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| 1. |  | Title: The worth of a child Author: Murray, Thomas H 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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 |
| 3. |  | Title: Iconography of power: Soviet political posters under Lenin and Stalin Author: Bonnell, Victoria E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Popular Culture | European Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics | Art Criticism | History | European History Publisher's Description: Masters at visual propaganda, the Bolsheviks produced thousands of vivid and compelling posters after they seized power in October 1917. Intended for a semi-literate population that was accustomed to the rich visual legacy of the Russian autocracy and the Orthodox Church, political posters came to o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Searching for life: the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the disappeared children of Argentina Author: Arditti, Rita 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: FROM THE BOOK :"I want to touch you and kiss you.""You are my mother's sister and only one year older; you must have something of my mother in you." - A found child after being returned to her family Searching for Life traces the courageous plight of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Physics and politics in revolutionary Russia Author: Josephson, Paul R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Aided by personal documents and institutional archives that were closed for decades, this book recounts the development of physics - or, more aptly, science under stress - in Soviet Russia up to World War II. Focusing on Leningrad, center of Soviet physics until the late 1930s, Josephson discusses t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Mother without child: contemporary fiction and the crisis of motherhood Author: Hansen, Elaine Tuttle 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Women's Studies | American Literature | Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Revealing the maternal as not a core identity but a site of profound psychic and social division, Hansen illuminates recent decades of feminist thought and explores novels by Jane Rule, Alice Walker, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Fay Weldon. Unlike traditional . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The enigma of 1989: the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe Author: Lévesque, Jacques Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The Soviet external empire fell in 1989 virtually without bloodshed. The domino-like collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern Europe was not anticipated by political experts in either the East or the West. Most surprising of all was the Soviet Union's permissive reactions to the secession. For t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Surviving freedom: after the Gulag Author: Bardach, Janusz Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | European Studies | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The collective and the individual in Russia: a study of practices Author: Kharkhordin, Oleg 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Social Theory | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced eac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Targeting autism: what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism and related disorders Author: Cohen, Shirley Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Social Problems | Education | Psychology | Psychiatry | Medicine Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Author: Kinder, Marsha Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Television and Radio | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Crossing the border: encounters between homeless people and outreach workers Author: Rowe, Michael 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Psychology | American Studies | Urban Studies | Social Problems | Anthropology Publisher's Description: The relationship between the homeless and the social service community marks a border where the disenfranchised meet the mainstream of society. Crossing the Border , the first book-length study of outreach work to the mentally ill homeless, uses ethnographic tools to examine encounters at this borde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Stalin's forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the making of a Soviet Jewish homeland: an illustrated history, 1928-1996 Author: Weinberg, Robert E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies | History | Politics | Judaism Publisher's Description: Robert Weinberg and Bradley Berman's carefully documented and extensively illustrated book explores the Soviet government's failed experiment to create a socialist Jewish homeland. In 1934 an area popularly known as Birobidzhan, a sparsely populated region along the Sino-Soviet border some five thou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Unequal childhoods: class, race, and family life Author: Lareau, Annette Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Anthropology | Education Publisher's Description: Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: A little corner of freedom: Russian nature protection from Stalin to Gorbachëv Author: Weiner, Douglas R 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | Environmental Studies | Politics | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Ecology Publisher's Description: While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led mo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Leningrad: shaping a Soviet city Author: Ruble, Blair A 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Russian and Eastern European Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional politic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The Gorbachev phenomenon: a historical interpretation Author: Lewin, Moshe 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Sociology | Politics | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The "Gorbachev phenomenon" is seen as the product of complex developments during the last seventy years - developments that changed the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian society into an urban, industrial one. Here, for the first time, a noted authority on Soviet society identifies the crucial h . . . [more] Similar Items |