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| 1. |  | Title: Dangerous emotions Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Philosophy | Cultural Anthropology | Literature | Social and Political Thought | Travel Publisher's Description: Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses , taking the reader to Easter Island, Japa . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India  Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | History Publisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Roads to Rome: the antebellum Protestant encounter with Catholicism Author: Franchot, Jenny 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | American Studies | United States History | Christianity Publisher's Description: The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America.Franchot anal . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Buddhism in contemporary Tibet: religious revival and cultural identity Author: Goldstein, Melvyn C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet | Buddhism Publisher's Description: Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People's Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans, whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to be . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Alliance capitalism: the social organization of Japanese business Author: Gerlach, Michael L Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Sociology | Japan Publisher's Description: Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the postwar period - a success it is crucial for us to understand in a time marked by controversi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Understanding heart disease Author: Selzer, Arthur Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: Diseases of the heart are the leading cause of death in the Western world. Health professionals and the general public alike eagerly watch advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease. Yet the more spectacular aspects of medical progress in the field are often reported prema . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Khmer American: identity and moral education in a diasporic community Author: Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | Southeast Asia | American Studies | Education | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: In the early 1980s, tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees fled their war-torn country to take up residence in the United States, where they quickly became one of the most troubled and least studied immigrant groups. This book is the story of that passage, and of the efforts of Khmer Americans to r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | China Publisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: In the midst of life: affect and ideation in the world of the Tolai Author: Epstein, A. L. (Arnold Leonard) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The Tolai are among the most distinctive of Papua New Guinea's indigenous peoples. For all their success in the pursuit of modernity, the Tolai remain traditional in their attitudes toward death, the cultural elaboration of which colors almost every aspect of their existence.In his new book, A. L. E . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular state Author: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Religion | Social Problems | Middle Eastern Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | Title: Religious nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India Author: Veer, Peter van der Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Hinduism | South Asia Publisher's Description: Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. Peter van der Veer's timely study on the relationship between religion and politics in India goes well beyond other books on this subject. He brings together several disciplines - anthropology, history, social theo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Decadent enchantments: the revival of Gregorian chant at Solesmes Author: Bergeron, Katherine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music | Musicology | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: The oldest written tradition of European music, the art we know as Gregorian chant, is seen from an entirely new perspective in Katherine Bergeron's engaging and literate study. Bergeron traces the history of the Gregorian revival from its Romantic origins in a community of French monks at Solesmes, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Medicines of the soul: female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and dis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | History | Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: France and the cult of the Sacred Heart: an epic tale for modern times Author: Jonas, Raymond Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Religion | French Studies Publisher's Description: In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacré-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacré-Coeur on Montmartre is a key monu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Visual piety: a history and theory of popular religious images Author: Morgan, David 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | Art Publisher's Description: This fascinating study of devotional images traces their historical links to important strains of American culture. David Morgan demonstrates how popular visual images - from Warner Sallman's "Head of Christ" to velvet renditions of DaVinci's "Last Supper" to illustrations on prayer cards - have ass . . . [more] Similar Items |