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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: A culture of conspiracy: apocalyptic visions in contemporary America Author: Barkun, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Christianity \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet disturbing book, quite a lot. It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. The Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bom . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Michelangelo's Last Judgment: the Renaissance response Author: Barnes, Bernadine Ann Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art Publisher's Description: In her analysis of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , Bernadine Barnes provides an original and stimulating view of this renowned fresco and of the audience for which it was created. Because Michelangelo is so often regarded as a nearly superhuman artistic genius, we tend to forget that his works were n . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Medicine \| European History Publisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Staged narrative: poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy Author: Barrett, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the death of Hippolytus, among other important even . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Recording conceptual art: early interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner, by Patricia Norvell Author: Barry, Robert 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contribut . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Incidents Author: Barthes, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soirées de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various states of excitation, panic . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roman honor: the fire in the bones Author: Barton, Carlin A 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Classical History \| Classical Politics \| Classical Religions \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the most complex understanding to date of the emotional and spiritual life of the ancient Romans. Her pr . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new public management: improving research and policy dialogue Author: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| Social Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Austral . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in government Author: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notion . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing American divorce: from the revolutionary generation to the Victorians Author: Basch, Norma Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Law \| United States History \| Gender Studies \| Victorian History Publisher's Description: Divorce has become one of the most widely discussed issues in America. In this innovative exploration of the phenomenon of divorce in American society, Norma Basch uses a variety of analytic perspectives to enrich our understanding of the meaning of divorce during the formative years of both the nat . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wars we took to Vietnam: cultural conflict and storytelling Author: Bates, Milton J Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Popular Culture \| American Literature Publisher's Description: What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rhetorics of self-making Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Hypochondria: woeful imaginatings Author: Baur, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Medicine \| Science Publisher's Description: Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life. Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: The concept of neutrality in classical Greece Author: Bauslaugh, Robert A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Law \| Classical History Publisher's Description: Looking at Classical warfare from the perspective of the non-belligerents, Robert A. Bauslaugh brings together the scattered evidence testifying to neutral behavior among the Greek city-states and their non-Greek neighbors. Were the Argives of 480/479 B.C. really "Medizers," as many have accused, or . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry \| American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: The development of Attic black-figure Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Classics \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: Nomad: a year in the life of a Qashqa'i tribesman in Iran Author: Beck, Lois 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Borzu Qermezi was the headman and political leader of a group of nomadic pastoralists who were part of the Qashqa'i confederacy of southwest Iran. Proud, complex, strong-willed, witty, and cunning, Borzu successfully led his people on their annual migrations for many years. He regulated their travel . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine \| Women's Studies \| Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Disrupted lives: how people create meaning in a chaotic world Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medicine \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker . . . [more] Similar Items

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