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 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 |
3. |  | 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 |
4. |  | 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 |
5. |  | 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 |
6. |  | 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 | LiteraturePublisher'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 |
7. |  | Title: The defense of Attica: the Dema wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: The enigmatic three-mile-long Dema wall in the countryside outside ancient Athens has perplexed archaeologists and historians for decades. When was it built and what role did it play in Greek military history? In a tour de force of archaeological and historical argument, Mark H. Munn establishes the . . . [more]Similar Items |
8. |  | 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
9. |  | Title: Democracy and moral development Author: Norton, David L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Political Theory | EthicsPublisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more]Similar Items |
10. |  | Title: A democratic South Africa?: constitutional engineering in a divided society Author: Horowitz, Donald L Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African Studies | Sociology | LawPublisher's Description: Can a society as deeply divided as South Africa become democratic? In a most timely work, Donald L. Horowitz, author of the acclaimed Ethnic Groups in Conflict , points to the conditions that make democracy an improbable outcome in South Africa. At the same time, he identifies ways to overcome these . . . [more]Similar Items |
11. |  | Title: Descartes's imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking Author: Sepper, Dennis L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Renè Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorized a radical, unresolvable split between mind and body. In this long-overdue examination of the role of imagination in Descartes's thought, Dennis Sepper reveals a Descartes quite different from the usual dualisti . . . [more]Similar Items |
12. |  | 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 ArchitecturePublisher'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 |
13. |  | Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more]Similar Items |
14. |  | Title: Diffusion of distances: dialogues between Chinese and Western poetics Author: Yip, Wai-lim Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Philosophy | China | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne . . . [more]Similar Items |
15. |  | Title: Dignity and vulnerability: strength and quality of character Author: Harris, George W Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: PhilosophyPublisher's Description: In this significant new addition to moral theory, George Harris challenges a view of the dignity and worth of persons that goes back through Kant and Christianity to the Stoics. He argues that we do not, in fact, believe this view, which traces any breakdowns of character to failures of strength. Wh . . . [more]Similar Items |
16. |  | 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 HistoryPublisher'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 |
17. |  | Title: Dioscorus of Aphrodito: his work and his world Author: MacCoull, Leslie B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: ClassicsPublisher's Description: From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect th . . . [more]Similar Items |
18. |  | Title: Disciplining reproduction: modernity, American life sciences, and "the problems of sex" Author: Clarke, Adele Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Medicine | American Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Reproductive issues from sex and contraception to abortion and cloning have been controversial for centuries, and scientists who attempted to turn the study of reproduction into a discipline faced an uphill struggle. Adele Clarke's engrossing story of the search for reproductive knowledge across the . . . [more]Similar Items |
19. |  | Title: Discrepant dislocations: feminism, theory, and postcolonial histories Author: John, Mary E 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies | Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | South Asia | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Mary E. John investigates the metaphor of dislocation within and across two specific "locations" - the United States and India - in this epistemological inquiry into the production of theory in general and the grounds of feminist ethnography in particular. She probes a set of distinct but related th . . . [more]Similar Items |
20. |  | Title: The disenchanted self: representing the subject in the Canterbury tales Author: Leicester, H. Marshall (Henry Marshall) 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales , of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social the . . . [more]Similar Items |