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| 61. |  | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 62. |  | Title: The Research foundations of graduate education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A powerful international roster of scholars presents the first comprehensive discussion of advanced education in Germany, Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. For each nation, a detailed overview of the historical development and current conditions of graduate education is followed by an a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex"  Author: Clarke, Adele Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | American Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 64. |  | Title: Looking at lovemaking: constructions of sexuality in Roman art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Classics | Art and Architecture | Art History | History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question - and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own. Clarke reevaluates our understanding of Roman art and society . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 65. |  | Title: The houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: ritual, space, and decoration Author: Clarke, John R 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Architectural History | Art History Publisher's Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts Author: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | Ethics Publisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment Author: Clarke, Lee Ben Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Environmental Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: The best of the Argonauts: the redefinition of the epic hero in book one of Apollonius's Argonautica Author: Clauss, James Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more real . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: Russia's women: accommodation, resistance, transformation Author: Clements, Barbara Evans 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: By ignoring gender issues, historians have failed to understand how efforts to control women - and women's reactions to these efforts - have shaped political and social institutions and thus influenced the course of Russian and Soviet history. These original essays challenge a host of traditional as . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: Chinese capitalists in Japan's new order: the occupied lower Yangzi, 1937-1945 Author: Coble, Parks M 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the activities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Planting nature: trees and the manipulation of environmental stewardship in America Author: Cohen, Shaul Ephraim 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Conservation | Geography | Environmental Studies | American Studies Publisher's Description: Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E. Cohen ex . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: The Free Speech Movement: reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s Author: Cohen, Robert 1955 May. 21- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Gender Studies | United States History | Education Publisher's Description: This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | 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 |
| 75. |  | Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Classical Religions | Classics | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 76. |  | Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Religion | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 77. |  | Title: Jewish icons: art and society in modern Europe Author: Cohen, Richard I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Jewish Studies | European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: With the help of over one hundred illustrations spanning three centuries, Richard Cohen investigates the role of visual images in European Jewish history. The interaction of Jews with the visual arts takes place, as Cohen says, in a vast gallery of prints, portraits, books, synagogue architecture, c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 78. |  | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 79. |  | Title: Targeting autism: what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism and related disorders Author: Cohen, Shirley Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Education | Psychology | Psychiatry | Medicine Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: The Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the islands, and Asia Minor Author: Cohen, Getzel M Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This compendium provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. Organized coherently in more than 180 entries, it is one of the most significant reference wor . . . [more] Similar Items |