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| 21. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957  Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | European Literature | Poetry | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies | Medieval Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: Hooliganism: crime, culture, and power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 Author: Neuberger, Joan Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: n this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between class . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Houses in the rain forest: ethnicity and inequality among farmers and foragers in Central Africa Author: Grinker, Roy Richard 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | African Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: The human difference: animals, computers, and the necessity of social science Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Social Theory | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Religion | Christianity Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics Author: Waltz, Susan Eileen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | African History | African Studies Publisher's Description: Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: The humanities in American life: report of the Commission on the Humanities Author: Commission on the Humanities (1978- ) Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Social Science Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Hypochondria: woeful imaginatings Author: Baur, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life. Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Hysteria beyond Freud Author: Gilman, Sander L Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Literature | Women's Studies | Psychiatry | Medicine Publisher's Description: "She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen alike to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others - especially women. How has this medical concept assumed its power? What cultural purposes . . . [more] Similar Items |