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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Ethnic Studies \| Women's Studies \| United States History \| American Studies Publisher's Description: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts - including the cookbooks of Nuevo Mexicanas, African A . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technology and scholarly communication Author: Ekman, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Media Studies \| Technology and Society \| Library Science \| Reference \| Economics and Business \| Electronic Media Publisher's Description: Electronic publishing has been gaining ground in recent years and is now a recognized part of the digital world. In the most comprehensive assessment of electronic publishing to date, thirty-one scholars, librarians, and publishers focus specifically on scholarly publishing. They analyze a number of . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technology as freedom: the New Deal and the electrical modernization of the American home Author: Tobey, Ronald C Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Technology and Society \| United States History Publisher's Description: Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals. The New Deal identified electrical refrigeration as a key technology to . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Urban Studies \| Geography \| Politics Publisher's Description: Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex - Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor mar . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Telling lives, telling history: autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia Author: Rodgers, Susan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: The temptations of evolutionary ethics Author: Farber, Paul Lawrence 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy \| History \| Ethics \| History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are bui . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| French Studies Publisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Testing testing: social consequences of the examined life Author: Hanson, F. Allan 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Sociology \| Medical Anthropology \| Psychiatry Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Their sisters' keepers: prostitution in New York City, 1830-1870 Author: Hill, Marilynn Wood Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Women's Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This intimate study of prostitutes in New York City during the mid-nineteenth century reveals these women in an entirely new light. Unlike traditional studies, Marilynn Wood Hill's account of prostitution's positive attractions, as well as its negative aspects, gives a fresh perspective to this much . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage Author: Burton, Joan B 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticated new readings of Theocritus's urban mimes, which are among the most frequently cited evidence of Hellenistic cultural life, religion, magic, and aesthetics. Unlike Theocritus's bucolic poems, which fo . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Theory of culture Author: Münch, Richard 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology \| Social Theory \| Political Theory \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: A theory of language and mind Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect. Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in contemporary American philosophy, contests the . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West Author: Flax, Jane Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Psychiatry \| Political Theory \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theory. Examining the writings of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Chodorow, Irigaray, Derrida, Rorty, and Foucault, among others, Flax conducts a "conversation" among psychoanalysts, feminist thinkers, and postmode . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Three mothers, three daughters: Palestinian women's stories Author: Gorkin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Women's Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: This remarkable collection of oral histories from six Palestinian women, three mothers and three of their daughters, affords an unparalleled view into the daily lives of women who have lived, and continue to live, through a turbulent and rapidly changing era. In recording these stories, Michael Gork . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Thucydides and the ancient simplicity: the limits of political realism Author: Crane, Gregory 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics \| Politics \| Political Theory \| History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tijuana: stories on the border Author: Campbell, Federico Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| Chicano Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Tijuana is a haunting collection of stories and a novella, all set in the shadowy borderlands between Mexico and the United States. A fresh and evocative voice, Federico Campbell traces many kinds of borders - geographical, psychological, cultural, spiritual - and the "halfway beings" that inhabit t . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The tireless traveler: twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury Author: Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Letters Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: To craft democracies: an essay on democratic transitions Author: Di Palma, Giuseppe Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| History Publisher's Description: Is democracy a hot-house plant? Is it difficult to transplant it into new soil? The fall of so many dictatorships in the last few years - first in Southern Europe, then in Latin America, now in Eastern Europe - opens new, more optimistic perspectives on democratic development. The crises of dictator . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Public Policy \| Asian History \| Southeast Asia \| Economics and Business \| Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Similar Items

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