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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy \| Ancient History \| Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imaging Aristotle: verbal and visual representation in fourteenth-century France Author: Sherman, Claire Richter Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Nicole Oresme's translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Economics into French from Latin in the 1370s is the subject of Claire Sherman's stunningly illustrated book. Though both the text translations and their images have been studied separately, this is the first time they are . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imagining development: economic ideas in Peru's "fictitious prosperity" of guano, 1840-1880 Author: Gootenberg, Paul 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Latin American Studies \| Economics and Business \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Retelling the saga of Peru's nineteenth-century age of guano, Paul Gootenberg provides the first book in English to explore the historical genealogy of Latin America's postcolonial economic thought. He scrutinizes the mentalities, ideas, and visions that led the country down an ill-fated path of exp . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| American Studies \| Native American Studies \| Native American Ethnicity \| United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperatores victi: military defeat and aristocratic competition in the middle and late republic Author: Rosenstein, Nathan Stewart Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Military History \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Given the intense competition among aristocrats seeking public office in the middle and late Roman Republic, one would expect that their persistent struggles for honor, glory, and power could have seriously undermined the state or damaged the cohesiveness of the ruling class. Rome in fact depended o . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The implementation perspective: a guide for managing social service delivery programs Author: Williams, Walter Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Impure science: AIDS, activism, and the politics of knowledge Author: Epstein, Steven Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Social Science \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In the short, turbulent history of AIDS research and treatment, the boundaries between scientist insiders and lay outsiders have been crisscrossed to a degree never before seen in medical history. Steven Epstein's astute and readable investigation focuses on the critical question of "how certainty i . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: In a cold crater: cultural and intellectual life in Berlin, 1945-1948 Author: Schivelbusch, Wolfgang 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| German Studies \| European History \| Literature \| Film \| Music Publisher's Description: Although the three conspicuous cultures of Berlin in the twentieth century - Weimar, Nazi, and Cold War - are well documented, little is known about the years between the fall of the Third Reich and the beginning of the Cold War. In a Cold Crater is the history of this volatile postwar moment, when . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: In our own hands: a strategy for conserving California's biological diversity Author: Jensen, Deborah B Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Public Policy \| California and the West Publisher's Description: "Biodiversity." As argument over environmental and conservation policy grows more heated in California and throughout the nation, the term has become a buzzword. But what does biodiversity really mean? What really threatens it? Why should we care? In Our Own Hands offers a readable, scientifically s . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: In the shadow of the eagles: Sonora and the transformation of the border during the Porfiriato Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latin American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Shadow of the Eagles considers the historical roots of Mexican border society. The Mexican northwest, and Sonora in particular, has often captured the public's imagination; it has been portrayed as a region of untold mineral wealth, insurgent Apaches and Yaquis, self-reliant cowboys, miners, . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Incidents Author: Barthes, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Autobiography \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soirées de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various states of excitation, panic . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| South Asia \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inference, explanation, and other frustrations: essays in the philosophy of science Author: Earman, John Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Information and organizations Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Economics and Business \| Labor Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inquisition and society in the kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834 Author: Haliczer, Stephen 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Medieval History \| Renaissance History Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literature in Translation \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Inscribing the time: Shakespeare and the end of Elizabethan England Author: Mallin, Eric Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Combining the resources of new historicism, feminism, and postmodern textual analysis, Eric Mallin reveals how contemporary pressures left their marks on three Shakespeare plays written at the end of Elizabeth's reign. Close attention to the language of Troilus and Cressida , Hamlet , and Twelfth Ni . . . [more] Similar Items

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