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| 1. |  | Title: A skeptic among scholars: August Frugé on university publishing  Author: Frugé, August 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Reference | Publishing Publisher's Description: When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the la . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Creating the Cold War university: the transformation of Stanford Author: Lowen, Rebecca S 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Education | Technology and Society | Military History | Californian and Western History | History and Philosophy of Science | California and the West | Intellectual History | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: The "cold war university" is the academic component of the military-industrial-academic complex, and its archetype, according to Rebecca Lowen, is Stanford University. Her book challenges the conventional wisdom that the post-World War II "multiversity" was created by military patrons on the one han . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Places of inquiry: research and advanced education in modern universities Author: Clark, Burton R Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Social Science | Sociology | Education Publisher's Description: A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, Franc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | California and the West | History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, archite . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Observatory seismology: an anniversary symposium on the occasion of the centennial of the University of California at Berkeley seismographic stations Author: Litehiser, J. J. (Joe J.) Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | Geology Publisher's Description: The first effective seismographs were built between 1879 and 1890. In 1885, E. S. Holden, an astronomer and then president of the University of California, instigated the purchase of the best available instruments of the time "to keep a register of all earthquake shocks in order to be able to contro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The gold and the blue: a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Author: Kerr, Clark 1911- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | California and the West | Intellectual History | Californian and Western History | Autobiography Publisher's Description: One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Publishing and cultural politics in revolutionary Paris, 1789-1810 Author: Hesse, Carla Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Print Media | French Studies Publisher's Description: In 1789 French revolutionaries initiated a cultural experiment that radically transformed the most basic elements of French literary civilization - authorship, printing, and publishing. In a panoramic analysis, Carla Hesse tells how the Revolution shook the Parisian printing and publishing world fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Academic freedom and the Japanese imperial university, 1868-1939 Author: Marshall, Byron K Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Education Publisher's Description: Byron K. Marshall offers here a dramatic study of the changing nature and limits of academic freedom in prewar Japan, from the Meiji Restoration to the eve of World War II.Meiji leaders founded Tokyo Imperial University in the late nineteenth century to provide their new government with necessary te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Print Media | Public Policy | Science Publisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: The Western university on trial Author: Chapman, John William 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1983 Subjects: Social Science Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Between Marxism and Anarchism: Benoît Malon and French reformist socialism Author: Vincent, K. Steven Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Here is the first scholarly study of the life and thought of Benoît Malon (1841-1893), the most persuasive and visible spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic.Active in the generation of the French Left that came of age under the Second Empire, Malon was . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Fast food, fast talk: service work and the routinization of everyday life Author: Leidner, Robin Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Technology and Society | Economics and Business | Gender Studies | Popular Culture | Food and Cooking Publisher's Description: Attending Hamburger University, Robin Leidner observes how McDonald's trains the managers of its fast-food restaurants to standardize every aspect of service and product. Learning how to sell life insurance at a large midwestern firm, she is coached on exactly what to say, how to stand, when to make . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Garrett Eckbo: modern landscapes for living Author: Treib, Marc Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture | Art History | California and the West Publisher's Description: One of the central figures in modern landscape architecture, Garrett Eckbo (1910-2000) was a major influence in the field during an active career spanning five decades. While most of the early American designers concentrated on the private garden and the corporate landscape, Eckbo's work demonstrate . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Berlin metropolis: Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918 Author: Bilski, Emily D 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Art | History | Jewish Studies | German Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1918 the city of Berlin evolved into a commercial and industrial hub that also became an international center for radical new ideas in the visual, performing, and literary arts. Jews were key leaders in developing this unique cosmopolitan culture. Berlin Metropolis: Jews and the New . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Building the fourth estate: democratization and the rise of a free press in Mexico Author: Lawson, Chappell H 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Latin American Studies | Media Studies Publisher's Description: Based on an in-depth examination of Mexico's print and broadcast media over the last twenty-five years, this book is the most richly detailed account available of the role of the media in democratization, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between changes in the press and changes in the polit . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Film quarterly: forty years--a selection Author: Henderson, Brian Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: During its forty years as a forum for scholars, filmmakers, critics, and film lovers, Film Quarterly has looked in depth at the most critical elements in the political, social, theoretical, and aesthetic history of the cinema. Once closely tied to Hollywood, the journal was investigated by the Tenne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The power of position: Beijing University, intellectuals, and Chinese political culture, 1898-1929 Author: Weston, Timothy B 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Throughout the twentieth century, Beijing University (or Beida) has been at the center of China's greatest political and cultural upheavals - from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to the tragic events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Why this should be - how Beida' . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 Author: Wakeman, Frederic E Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | China | Urban Studies | Criminology Publisher's Description: Prewar Shanghai: casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, Comitern secret agents. Frederic Wakeman's masterful study of the most colorful and corrupt city in the world at the time provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The listening composer Author: Perle, George 1915- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Music | Contemporary Music | Composers Publisher's Description: George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music" - a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Comedy/cinema/theory Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: The nature of comedy has interested many thinkers, from Plato to Freud, but film comedy has not received much theoretical attention in recent years. The essays in Comedy/Cinema/Theory use a range of critical and theoretical approaches to explore this curious and fascinating subject. The result is a . . . [more] Similar Items |