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81. | | Title: Miles and meAuthor: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Contemporary Music | JazzPublisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more]Similar Items | 82. | | Title: The military and the state in Latin America Author: Rouquié, Alain Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Latin American Studies | PoliticsSimilar Items | 83. | | Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physics | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more]Similar Items | 84. | | Title: Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy Author: Caplan, Eric 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American Studies | Science | History and Philosophy of SciencePublisher's Description: Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, Mind Games tells the remarkable story of how a widely assort . . . [more]Similar Items | 85. | | Title: The mind's pastAuthor: Gazzaniga, Michael S Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Psychology | Cognitive Science | NeurosciencePublisher's Description: Why does the human brain insist on interpreting the world and constructing a narrative? In this ground-breaking work, Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the world's foremost cognitive neuroscientists, shows how our mind and brain accomplish the amazing feat of constructing our past - a process clearly fra . . . [more]Similar Items | 86. | | Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more]Similar Items | 87. | | Title: Minor heresies, major departures: a China mission boyhoodAuthor: Espey, John Jenkins 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Asian Studies | China | Literature | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: An American boy, son of Presbyterian missionaries, was born in Shanghai early in this century. The boy lived two lives, one within the pious church compound, the other along the canal and in the alleys of a traditional Chinese city. There he faced the alley brats' Lady Bandit, heard the shrill screa . . . [more]Similar Items | 88. | | Title: Mirages of transition: the Peruvian altiplano, 1780-1930 Author: Jacobsen, Nils 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Anthropology | Latin American History | Latin American StudiesPublisher's Description: This case study of the Peruvian altiplano, the vast high-altitude plains surrounding Lake Titicaca, combines economic and social analysis with cultural and institutional history. Nils Jacobsen challenges the prevailing view that the rural Andes underwent a successful transition to capitalism between . . . [more]Similar Items | 89. | | Title: Mirror of modernity: invented traditions of modern JapanAuthor: Vlastos, Stephen 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Japan | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition , sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age- . . . [more]Similar Items | 90. | | Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more]Similar Items | 91. | | Title: Missing persons: a critique of the social sciencesAuthor: Douglas, Mary Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Public Policy | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social th . . . [more]Similar Items | 92. | | Title: The missing Spanish creoles: recovering the birth of plantation contact languagesAuthor: McWhorter, John H Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Linguistic Theory | African Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintain . . . [more]Similar Items | 93. | | Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United StatesAuthor: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Environmental Studies | German Studies | American Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more]Similar Items | 94. | | Title: Model rebels: the rise and fall of China's richest villageAuthor: Gilley, Bruce 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Asian History | China | Social SciencePublisher's Description: A portentous tale of rural rebellion unfolds in Bruce Gilley's moving chronicle of a village on the northern China plains during the post-1978 economic reform era. Gilley examines how Daqiu Village, led by Yu Zuomin, a charismatic Communist Party secretary and president of the local industrial congl . . . [more]Similar Items | 95. | | Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre | RhetoricPublisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more]Similar Items | 96. | | | 97. | | Title: Modernity and the hegemony of visionAuthor: Levin, David Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | EthicsPublisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more]Similar Items | 98. | | Title: Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospectsAuthor: Shambaugh, David L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | ChinaPublisher's Description: David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade's research, Modernizing China's Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when intern . . . [more]Similar Items | 99. | | Title: The molecular biology of plant cells Author: Smith, H. (Harry) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Science | Botany | BiologySimilar Items | 100. | | Title: Money and the modern mind: George Simmel's Philosophy of moneyAuthor: Poggi, Gianfranco Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Social Science | Philosophy | Economics and Business | Social Theory | European StudiesPublisher's Description: A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The Philosophy of Money , published in 1900, is nevertheless a difficult book that has daunted many would-be reade . . . [more]Similar Items |
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