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| 181. |  | Title: Dynasty and empire in the age of Augustus: the case of the of the Boscoreale Cups  Author: Kuttner, Ann L Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: The two silver skyphoi commonly known as the Boscoreale Cups of Augustus and Tiberius are indispensable for providing the documentation of one of the only two cycles of Roman imperial state reliefs to survive from the Julio-Claudian period. Ann Kuttner offers the first comprehensive examination of t . . . [more] Matches in book (13): ...perhaps hope that a kitchen shelf or jewelry box somewhere holds a torn silver... Similar Items...P. F. Davidson. 165. Greek Gold: Jewelry from the Age of Alexander, The Brooklyn... ...coin of 55 B.C. paired Macedonia, a jeweled female bust in a kausia, with a... |
| 182. |  | Title: Nets of awareness: Urdu poetry and its critics Author: Pritchett, Frances W 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: Frances Pritchett's lively, compassionate book joins literary criticism with history to explain how Urdu poetry - long the pride of Indo-Muslim culture - became devalued in the second half of the nineteenth century.This abrupt shift, Pritchett argues, was part of the backlash following the violent I . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...with an embroidered velvet band and jewelled gold ornament to wear in it, a... Similar Items...in some place”; then to a “master jeweler” who knows how to make each verse a... ...wrath of the Lord of Fury, all their jewels of wisdom could not be employed, all... |
| 183. |  | Title: The Enlightenment against the Baroque: economics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century Author: Saisselin, Rémy G. (Rémy Gilbert) 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Economics and Business | Popular Culture | Art | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to descri . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...individual. They were reputed the jewels of a State and a public treasure, the... Similar Items...is a figure of a woman bedecked with jewels and trailing her luxurious dress in... ...a mirror, a small picture, or some jewelry at a counter. We are looking at an... |
| 184. |  | Title: The royal image: illustrations of the Grandes chroniques de France, 1274-1422 Author: Hedeman, Anne Dawson Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Medieval Studies | French Studies Publisher's Description: The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular, frequently illustrated history of the medieval French monarchs. Originally describing the lives of the kings from their origins in Troy in 1274 to the reign of Philip Augustus, it was updated in several stages to the life of Charles VI. Copied and am . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...fol. 59 (V, 1) Dagobert has all the Jews in his realm baptized (illustrates V,... Similar Items...Augustus, Bk. I, 6) Philip banishes the Jews from the realm. 98. fol. 268 (... ...Bk. II, 16) Philip Augustus invites the Jews back into France. 106. fol. 290v (... |
| 185. |  | Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more] Matches in book (16): ...159 Jefferson Hotel, Washington, D.C. , 60 Jewish hotel population, 64 Johnson,... Similar Items...Francisco, September 20, 1988 Richard Jewell, M.D. , Psychiatric Director of the... ...inadvertently advertised their enticing jewelry in the lobbies and dining rooms.... |
| 186. |  | Title: Love customs in eighteenth-century Spain Author: Martín Gaite, Carmen Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Gender Studies Matches in book (9): ...corals, bracelets or necklaces, the jeweler? Have you served me on your knees?... Similar Items...is such that when the latter fancy a jewel, they feel obliged to buy it, and the... ...withdraws. Thus it seems that embroidery, jewels and laces fix and determine the... |
| 187. |  | Title: Wising up the marks: the modern William Burroughs Author: Murphy, Timothy S 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Philosophy Publisher's Description: William S. Burroughs is one of the twentieth century's most visible, controversial, and baffling literary figures. In the first comprehensive study of the writer, Timothy S. Murphy places Burroughs in the company of the most significant intellectual minds of our time. In doing so, he gives us an imm . . . [more] Matches in book (15): ...treatment of gay romance concerning a jeweler who caters to wealthy women but... Similar Items...of the book, the missing Zemlyan Crown Jewels, in the index, one is sent to the... ...Russ. , secret place; see Crown Jewels" (Nabokov 206, 207, 211, 213). The... |
| 188. |  | Title: Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub Author: Byg, Barton 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived and worked together for almost forty years - may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as . . . [more] Matches in book (17): ...context of visual representations of Jewishness. Koch places Straub/Huillet in... Similar Items...In her study of "visual constructions of Jewishness," Gertrud Koch begins with a... ...from anti-Semitism, accepted the Jewishness society assigned him, and went into... |
| 189. |  | Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Matches in book (14): ...at one point its members were jewelers; they were certainly wealthy. Ohannes'... Similar Items...and Bernard Lewis, eds. Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire. 2 vols. New... ...in Arab Cities." In Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire , ed. B. Braude... |
| 190. |  | Title: Women and economics: a study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins 1860-1935 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | American Studies | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and Economics , was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was in great demand on the lecture circuit, a . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...the home, 205 . Jellyby, Mrs. , 163 . Jew, livelihood of, 4 . ——— injustice of... Similar Items...the wife's worn dress or flashing jewels, her low roof or her lordly one, her... ...commander stripped the rich robes and jewels from his Persian captives, and... |
| 191. |  | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...Italians, Greeks, Eastern European Jewsand by the earlier-established Irish,... Similar Items...York City, Jonathan Rieder, Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against... ...that Daley said, "Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch, you lousy motherfucker. Go... |
| 192. |  | Title: The dissonant legacy of modernismo: Lugones, Herrera y Reissig, and the voices of modern Spanish American poetry Author: Kirkpatrick, Gwen Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Latin American Studies | European Literature | Poetry Publisher's Description: This is a provocative new reading of a crucial and often misunderstood period of Spanish American literature. Most studies of modernismo have focused on the poetry of Rubén Darío and have noted the movement's aestheticism and its unmistakable French influences. Kirkpatrick concentrates instead on im . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Parnassians [bad carpenters and jewellers turned into poets] speak of perfect... Similar Items...encompassing ideology. The duality of the jeweled cage, its inhabitant "blanca y... ...overloading of rarefied objects, its jewel-studded interior spaces, the amethyst... |
| 193. |  | Title: The two-headed deer: illustrations of the Rāmāyaṇa in Orissa Author: Williams, Joanna Gottfried 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art History | South Asia Publisher's Description: India's epic poem, the Ramayana, is a dramatic, ever-evolving tale of a prince and his bride, their adventures and dilemmas, and demons. Joanna Williams studies the art of the Ramayana in Orissa, a region known for its elegantly carved temples. There she researched both literary and visual art works . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...P. Das, Chitrapothi , 38. 9. J. Williams, "Jewels from Jalantara" (the work of... Similar Items...discussed on page 55 (J. Williams, "Jewels from Jalantara"). 3. John Beams's... ...folios, 28.5 × 4.5 cm. J. Williams, ''Jewels from Jalantara." Since writing this... |
| 194. |  | Title: History and human existence: from Marx to Merleau-Ponty Author: Miller, Jim 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Philosophy | Religion | Intellectual History Matches in book (12): ...p. 529. 13. Sartre, Anti-Semite and jew , trans. Becker (New York, 1965), p. 90.... Similar Items...p. 141. 13. Sartre, Anti-Semite and jew , trans. Becker (New York, 1965), p. 90.... ...Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew . Trans. Becker. New York, 1965. ———.... |
| 195. |  | Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...1982), some with great success (the "Jewish" firms of mid-town Manhattan), or by... Similar Items...profession, 92 -95, 103 -104, 118 Jewish, 96 , 116 , 123 n.28 Alien, Sir George,... ...Juristische Wochenschrift 2956 (1933). Jews represented 4,394 out of 19,500... |
| 196. |  | Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Matches in book (18): ...1. Above all in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York, 1946). 2. See Joseph... Similar Items...by a number of conversions among Jewish intellectuals of the time which were, at... ...Peripatetics, Gnostics, hellenized Jews, Christians, and other groups in later... |
| 197. |  | Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...also joins Beirut and Haifa—two jewels on the sea—for which the author harbors... Similar Items...weapons, amid the tinkle of their jewelry give speeches at parties organized for... ...s no problem between Maronites and Jews. ” I say, “I don’t know that. ” Says... |
| 198. |  | Title: Incidents Author: Barthes, Roland Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Literary Theory and Criticism | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soirées de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various states of excitation, panic . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...by aigrettes, by glances, by jewels, by faces, by gestures suggestive of those... Similar Items...textile factory, insists that the Jews' mosque is dark on Saturdays; he points... ...church of the Spanish Capuchins; the Jews, he says, use it (it has been lent to... |
| 199. |  | Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...Japan, 72 , 134 Jaussely, Léon, 183 Jews, 30 , 31 Jones, Owen, 4 , 98 , 153 ,... Similar Items...housed a valuable collection of jewels, its design was deliberately "luxurious"... ...Millet, joked that this replica—this "jewel"—lacked only the cow that had turned... |
| 200. |  | Title: Telling lives, telling history: autobiography and historical imagination in modern Indonesia Author: Rodgers, Susan 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Southeast Asia | Asian History Publisher's Description: These two memoirs, superbly rendered into English for the first time, provide unique windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early twentieth-century history of Southeast Asia, in general. Originally published soon after the Indonesian Revolution (1945-1949) liberated the island chain . . . [more] Matches in book (12): ...heirloom objects (old ceramic jars, gold jewels, frayed textiles). These sacred... Similar Items...things of gold; he also sold gold jewelry, which he obtained from a Chinese in... ...there was always a good deal of gold jewelry in my dad's storage cabinet. When... |