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21. | | | 22. | | Title: Getting to be Mark Twain Author: Steinbrink, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher'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 | 23. | | Title: Giambologna: narrator of the Catholic Reformation Author: Gibbons, Mary Weitzel 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Arguably the pre-eminent European sculptor of his age, but historically considered little more than the facile court sculptor to the grand dukes of Florence, Giambologna played a major role in the artistic transformations of the late sixteenth century. Mary Weitzel Gibbons seeks to broaden our hithe . . . [more]Similar Items | 24. | | Title: Gilles Deleuze and the ruin of representationAuthor: Olkowski, Dorothea Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | Art TheoryPublisher'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 | 25. | | Title: Gimme some truth: the John Lennon FBI filesAuthor: Wiener, Jon Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies | Politics | Sociology | Social Problems | Music | Social Theory | Cultural Anthropology | LawPublisher'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 | 26. | | Title: Glaciers of California: modern glaciers, ice age glaciers, origin of Yosemite Valley, and a glacier tour in the Sierra NevadaAuthor: Guyton, Bill 1932- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Geology | Natural History | California and the West | GeographyPublisher'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 | 27. | | Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the WestPublisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more]Similar Items | 28. | | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary worldAuthor: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global StudiesPublisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more]Similar Items | 29. | | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millenniumAuthor: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global StudiesPublisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more]Similar Items | 30. | | Title: Globalization and human rightsAuthor: Brysk, Alison 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International RelationsPublisher's Description: In this landmark volume, Alison Brysk has assembled an impressive array of scholars to address new questions about globalization and human rights. Is globalization generating both problems and opportunities? Are new problems replacing or intensifying state repression? How effective are new forms of . . . [more]Similar Items | 31. | | Title: God, Harlem U.S.A.: the Father Divine storyAuthor: Watts, Jill Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Christianity | American Studies | African American Studies | African StudiesPublisher's Description: How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem U.S.A."?Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most intriguing religious lea . . . [more]Similar Items | 32. | | Title: God, humanity, and history: the Hebrew First Crusade narrativesAuthor: Chazan, Robert Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Comparative Literature | Medieval HistoryPublisher'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 | 33. | | Title: God's daughters: evangelical women and the power of submissionAuthor: Griffith, R. Marie (Ruth Marie) 1967- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Gender Studies | American StudiesPublisher'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 | 34. | | Title: Going for gold: men, mines, and migrationAuthor: Moodie, T. Dunbar Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | African Studies | Social Theory | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistances, changes in production techniqu . . . [more]Similar Items | 35. | | Title: Gold: the California storyAuthor: Hill, Mary 1923- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: California and the West | Californian and Western History | Geology | Natural HistoryPublisher's Description: The discovery of gold in 1848 catapulted California into statehood and triggered environmental, social, political, and economic events whose repercussions are still felt today. Mary Hill combines her scientific training with a flair for storytelling to present the history of gold in California from . . . [more]Similar Items | 36. | | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual HistoryPublisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more]Similar Items | 37. | | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | California and the West | Intellectual History | Californian and Western History | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more]Similar Items | 38. | | Title: The gold standard and the logic of naturalism: American literature at the turn of the centuryAuthor: Michaels, Walter Benn Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | American LiteraturePublisher'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 | 39. | | Title: Golden daysAuthor: See, Carolyn Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | California and the WestPublisher'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 | 40. | | |
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