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1. | | Title: Justice in South Africa, Author: Sachs, Albie 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | LawSimilar Items | 2. | | | 3. | | Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Latin American Studies | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Popular Culture | Art | Renaissance HistoryPublisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | United States History | Media Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Touching liberty: abolition, feminism, and the politics of the body Author: Sánchez-Eppler, Karen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In this striking study of the pre-Civil War literary imagination, Karen Sánchez-Eppler charts how bodily difference came to be recognized as a central problem for both political and literary expression. Her readings of sentimental anti-slavery fiction, slave narratives, and the lyric poetry of Walt . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: High-Tech Europe: the politics of international cooperation Author: Sandholtz, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: A study of cooperative efforts in the high-tech industries of Europe. Sandholtz examines why collaboration came late to these countries, how protective walls came down, how countries work together in economically sensitive areas.Governments have recognized for decades the dynamic role played by micr . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | | 9. | | Title: Plant migration: the dynamics of geographic patterning in seed plant species Author: Sauer, Jonathan D Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Geography | Ecology | BotanyPublisher's Description: Using cases of plant migration documented by both historical and fossil evidence, Jonathan D. Sauer provides a landmark assessment of what is presently known, and not merely assumed, about the process. Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Hollywood in Berlin: American cinema and Weimar Germany Author: Saunders, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Film | United States History | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Tokyo life, New York dreams: urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924 Author: Sawada, Mitziko 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Japan | Asian American StudiesPublisher's Description: Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background fro . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Printed poison: pamphlet propaganda, faction politics, and the public sphere in early Seventeenth-century France Author: Sawyer, Jeffrey K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | Politics | French StudiesPublisher's Description: Combining a broad analysis of political culture with a particular focus on rhetoric and strategy, Jeffrey Sawyer analyzes the role of pamphlets in the political arena in seventeenth-century France. During the years 1614-1617 a series of conflicts occurred in France, resulting from the struggle for d . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Author: Scaglione, Aldo D Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval Studies | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | German Studies | European History | Literature | Film | MusicPublisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography | Anthropology | Ecology | African Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Life without disease: the pursuit of medical utopia Author: Schwartz, William B 1922- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Medicine | Economics and Business | History and Philosophy of Science | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | | 19. | | | 20. | | Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: PoliticsSimilar Items |
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