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| 21. |  | Title: "Mademoiselle Irnois" and other stories  Author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de 1816-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Ethnic Studies | Women's Studies | United States History | American Studies Publisher's Description: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts - including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African A . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: The snow lion and the dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Politics | Asian History | China | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Tensions over the "Tibet Question" - the political status of Tibet - are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Native place, city, and nation: regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937 Author: Goodman, Bryna 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: This book explores the role of native place associations in the development of modern Chinese urban society and the role of native-place identity in the development of urban nationalism. From the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, sojourners from other provinces dominated the population . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Economics and Business | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Transforming free speech: the ambiguous legacy of civil libertarianism Author: Graber, Mark A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | Politics Publisher's Description: Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the framing of the First Amendment. Transforming Free Speech challenges the worthiness, and indeed the very existence of one uninterrupted libertarian tradition. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: An obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and The diary Author: Graver, Lawrence 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | History | European History Publisher's Description: Anne Frank's Diary has been acclaimed throughout the world as an indelible portrait of a gifted girl and as a remarkable document of the Holocaust. For Meyer Levin, the respected writer who helped bring the Diary to an American audience, the Jewish girl's moving story became a thirty-year obsession . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Hellenistic history and culture Author: Green, Peter 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | History Publisher's Description: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age.A di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Biblical prose prayer: as a window to the popular religion of ancient Israel Author: Greenberg, Moshe Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Religion Publisher's Description: The Psalms are the best known and most widely used prayer texts of the Bible. But the prayers of the Israelite took another form: the prose prayers that we find embedded in biblical narrative. Prose prayer was spoken by persons of all ranks. Male and female, Israelite and foreigner, all enjoyed equa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: Reading Sappho: contemporary approaches Author: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry Publisher's Description: Reading Sappho considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful, influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer and Oral Tradition", "Ritual and Social Context", and "Women's Erotics". Contributors focus on literary history, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 36. |  | Title: Unsnarling the world-knot: consciousness, freedom, and the mind-body problem Author: Griffin, David Ray 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the "world-knot," has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of Descartes. Among realists - those who accept the reality of the physical world - the two dominant approaches have been dualism and materialism, but there is a growing consen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 37. |  | Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 38. |  | Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 39. |  | Title: Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance Author: Gruber, Judith Emily Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | Politics Publisher's Description: How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. Similar Items |
| 40. |  | Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European Literature | Intellectual History Similar Items |