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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Echoes from Dharamsala: music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community Author: Diehl, Keila Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Tibet \| Southeast Asia \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In Echoes from Dharamsala, Keila Diehl uses music to understand the experiences of Tibetans living in Dharamsala, a town in the Indian Himalayas that for more than forty years has been home to Tibet's government-in-exile. The Dalai Lama's presence lends Dharamsala's Tibetans a feeling of being "in p . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies \| United States History \| Middle Eastern History \| Popular Culture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Eros and the Jews: from biblical Israel to contemporary America Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Sociology \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Contradictory stereotypes about Jewish sexuality pervade modern culture, from Lenny Bruce's hip eroticism to Woody Allen's little man with the big libido (and even bigger sexual neurosis). Does Judaism in fact liberate or repress sexual desire? David Biale does much more than answer that question as . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Early modern Japan Author: Totman, Conrad D Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| Japan Publisher's Description: This thoughtfully organized survey of Japan's early modern period (1568-1868) is a remarkable blend of political, economic, intellectual, literary, and cultural history. The only truly comprehensive study in English of the Tokugawa period, it also introduces a new ecological perspective, covering na . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Emblems of eloquence: opera and women's voices in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Heller, Wendy Beth Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music \| European Studies \| Opera \| Classical Music \| Women's Studies \| Classical Literature and Language \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Opera developed during a time when the position of women - their rights and freedoms, their virtues and vices, and even the most basic substance of their sexuality - was constantly debated. Many of these controversies manifested themselves in the representation of the historical and mythological wom . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art \| Architectural History \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Natural History \| Biology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination Author: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography \| Ecology \| Consumerism \| Urban Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Earth's insights: a survey of ecological ethics from the Mediterranean basin to the Australian outback Author: Callicott, J. Baird Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy \| Anthropology \| Ethics \| Ecology Publisher's Description: The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Erotic faculties Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: The erotic and the intellectual come together to create a new kind of criticism in the lushly written work of Joanna Frueh. Addressing sexuality in ways that are usually hidden or left unsaid, Frueh - a noted performance artist and art historian - explores subjects such as aging, beauty, love, sex, . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Encounters with aging: mythologies of menopause in Japan and North America Author: Lock, Margaret M Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Japan Publisher's Description: Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly det . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Evolution's rainbow: diversity, gender, and sexuality in nature and people Author: Roughgarden, Joan Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Gender Studies \| EcologyEvolutionEnvironment \| Anthropology \| Evolution \| Health Care \| Social Problems \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social scie . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: An empire on display: English, Indian, and Australian exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War Author: Hoffenberg, Peter H 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History \| European History \| Victorian History \| Asian History \| South Asia \| Pacific Rim Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the British Empire. He focuses on major exhibitions in England, Australia, and India between the Great Exhibition of . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Earthly bodies, magical selves: contemporary pagans and the search for community Author: Pike, Sarah M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Recent decades have seen a revival of paganism, and every summer people gather across the United States to celebrate this increasingly popular religion. Sarah Pike's engrossing ethnography is the outcome of five years attending neo-pagan festivals, interviewing participants, and sometimes taking par . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Ethnographic presents pioneering anthropologists in the Papua New Guinea Highlands Author: Hays, Terence E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| East Asia Other Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658 Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History \| European History \| Military History Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature \| Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Ethics in an epidemic: AIDS, morality, and culture Author: Murphy, Timothy F 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| Sociology \| Ethics \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into . . . [more] Similar Items

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