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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Why Waco?: cults and the battle for religious freedom in America Author: Tabor, James D 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| United States History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. Whether these tragic deaths could have been avoided is still debatable, but what seems clear is that the events in Te . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Aunt Safiyya and the monastery: a novel Author: Ṭāhir, Bahāʾ 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers - including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz - noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, te . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The country of memory: remaking the past in late socialist Vietnam Author: Tai, Hue-Tam Ho 1948- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| Southeast Asia \| Film \| Gender Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Popular Culture \| Asian History Publisher's Description: The American experience in the Vietnam War has been the subject of a vast body of scholarly work, yet surprisingly little has been written about how the war is remembered by Vietnamese themselves. The Country of Memory fills this gap in the literature by addressing the subject of history, memory, an . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The promise of the city: space, identity, and politics in contemporary social thought Author: Tajbakhsh, Kian 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Popular Culture \| Social Theory \| Geography \| Politics Publisher's Description: The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structu . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: What I learned in medical school: personal stories of young doctors Author: Takakuwa, Kevin M Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Medicine \| Sociology \| Ethnic Studies \| Gender Studies \| Anthropology \| Health Care Publisher's Description: Like many an exclusive club, the medical profession subjects its prospective members to rigorous indoctrination: medical students are overloaded with work, deprived of sleep and normal human contact, drilled and tested and scheduled down to the last minute. Difficult as the regimen may be, for those . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Jewish Studies \| Ecology \| Geography \| Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia Author: Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia \| Politics \| Asian History \| Religion Publisher's Description: Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian "riots . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Japan's Orient: rendering pasts into history Author: Tanaka, Stefan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Warriors into traders: the power of the market in early Greece Author: Tandy, David W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Classical History \| Economics and Business \| Anthropology \| Politics Publisher's Description: The eighth century dawned on a Greek world that had remained substantially unchanged during the centuries of stagnation known as the Dark Age. This book is a study of the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, and the role that poetry pla . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Medieval Chinese society and the local "community" Author: Tanigawa, Michio 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Asian Studies \| China Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra Author: Taruskin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsk . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing Author: Tauber, Alfred I Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy \| Literature \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Ethics Publisher's Description: In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Tran . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewel of the desert: Japanese American internment at Topaz Author: Taylor, Sandra C Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1942, under the guise of "military necessity," the U.S. government evacuated 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast. About 7,000 people from the San Francisco Bay Area - the vast majority of whom were American citizens - were moved to an assembly center at Tan . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Prime-time families: television culture in postwar America Author: Taylor, Ella Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| United States History \| Media Studies \| Gender Studies \| Television and Radio Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mexico at the world's fairs: crafting a modern nation Author: Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| Latin American Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair - whe . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crafting the culture and history of French chocolate Author: Terrio, Susan J. (Susan Jane) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| European Studies \| French Studies \| Food and Cooking \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This absorbing narrative follows the craft community of French chocolatiers - members of a tiny group experiencing intensive international competition - as they struggle to ensure the survival of their businesses. Susan J. Terrio moves easily among ethnography, history, theory, and vignette, telling . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| European Literature \| Poetry \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| French Studies \| Medieval Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renard the Fox Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Literature in Translation \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perfecting women: Maulana Ashraf ʿAlī Thanawi's Bihishti zewar: a partial translation with commentary Author: Thānvī, ʿAshraf ʿAlī Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Mus . . . [more] Similar Items

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