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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Background to discovery: Pacific exploration from Dampier to Cook Author: Howse, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Travel \| Geography Publisher's Description: Background to Discovery recounts the great voyages of discovery, from Dampier to Cook, that excited such fervent political and popular interest in eighteenth-century Europe. Perhaps this book's greatest strength lies in its remarkable synthesis of both the achievements of European maritime explorati . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 2: interviews with screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Theatre Publisher's Description: "Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age , fourteen studio scribes active in later decades rail and reminisce about thei . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Writing Publisher's Description: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters - in their own words. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age focused on the early sound era and the 1930s. Backstory 2 featured Interviews with Screenwriter . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bad girls and sick boys: fantasies in contemporary art and culture Author: Kauffman, Linda S 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Literature \| Cinema and Performance Arts \| Popular Culture \| American Studies \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic reson . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Balancing water: restoring the Klamath Basin Author: Blake, Tupper Ansel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Photography \| Water Publisher's Description: The Klamath Basin is a land of teeming wildlife, expansive marshes, blue-ribbon trout streams, tremendous stretches of forests, and large ranches in southern Oregon and northern California. Known to waterfowl, songbirds, and shorebirds, the Klamath Basin's marshlands are a mecca for birds along the . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Barbarians and politics at the Court of Arcadius Author: Cameron, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Religion \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: The chaotic events of A.D. 395-400 marked a momentous turning point for the Roman Empire and its relationship to the barbarian peoples under and beyond its command. In this masterly study, Alan Cameron proposes a complete rewriting of received wisdom concerning the social and political history of th . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Barcelona and beyond: the Disputation of 1263 and its aftermath Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History \| Religion Publisher's Description: In late July 1263 a public disputation was convened by King James I of Aragon, pitting Friar Paul Christian against the distinguished rabbi of Gerona, Moses ben Nahman. Organized by leading figures in the Dominican Order to give Friar Paul an opportunity to test his innovative missionizing argumenta . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Basil of Caesarea Author: Rousseau, Philip Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Classics \| Ancient History \| Christianity \| Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Basil of Caesarea is thought of most often as an opponent of heresy and a pioneer of monastic life in the eastern church. In this new biographical study, however, controversy is no longer seen as the central preoccupation of his life nor are his ascetic initiatives viewed as separable from his pasto . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: A bat man in the tropics: chasing El Duende Author: Fleming, Theodore H Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Organismal Biology \| Mammalogy \| Autobiography \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The euphoria of discovery is the only motivation many scientists need for studying nature and its secrets. Yet euphoria is rarely expressed in scientific publications. This book, a personal account of more than thirty years of fieldwork by one of the world's leading bat biologists, wonderfully conve . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	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
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Battling the inland sea: American political culture, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 Author: Kelley, Robert Lloyd 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Politics Publisher's Description: In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris Author: Kete, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourg . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Beethoven and the construction of genius: musical politics in Vienna, 1792-1803 Author: DeNora, Tia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music \| History \| Sociology \| Composers \| European History Publisher's Description: In this provocative account Tia DeNora reconceptualizes the notion of genius by placing the life and career of Ludwig van Beethoven in its social context. She explores the changing musical world of late eighteenth-century Vienna and follows the activities of the small circle of aristocratic patrons . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| South Asia Publisher's Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tra . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Before the nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company Author: Musser, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| United States History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema - unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery , Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant c . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The beginnings of Jewishness: boundaries, varieties, uncertainties Author: Cohen, Shaye J. D Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion \| Judaism \| Classical Religions \| Classics \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity, nationality, and religion that would characterize J . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Behind the label: inequality in the Los Angeles apparel industry Author: Bonacich, Edna Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Problems \| California and the West \| Labor Studies \| Economics and Business \| Urban Studies \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare st . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	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

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