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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Sabra: the creation of the new Jew Author: Almog, Oz Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer fore . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sacred landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti' . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sacred self: a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing Author: Csordas, Thomas J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology \| Religion \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas investigates the healing practices of a modern religious movement to provide a rich cultural analysis of the healing experience. Thi . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sacrificed generation: youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology \| African History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Geography Publisher's Description: Youth and identity politics figure prominently in this provocative study of personal and collective memory in Madagascar. A deeply nuanced ethnography of historical consciousness, it challenges many cross-cultural investigations of youth, for its key actors are not adults but schoolchildren. Lesley . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Saga of the Volsungs: the Norse epic of Sigurd the Dragon Slayer Author: Byock, Jesse L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| History \| European History \| Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: The Saga of the Volsungs is an Icelandic prose epic whose anonymous thirteenth-century author based his story on the legends of Old Scandinavian folk culture. A trove of traditional lore, it tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. The Sa . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sainthood: its manifestations in world religions Author: Bond, George Doherty 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion \| Comparative Religions \| Philosophy Publisher's Description: Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has b . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Same bed, different dreams: managing U.S.-China relations, 1989-2000 Author: Lampton, David M Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics \| Asian History \| China \| United States History Publisher's Description: The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president o . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Author: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies \| History \| Men and Masculinity \| Californian and Western History \| Urban Studies \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	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
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Savagism and civilization: a study of the Indian and the American mind Author: Pearce, Roy Harvey Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Native American Studies Similar Items
12.	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
13.	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
14.	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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The school of history: Athens in the age of Socrates Author: Munn, Mark Henderson Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Ancient History \| Classical Politics Publisher's Description: History, political philosophy, and constitutional law were born in Athens in the space of a single generation--the generation that lived through the Peloponnesian War (431-404 b.c.e.). This remarkable age produced such luminaries as Socrates, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Schopenhauer on the character of the world: the metaphysics of will Author: Atwell, John E Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: The most extensive English-language study of Schopenhauer's metaphysics of the will yet published, this book represents a major contribution to Schopenhauer scholarship. Here, John E. Atwell critically but sympathetically examines the philosopher's main work, The World as Will and Representation , d . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	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
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: A scientist's voice in American culture: Simon Newcomb and the rhetoric of scientific method Author: Moyer, Albert E 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| United States History Publisher's Description: In late nineteenth-century America, Simon Newcomb was the nation's most celebrated scientist and - irascibly, doggedly, tirelessly - he made the most of it. Officially a mathematical astronomer heading a government agency, Newcomb spent as much of his life out of the observatory as in it, acting as . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography; first fifty years Author: Raitt, Helen Published: W. Ritchie Press, 1967 Subjects: Similar Items

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