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| 41. |  | Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24  Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Economics and Business | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Montaigne's unruly brood: textual engendering and the challenge to paternal authority Author: Regosin, Richard L 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies Publisher's Description: Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional fi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | Title: Moral communities: the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907 Author: Steinberg, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 44. |  | Title: More equal than others: women and men in dual-career marriages Author: Hertz, Rosanna Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems Similar Items |
| 45. |  | Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | American Literature | Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 47. |  | Title: Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900 Author: Kramer, Lawrence 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Musicology | European History | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: In Music as Cultural Practice , Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Politics | Islam | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | Title: My Kantian ways Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In My Kantian Ways , Ermanno Bencivenga, one of the most creative and iconoclastic practitioners of American philosophy, sets out to explore Kant's legacy for contemporary thought. Seeking to extricate the German philosopher's work from the stranglehold of the prevailing analytic tradition, he prese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 51. |  | Title: The mystique of dreams: a search for utopia through Senoi dream theory Author: Domhoff, G. William Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Psychology | Anthropology Publisher's Description: A fascinating strand of the human potential movement of the 1960s involved the dream mystique of a previously unknown Malaysian tribe, the Senoi, first brought to the attention of the Western world by adventurer-anthropologist-psychologist Kilton Stewart. Exploring the origin, attraction, and effica . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 52. |  | Title: Myth, meaning, and memory on Roman sarcophagi Author: Koortbojian, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art History | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: Michael Koortbojian brings a novel approach to his study of the role of Greek mythology in Roman funerary art. He looks at two myths - Aphrodite and Adonis and Selene and Endymion - not only with respect to their appearance on Roman sarcophagi, but also with regard to the myths' significance in the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 53. |  | Title: The Myth of the Independent voter Author: Keith, Bruce E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on voting behavior. Yet the authors of this incisive . . . [more] Similar Items |