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| 1. |  | Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move  Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Practicing virtues: moral traditions at Quaker and military boarding schools Author: Hays, Kim Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Education Publisher's Description: Practicing Virtues is about learning to be good in the distinct moral worlds of Quaker and military boarding schools. Both types of schools bind their communities with shared codes of conduct, the military schools' conservative tradition emphasizing discipline and hard work, the Quaker schools' libe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Politics Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The poetics of military occupation: Mzeina allegories of Bedouin identity under Israeli and Egyptian rule Author: Lavie, Smadar Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Military History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The romantic, nineteenth-century image of the Bedouin as fierce, independent nomads on camelback racing across an endless desert persists in the West. Yet since the era of Ottoman rule, the Mzeina Bedouin of the South Sinai desert have lived under foreign occupation. For the last forty years Bedouin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Rome and the enemy: imperial strategy in the principate Author: Mattern, Susan P 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Literature and Language | Military History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This illuminating book draws on the literature, especially the historiography, composed by the members of the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. From this evidence, Susan P. Mattern . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Wars of the third kind: conflict in underdeveloped countries Author: Rice, Edward E. (Edward Earl) 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics | Asian History Publisher's Description: Most of the armed conflicts since World War II have been neither conventional nor nuclear, but wars of a third kind, usually fought in the Third World and relying heavily, although not exclusively, on guerrilla warfare. Edward E. Rice examines a number of conflicts of this sort, starting with the Am . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of Stanford Author: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Military History | Ancient History | Classical Politics | Agriculture Publisher's Description: The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658 Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History | European History | Military History Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope Author: Manz, Beatriz 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | American Studies | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz - an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan highlands and remote rain forests of Guatemala . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The defense of Attica: the Dema wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Gender differences at work: women and men in nontraditional occupations Author: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are ent . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. |  | Title: Asylia: territorial inviolability in the Hellenistic world Author: Rigsby, Kent J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Ancient History | Politics | Classical History | Classical Religions | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: In the Hellenistic period certain Greek temples and cities came to be declared "sacred and inviolable." Asylia was the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum, meaning they were immune to violence and civil authority. The evidence for this phenomenon - mainly inscriptions and coin . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: The war come home: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939 Author: Cohen, Deborah 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | Military History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Disabled veterans were the First World War's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned from the First World War permanently disabled by injury or disease. In The War Come Home, Deborah Cohen offers a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | 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. |  | Title: The power of the gun: the emergence of modern Chinese warlordism Author: McCord, Edward Allen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: This detailed study offers a new interpretation of the emergence of warlordism in early twentieth-century China. Focusing on the provinces of Hunan and Hubei, Edward McCord shows how the repeated use of the military to settle disputes over the structure and allocation of political power in the early . . . [more] Similar Items |