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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: California riparian systems: ecology, conservation, and productive management Author: Warner, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: This volume presents 135 of the papers presented at the 1981 California Riparian Systems Conference. The papers address all aspects of riparian systems: habitat, wildlife, land management, land use policy planning, conservation and water resource management. Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: California's salmon and steelhead: the struggle to restore an imperiled resource Author: Lufkin, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences Publisher's Description: Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer t . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: California's spiritual frontiers: religious alternatives in Anglo-Protestantism, 1850-1910 Author: Frankiel, Sandra Sizer 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| California and the West \| Christianity Publisher's Description: In this fascinating work, Frankiel examines California's rich, multi-faceted religious history during the period in which the state was taking shape on the American landscape. Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: A carnival of parting: the tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as sung and told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan Author: Nath, Madhu Natisar Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Folklore and Mythology \| Hinduism \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both c . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Caste and capitalism in colonial India: the Nattukottai Chettiars Author: Rudner, David West Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| Comparative Literature \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Caught in the act: theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel Author: Litvak, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introdu . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cecil B. DeMille and American culture: the silent era Author: Higashi, Sumiko Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| History \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture demonstrates that the director, best remembered for his overblown biblical epics, was one of the most remarkable film pioneers of the Progressive Era. In this innovative work, which integrates cultural history and cultural studies, Sumiko Higashi shows how DeMil . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Dance \| Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Cervantes and the burlesque sonnet Author: Martín, Adrienne Laskier Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Until now the great renown of Cervantes as a prose humorist has eclipsed his skill as a humorous poet. Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet amply illustrates the comic genius of Cervantes the poet, and at the same time establishes criteria by which comic poetry can be analyzed and evaluated.Adrienne M . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The chances of rhyme: device and modernity Author: Wesling, Donald Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Changing the rules: the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania Author: Tripp, Aili Mari Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Anthropology \| African Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that even high-ranking state employees receive among the lowest incomes in the country? In this impressively researched and highly . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucer and the fictions of gender Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Gender Studies \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Hansen challenges both the long-standing myth of Chaucer as the tolerant, wise Father of English poetry and the recent arguments that Chaucer was a protofeminist, subversive of the misogyny of his day. Hansen argues that these mistaken interpretations inhibit readings of Chaucer that respond to femi . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucerian play: comedy and control in the Canterbury tales Author: Kendrick, Laura Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chaucer's Dante: allegory and epic theater in The Canterbury tales Author: Neuse, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| European Literature \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales . He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human.Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: China reporting: an oral history of American journalism in the 1930's and 1940's Author: Mackinnon, Stephen R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| China \| Asian History \| Print Media Publisher's Description: China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's continuous revolution: the post-liberation epoch, 1949-1981 Author: Dittmer, Lowell Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Asian Studies Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items

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