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1. | | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early ChristianityAuthor: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: The Prophet's pulpit: Islamic preaching in contemporary EgyptAuthor: Gaffney, Patrick D 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | IslamPublisher's Description: Muslim preaching has been central in forming public opinion, building grassroots organizations, and developing leadership cadres for the wider Islamist agenda. Based on in-depth field research in Egypt, Patrick Gaffney focuses on the preacher and the sermon as the single most important medium for pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Early Greek lawAuthor: Gagarin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Politics | LawPublisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guideAuthor: Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History and Philosophy of Science | HistoryPublisher's Description: Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican , comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: The state must be our master of fire: how peasants craft culturally sustainable development in SenegalAuthor: Galvan, Dennis Charles Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the governmen . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Claims to fame: celebrity in contemporary AmericaAuthor: Gamson, Joshua 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Popular Culture | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of fame in American life, Gamson begins with the . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994Author: García, Maria Cristina 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American History | Ethnic Studies | Latino StudiesPublisher's Description: In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García - a Cuban refugee raised in Miami - has experienced firsth . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Memories of Chicano history: the life and narrative of Bert CoronaAuthor: García, Mario T Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | Latino Studies | Chicano Studies | Autobiography | Californian and Western History | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. Now his voice can be heard by the wide audience it deserves. In this landmark publication - the . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Passing by: gender and public harassmentAuthor: Gardner, Carol Brooks Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. Off the street, in semi-public places such as restaurants and department stores, women often suffer the insult of being passed over by employees eager to se . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: The state and labor in modern JapanAuthor: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | Asian History | Politics | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: The making of revolutionary ParisAuthor: Garrioch, David Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | French StudiesPublisher's Description: The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change. An excellent general history as well as . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Dryden and the tradition of panegyric Author: Garrison, James D Published: University of California Press, 1975 Subjects: Literature | English LiteratureSimilar Items | 14. | | Title: Real Indians: identity and the survival of Native AmericaAuthor: Garroutte, Eva Marie 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: At the dawn of the twenty-first century, America finds itself on the brink of a new racial consciousness. The old, unquestioned confidence with which individuals can be classified (as embodied, for instance, in previous U.S. census categories) has been eroded. In its place are shifting paradigms and . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: By popular demand: revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections Author: Gastil, John Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: PoliticsPublisher's Description: John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of representative democracy in the United States. Gastil argues that American citizens have difficulty developing clear policy interes . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Toward a new poetics: contemporary writing in France: interviews, with an introduction and translated texts Author: Gavronsky, Serge Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Writing | French StudiesPublisher's Description: A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replac . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: The mind's pastAuthor: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Psychology | Cognitive Science | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Politician's dilemma: building state capacity in Latin AmericaAuthor: Geddes, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In Latin America as elsewhere, politicians routinely face a painful dilemma: whether to use state resources for national purposes, especially those that foster economic development, or to channel resources to people and projects that will help insure political survival and reelection. While politici . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | MedicinePublisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more]Similar Items |
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