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41. | | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance ArtsPublisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more]Similar Items | 43. | | Title: To the rescue of art: twenty-six essaysAuthor: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements.Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But rece . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. | | Title: Parables of sun light: observations on psychology, the arts, and the restAuthor: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: For many years Rudolf Arnheim, known as the leading psychologist of art, has been keeping notebooks in which to jot down observations, ideas, questions, and even (after a stay in Japan for a year) poems in the haiku pattern. Some of these notes found their way into his books - known and prized the w . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. | | Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century IndiaAuthor: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Medicine | HistoryPublisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. | | Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies | Intellectual History | Social and Political Thought | Politics | German StudiesPublisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. | | Title: Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousnessAuthor: Ascott, Roy Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Electronic MediaPublisher's Description: Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an impressive compil . . . [more]Similar Items | 48. | | Title: A fable of modern art Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more]Similar Items | 49. | | Title: A critical study of Philip Guston Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more]Similar Items | 50. | | Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History | European History | Military HistorySimilar Items | 51. | | Title: The art and politics of Wana shamanshipAuthor: Atkinson, Jane Monnig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Religion | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Similar Items | 52. | | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban StudiesPublisher'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 | 53. | | Title: J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the politics of writing Author: Attwell, David Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | African Studies | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's wri . . . [more]Similar Items | 54. | | Title: Schopenhauer on the character of the world: the metaphysics of willAuthor: Atwell, John E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , d . . . [more]Similar Items | 55. | | Title: Natural conflict resolutionAuthor: Aureli, Filippo 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | Zoology | Psychology | Cultural Anthropology | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group o . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. | | Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern FranceAuthor: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | European History | Art History | European StudiesPublisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. | | Title: The fordAuthor: Austin, Mary Hunter 1868-1934 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Mary Austin's 1917 novel illuminates one of the crucial issues in California history - the usurpation of water from the Owens Valley. Ranging from the eastern Sierra to the financial district in San Francisco, the plot portrays the frenzied speculation in land and resources, labor protests, and femi . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | LawPublisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more]Similar Items |
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