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| 1. |  | Title: The problems of a political animal: community, justice, and conflict in Aristotelian political thought Author: Yack, Bernard 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Inside the American couple: new thinking/new challenges  Author: Yalom, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | Women's Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through adulthood without at least one lengthy relationship, and up to ninety percent of Americans marry at lea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Provincial passages: culture, space, and the origins of Chinese communism Author: Yeh, Wen-hsin Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | China | History Publisher's Description: Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, Wen-hsin Yeh presents an insightful new view of the Party's origins. She moves away from an emphasis on Mao and traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartla . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Mayo ethnobotany: land, history, and traditional knowledge in northwest Mexico Author: Yetman, David 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Botany | Cultural Anthropology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. Traditional Mayo knowledge is quickly being lost as this culture becomes absorbed into modern Mexico. Moreover, as big agriculture s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Philosophy | China | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Geography | Japan Publisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Japan's total empire: Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism Author: Young, Louise 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Asian History | Asian Studies | East Asia Other | Japan | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Phase diagrams of the elements Author: Young, D. A. (David A.) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Science | Physics Publisher's Description: The behavior of solid and liquid matter at high pressures and temperatures is best described in a phase diagram, which shows the regions of stability of different phases of the material. Thanks to the diamond-anvil cell, which has made possible much higher pressures, and to new and very accurate the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Voices of the song lyric in China/ Author: Yu, Pauline 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | China Publisher's Description: This collection is the first comprehensive treatment of the song lyric ( tz'u ) in China from its origins through the nineteenth century. Engaging issues of form, language, voice, and transmission, these essays explore the changing and frequently problematic situation of the tz'u over centuries of l . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: To the storm: the odyssey of a revolutionary Chinese woman Author: Yue, Daiyun Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies | Women's Studies Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Unbound voices: a documentary history of Chinese women in San Francisco Author: Yung, Judy Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | Women's Studies | California and the West | Californian and Western History | Social Science Publisher's Description: Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents - letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories - detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captiva . . . [more] Similar Items |