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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica: learning the lessons in a seasonal dry forest Author: Frankie, G. W Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Ecology \| Conservation \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The beautiful tropical dry forest of northwest Costa Rica, with its highly seasonal rainfall and diversely vegetated landscape, is disappearing even more rapidly than Costa Rica's better-known rain forest, primarily because it has been easier to convert to agriculture. This book, based on more than . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Between craft and class: skilled workers and factory politics in the United States and Britain, 1890-1922 Author: Haydu, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| United States History \| European History \| Labor Studies \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Between Craft and Class provides an incisive new look at workers' responses to the momentous economic changes surrounding them in the early years of the twentieth century. In this work, Haydu focuses on the reaction of skilled metal workers to new production methods that threatened time-honored craf . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Battling for American labor: wobblies, craft workers, and the making of the union movement Author: Kimeldorf, Howard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| History \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this incisive reinterpretation of the history of the American labor movement, Howard Kimeldorf challenges received thinking about rank-and-file workers and the character of their unions. Battling for American Labor answers the baffling question of how, while mounting some of the most aggressive c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Labor Studies \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Boundaries of humanity: humans, animals, machines Author: Sheehan, James J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Biology \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: To the age-old debate over what it means to be human, the relatively new fields of sociobiology and artificial intelligence bring new, if not necessarily compatible, insights. What have these two fields in common? Have they affected the way we define humanity? These and other timely questions are ad . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: "Beyond reasonable doubt" and "probable cause": historical perspectives on the Anglo-American law of evidence Author: Shapiro, Barbara J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| United States History \| Rhetoric \| Law Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Blood saga: hemophilia, AIDS, and the survival of a community Author: Resnik, Susan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Science \| Sociology \| Medicine \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: For thousands of years boys known as "bleeders" faced an early, painful death from hemophilia. Dubbed "the Royal Disease" because of its identification with Queen Victoria, the world's most renowned carrier, hemophilia is a genetic disease whose sufferers had little recourse until the mid-twentieth . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Beyond the pale: the Jewish encounter with late imperial Russia Author: Nathans, Benjamin Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Jewish Studies \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans reinte . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	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
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Beyond the neon lights: everyday Shanghai in the early twentieth century Author: Lu, Hanchao Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| China \| Asian History \| Urban Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals - revolution, war, and again revolution - that shook their lives? Even after decades . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Berlin novels of Alfred Döblin: Wadzek's Battle with the steam turbine, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Men without mercy, and November 1918 Author: Dollenmayer, David B Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminism Author: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Politics \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Breaking through bureaucracy: a new vision for managing in government Author: Barzelay, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: This book attacks the conventional wisdom that bureaucrats are bunglers and the system can't be changed. Michael Barzelay and Babak Armajani trace the source of much poor performance in government to the persistent influence of what they call the bureaucratic paradigm - a theory built on such notion . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Bodhidharma anthology: the earliest records of Zen Author: Bodhidharma 6th cent Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion \| Buddhism \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attribute . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Burying uncertainty: risk and the case against geological disposal of nuclear waste Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science \| Ecology \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Shrader-Frechette looks at current U.S. government policy regarding the nation's high-level radioactive waste both scientifically and ethically.What should be done with our nation's high-level radioactive waste, which will remain hazardous for thousands of years? This is one of the most pressing pro . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Buddha is hiding: refugees, citizenship, the new America Author: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Urban Studies \| Sociology \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be sel . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Between marriage and the market: intimate politics and survival in Cairo Author: Hoodfar, Homa Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact of economic liberalization policies from 1983 to 1993, she shows the crucial role of the household in survival strategies among low-income Egyptians. Hoodfar, an Ira . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art \| History \| Jewish Studies \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1918 the city of Berlin evolved into a commercial and industrial hub that also became an international center for radical new ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jews were key leaders in developing this unique cosmopolitan culture. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture \| Architecture \| Philosophy \| Politics \| American Studies \| Sociology \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The biography of ancient Israel: national narratives in the Bible Author: Pardes, Ilana Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: The nation--particularly in Exodus and Numbers--is not an abstract concept but rather a grand character whose history is fleshed out with remarkable literary power. In her innovative exploration of national imagination in the Bible, Pardes highlights the textual manifestations of the metaphor, the m . . . [more] Similar Items

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