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21.	Requires cookie*	Title: Walter Benjamin's other history: of stones, animals, human beings, and angels Author: Hanssen, Beatrice Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Philosophy \| Rhetoric \| German Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Long considered to be an impenetrable, hermetic treatise, Walter Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama has rarely received the attention it deserves as a key text, central to a full understanding of his work. In this critically acclaimed study, distinguished Benjamin scholar Beatrice Hanssen . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marketing the menacing fetus in Japan Author: Hardacre, Helen 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo - a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Requires cookie*	Title: The silk weavers of Kyoto: family and work in a changing traditional industry Author: Hareven, Tamara K Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: The makers of obi, the elegant and costly sash worn over kimono in Japan, belong to an endangered species. These families of manufacturers, weavers, and other craftspeople centered in the Nishijin weaving district of Kyoto have practiced their demanding craft for generations. In recent decades, howe . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Requires cookie*	Title: Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Author: Harlan, Lindsey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understa . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Requires cookie*	Title: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound Author: Harmon, Alexandra 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Native American Studies \| United States History \| Ethnic Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous peoples and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. Indians in the Making offers the first comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fis . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| China \| Ethnic Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, the first scholarly study in a Western language on the Yi in four decades, brings this little-known part of the world to life. Perspectives on the Yi of Southwest China . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chinese historical microdemography Author: Harrell, Stevan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian History \| China \| Demography Publisher's Description: Using local studies to answer global questions, this compilation challenges traditional notions concerning historical Chinese population trends. Genealogies, epitaphs, and household registers are some of the local and primary materials used to examine the important issues of fertility, mortality, fa . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Requires cookie*	Title: Agent-centered morality: an Aristotelian alternative to Kantian internalism Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality , George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, a . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dignity and vulnerability: strength and quality of character Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this significant new addition to moral theory, George Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Wh . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Requires cookie*	Title: Spacefaring: the human dimension Author: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science \| Technology and Society \| Psychology Publisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Requires cookie*	Title: 1910, the emancipation of dissonance Author: Harrison, Thomas J 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Comparative Literature \| European Literature \| Art History Publisher's Description: The year 1910 marks an astonishing, and largely unrecognized, juncture in Western history. In this perceptive interdisciplinary analysis, Thomas Harrison addresses the extraordinary intellectual achievement of the time. Focusing on the cultural climate of Middle Europe and paying particular attentio . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Requires cookie*	Title: On account of sex: the politics of women's issues, 1945-1968 Author: Harrison, Cynthia Ellen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| United States History Publisher's Description: Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history. Similar Items
33.	Requires cookie*	Title: Language in time of revolution Author: Harshav, Benjamin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| History \| Literature Similar Items
34.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Author: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Requires cookie*	Title: Storm over Mono: the Mono Lake battle and the California water future Author: Hart, John 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Requires cookie*	Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Requires cookie*	Title: City for sale: the transformation of San Francisco Author: Hartman, Chester W Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History \| Politics \| California and the West Publisher's Description: San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political developmen . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Requires cookie*	Title: In quest of spirit: thoughts on music Author: Harvey, Jonathan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Music \| Composers \| Contemporary Music \| Religion Publisher's Description: The interests of the British composer Jonathan Harvey are wide and varied, embracing Christianity, Buddhism, eastern and western philosophy, aesthetics, science, and mysticism. All affect his musical thinking and are a part of this unusual and personal book, which is accompanied by a compact disc fe . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Requires cookie*	Title: Asceticism and society in crisis: John of Ephesus and the Lives of the Eastern saints Author: Harvey, Susan Ashbrook Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Religions \| Classical History Publisher's Description: John of Ephesus traveled throughout the sixth-century Byzantine world in his role as monk, missionary, writer and church leader. In his major work, The Lives of the Eastern Saints , he recorded 58 portraits of monks and nuns he had known, using the literary conventions of hagiography in a strikingly . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tales of the neighborhood: Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity Author: Hasan-Rokem, Galit Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Folklore and Mythology \| Women's Studies \| Literature \| Judaism Publisher's Description: In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of . . . [more] Similar Items

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