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Your search for russia in text, title, author, description found 816 book(s). | Modify Search | Displaying 101 - 120 of 816 book(s) | |
| 101. |  | Title: Laughing out loud: writing the comedy-centered screenplay Author: Horton, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: Whoever wrote "Make 'em laugh!" knew that it's easier said than done. But people love to laugh, and good comedy will always sell. With the help of this complete and entertaining guide, writers and would-be writers for film and television can look forward to writing comedy that goes far beyond stereo . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Russia/USSR... Similar Items...foolish or, to borrow a concept from Russia, like a holy fool (Horton, The Zero... ...feels very mixed about the changes in Russia today. He doesn't want Stalin, but... |
| 102. |  | 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] Matches in book (21): ...apprehensive. In Chechnya and elsewhere, Russia finds itself affected by the... Similar Items...Kyrgyzstan; and the Islamic regions of Russia. Muslim political activism is on... ...new national states. In fact, in Russia and many other states, a new nationalism... |
| 103. |  | Title: Beyond the conceivable: studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust Author: Diner, Dan 1946- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: German Studies | Jewish Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author's belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One ca . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...and Boris I. Nicolaevsky, Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (New Haven, 1947) 105.... Similar Items...negative manner; hostility to Russia has no place in the dichotomy on which... ...form a "continental block" with Russia and Japan and defy the maritime strength... |
| 104. |  | Title: History, religion, and antisemitism Author: Langmuir, Gavin I Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Judaism | Sociology | Medieval Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must . . . [more] Matches in book (19): ...in the Early Middle Ages , 259 n Russell, Bertrand, 310 Russia, 217 -218, 342... Similar Items...from assertive Germany and backward Russia. He was, as he himself proclaimed,... ...are Nazism in Germany and Communism in Russia. If we apply these sociopolitical... |
| 105. |  | Title: Soviet perceptions of the United States  Author: Schwartz, Morton Published: University of California Press, 1980 Subjects: Politics Matches in book (13): ...politika," pp. 18, 26. 58. Corbi, "Two Russias," pp. A1, 2. 59. Ibid. ,... Similar Items...p. A1. 58. Corbi, "Two Russias," pp. A1, 2. 59. Ibid. , p. A1. 60. "'Doktrina... ...of Stalin, who warned in 1934 of Russia's need to catch up with the advanced... |
| 106. |  | Title: War stories: the search for a usable past in the Federal Republic of Germany Author: Moeller, Robert G Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European Studies | German Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Robert G. Moeller powerfully conveys the complicated story of how West Germans recast the recent past after the Second World War. He rejects earlier characterizations of a postwar West Germany dominated by attitudes of "forgetting" or silence about the Nazi past. He instead demonstrates the "selecti . . . [more] Matches in book (21): ...newsreel footage. With a son missing in Russia, this woman represented “the many... Similar Items...of our POWs” had come home from Russia, mission accomplished. The sons soon... ...that followed Asch to the war in Russia, see Friedrich A. Wagner, “Null-acht-... |
| 107. |  | Title: The invention and decline of Israeliness: state, society, and the military Author: Kimmerling, Baruch Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Politics | Jewish Studies | Sociology | Judaism Publisher's Description: This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...and B. Adler . Emigration Trends from Russia and Ukraine . Jerusalem : Jewish... Similar Items...Workers’Nationalism Late Imperial Russia . New York : St. Martin's Press ,... ...interests. Of the Jews emigrating from Russia between 1904 and 1914, only a... |
| 108. |  | Title: The dynamics of the breakthrough in Eastern Europe: the Polish experience Author: Staniszkis, Jadwiga Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | European History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. Jadwiga Staniszkis, an influential, internationally known expert on contemporary trends in Eastern Europe, provides an inside . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...of Tkachov in nineteenth-century Russia. See A. Walicki, Od oswiecenia * do... Similar Items...strikes in the European part of Russia. 11. Barrington Moore, Jr. , ,Injustice:... ...was introduced in a conscious way (Russia, 2 China 3 ) and not imposed (Eastern... |
| 109. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Wright Mills, "The Intellectuals and Russia," an exchange, Dissent 6(3):295-301,... Similar Items...neutralism between America and Russia." 4 As the Plaza Conference demonstrated,... ...cover. Lewis Coser, "The New Turn in Russia," Dissent 3(2):124-28, Spring 1956,... |
| 110. |  | Title: To have and have not: southeast Asian raw materials and the origins of the Pacific War Author: Marshall, Jonathan Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Public Policy | Asian History | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business | Politics Publisher's Description: Jonathan Marshall makes a provocative statement: it was not ideological or national security considerations that led the United States into war with Japan in 1941. Instead, he argues, it was a struggle for access to Southeast Asia's vast storehouse of commodities - rubber, oil, and tin - that drew t . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...Wall Street Journal , July 22, 1941. Russia's stockpiles were depleted because... Similar Items...P-A12, discussion re effects of Russia's entry into the war, June 25, 1940; E-... ...Wall Street Journal , July 22, 1941. Russia's stockpiles were depleted because... |
| 111. |  | Title: The Languages of psyche: mind and body in Enlightenment thought: Clark Library lectures, 1985-1986 Author: Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian) Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Medicine | History and Philosophy of Science | European History | European Literature Publisher's Description: The Languages of Psyche traces the dualism of mind and body during the "long eighteenth century," from the Restoration in England to the aftermath of the French Revolution. Ten outstanding scholars investigate the complex mind-body relationship in a variety of Enlightenment contexts - science, medic . . . [more] Matches in book (22): ...and Crichton's Inquiry, 367 -382; and Russia, 373 -374; and Escluirol, 384 -389;... Similar Items...de, 117 Rufus of Ephesus, 196 Russia, 187 , 234 , 255 , 262 , 374 ; Empress... ...Aldini, Giovanni, 229 Alexander I, Czar of Russia, 441 Alibert, Jean-Louis, 318... |
| 112. |  | Title: Race hygiene and national efficiency: the eugenics of Wilhelm Schallmayer Author: Weiss, Sheila Faith Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Matches in book (14): ...Japan: defeat of Russia, 193 n. 31; eugenics movements, 159 n. 2; rise of, 133 ;... Similar Items...Rubin, Marcus, 128 Rudin, Ernst, 154 , 156 Russia: age of brides, 135 ; eugenics... ...revolution and subsequent new order in Russia to alter the country's imperialist... |
| 113. |  | Title: The morning after: sexual politics at the end of the Cold War Author: Enloe, Cynthia H 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | American Studies | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Cynthia Enloe's riveting new book looks at the end of the Cold War and places women at the center of international politics. Focusing on the relationship between the politics of sexuality and the politics of militarism, Enloe charts the changing definitions of gender roles, sexuality, and militarism . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...Union, 11 -13, 144 -45. See also Russia Spain, 86 , 87 Standard Fruit Company,... Similar Items...250 women from fifty-six towns in Russia held a hunger strike outside Moscow's... ...are forms of demilitarization—such as in Russia or Vietnam—that can bring rising... |
| 114. |  | Title: Paul Bowles on music Author: Bowles, Paul 1910- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | Composers | Contemporary Music | American Literature | Film Publisher's Description: "It's an easy enough job if one has something to say," Paul Bowles remarked in a letter to his mother about his first foray into music criticism. And Paul Bowles, indeed, had plenty to say about music. Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself f . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Philharmonic Gives Another Russia Tribute... Similar Items...Taylor's Fanfare for the People of Russia, and Ivan the Terrible of Rimsky-... ...a bit more power in the scherzo. Russia's two representatives on the program did... |
| 115. |  | Title: Heisenberg and the Nazi atomic bomb project: a study in German culture Author: Rose, Paul Lawrence Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies | European Studies | Science | Technology and Society | Physics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertake . . . [more] Matches in book (20): ...that the German scientists taken to Russia to work on Stalin's bomb in 1945... Similar Items...Houtermans admits that he was "sent to Russia by the Germans to learn of nuclear... ...services to the Germans in Russia. Diebner's and Schumann's plundering trips to... |
| 116. |  | Title: Benjamin Franklin and his enemies Author: Middlekauff, Robert Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | United States History | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies Publisher's Description: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality - his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships - political . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Navy, 135 , 136 , 141 Royal Society, 5 , 6 , 9 , 10 Russia, 140 -41, 142 , 196... Similar Items...the Continent there were now five, as Russia under Catherine and Prussia under... ...French, neither Prussia, Austria, nor Russia needed her friendship to hold the... |
| 117. |  | Title: Authoritarian Argentina: the Nationalist movement, its history, and its impact Author: Rock, David 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Latin American Studies | Latin American History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: David Rock has written the first comprehensive study of nationalism in Argentina, a fundamentalist movement pledged to violence and a dictatorship that came to a head with the notorious "disappearances" of the 1970s. This radical, right wing movement has had a profound impact on twentieth-century Ar . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...into their control in Austria or Russia. Sometimes they even marry them and... Similar Items...with the idea, which sprang from Russia's fate in 1917, that in democracy lay... ...Christians in Mexico, Spain, and Russia . . . our press never reports it. . . .... |
| 118. |  | 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] Matches in book (18): ...Harvard University . Price, Don C. 1974 . Russia and the Roots of the Chinese... Similar Items...section; Guan Xiaohong 1998 , 107. Russia established what it promised would be... ...three-stage process of withdrawal, Russia made clear that it intended to further... |
| 119. |  | 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] Matches in book (19): ...and a half million Jews forced out of Russia between 1880 and 1914, only about... Similar Items...Isaac . The Jewish Community in Russia, 1844–1917. Posner and Sons, 1981. Levy,... ...population was incorporated into tsarist Russia, which thus became the homeland... |
| 120. |  | Title: Hollywood quarterly: film culture in postwar America, 1945-1957 Author: Smoodin, Eric Loren Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blac . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Advanced Training for Film Workers: Russia... Similar Items...and S. K. Lauren. No. 5: The Battle of Russia. Narration, Capt. Anthony Veiller.... ...Advanced Training for Film Workers: Russia Jay Leyda 311 1946 Advanced Training... |