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41.	Requires cookie*	Title: Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West Author: Flax, Jane Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Psychiatry \| Political Theory \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theory. Examining the writings of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Chodorow, Irigaray, Derrida, Rorty, and Foucault, among others, Flax conducts a "conversation" among psychoanalysts, feminist thinkers, and postmode . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Requires cookie*	Title: A bat man in the tropics: chasing El Duende Author: Fleming, Theodore H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Mammalogy \| Autobiography \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conve . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Requires cookie*	Title: The new German cinema: music, history, and the matter of style Author: Flinn, Caryl Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| German Studies \| Music Publisher's Description: When New German cinema directors like R. W. Fassbinder, Ulrike Ottinger, and Werner Schroeter explored issues of identity - national, political, personal, and sexual - music and film style played crucial roles. Most studies of the celebrated film movement, however, have sidestepped the role of music . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Requires cookie*	Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies \| California and the West \| Geography \| United States History Publisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Requires cookie*	Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Ethnic Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Requires cookie*	Title: Traditional oral epic: the Odyssey, Beowulf, and the Serbo-Croatian return song Author: Foley, John Miles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European Literature \| Folklore and Mythology \| Religion \| Language and Linguistics \| Classics \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: John Miles Foley offers an innovative and straightforward approach to the structural analysis of oral and oral-derived traditional texts. Professor Foley argues that to give the vast and complex body of oral "literature" its due, we must first come to terms with the endemic heterogeneity of traditio . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Requires cookie*	Title: Islands in the city: West Indian migration to New York Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Similar Items
48.	Requires cookie*	Title: The caregiving dilemma: work in an American nursing home Author: Foner, Nancy 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Social Problems \| Medicine \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one day enter nursing homes. Who are the people who will care for us or for our relatives? Nancy Foner provides a major study of institutional care that focuses on nursing aides, who are the backbone of American nursi . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and popular culture in America Author: Forbes, Bruce David Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Popular Culture \| United States History Publisher's Description: The connections between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. Ranging from religious themes in cowboy fiction to Madonna's "Like a Prayer," from televangelism to the world of sports, the book's contributors offer fascinating insights int . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Requires cookie*	Title: Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles Author: Fornara, Charles W Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: By the mid fifth century B.C., Athens had become the most powerful city-state in Greece: a rich democracy led by Pericles that boldly gained control of an empire. Athens's strength under Pericles was the result of a complex interaction of events from the time of Cleisthenes. Fornara and Samons unrav . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Requires cookie*	Title: New York by gas-light and other urban sketches Author: Foster, George G d. 1856 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Print Media \| Urban Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower st . . . [more] Similar Items
53.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rhetoric of confession: shishōsetsu in early twentieth-century Japanese fiction Author: Fowler, Edward Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature \| Japan \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Asian Literature Publisher's Description: The shishosetsu is a Japanese form of autobiographical fiction that flourished during the first two decades of this century. Focusing on the works of Chikamatsu Shuko, Shiga Naoya, and Kasai Zenzo, Edward Fowler explores the complex and paradoxical nature of shishosetsu , and discusses its linguisti . . . [more] Similar Items
54.	Requires cookie*	Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology \| Medicine \| History \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Requires cookie*	Title: Latin American experiments in neoconservative economics Author: Foxley, Alejandro Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
56.	Requires cookie*	Title: Peasants and protest: agricultural workers, politics, and unions in the Aude, 1850-1914 Author: Frader, Laura Levine 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Gender Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twenti . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Requires cookie*	Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| American Studies \| United States History \| Christianity Publisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more] Similar Items
58.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century Author: Frängsmyr, Tore 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Intellectual History Similar Items
59.	Requires cookie*	Title: The memory of the eyes: pilgrims to living saints in Christian late antiquity Author: Frank, Georgia 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Christianity \| Classical Religions \| Classical History Publisher's Description: Pilgrims in the deserts of Egypt and the holy land during the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. often reported visiting holy people as part of their tours of holy places. This is the first comprehensive study of pilgrimage to these famous ascetics of late antique Christianity. Through an original anal . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Requires cookie*	Title: Venus on wheels: two decades of dialogue on disability, biography, and being female in America Author: Frank, Gelya 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relati . . . [more] Similar Items

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