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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Glaciers of California: modern glaciers, ice age glaciers, origin of Yosemite Valley, and a glacier tour in the Sierra Nevada Author: Guyton, Bill 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Geology \| Natural History \| California and the West \| Geography Publisher's Description: Glaciers in sunny California? Many people will be surprised to learn that there are several hundred in this state, ranging in size from the impressive Whitney Glacier on Mt. Shasta and the Palisade Glacier in the Sierra Nevada to tiny glacierets. While California's glaciers are small compared to tho . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gilles Deleuze and the ruin of representation Author: Olkowski, Dorothea Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy \| Art Theory Publisher's Description: Dorothea Olkowski's exploration of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze clarifies the gifted French thinker's writings for specialists and nonspecialists alike. Deleuze, she says, accomplished the "ruin of representation," the complete overthrow of hierarchic, organic thought in philosophy, politics, ae . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Gaon of Vilna: the man and his image Author: Etkes, I Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: A legendary figure in his own lifetime, Rabbi Eliahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797) was known as the "Gaon of Vilna." He was the acknowledged master of Talmudic studies in the vibrant intellectual center of Vilna, revered throughout Eastern Europe for his learning and his ability to traverse with eas . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The grit beneath the glitter: tales from the real Las Vegas Author: Rothman, Hal 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Politics \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Geography \| Environmental Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a live . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Art History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The genesis of Heidegger's Being and time Author: Kisiel, Theodore J Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| German Studies Publisher's Description: This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theod . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gender trials: emotional lives in contemporary law firms Author: Pierce, Jennifer L 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Law \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This engaging ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The green fuse: an ecological odyssey Author: Harte, John 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| Ecology Publisher's Description: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Getting married in Korea: of gender, morality, and modernity Author: Kendall, Laurel Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Women's Studies \| Men and Masculinity Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI files Author: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies \| Politics \| Sociology \| Social Problems \| Music \| Social Theory \| Cultural Anthropology \| Law Publisher's Description: When FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to the Nixon White House in 1972 about the Bureau's surveillance of John Lennon, he began by explaining that Lennon was a "former member of the Beatles singing group." When a copy of this letter arrived in response to Jon Wiener's 1981 Freedom of Informatio . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Golden days Author: See, Carolyn Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Fiction \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Available again in paperback, Golden Days is a major novel from one of the most provocative voices on the American literary scene. Linking the recent past with an imagined future, Carolyn See captures life in Los Angeles in the 70s and 80s. This marvelously imaginative, hilarious, and original work . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: God, humanity, and history: the Hebrew First Crusade narratives Author: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Comparative Literature \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Although closely focused on the remarkable Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, Robert Chazan's new interpretation of these texts is anything but narrow, as his title, God, Humanity, and History, strongly suggests. The three surviving Hebrew accounts of the crusaders' devastating assaults on Rhineland J . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: God's daughters: evangelical women and the power of submission Author: Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion \| Gender Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In recent decades, religious conservatives and secular liberals have battled over the "appropriate" role of women in society. In this absorbing exploration of Women's Aglow Fellowship, the largest women's evangelical organization in the world, R. Marie Griffith challenges the simple generalizations . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gaining ground: tailoring social programs to American values Author: Lockhart, Charles 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics Publisher's Description: Social policy questions present Americans with a cruel dilemma. Most of us will confront hazards, such as illness or aging, against which private personal resources are an inadequate defense. With this in mind, it becomes clear that conditions of our contemporary society make some kinds of public so . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Getting to be Mark Twain Author: Steinbrink, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Mark Twain is one of our most accessible cultural icons, a figure familiar to virtually every American and renowned internationally. But he was not always as we know him today. Mark Twain began life as a loose gathering of postures, attitudes, and voices in the mind of Samuel Clemens. It was some ti . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gender differences at work: women and men in nontraditional occupations Author: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative in-depth interviews, Christine Williams argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are ent . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Golden inches: the China memoir of Grace Service Author: Service, Grace 1879-1954 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Christianity \| Asian History \| China Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Gender and morality in Anglo-American culture, 1650-1800 Author: Bloch, Ruth H 1949- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| Christianity \| Women's Studies \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Ruth Bloch's stellar essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality are brought together in this valuable book, which collects six of her most influential pieces in one place for the first time and includes two new essays. The volume illuminates the overarching theme of h . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The gold standard and the logic of naturalism: American literature at the turn of the century Author: Michaels, Walter Benn Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature Publisher's Description: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phen . . . [more] Similar Items

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