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1. | | Title: Poverty in America: a handbookAuthor: Iceland, John 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Economics and Business | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Politics | Urban Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: Poverty may have always been with us, but it hasn't always been the same. In an in-depth look at trends, patterns, and causes of poverty in the United States, John Iceland combines the latest statistical information, historical data, and social scientific theory to provide a comprehensive picture of . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditionsAuthor: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Industrial cowboys: Miller & Lux and the transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920Author: Igler, David 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies | California and the West | Agriculture | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. Industrial Cowboys examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive l . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Consuming the romantic utopia: love and the cultural contradictions of capitalismAuthor: Illouz, Eva 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: To what extent are our most romantic moments determined by the portrayal of love in film and on TV? Is a walk on a moonlit beach a moment of perfect romance or simply a simulation of the familiar ideal seen again and again on billboards and movie screens? In her unique study of American love in the . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Re-imaging Japanese womenAuthor: Imamura, Anne E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | Cultural Anthropology | Women's Studies | Politics | JapanPublisher's Description: Re-Imaging Japanese Women takes a revealing look at women whose voices have only recently begun to be heard in Japanese society: politicians, practitioners of traditional arts, writers, radicals, wives, mothers, bar hostesses, department store and blue-collar workers. This unique collection of essay . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Infertility around the globe: new thinking on childlessness, gender, and reproductive technologiesAuthor: Inhorn, Marcia Claire 1957- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Asian Studies | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Politics | Medicine | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This exceptional collection of essays breaks new ground by examining the global impact of infertility as a major reproductive health issue, one that has profoundly affected the lives of countless women and men. Based on original research by seventeen internationally acclaimed social scientists, it i . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary worldAuthor: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global StudiesPublisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: The jail: managing the underclass in American societyAuthor: Irwin, John 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: SociologySimilar Items | 10. | | Title: The memory of Tiresias: intertextuality and film Author: I︠A︡mpolʹskiĭ, M. B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Literature | Popular CulturePublisher's Description: The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias , Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertex . . . [more]Similar Items |
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