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| 121. |  | Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain  Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 122. |  | Title: The naturalness of religious ideas: a cognitive theory of religion Author: Boyer, Pascal Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Philosophy | Psychology Publisher's Description: Why do people have religious ideas? And why those religious ideas? The main theme of Pascal Boyer's work is that important aspects of religious representations are constrained by universal properties of the human mind-brain. Experimental results from developmental psychology, he says, can explain wh . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 123. |  | Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 124. |  | Title: Petrarch's genius: pentimento and prophecy Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.Petra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 125. |  | Title: The key to Newton's dynamics: the Kepler problem and the Principia: containing an English translation of sections 1, 2, and 3 of book one from the first (1687) edition of Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy Author: Brackenridge, J. Bruce 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Science | Physics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necess . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 126. |  | Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 127. |  | Title: The Cynics: the cynic movement in antiquity and its legacy Author: Branham, Robert Bracht Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Religion | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This collection of essays - the first of its kind in English - brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 128. |  | Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | Archaeology | European History | European History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 129. |  | Title: Mental ills and bodily cures: psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century Author: Braslow, Joel T 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Science | Psychiatry | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | Psychology Publisher's Description: Mental Ills and Bodily Cures depicts a time when psychiatric medicine went to lengths we now find extreme and perhaps even brutal ways to heal the mind by treating the body. From a treasure trove of California psychiatric hospital records, including many verbatim transcripts of patient interviews, J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 130. |  | Title: Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | History | China | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 131. |  | Title: The rice economies: technology and development in Asian societies Author: Bray, Francesca Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | European History | Social Theory | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The contrast in the rate of growth between Western and Eastern societies since 1800 has caused Asian societies to be characterized as backward and resistant to change, though until 1600 or so certain Asian states were technologically far in advance of Europe. The Rice Economies , drawing on original . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 132. |  | Title: Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression Author: Braziel, Jana Evans 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Ethnic Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant pe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 133. |  | Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | Law | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 134. |  | Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state Author: Brennan, Troyen A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine Publisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 135. |  | Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 136. |  | Title: Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Religion | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the intrigues of the great families, like the Orsini and Colonna, the reader is guided through . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 137. |  | Title: Two churches: England and Italy in the thirteenth century Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Religion Similar Items |
| 138. |  | Title: Traveling in Mark Twain Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Literature Similar Items |
| 139. |  | Title: Reproducing empire: race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto Rico Author: Briggs, Laura 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | Medicine | United States History | Women's Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, fe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 140. |  | Title: Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare Author: Briggs, Charles L 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Disease | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C . . . [more] Similar Items |