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21.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Neither gods nor emperors: students and the struggle for democracy in China Author: Calhoun, Craig J 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Sociology \| Language and Linguistics \| African Studies \| American Studies Similar Items
22.	Add to Bookbag	Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Medical Anthropology \| Aging \| South Asia Publisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The New World of the gothic fox: culture and economy in English and Spanish America Author: Véliz, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Latin American Studies \| Latin American History Publisher's Description: Claudio Véliz adopts the provocative metaphor of foxes and hedgehogs that Isaiah Berlin used to describe opposite types of thinkers. Applying this metaphor to modern culture, economic systems, and the history of the New World, Véliz provides an original and lively approach to understanding the devel . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nested games: rational choice in comparative politics Author: Tsebelis, George Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics \| Economics and Business \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Clearly written and easily understood by the nonspecialist, Nested Games provides a systematic, empirically accurate, and theoretically coherent account of apparently irrational political actions. Similar Items
25.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nothing about us without us: disability oppression and empowerment Author: Charlton, James I Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology \| Public Policy \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Natural conflict resolution Author: Aureli, Filippo 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Science \| Zoology \| Psychology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Politics \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Aggression and competition are customarily presented as the natural state of affairs in both human society and the animal kingdom. Yet, as this book shows, our species relies heavily on cooperation for survival as do many others - from wolves and dolphins to monkeys and apes. A distinguished group o . . . [more] Similar Items
27.	Add to Bookbag	Title: National ideology under socialism: identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania Author: Verdery, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Cultural Anthropology \| European History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Add to Bookbag	Title: New York, the politics of urban regional development Author: Danielson, Michael N Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Urban Studies Similar Items
29.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The natural history of Big Sur Author: Henson, Paul 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| California and the West \| Natural History \| Ecology Publisher's Description: Each year millions of people visit the area of rugged California coastline and wild mountains known as Big Sur. Finally here is a book that is both a natural history of this beautiful region and an excellent guide to its extensive public lands. The first section introduces the area's geology, climat . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nothing bad happens to good girls: fear of crime in women's lives Author: Madriz, Esther 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Women's Studies \| Criminology Publisher's Description: "The possibility of being a victim of a crime is ever present on my mind; thinking about it as natural as breathing." - 40-year-old womanThis is a compelling analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavio . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood Author: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science \| Gender Studies \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The "new woman" revised: painting and gender politics on fourteenth street Author: Todd, Ellen Wiley Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In the years between the world wars, Manhattan's Fourteenth Street-Union Square district became a center for commercial, cultural, and political activities, and hence a sensitive barometer of the dramatic social changes of the period. It was here that four urban realist painters - Kenneth Hayes Mill . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nomad: a year in the life of a Qashqa'i tribesman in Iran Author: Beck, Lois 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Borzu Qermezi was the headman and political leader of a group of nomadic pastoralists who were part of the Qashqa'i confederacy of southwest Iran. Proud, complex, strong-willed, witty, and cunning, Borzu successfully led his people on their annual migrations for many years. He regulated their travel . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Ecology \| Earth Sciences \| California and the West \| Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts Author: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Medicine \| Ethics Publisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items
36.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nationalism and the Nordic imagination: Swedish art of the 1890s Author: Facos, Michelle Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: This richly illustrated book is a lucid introduction to a largely neglected manifestation of Modernism that came out of fin-de-siècle Sweden. Michelle Facos presents the first study in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. Her work is especially valuable in . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Women's Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nuptial arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the fatal number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic Author: Allen, Michael J. B Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Medieval Studies \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric o . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Not by bread alone: social support in the new Russia Author: Caldwell, Melissa L 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European Studies Publisher's Description: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex - if no less necessary and nourishing - than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the pos . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent Author: Hamburger, Jeffrey F 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Art \| Religion \| Gender Studies \| Art History \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: Jeffrey F. Hamburger's groundbreaking study of the art of female monasticism explores the place of images and image-making in the spirituality of medieval nuns during the later Middle Ages. Working from a previously unknown group of late-fifteenth-century devotional drawings made by a Benedictine nu . . . [more] Similar Items

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