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121.	Requires cookie*	Title: The state and labor in modern Japan Author: Garon, Sheldon Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Asian Studies \| History \| Asian History \| Politics \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the Japanese state and labor simply in terms of . . . [more] Similar Items
122.	Requires cookie*	Title: State and peasant in contemporary China: the political economy of village government Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Politics Similar Items
123.	Requires cookie*	Title: The state and the mass media in Japan, 1918-1945 Author: Kasza, Gregory James Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Japan \| Asian History Publisher's Description: Gregory Kasza examines state-society relations in interwar Japan through a case study of public policy toward radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. Similar Items
124.	Requires cookie*	Title: The state and the poor: public policy and political development in India and the United States Author: Echeverri-Gent, John Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Asian Studies \| South Asia Publisher's Description: This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual framework for analyzing state-society relations beginning from the premise that policy implementation, as the site of tangib . . . [more] Similar Items
125.	Requires cookie*	Title: State capitalism and working-class radicalism in the French aircraft industry Author: Chapman, Herrick Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Politics \| Technology and Society \| French Studies Publisher's Description: In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that . . . [more] Similar Items
126.	Requires cookie*	Title: The state must be our master of fire: how peasants craft culturally sustainable development in Senegal Author: Galvan, Dennis Charles Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Politics \| Anthropology \| African Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Over several centuries, the Serer of the Siin region of Senegal developed a complex system of land tenure that resulted in a stable rural society, productive agriculture, and a well-managed ecosystem. Dennis Galvan tells the story of what happened when French colonial rulers, and later the governmen . . . [more] Similar Items
127.	Requires cookie*	Title: States and women's rights: the making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco Author: Charrad, M. (Mounira) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Women's Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Law Publisher's Description: At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context . . . [more] Similar Items
128.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Print Media \| Public Policy \| Science Publisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more] Similar Items
129.	Requires cookie*	Title: Steps under water: a novel Author: Kozameh, Alicia Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Latin American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Fiction Publisher's Description: Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Similar Items
130.	Requires cookie*	Title: Still a man's world: men who do "women's" work Author: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology \| Anthropology \| Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| Economics and Business \| Men and Masculinity Publisher's Description: Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams u . . . [more] Similar Items
131.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stories in the time of cholera: racial profiling during a medical nightmare Author: Briggs, Charles L 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology \| Latin American Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Disease \| Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and C . . . [more] Similar Items
132.	Requires cookie*	Title: Storm over Mono: the Mono Lake battle and the California water future Author: Hart, John 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies \| Environmental Studies \| Natural History \| California and the West Publisher's Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply . . . [more] Similar Items
133.	Requires cookie*	Title: The strands of a life Author: Sinsheimer, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Biology \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: From heading a campus of the largest public university in the nation to participating in the birth of molecular biology, Robert L. Sinsheimer's experiences have given him a unique vantage point from which to view the paths that science and education have taken in the twentieth century. This book tel . . . [more] Similar Items
134.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strangers at home: Jews in the Italian literary imagination Author: Gunzberg, Lynn M Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jews in novels and poetry written by non-Jews from the beginning of the Risorgimento in the early 1800s to the enactment of the Fascist racial laws in 1938. She shows how the literatu . . . [more] Similar Items
135.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strangers at the gates: new immigrants in urban America Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Urban Studies \| African American Studies \| Asian American Studies \| Latino Studies \| Labor Studies \| Social Problems \| Immigration Publisher's Description: Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last . . . [more] Similar Items
136.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strategic bankruptcy: how corporations and creditors use Chapter 11 to their advantage Author: Delaney, Kevin J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In 1982 Johns-Manville, a major asbestos manufacturer, declares itself insolvent to avoid paying claims resulting from exposure to its products. A year later, Continental Airlines, one of the top ten carriers in the United States, claims a deficit when the union resists plans to cut labor costs. Lat . . . [more] Similar Items
137.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strategies for learning: small-group activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish industry Author: Cole, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Japan \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: How do firms become motivated to adopt small-group activities such as quality circles and self-managing teams? How do they acquire expertise in these activities? Noted sociologist and management expert Robert E. Cole addresses these issues through an examination of small-group activities in the Unit . . . [more] Similar Items
138.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stravinsky and the Rite of spring: the beginnings of a musical language Author: Van den Toorn, Pieter C 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Music \| Composers Similar Items
139.	Requires cookie*	Title: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra Author: Taruskin, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Music \| Musicology \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book undoes 50 years of mythmaking about Stravinsky's life in music.During his spectacular career, Igor Stravinsky underplayed his Russian past in favor of a European cosmopolitanism. Richard Taruskin has refused to take the composer at his word. In this long-awaited study, he defines Stravinsk . . . [more] Similar Items
140.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strong mothers, weak wives: the search for gender equality Author: Johnson, Miriam M Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Sociology \| Psychology \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: A leading theorist in the sociology of sex and gender, Miriam Johnson establishes as her starting point the belief that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. In Strong Mothers, Weak Wives she develops this notion by examining how gender differences get translated into g . . . [more] Similar Items

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