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1. | | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretationAuthor: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | BiologyPublisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood glamour photographyAuthor: Dance, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Photography | California and the WestPublisher's Description: When Ruth Harriet Louise joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio with "more stars than there are in heaven," she was twenty-two years old and the only woman working as a portrait photographer for the Hollywood studios. In a career that lasted from 1925 until 1930, Louise (born Ruth Goldstein) photogr . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | African American Studies | Social Problems | California and the West | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: New York, the politics of urban regional development Author: Danielson, Michael N Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Urban StudiesSimilar Items | 5. | | Title: The body/body problem: selected essaysAuthor: Danto, Arthur Coleman 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art Criticism | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: The overall subject of the essays in The Body/Body Problem is the traditional one of what our ultimate makeup is, as creatures with minds and bodies. The central thesis is that we are beings who represent - and misrepresent - actual and possible worlds. Addressing philosophical questions of mental r . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: From c-numbers to q-numbers: the classical analogy in the history of quantum theory Author: Darrigol, Olivier Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | PhysicsPublisher's Description: The history of quantum theory is a maze of conceptual problems, through which Olivier Darrigol provides a lucid and learned guide, tracking the role of formal analogies between classical and quantum theory. From Planck's first introduction of the quantum of action to Dirac's formulation of quantum m . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | RhetoricPublisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Called by the wild: the autobiography of a conservationistAuthor: Dasmann, Raymond Fredric 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known and "conservation" to most people simply meant keeping or storing. This delightful memoir tells the st . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | | 11. | | Title: Tradition in a rootless world: women turn to Orthodox JudaismAuthor: Davidman, Lynn 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: The past two decades in the United States have seen an immense liberalization and expansion of women's roles in society. Recently, however, some women have turned away from the myriad, complex choices presented by modern life and chosen instead a Jewish orthodox tradition that sets strict and rigid . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Loose change: three women of the sixtiesAuthor: Davidson, Sara Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three - Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself - from their first meeting in 1962, through the eve . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: The consumer revolution in urban ChinaAuthor: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | China | Urban Studies | ConsumerismPublisher's Description: After decades of egalitarian, restricted consumption, residents of China's cities are surrounded by a level of material comfort and commercial hype unimaginable just ten years ago. In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Dark side of fortune: triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. DohenyAuthor: Davis, Margaret L Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Dark Side of Fortune contains all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. Filling in one of the most important gaps in the history of the American West, Margaret Leslie Davis's riveting biography follows Edward L. Doheny's fascinating story from his days as an itinerant prospector in the dangerous jun . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Spectacular nature: corporate culture and the Sea World experienceAuthor: Davis, Susan G 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Popular Culture | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale - as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds - the park represents a careful coordination . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Whitman and the romance of medicineAuthor: Davis, Robert Leigh 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-centu . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Chinese families in the post-Mao era Author: Davis, Deborah 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | ChinaPublisher's Description: How have the momentous policy shifts that followed the death of Mao Zedong changed families in China? What are the effects of the decollectivization of agriculture, the encouragement of limited private enterprise, and the world's strictest birth-control policy? Eleven sociologists and anthropologist . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art Author: Davis, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this d . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Polyhymnia: the rhetoric of Horatian lyric discourseAuthor: Davis, Gregson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | RhetoricPublisher's Description: Horace's Odes have a surface translucency that belies their rhetorical sophistication. Gregson Davis brings together recent trends in the study of Augustan poetry and critical theory and deftly applies them to individual poems. Exploring four rhetorical strategies - what he calls modes of assimilati . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Childbirth and authoritative knowledge: cross-cultural perspectivesAuthor: Davis-Floyd, Robbie Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: This benchmark collection of cross-cultural essays on reproduction and childbirth extends and enriches the work of Brigitte Jordan, who helped generate and define the field of the anthropology of birth. The authors' focus on authoritative knowledge - the knowledge that counts, on the basis of which . . . [more]Similar Items |
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