science, especially comparative politics, was transformed by a "scientific revolution." Harry Eckstein, an influential spokesman in the revolution's forefront, went on to make a great variety of contributions in subsequent decades. These eleven essays, written over thirt . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | European History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Roberto Rossellini Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The language of inquiry Author: Hejinian, Lyn Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The mask of Socrates: the image of the intellectual in antiquity Author: Zanker, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Art History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in add . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Conventional wisdom: the content of musical form Author: McClary, Susan Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Musicology Publisher's Description: With her usual combination of erudition, innovation, and spirited prose, Susan McClary reexamines the concept of musical convention in this fast-moving and refreshingly accessible book. Exploring the ways that shared musical practices transmit social knowledge, Conventional Wisdom offers an account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 Author: Bloch, Ruth H 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Christianity | Women's Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of h . . . [more] Similar Items |