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61. | | Title: Representation of places: reality and realism in city designAuthor: Bosselmann, Peter Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptually. In Representation of Places Peter Bosselmann takes on the challenging question of how designers can communicate the changes they envision in order that "the rest of us" adequately understand how t . . . [more]Similar Items | 62. | | Title: Representations: images of the world in Ciceronian oratory Author: Vasaly, Ann Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics | Literature | Politics | History | Literary Theory and Criticism | Classical Literature and LanguagePublisher's Description: Ann Vasaly introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory. As a genre uniquely dependent on an immediate interaction between author and audience, . . . [more]Similar Items | 63. | | Title: Reproducing empire: race, sex, science, and U.S. imperialism in Puerto RicoAuthor: Briggs, Laura 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | Medicine | United States History | Women's Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, fe . . . [more]Similar Items | 64. | | Title: Reproduction and social organization in Sub-Saharan Africa Author: Lesthaeghe, Ron J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: African Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Medical AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Unlike most Asian and Latin American countries, sub-Saharan Africa has seen both an increase in population growth rates and a weakening of traditional patterns of child-spacing since the 1960s. It is tempting to conclude that sub-Saharan countries have simply not reached adequate levels of income, e . . . [more]Similar Items | 65. | | Title: Republic of fear: the politics of modern IraqAuthor: Makiya, Kanan Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: In 1968 a coup d'état brought into power an extraordinary regime in Iraq, one that stood apart from other regimes in the Middle East. Between 1968 and 1980, this new regime, headed by the Arab Ba'th Socialist party, used ruthless repression and relentless organization to transform the way Iraqis thi . . . [more]Similar Items | 66. | | Title: Republican Beijing: the city and its historiesAuthor: Dong, Madeleine Yue 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s. While physical remnants from the past are being bulldozed every day to make space for glass-walled skyscrapers and towering apartment buildings, nostalgia for the old city is booming. Madeleine Yue Dong of . . . [more]Similar Items | 67. | | Title: Re-reading Sappho: reception and transmissionAuthor: Greene, Ellen 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literary Theory and Criticism | PoetryPublisher's Description: Re-Reading Sappho reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's "afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic . . . [more]Similar Items | 68. | | Title: The Research foundations of graduate education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, JapanAuthor: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | EducationPublisher's Description: A powerful international roster of scholars presents the first comprehensive discussion of advanced education in Germany, Britain, France, Japan, and the United States. For each nation, a detailed overview of the historical development and current conditions of graduate education is followed by an a . . . [more]Similar Items | 69. | | Title: The research universities and their patrons Author: Rosenzweig, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Sociology | SociologySimilar Items | 70. | | Title: Reshaping the psychoanalytic domain: the work of Melanie Klein, W.R.D. Fairbairn, and D.W. WinnicottAuthor: Hughes, Judith M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | PsychiatryPublisher's Description: Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating. Similar Items | 71. | | Title: Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Law | PhilosophyPublisher's Description: In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls, challenging its conception of justice as foundational, self-evident, and all-encompassing. The idea of justice is based on the premise that the world can be resolved into commensurate terms: punishment e . . . [more]Similar Items | 72. | | | 73. | | Title: Resistant structures: particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts Author: Strier, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance Literature | English LiteraturePublisher's Description: Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity an . . . [more]Similar Items | 74. | | Title: Respectable lives: social standing in rural New Zealand Author: Hatch, Elvin Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast AsiaPublisher's Description: Where do we get our notions of social hierarchy and personal worth? What underlies our beliefs about the goals worth aiming for, the persons we hope to become? Elvin Hatch addresses these questions in his ethnography of a small New Zealand farming community, articulating the cultural system beneath . . . [more]Similar Items | 75. | | Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more]Similar Items | 76. | | Title: Restless dead: encounters between the living and the dead in ancient GreeceAuthor: Johnston, Sarah Iles 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Religions | Classical Literature and Language | Intellectual History | Folklore and Mythology | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 77. | | Title: Retelling U.S. religious historyAuthor: Tweed, Thomas A Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | United States History | Asian Studies | American Studies | Comparative ReligionsPublisher's Description: This collection marks a turning point in the study of the history of American religions. In challenging the dominant paradigm, Thomas A. Tweed and his coauthors propose nothing less than a reshaping of the way that American religious history is understood, studied, and taught.The range of these essa . . . [more]Similar Items | 78. | | Title: Rethinking American history in a global ageAuthor: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | HistoriographyPublisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more]Similar Items | 79. | | Title: Rethinking evil: contemporary perspectivesAuthor: Lara, María Pía Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Social Theory | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a pr . . . [more]Similar Items | 80. | | Title: Rethinking home: a case for writing local historyAuthor: Amato, Joseph Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Intellectual History | United States History | WritingPublisher's Description: Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural hi . . . [more]Similar Items |
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