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21. | | | 22. | | Title: The mystique of dreams: a search for utopia through Senoi dream theory Author: Domhoff, G. William Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and effica . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman Author: Dorter, Kenneth 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Literature and LanguagePublisher's Description: In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Rediscovering Palestine: merchants and peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 Author: Doumani, Beshara 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Drawing on previously unused primary sources, this book paints an intimate and vivid portrait of Palestinian society on the eve of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants, and Ottoman officials, Beshara Doumani offers a major revision of standard interpretations of Ottoman history by in . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | Title: Italian music incunabula: printers and type Author: Duggan, Mary Kay Conyers Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Musical notation presented unusual challenges to the new craft of printing in the fifteenth century. Its demands were so difficult that the first impression of music from metal type was not made until a full twenty years after the first printed alphabetic texts. By the end of the century dozens of s . . . [more]Similar Items | 27. | | Title: Douglas Hyde: a maker of modern Ireland Author: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1938, at an age when most men are long retired, Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was elected first president of modern Ireland. The unanimous choice of delegates from all political factions, he was no stranger to public life or to fame. Until now, however, there has been no full-scale biography of this i . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | American Studies | United States History | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more]Similar Items |
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