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61. | | Title: Shame and necessityAuthor: Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Classics | Classical Philosophy | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Gender differences at work: women and men in nontraditional occupationsAuthor: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Labor StudiesPublisher's Description: Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are ent . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | | 64. | | Title: Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. JacksonAuthor: Wilson, Chris 1951 Dec. 23- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Architecture | Landscape Architecture | Geography | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes - a far more recent development - has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepeni . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: A medieval mirror, Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500 Author: Wilson, Adrian Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art | ArchitecturePublisher's Description: The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and inclu . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Victorian History | Ecology | Geography | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Toward a simpler way of life: the arts & crafts architects of CaliforniaAuthor: Winter, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art | Architecture | Architectural History | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: This book celebrates one of the richest and most enduring themes in American architecture - California's Arts and Crafts Movement. Echoing the writings of Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles F. Lummis, and Charles Keeler, this movement represented a retreat into a quieter place from the materialism of Ameri . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: An American engineer in Stalin's Russia: the memoirs of Zara Witkin, 1932-1934 Author: Witkin, Zara 1900-1940 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiography | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: In 1932 Zara Witkin, a prominent American engineer, set off for the Soviet Union with two goals: to help build a society more just and rational than the bankrupt capitalist system at home, and to seek out the beautiful film star Emma Tsesarskaia.His memoirs offer a detailed view of Stalin's bureaucr . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: Volcanology and geothermal energy Author: Wohletz, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | Physical Sciences | Earth SciencesPublisher's Description: Most high-temperature geothermal resources develop in volcanic regions, but very few have been successfully explored and developed despite the ever-growing need for renewable energy resources. This is particularly true of the many developing countries that exist in volcanic regions with potential ge . . . [more]Similar Items | 70. | | Title: Pathways of power: building an anthropology of the modern worldAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | SociologyPublisher's Description: This collection of twenty-eight essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prep . . . [more]Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisisAuthor: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Social Theory | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | | 73. | | | 74. | | | 75. | | | 76. | | Title: Walter Benjamin, an aesthetic of redemptionAuthor: Wolin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his co . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: IndiaAuthor: Wolpert, Stanley A 1927- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | South Asia | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: The history of India is the engrossing story of an ancient civilization, reborn as a modern nation. More a continent than a single nation, India is home to over one-fifth of humanity, yet it remains a mystery to most non-Indians, barely appreciated and poorly understood. Stanley Wolpert's India prov . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Foundations of political economy: some early Tudor views on state and societyAuthor: Wood, Neal Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Political Theory | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers - Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, B . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Cicero's social and political thoughtAuthor: Wood, Neal Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Political TheoryPublisher's Description: In this close examination of the social and political thought of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.), Neal Wood focuses on Cicero's conceptions of state and government, showing that he is the father of constitutionalism, the archetype of the politically conservative mind, and the first to reflect ex . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Japan under construction: corruption, politics, and public works Author: Woodall, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | JapanPublisher's Description: In 1987, Japan excluded American firms from bidding on the multibillion-dollar New Kansai International Airport, sparking yet another trade dispute between the United States and Japan. The State Department, Congress, and the President himself were caught up in the dispute, which still smolders even . . . [more]Similar Items |
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