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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Language in time of revolution Author: Harshav, Benjamin 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| History \| Literature Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Leadership and community in late antique Gaul Author: Van Dam, Raymond Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Classical Religions Publisher's Description: The rise of Christianity to the dominant position it held in the Middle Ages remains a paradoxical achievement. Early Christian communities in Gaul had been so restrictive that they sometimes persecuted misfits with accusations of heresy. Yet by the fifth century Gallic aristocrats were becoming bis . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Livable cities?: urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Social Problems \| Public Policy \| Political Theory \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Urban Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Louis XIII, the Just Author: Moote, A. Lloyd (Alanson Lloyd) Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Autobiographies and Biographies Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Land mammals of Oregon Author: Verts, B. J Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science \| Zoology \| Biology \| Natural History Publisher's Description: This is the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of mammals in the state of Oregon since 1936, when Vernon Bailey's The Mammals and Life Zones of Oregon was published. It provides a basic reference for mammalogists, wildlife biologists, students, and anyone interested in mammalian life in the n . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Land, labor and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882-1914 Author: Shafir, Gershon Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but t . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Languages of community: the Jewish experience in the Czech lands Author: Kieval, Hillel J Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| European Studies \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Judaism Publisher's Description: With a keen eye for revealing details, Hillel J. Kieval examines the contours and distinctive features of Jewish experience in the lands of Bohemia and Moravia (the present-day Czech Republic), from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century. In the Czech lands, Kieval writes, Jews have felt . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The life of Judaism Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Jewish Studies \| Judaism Publisher's Description: Approximately thirteen million people around the world define themselves as Jews, with the majority residing in the United States and Israel. This collection portrays the diversity of Jewish experience as it is practiced and lived in contemporary societies. The book's attention to material culture o . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Legislative leviathan: party government in the House Author: Cox, Gary W Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This book provides an incisive new look at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, Gary Cox and Mathew McCubbins view parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of "legislative cartel." T . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Literary architecture: essays toward a tradition: Walter Pater, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Marcel Proust, Henry James Author: Frank, Ellen Eve Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Law and disorder on the Narova River: the Kreenholm strike of 1872 Author: Zelnik, Reginald E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Labor Studies \| European History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Reginald Zelnik uses a single episode - a militant strike at the Kreenholm factory, Europe's largest textile plant - to explore the broad historical moment. In examining this crucial event of Russian history he sheds fresh light on local power relations, high politics in St. Petersburg, controversie . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The listening composer Author: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music \| Contemporary Music \| Composers Publisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Latin American experiments in neoconservative economics Author: Foxley, Alejandro Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Economics and Business \| Latin American Studies Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: La lucha for Cuba: religion and politics on the streets of Miami Author: De La Torre, Miguel A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| Latino Studies \| Politics \| Christianity Publisher's Description: For many in Miami's Cuban exile community, hating Fidel Castro is as natural as loving one's children. This hatred, Miguel De La Torre suggests, has in fact taken on religious significance. In La Lucha for Cuba, De La Torre shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Language, charisma, and creativity: the ritual life of a religious movement Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Christianity Publisher's Description: Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media phenomenon known as conservative Christianity, embraces one of the primary tasks of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by making the exotic seem familiar and the familiar a . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature \| Cultural Anthropology \| European Studies \| Ancient History \| Philosophy \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Learning from experience: minority identities, multicultural struggles Author: Moya, Paula M. L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Chicano Studies \| Gender Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| Politics \| Social Theory \| Immigration Publisher's Description: In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A life's mosaic: the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala Author: Ntantala, Phyllis Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature \| African Studies \| Autobiography \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: "Like Trotsky, I did not leave home with the proverbial one-and-six in my pocket. I come from a family of landed gentry . . . [and] could have chosen the path of comfort and safety, for even in apartheid South Africa, there is still that path for those who will collaborate. But I chose the path of s . . . [more] Similar Items

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