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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sanctuaries of Spanish New Mexico/ Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History Publisher's Description: Among the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Spanish New Mexico - made of earth, of stone, of wood - are the surprisingly fragile reminders of a unique amalgam of Spanish architectural ideas and native American Pueblo culture. This book surveys the land and rivers, the people and . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Saving the earth: the history of a middle-class millenarian movement Author: Gelber, Steven M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| Christianity Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The scar of revolution: Custine, Tocqueville, and the romantic imagination Author: Grudzinska-Gross, Irena Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European Literature \| Intellectual History Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| Public Policy Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography; first fifty years Author: Raitt, Helen Published: W. Ritchie Press, 1967 Subjects: Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue Author: Sargent, Peter Published: Sargent, 1979 Subjects: Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences \| Geology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| China \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Second sight Author: Hine, Robert V 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies \| Medicine Publisher's Description: He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Secure from rash assault: sustaining the Victorian environment Author: Winter, James H 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Victorian History \| Ecology \| Geography \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Nineteenth-century Britain led the world in technological innovation and urbanization, and unprecedented population growth contributed as well to the "rash assault," to quote Wordsworth, on Victorian countrysides. Yet James Winter finds that the British environment was generally spared widespread ec . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Seducing the French: the dilemma of Americanization Author: Kuisel, Richard F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Popular Culture \| French Studies Publisher's Description: When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In an . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Senecan drama and stoic cosmology Author: Rosenmeyer, Thomas G Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Classical Philosophy \| Theatre Publisher's Description: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Nero's tutor and advisor, wrote philosophical essays, some of them in the form of letters, and dramas on Greek mythological topics, which since the early Renaissance have exercised a powerful influence on the European theater. Because in his essays Seneca, in his own eclectic . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Setting safety standards: regulation in the public and private sectors Author: Cheit, Ross E Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: In this highly original and meticulously researched comparison of public and private standards-setting, Ross Cheit questions the old maxim that government-set safety standards are too severe while those set by the private sector are too lenient. Identifying the comparative institutional advantages o . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sexual education of Edith Wharton Author: Erlich, Gloria C Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| American Literature \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Starting with the tensions in the early family constellation, Gloria C. Erlich traces Edith Wharton's erotic evolution - from her early repression of sexuality and her celibate marriage to her discovery of passion in a rapturous midlife love affair with the bisexual Morton Fullerton. Analyzing the n . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shady practices: agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia Author: Schroeder, Richard A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Geography \| Anthropology \| Ecology \| African Studies \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: Shady Practices is a revealing analysis of the gendered political ecology brought about by conflicting local interests and changing developmental initiatives in a West African village. Between 1975 and 1985, while much of Africa suffered devastating drought conditions, Gambian women farmers succeede . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shanghai on the Metro: spies, intrigue, and the French between the wars Author: Miller, Michael Barry 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| European History \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Secret agents, gun runners, White Russians, adventurers, and con men - they all play a part in Michael Miller's strikingly original study of interwar France. Based on extensive research in security files and a mass of printed sources, this book shows how a distinctive milieu of spies and spy literat . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Shaping history: ordinary people in European politics, 1500-1700 Author: Te Brake, Wayne Ph Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| European History \| European Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As long as there have been governments, ordinary people have been acting in a variety of often informal or extralegal ways to influence the rulers who claimed authority over them. Shaping History shows how ordinary people broke down the institutional and cultural barriers that separated elite from p . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: A share of the harvest: kinship, property, and social history among the Malays of Rembau Author: Peletz, Michael G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Anthropology \| Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia Similar Items

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