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


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1.	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
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law \| American Studies \| Political Theory Publisher's Description: Narrowing the Nation's Power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea th . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Big money crime: fraud and politics in the savings and loan crisis Author: Calavita, Kitty Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics \| Sociology \| Economics and Business \| Criminology Publisher's Description: At a cost of $500 billion to American taxpayers, the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s was the worst financial crisis of the twentieth century as well as a crime unparalleled in American history. Yet the vast majority of its perpetrators will never be prosecuted, and those who were have received . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Encountering Chinese networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese corporations in China, 1880-1937 Author: Cochran, Sherman 1940- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History \| Economics and Business \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Big businesses have faced a persistent dilemma in China since the nineteenth century: how to retain control over corporate hierarchies while adapting to local social networks. Sherman Cochran, in the first study to compare Western, Japanese, and Chinese businesses in Chinese history, shows how vario . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics \| Southeast Asia \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Managing in the corporate interest: control and resistance in an American bank Author: Smith, Vicki 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology \| Technology and Society \| Economics and Business \| Politics Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Creating the corporate soul: the rise of public relations and corporate imagery in American big business Author: Marchand, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| American Studies \| Popular Culture \| Intellectual History \| Media Studies \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Over the course of the twentieth century the popular perception of America's giant corporations has undergone an astonishing change. Condemned as dangerous leviathans in the century's first decades, by 1945 major corporations had become respected, even revered, institutions. Roland Marchand's lavish . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Money, expense, and naval power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 Author: Kallet-Marx, Lisa Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Classics \| Economics and Business \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Thucydides has been found guilty of indifference toward financial matters without a consideration of all the evidence. Now Lisa Kallet-Marx examines Thucydides' treatment of financial resources by studying his comments on finance in the context of the whole work and scrutinizes other, chiefly epigra . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	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
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Public health law: power, duty, restraint Author: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law \| Medicine \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Gostin's timely book offers the first systematic definition and theory of public health law. Basing his definition on a broad notion of the government's inherent responsibility to advance the population's health and well-being, he develops a rich understanding of the government's fundamental powers . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	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
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Envisioning power: ideologies of dominance and crisis Author: Wolf, Eric R 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology \| Social Theory \| Social and Political Thought \| Political Theory \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: With the originality and energy that have marked his earlier works, Eric Wolf now explores the historical relationship of ideas, power, and culture. Responding to anthropology's long reliance on a concept of culture that takes little account of power, Wolf argues that power is crucial in shaping the . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Mobilizing against nuclear energy: a comparison of Germany and the United States Author: Joppke, Christian Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics \| Environmental Studies \| German Studies \| American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: In the past two decades young people, environmentalists, church activists, leftists, and others have mobilized against nuclear energy. Anti-nuclear protest has been especially widespread and vocal in Western Europe and the United States. In this lucid, richly documented book, Christian Joppke compar . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers and ghettos: state violence in Serbia and Israel Author: Ron, James Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| European Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Christianity \| Judaism \| Islam \| Christianity Publisher's Description: James Ron uses controversial comparisons between Serbia and Israel to present a novel theory of state violence. Formerly a research consultant to Human Rights Watch and the International Red Cross, Ron witnessed remarkably different patterns of state coercion. Frontiers and Ghettos presents an insti . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Power and illness: the failure and future of American health policy Author: Fox, Daniel M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology \| Medicine \| History \| American Studies \| United States History Publisher's Description: During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: The corporate practice of medicine: competition and innovation in health care Author: Robinson, James C 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Medicine \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry under corporate control. James Robinson examines the economic and political forces that have eroded the traditional medical . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Jewish state: a century later Author: Dowty, Alan 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Politics Publisher's Description: As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its cl . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	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