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21. | | Title: Behind the scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the struggle for the Abbey Theatre Author: Frazier, Adrian Woods Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Poetry | TheatrePublisher's Description: Behind the Scenes presents the story of Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre and its major creative personalities: W. B. Yeats, Annie Horniman, J. M. Synge, and Lady Gregory. Part history, part sociology, part biography, Frazier's work recreates the forces that shaped the Abbey stage, forces that involved . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Being human: ethics, environment, and our place in the worldAuthor: Peterson, Anna Lisa 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | Folklore and Mythology | Environmental Studies | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Being Human examines the complex connections among conceptions of human nature, attitudes toward non-human nature, and ethics. Anna Peterson proposes an "ethical anthropology" that examines how ideas of nature and humanity are bound together in ways that shape the very foundations of cultures. Peter . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | Title: Benjamin Franklin and his enemiesAuthor: Middlekauff, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Autobiographies and Biographies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality - his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships - political . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: a disease, a cause, and a cureAuthor: Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John) 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science | MedicinePublisher's Description: In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi . . . [more]Similar Items | 25. | | Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art | History | Jewish Studies | German StudiesPublisher'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 | 26. | | | 27. | | Title: Berthe MorisotAuthor: Higonnet, Anne 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Of the six Impressionist painters whose first exhibition scandalized and fascinated Paris in 1874, Berthe Morisot was the only woman. She reached a pinnacle of artistic achievement despite the restraints society placed on her sex, adroitly combining her artistic ambitions with a rewarding family lif . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: The best of the Argonauts: the redefinition of the epic hero in book one of Apollonius's Argonautica Author: Clauss, James Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: This revelatory exploration of Book One of the Argonautica rescues Jason from his status as the ineffectual hero of Apollonius' epic poem. James J. Clauss argues that by posing the question, "Who is the best of the Argonauts?" Apollonius redefines the epic hero and creates, in Jason, a man more real . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | 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 SocietyPublisher'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 | 31. | | Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | 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 | AnthropologyPublisher'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 | 33. | | Title: Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French reformist socialismAuthor: Vincent, K. Steven Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | French Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoît Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of age under the Second Empire, Malon was . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Between memory and desire: the Middle East in a troubled ageAuthor: Humphreys, R. Stephen Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Islam | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involv . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Between republic and empire: interpretations of Augustus and his principateAuthor: Raaflaub, Kurt A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship - historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics - the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. Similar Items | 36. | | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faithAuthor: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | ChristianityPublisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migrationAuthor: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology | Latino Studies | Latin American Studies | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: Between two worlds: the construction of the Ottoman stateAuthor: Kafadar, Cemal 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Medieval History | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious . . . [more]Similar Items | 39. | | Title: Bewitching women, pious men: gender and body politics in Southeast AsiaAuthor: Ong, Aihwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Southeast Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersect . . . [more]Similar Items | 40. | | |
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