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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Deep politics and the death of JFK Author: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Popular Culture \| United States History \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective - that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes - Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s Am . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recovery Author: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dear Carnap, dear Van: the Quine-Carnap correspondence and related work Author: Carnap, Rudolf 1891-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length - and over a long period of time - on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philos . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture \| European History \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dreams of difference: the Japan romantic school and the crisis of modernity Author: Doak, Kevin Michael Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Japan \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of moderni . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Domestic individualism: imagining self in nineteenth-century America Author: Brown, Gillian Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Gender Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Darwin in Russian Thought represents the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Darwin's influence on Russian thought from the early 1860s to the October Revolution. While concentrating on the role of Darwin's theory in the development of Russian science and philosophy, Vucinich also ex . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dedication to hunger: the anorexic aesthetic in modern culture Author: Heywood, Leslie Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| Literature Publisher's Description: Writing as a competitive athlete, an academic, and a woman, Leslie Heywood merges personal history and scholarship to expose the "anorexic logic" that underlies Western high culture. She maneuvers deftly across the terrain of modern literature, illustrating how this logic - the privileging of mind o . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dark side of fortune: triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny Author: Davis, Margaret L Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| California and the West \| American Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dark Side of Fortune contains all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. Filling in one of the most important gaps in the history of the American West, Margaret Leslie Davis's riveting biography follows Edward L. Doheny's fascinating story from his days as an itinerant prospector in the dangerous jun . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Public Policy \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This original look at the dynamics of international relations untangles the vigorous interaction of domestic and international politics on subjects as diverse as nuclear disarmament, human rights, and trade. An eminent group of political scientists demonstrates how international bargaining that refl . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dilemmas of enlightenment: studies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology Author: Kenshur, Oscar 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| European History Publisher's Description: Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory.While striving to re . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Religion \| Judaism \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritage Author: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory \| Popular Culture \| Cultural Anthropology \| Travel Publisher's Description: Destination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, m . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The deficit and the public interest: the search for responsible budgeting in the 1980s Author: White, Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues - the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a concern which catalyz . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dangerous emotions Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy \| Cultural Anthropology \| Literature \| Social and Political Thought \| Travel Publisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The development of Attic black-figure Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Classics \| Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Durable inequality Author: Tilly, Charles Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| History \| Politics \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Charles Tilly, in this eloquent manifesto, presents a powerful new approach to the study of persistent social inequality. How, he asks, do long-lasting, systematic inequalities in life chances arise, and how do they come to distinguish members of different socially defined categories of persons? Exp . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Doctors within borders: profession, ethnicity, and modernity in colonial Taiwan Author: Lo, Ming-cheng Miriam Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| China \| Asian History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This book explores Japan's "scientific colonialism" through a careful study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, Ming-cheng Lo unearths . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| European History \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies \| African Studies \| Social Problems \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more] Similar Items

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