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1. |  | Title: Daggers of faith: thirteenth-century Christian missionizing and Jewish response Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: ReligionPublisher's Description: Our understanding of both Jewish history and the history of Western civilization is deepened by this finely balanced account of Christian missionizing among the Jews. Arguing that until the thirteenth century Western Christendom showed little serious commitment to converting the Jews, Robert Chazan . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: Dangerous emotionsAuthor: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Social and Political Thought | TravelPublisher'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 | 3. |  | Title: Dangerous intimacy: the untold story of Mark Twain's final years Author: Lystra, Karen Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | Twain | American Literature | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The last phase of Mark Twain's life is sadly familiar: Crippled by losses and tragedies, America's greatest humorist sank into a deep and bitter depression. It is also wrong. This book recovers Twain's final years as they really were - lived in the shadow of deception and prejudice, but also in the . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. |  | Title: Dangerous pleasures: prostitution and modernity in twentieth-century ShanghaiAuthor: Hershatter, Gail Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | ChinaPublisher's Description: This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declassè elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Sh . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | Title: Dao de jing: the book of the wayAuthor: Roberts, Moss 1937- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion | China | Asian History | Asian Literature | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our o . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. |  | Title: The dark mirror: German cinema between Hitler and HollywoodAuthor: Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | German Studies | Music | FilmPublisher's Description: Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s, showing how Nazi filmmakers appr . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Dark side of fortune: triumph and scandal in the life of oil tycoon Edward L. DohenyAuthor: Davis, Margaret L Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | California and the West | American Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher'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 | 8. |  | Title: Dark sweat, white gold: California farm workers, cotton, and the New DealAuthor: Weber, Devra 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Latino Studies | Labor Studies | California and the West | African HistoryPublisher's Description: In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and New Deal politics, forging a new form of labor relations. She . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. |  | Title: Darkness moves: an Henri Michaux anthology, 1927-1984Author: Michaux, Henri 1899- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Henri Michaux defies common critical definition. Critics have compared his work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee, and Beckett. Allen Ginsberg called Michaux "genius," and Jorge Luis Borges wrote that Michaux's work "is without equal in the literature of our time." This anthology c . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: Darwin in Russian thought Author: Vucinich, Alexander 1914- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher'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 | 11. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 | 12. |  | Title: Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nationAuthor: Rohrbough, Malcolm J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | California and the West | Californian and Western History | United States History | American Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined wealth. Those who joined the procession - soon c . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Dear Carnap, dear Van: the Quine-Carnap correspondence and related workAuthor: Carnap, Rudolf 1891-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of Science | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher'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 | 14. |  | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan BahuAuthor: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Poetry | Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Islam | South AsiaPublisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. |  | Title: Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and cultureAuthor: Burt, Robert 1939- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | Health Care | History of Medicine | Ethics | ReligionPublisher's Description: The American culture of death changed radically in the 1970s. For terminal illnesses, hidden decisions by physicians were rejected in favor of rational self-control by patients asserting their "right to die" - initially by refusing medical treatment and more recently by physician-assisted suicide. T . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: The death of authentic primitive art and other tales of progressAuthor: Errington, Shelly 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Art History | Architectural History | Art TheoryPublisher's Description: In this lucid, witty, and forceful book, Shelly Errington argues that Primitive Art was invented as a new type of art object at the beginning of the twentieth century but that now, at the century's end, it has died a double but contradictory death. Authenticity and primitivism, both attacked by cult . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: Death ritual in late imperial and modern ChinaAuthor: Watson, James L Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | China | Anthropology | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries? Some scholars have pointed to the institutional . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | | 20. |  | Title: Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at SolesmesAuthor: Bergeron, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Musicology | French Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, . . . [more]Similar Items |
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