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| 1. |  | Title: Global climate change and California: potential impacts and responses  Author: Knox, Joseph B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the West Publisher's Description: California's extraordinary ecological and economic diversity has brought it prosperity, pollution, and overpopulation. These factors and the state's national and international ties make California an essential test case for the impact of global climate change - temperature increases, water shortages . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary world Author: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global Studies Publisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | 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 Business Publisher'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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Pollution in a promised land: an environmental history of Israel Author: Tal, Alon 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Jewish Studies | Ecology | Geography | Conservation Publisher's Description: Virtually undeveloped one hundred years ago, Israel, the promised "land of milk and honey," is in ecological disarray. In this gripping book, Alon Tal provides--for the first time ever--a history of environmentalism in Israel, interviewing hundreds of experts and activists who have made it their mis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution Author: Markowitz, Gerald E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Public Policy | United States History Publisher's Description: Deceit and Denial details the attempts by the chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products present to workers, the public, and consumers. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner pursued evidence steadily and relentlessly, interviewed the important players, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Social change and modernity Author: Haferkamp, Hans 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Politics Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Rethinking American history in a global age Author: Bender, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Intellectual History | Historiography Publisher's Description: In rethinking and reframing the American national narrative in a wider context, the contributors to this volume ask questions about both nationalism and the discipline of history itself. The essays offer fresh ways of thinking about the traditional themes and periods of American history. By locating . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The activist's handbook: a primer for the 1990s and beyond Author: Shaw, Randy 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | California and the West | Urban Studies | American Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: The Activist's Handbook is a hard-hitting guide to winning social change in the 1990s. Randy Shaw, attorney and longtime activist for urban issues, shows how positive change can still be accomplished despite an increasingly grim political order, if activists employ the strategies set forth in this d . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal Author: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Loose change: three women of the sixties Author: Davidson, Sara Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three - Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself - from their first meeting in 1962, through the eve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: What machines can't do: politics and technology in the industrial enterprise Author: Thomas, Robert Joseph 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Economics and Business | Politics | Sociology | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Virtually every manufacturing company has plans for an automated "factory of the future." But Robert J. Thomas argues that smart machines may not hold the key to an industrial renaissance. In this provocative and enlightening book, he takes us inside four successful manufacturing enterprises to reve . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Language contact, creolization, and genetic linguistics Author: Thomason, Sarah Grey Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Language and Linguistics | Linguistic Theory | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Ten years of research back up the bold new theory advanced by authors Thomason and Kaufman, who rescue the study of contact-induced language change from the neglect it has suffered in recent decades. The authors establish an important new framework for the historical analysis of all degrees of conta . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Historied thought, constructed world: a conceptual primer for the turn of the millennium Author: Margolis, Joseph 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the ph . . . [more] Similar Items |