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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Made in God's image?: Eve and Adam in the Genesis mosaics at San Marco, Venice Author: Jolly, Penny Howell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| Medieval Studies \| Women's Studies \| Religion Publisher's Description: The stunning mosaics that illustrate the story of Creation in the church of San Marco in Venice are the focus of Penny Howell Jolly's compelling and provocative book. Scholars of medieval art have long been interested in the Genesis mosaics because they copy a nearly destroyed fifth-century illumina . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: "Mademoiselle Irnois" and other stories Author: Gobineau, Arthur, comte de 1816-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Literature Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| European History \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making health work: human growth in modern Japan Author: Mosk, Carl Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Sociology \| Demography \| Japan \| Asian History \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Mosk shows how population quality provides a key to understanding economic growth and social change in Japan. Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology \| History \| Islam \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of a heretic: gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy Author: Burrus, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Religion \| Religion \| Christianity \| Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Medicine \| European History Publisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Economics and Business \| Politics Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing the medical arms race: public policy and medical device innovation Author: Foote, Susan Bartlett Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics \| Medicine \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: The allure of medical innovation is powerful - it holds out the promise of perfect health, the end of pain, the deferral of death. Our insatiable appetite for costly new technologies, fed by a profusion of innovations and the profits they generate, has led to what has been dubbed the medical arms ra . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Maring hunters and traders: production and exchange in the Papua New Guinea highlands Author: Healey, Christopher J Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Pacific Rim Studies \| Asian Studies Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Marriage and inequality in Chinese society Author: Watson, Rubie S. (Rubie Sharon) 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| Cultural Anthropology \| China \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Until now our understanding of marriage in China has been based primarily on observations made during the twentieth century. The research of ten eminent scholars presented here provides a new vision of marriage in Chinese history, exploring the complex interplay between marriage and the social, poli . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: A marriage made in heaven: the sexual politics of Hebrew and Yiddish Author: Seidman, Naomi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Gender Studies \| Religion \| Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: With remarkably original formulations, Naomi Seidman examines the ways that Hebrew, the Holy Tongue, and Yiddish, the vernacular language of Ashkenazic Jews, came to represent the masculine and feminine faces, respectively, of Ashkenazic Jewish culture. Her sophisticated history is the first book-le . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The mask of Socrates: the image of the intellectual in antiquity Author: Zanker, Paul Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics \| Art History \| Art and Architecture \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated work provides a new and deeper perspective on the interaction of visual representation and classical culture from the fifth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. Drawing on a variety of source materials such as Graeco-Roman literature, historiography, and philosophy, in add . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Masking the blow: the scene of representation in late prehistoric Egyptian art Author: Davis, Whitney Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this d . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Masks of the spirit: image and metaphor in Mesoamerica Author: Markman, Peter T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology \| Art \| Folklore and Mythology Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Media Studies \| Music \| Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture Author: Solterer, Helen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Medieval Studies \| Women's Studies \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a bro . . . [more] Similar Items

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