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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early Daoist scriptures Author: Bokenkamp, Stephen R 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| China \| Classical Literature and Language \| Taoism Publisher's Description: For centuries Daoism (Taoism) has played a central role in the development of Chinese thought and civilization, yet to this day only a few of its sacred texts have been translated into English. Now Stephen R. Bokenkamp introduces the reader to ancient scriptures never before published in the West, p . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	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
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Early Greek law Author: Gagarin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Politics \| Law Publisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	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
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe Author: Brantingham, P. Jeffrey 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Archaeology \| European History \| European History \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This volume brings together prominent archaeologists working in areas outside Western Europe to discuss the most recent evidence for the origins of the early Upper Paleolithic and its relationship to the origin of modern humans. With a wealth of primary data from archaeological sites and regions tha . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The early works of Arnold Schoenberg, 1893-1908 Author: Frisch, Walter Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Music \| Composers \| Contemporary Music \| Musicology Publisher's Description: Here is the first full-scale account of Schoenberg's early tonal works, a rich repertory that music historians have tended to neglect or view as transitional to a mature atonal style.Between 1893 and 1908, Schoenberg created many genuine masterworks in the genres of Lieder, chamber music, and sympho . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	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
8.	Requires cookie*	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
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Earthwards: Robert Smithson and art after Babel Author: Shapiro, Gary 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art Criticism \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The death of Robert Smithson in 1973 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogatio . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking \| Renaissance History \| History of Science \| History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echo and Narcissus: women's voices in classical Hollywood cinema Author: Lawrence, Amy Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Do women in classical Hollywood cinema ever truly speak for themselves? In Echo and Narcissus , Amy Lawrence examines eight classic films to show how women's speech is repeatedly constructed as a "problem," an affront to male authority. This book expands feminist studies of the representation of wom . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Echoes of the past, epics of dissent: a South Korean social movement Author: Abelmann, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Politics \| Sociology \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Echoes of the Past, Epics of Dissent , the story of a South Korean social movement, offers a window to a decade of tumultuous social protest in a postcolonial, divided nation. Abelmann brings a dramatic chapter of modern Korean history to life - a period in which farmers, student activists, and orga . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Economics and the historian Author: Rawski, Thomas G 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: These essays provide a thorough introduction to economics for historians. The authors, all eminent scholars, show how to use economic thinking, economic models, and economic methods to enrich historical research. They examine such vital issues as long-term trends, institutions, labor - including an . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Education and society in late imperial China, 1600-1900 Author: Elman, Benjamin A 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: This comprehensive volume integrates the history of late imperial China with the history of education over three centuries, revealing the significance of education in Chinese social, political, and intellectual life. A collaboration between social and intellectual historians, these fifteen essays pr . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Elizabeth Bishop: life and the memory of it Author: Millier, Brett Candlish Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| American Literature \| American Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| Poetry Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The elusive embryo: how women and men approach new reproductive technologies Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Medical Anthropology \| Medicine \| Women's Studies \| Science Publisher's Description: In the first book to examine the industry of reproductive technology from the perspective of the consumer, Gay Becker scrutinizes the staggering array of medical options available to women and men with fertility problems and assesses the toll - both financial and emotional - that the quest for a bio . . . [more] Similar Items

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