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| 1. |  | Title: The poetics of rock: cutting tracks, making records Author: Zak, Albin Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | Popular Music | American Music | Musicology | Contemporary Music | American Studies | Media Studies | Popular Music Publisher's Description: After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes? Commodities? Conveniences? . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Reading Columbus  Author: Zamora, Margarita Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | European Literature Publisher's Description: Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological impli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: The mask of Socrates: the image of the intellectual in antiquity Author: Zanker, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Art History | Art and Architecture | Ancient History Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in add . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The enchantments of love: amorous and exemplary novels Author: Zayas y Sotomayor, María de 1590-1650 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Publisher's Description: An instant best-seller in Spain in 1637, The Enchantments of Love is a collection of shrewd and timeless tales in the tradition of Bocaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . Although some of the tales have appeared in English through the centuries, this delightful translation by H. Patsy . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History | Asian History | China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Law and disorder on the Narova River: the Kreenholm strike of 1872 Author: Zelnik, Reginald E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Labor Studies | European History | European Studies Publisher's Description: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: From catastrophe to power: Holocaust survivors and the emergence of Israel Author: Zertal, Idith Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Judaism | History Publisher's Description: In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was organized by Palestinian Zionists just after . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Learning to be a sage: selections from the Conversations of Master Chu, arranged topically Author: Zhu, Xi 1130-1200 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Asian Studies | China | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) - a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Changing fortunes: biodiversity and peasant livelihood in the Peruvian Andes Author: Zimmerer, Karl S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Geography | Ecology | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Two of the world's most pressing needs - biodiversity conservation and agricultural development in the Third World - are addressed in Karl S. Zimmerer's multidisciplinary investigation in geography. Zimmerer challenges current opinion by showing that the world-renowned diversity of crops grown in th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Contesting Earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity Author: Zimmerman, Michael E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Natural History | Ecology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The colonial Bastille: a history of imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940 Author: Zinoman, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Asian Studies | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Politics Publisher's Description: Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Refried Elvis: the rise of the Mexican counterculture Author: Zolov, Eric Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Popular Culture | Chicano Studies | Latin American Studies | Contemporary Music Publisher's Description: This powerful study shows how America's biggest export, rock and roll, became a major influence in Mexican politics, society, and culture. From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s, Eric Zolov uses rock and roll to . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Almost chosen people: oblique biographies in the American grain Author: Zuckerman, Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | United States History | American Literature | American Studies Publisher's Description: Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book.In his effort to remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of Americ . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: A surplus of memory: chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising Author: Zuckerman, Yitzhak 1915-1981 Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History Publisher's Description: In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decad . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Sexual selections: what we can and can't learn about sex from animals Author: Zuk, M. (Marlene) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Organismal Biology | Cultural Anthropology | Evolution | Gender Studies | Animal Behavior | Sociology | Biology Publisher's Description: Scientific discoveries about the animal kingdom fuel ideological battles on many fronts, especially battles about sex and gender. We now know that male marmosets help take care of their offspring. Is this heartening news for today's stay-at-home dads? Recent studies show that many female birds once . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Landscapes of power: from Detroit to Disney World Author: Zukin, Sharon Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Politics | Postcolonial Studies | Urban Studies | Geography | Economics and Business Similar Items |