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| 1. |  | Title: A companion to California wine: an encyclopedia of wine and winemaking from the mission period to the present Author: Sullivan, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Viticulture | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Wine Publisher's Description: California is the nation's great vineyard, supplying grapes for most of the wine produced in the United States. The state is home to more than 700 wineries, and California's premier wines are recognized throughout the world. But until now there has been no comprehensive guide to California wine and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: A history of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition  Author: Pinney, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Food and Cooking | United States History | American Studies | Wine Publisher's Description: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground dow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Bottled poetry: Napa winemaking from Prohibition to the modern era Author: Lapsley, James T Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Viticulture | Wine Publisher's Description: California's Napa Valley is one of the world's premier wine regions today, but this has not always been true. James Lapsley's entertaining history explains how a collective vision of excellence among winemakers and a keen sense of promotion transformed the region and its wines following the repeal o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions Author: Holt, Frank Lee Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History | Military History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance - how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies - is the subject . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Almost chosen people: oblique biographies in the American grain Author: Zuckerman, Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | United States History | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book.In his effort to remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of Americ . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Art and artists of twentieth-century China Author: Sullivan, Michael 1916- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | China Publisher's Description: This visually stunning book focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. Michael Sullivan, recognized throughout the world as a leading scholar of Chinese art, vividly documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Blood road: the mystery of Shen Dingyi in revolutionary China Author: Schoppa, R. Keith 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Politics Publisher's Description: Blood Road is a complex mix of social history, literary analysis, political biography, and murder mystery. It explores and analyzes the social and cultural dynamics of the Chinese revolution of the 1920s by focusing on the mysterious 1928 assassination of Shen Dingyi - revolutionary, landlord, polit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Snakes: the evolution of mystery in nature Author: Greene, Harry W 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Biology | Natural History Publisher's Description: This is a book about some of nature's most alluring and forbidding creatures, written by a man with an abiding passion for snakes, as well as for science, the fate of the planet, and the wonder of life. Harry Greene presents every facet of the natural history of snakes - their diversity, evolution, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The French worker: autobiographies from the early industrial era Author: Traugott, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Sociology | European History | Gender Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking | Renaissance History | History of Science | History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Friends, brothers, and informants: fieldwork memoirs of Banaras Author: Kumar, Nita 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: "Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it?"In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the dilemma of how a Western-trained Indian intellectua . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Real fantasies: Edward Steichen's advertising photography Author: Johnston, Patricia A 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Art History | History | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the 1920s and 1930s, Edward Steichen was the most successful photographer in the advertising industry. Although much has been said about Steichen's fine-art photography, his commercial work - which appeared regularly in Vanity Fair, Vogue, Ladies Home Journal , and almost every other popular . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: From craft to profession: the practice of architecture in nineteenth-century America Author: Woods, Mary N 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | United States History Publisher's Description: This is the first in-depth study of how the architectural profession emerged in early American history. Mary Woods dispels the prevailing notion that the profession developed under the leadership of men formally schooled in architecture as an art during the late nineteenth century. Instead, she cite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Impure science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge Author: Epstein, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Social Science | Medicine | Public Policy | History and Philosophy of Science | Sociology Publisher's Description: In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German culture Author: Rose, Paul Lawrence Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | European Studies | Science | Technology and Society | Physics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertake . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Symbolist art theories: a critical anthology Author: Dorra, Henri 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Art Criticism Publisher's Description: Henri Dorra, in his comprehensive new book, presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. Included are writings (many never before translated or reprinted) by artists, designers, architects, and critics, along with Dorra's learned commentary. Fi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Aging, death, and human longevity: a philosophical inquiry Author: Overall, Christine 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Public Policy Publisher's Description: With the help of medicine and technology we are living longer than ever before. As human life spans have increased, the moral and political issues surrounding longevity have become more complex. Should we desire to live as long as possible? What are the social ramifications of longer lives? How does . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and . . . [more] Similar Items |