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41. | | Title: What's the matter with liberalism? Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Political Theory | Social and Political ThoughtPublisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more]Similar Items | 42. | | | 43. | | Title: When abortion was a crime: women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973 Author: Reagan, Leslie J Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | United States History | MedicinePublisher's Description: As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade , it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time wh . . . [more]Similar Items | 44. | | Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics | Ancient History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more]Similar Items | 45. | | Title: When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Hinduism | South AsiaPublisher's Description: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friends?What are they but rays from the crescentsleft by the nails of her loverpressing her in his passion,rays now luminous as the moonlightof a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dram . . . [more]Similar Items | 46. | | Title: When government fails: the Orange County bankruptcyAuthor: Baldassare, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Law | California and the WestPublisher's Description: When Orange County, California, filed for Chapter 9 protection on December 6, 1994, it became the largest municipality in United States history to declare bankruptcy. In the first comprehensive analysis of this momentous fiscal crisis, Mark Baldassare uncovers the many twists and turns from the dark . . . [more]Similar Items | 47. | | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more]Similar Items | 48. | | Title: When the Soviet Union entered world politics Author: Jacobson, Jon 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Politics | European History | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: The dissolution of the Soviet Union has aroused much interest in the USSR's role in world politics during its 74-year history and in how the international relations of the twentieth century were shaped by the Soviet Union. Jon Jacobson examines Soviet foreign relations during the period from the end . . . [more]Similar Items | 49. | | Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditionsAuthor: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Sociology | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more]Similar Items | 50. | | Title: When we began there were witchmen: an oral history from Mount Kenya Author: Fadiman, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Anthropology | African Studies | African HistoryPublisher's Description: This is the history of the Meru people of Mount Kenya, based on their own traditions, from the earliest times through the colonial period. Many of these tales have been ritually passed down through no fewer than nineteen generations; others were remembered by those personally involved. Jeffrey Fadim . . . [more]Similar Items | 51. | | Title: Where are you from?: Middle-class migrants in the modern worldAuthor: Raj, Dhooleka Sarhadi 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Earth Sciences | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | European Studies | South Asia | Immigration | Sociology | SociologyPublisher's Description: Dhooleka S. Raj explores the complexities of ethnic minority cultural change in this incisive examination of first- and second-generation middle-class South Asian families living in London. Challenging prevalent understandings of ethnicity that equate community, culture, and identity, Raj considers . . . [more]Similar Items | 52. | | Title: Where the world ended: re-unification and identity in the German borderlandAuthor: Berdahl, Daphne 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | German Studies | Geography | European Studies | Social ProblemsPublisher's Description: When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transformed. Daphne Berdahl, through ongoing ethnographic research in a former East German border village, explores the issues of borders and borderland identities that have accompanied . . . [more]Similar Items | 53. | | Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South AfricaAuthor: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Medical Anthropology | African Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more]Similar Items | 54. | | Title: White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Aging | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open u . . . [more]Similar Items | 55. | | Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton cultureAuthor: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more]Similar Items | 56. | | Title: Whitewashed adobe: the rise of Los Angeles and the remaking of its Mexican pastAuthor: Deverell, William Francis Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city - including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the o . . . [more]Similar Items | 57. | | Title: Whitman and the romance of medicineAuthor: Davis, Robert Leigh 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies | American Literature | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: In this compelling, accessible examination of one of America's greatest cultural and literary figures, Robert Leigh Davis details the literary and social significance of Walt Whitman's career as a nurse during the American Civil War. Davis shows how the concept of "convalescence" in nineteenth-centu . . . [more]Similar Items | 58. | | Title: Who survives cancer? Author: Greenwald, Howard P Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology | Environmental Studies | MedicinePublisher's Description: FACT OR FICTION? *A white male earning over $35,000 a year has a better chance of surviving most types of cancer than an unemployed African-American male.*Psychological factors predispose people to contracting cancer and improved emotional health promotes recovery.*Early detection is useless in curi . . . [more]Similar Items | 59. | | | 60. | | Title: Whose pharaohs?: archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War IAuthor: Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm) 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | European History | Middle Eastern Studies | Classics | Art HistoryPublisher's Description: Egypt's rich and celebrated ancient past has served many causes throughout history--in both Egypt and the West. Concentrating on the era from Napoleon's conquest and the discovery of the Rosetta Stone to the outbreak of World War I, this book examines the evolution of Egyptian archaeology in the con . . . [more]Similar Items |
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