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| 181. |  | 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 (1): ...gives up the drums and joins the Marines; Ziggy Zilinsky, tormented by quasi-... Similar Items |
| 182. |  | Title: Risk and rationality: philosophical foundations for populist reforms Author: Shrader-Frechette, K. S 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Social Problems | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Only ten to twelve percent of Americans would voluntarily live within a mile of a nuclear plant or hazardous waste facility. But industry spokespersons claim that such risk aversion represents ignorance and paranoia, and they lament that citizen protests have delayed valuable projects and increased . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...causes a majority of most industrial, marine, and transportation accidents. 47... Similar Items |
| 183. |  | Title: The king's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray Author: Gelbart, Nina Rattner Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | French Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine Publisher's Description: This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...des Cazernes, where three hundred marine guards are coached in all exercises... Similar Items |
| 184. |  | Title: In the shadow of the eagles: Sonora and the transformation of the border during the Porfiriato Author: Tinker Salas, Miguel Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History | Latin American Studies | Ethnic Studies | California and the West Publisher's Description: In the Shadow of the Eagles considers the historical roots of Mexican border society. The Mexican northwest, and Sonora in particular, has often captured the public's imagination; it has been portrayed as a region of untold mineral wealth, insurgent Apaches and Yaquis, self-reliant cowboys, miners, . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...including the British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company, the Union Insurance... Similar Items |
| 185. |  | Title: The Japanese conspiracy: the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 Author: Duus, Masayo 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History | Asian American Studies | American Studies | United States History | Labor Studies Publisher's Description: In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...was overthrown with the help of American marines supporting the haole sugar... Similar Items |
| 186. |  | Title: Backstory 3: interviews with screenwriters of the 1960s Author: McGilligan, Patrick Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Writing Publisher's Description: The Backstory series of unique "oral histories" chronicles the lives and careers of notable Hollywood screenwriters - in their own words. Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age focused on the early sound era and the 1930s. Backstory 2 featured Interviews with Screenwriter . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...screen credits are Pride of the Marines and Big Jack, Wallace Beery's last film.... Similar Items |
| 187. |  | Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...wird selig» (You can tell that to the marines). See also the «buoyant storm» (IM... Similar Items |
| 188. |  | Title: A coat of many colors: Osip Mandelstam and his mythologies of self-presentation Author: Freidin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Literature | European Literature Matches in book (1): ...and "Novoprestavlennoi boliaryne Marine" (the just-deceased boayryna Marina).... Similar Items |
| 189. |  | 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] Matches in book (1): ...officers of the navy and the marines, commanders of the army, the legislatures,... Similar Items |
| 190. |  | Title: Weimar: a jurisprudence of crisis Author: Jacobson, Arthur J Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: This selection of the major works of constitutional theory during the Weimar period reflects the reactions of legal scholars to a state in permanent crisis, a society in which all bets were off. Yet the Weimar Republic's brief experiment in constitutionalism laid the groundwork for the postwar Feder . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...for the administration and the merchant marine but do not recognize that this... Similar Items |
| 191. |  | Title: Becoming Chinese: passages to modernity and beyond Author: Yeh, Wen-Hsin Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | China | Asian Literature | Asian History Publisher's Description: This volume evaluates the dual roles of war and modernity in the transformation of twentieth-century Chinese identity. The contributors, all leading researchers, argue that war, no less than revolution, deserves attention as a major force in the making of twentieth-century Chinese history. Further, . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...in the wake of the assault by Japanese marines and soldiers on Shanghai's North... Similar Items |
| 192. |  | Title: Time and the crystal: studies in Dante's Rime petrose Author: Durling, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: The Rime petrose , Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this first full-length investigation of the poetics of the petrose and of their relation to the Divine Comedy , . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...associations of images. The calm of the marine surface, of which the lady is... Similar Items |
| 193. |  | Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...bottoms; prophecies rise up from the marine depths ancient as the Flood. We are... Similar Items |
| 194. |  | Title: Lawrence and his laboratory: a history of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Author: Heilbron, J. L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This first volume of its history is a saga of physics and finance in the Great Depression, when a new kind of science was born.Here we learn how Ernest Lawrence used . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...and the president of the merchant marine. Within a week John had a berth on the... Similar Items |
| 195. |  | Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Water | Agriculture Matches in book (1): ...and the subsoils are highly soluble marine evaporites. I would also like to add... Similar Items |
| 196. |  | Title: A history of wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition Author: Pinney, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Food and Cooking | United States History | American Studies | Wine Publisher's Description: The Vikings called North America "Vinland," the land of wine. Giovanni de Verrazzano, the Italian explorer who first described the grapes of the New World, was sure that "they would yield excellent wines." And when the English settlers found grapes growing so thickly that they covered the ground dow . . . [more] Matches in book (1): ...etc. , and also employs a commercial marine of some two thousand ships, it will... Similar Items |