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21. | | Title: Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War IIAuthor: Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván) 1930- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at t . . . [more]Similar Items | 22. | | Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollutionAuthor: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Public Policy | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more]Similar Items | 23. | | 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 | 24. | | Title: Deep politics and the death of JFKAuthor: Scott, Peter Dale Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Popular Culture | United States History | American Studies | SociologyPublisher'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 | 25. | | Title: Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passageAuthor: Grimes, Ronald L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Social SciencePublisher's Description: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opport . . . [more]Similar Items | 26. | | 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 | 27. | | 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 | 28. | | 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 | 29. | | 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 | 30. | | 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 | 31. | | Title: Destination culture: tourism, museums, and heritageAuthor: Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Art Theory | Popular Culture | Cultural Anthropology | TravelPublisher'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 | 32. | | 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 | 33. | | Title: Devī: goddesses of IndiaAuthor: Hawley, John Stratton 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Hinduism | Women's Studies | South AsiaPublisher's Description: The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have severely limited the portrayal of the divine as feminine. But in Hinduism "God" very often means "Goddess." This extraordinary collection explores twelve different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Gr . . . [more]Similar Items | 34. | | Title: Dōgen's manuals of Zen meditationAuthor: Bielefeldt, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Philosophy | JapanPublisher's Description: Zen Buddhism is perhaps best known for its emphasis on meditation, and probably no figure in the history of Zen is more closely associated with meditation practice than the thirteenth-century Japanese master Dogen, founder of the Soto school. This study examines the historical and religious characte . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | 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 | 36. | | Title: Diasporas and exiles: varieties of Jewish identityAuthor: Wettstein, Howard Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies | European History | Social and Political Thought | Sociology | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Diaspora, considered as a context for insights into Jewish identity, brings together a lively, interdisciplinary group of scholars in this innovative volume. Readers needn't expect, however, to find easy agreement on what those insights are. The concept "diaspora" itself has proved controversial; ga . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: A different shade of colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the mastery of the SudanAuthor: Powell, Eve Troutt Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the binary relationship between European empires and n . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | 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 | 39. | | 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 | 40. | | 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 |
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