UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: A culture of conspiracy: apocalyptic visions in contemporary America Author: Barkun, Michael Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Christianity \| Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet disturbing book, quite a lot. It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. The Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bom . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression Author: Braziel, Jana Evans 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| Gender Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Since World War II, when the diet and fitness industries promoted mass obsession with weight and body shape, fat has been a dirty word. In the United States, fat is seen as repulsive, funny, ugly, unclean, obscene, and above all as something to lose. Bodies Out of Bounds challenges these dominant pe . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Asian American Studies \| American Studies \| United States History \| Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: A shield in space?: technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative: how the Reagan Administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move Author: Lakoff, Sanford A Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics \| Political Theory \| Technology and Society Publisher's Description: In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Crack in America: demon drugs and social justice Author: Reinarman, Craig Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: American Studies \| Sociology \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Crack in America is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose in the face of growing unemployment, poverty, racism, and shrinking social services. It places crack in . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Monster/beauty: building the body of love Author: Frueh, Joanna Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Art \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies \| Art Theory \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: This daring, intensely personal book challenges both conventional and feminist ideas about beauty by asking us to take pleasure in beauty without shame, and to see and feel the erotic in everyday life. Bringing together her varied experiences as a poet, art historian, bodybuilder, and noted performa . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Moving places: a life at the movies Author: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| Autobiography Publisher's Description: Moving Places is the brilliant account of a life steeped in and shaped by the movies - part autobiography, part film analysis, part social history. Jonathan Rosenbaum, one of America's most gifted film critics, began his moviegoing in the 1950s in small-town Alabama, where his family owned and manag . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The autobiography of Ōsugi Sakae Author: Ōsugi, Sakae 1885-1923 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Japan \| Autobiography \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and society . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Konspira: Solidarity underground Author: Łopiński, Maciej Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies \| European History Publisher's Description: Konspira bares the soul and mind of Solidarity not long before the movement's stunning emergence as Poland's political vanguard. Written while martial law still gripped the country, Konspira tells the inside story of this inspiring contemporary workers' movement. The authors taped, then consolidated . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The lure of the edge: scientific passions, religious beliefs, and the pursuit of UFOs Author: Denzler, Brenda 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Religion \| Science \| Sociology Publisher's Description: UFO phenomena entered American consciousness at the beginning of the Cold War, when reports from astonished witnesses of encounters with unknown aerial objects captured the attention of the United States military and the imagination of the press and the public. But when UFOs appeared not to be hosti . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The call from Algeria: third worldism, revolution, and the turn to Islam Author: Malley, Robert 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Intellectual History \| African Studies Publisher's Description: The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers. Charting Algeria's political evolution from the turn of the century to the present, Robert Malley explores the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the current . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Black magic: religion and the African American conjuring tradition Author: Chireau, Yvonne Patricia 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion \| African Studies \| American Studies \| United States History \| African American Studies Publisher's Description: Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both schola . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Blackface, white noise: Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot Author: Rogin, Michael 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies \| Film \| United States History \| Jewish Studies \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump , Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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 \| Medicine Publisher'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
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The sinister way: the divine and the demonic in Chinese religious culture Author: Von Glahn, Richard Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Asian History \| China \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who pre . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Many Rāmāyaṇas: the diversity of a narrative tradition in South Asia Author: Richman, Paula Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Religion \| Hinduism \| Cultural Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: Throughout Indian history, many authors and performers have produced, and many patrons have supported, diverse tellings of the story of the exiled prince Rama, who rescues his abducted wife by battling the demon king who has imprisoned her. The contributors to this volume focus on these "many" Ramay . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Anarchism in the Chinese revolution Author: Dirlik, Arif Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China \| Politics Publisher's Description: Arif Dirlik's latest offering is a revisionist perspective on Chinese radicalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the history of anarchism is indispensable to understanding crucial themes in Chinese radicalism. And anarchism is particularly significant now as a source of democratic ideals wi . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Small property versus big government: social origins of the property tax revolt Author: Lo, Clarence Y. H Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Public Policy \| Law \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Tax reformers, take note. Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Almost chosen people: oblique biographies in the American grain Author: Zuckerman, Michael 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| United States History \| American Literature \| American Studies Publisher's Description: Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book.In his effort to remake the meaning of the American tradition, Zuckerman takes the entire sweep of Americ . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art \| Art History \| South Asia Publisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more] Similar Items