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| 41. |  | Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy  Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Matches in book (11): ...journalist Robert Fisk relates that the Marine colonel who commanded the U.S.... Similar Items...Lebanon, Eisenhower sent a contingent of Marines to signify U.S. support for the... ...by 1958 that when Eisenhower sent Marines to Lebanon, Dulles asked Eban to press... |
| 42. |  | Title: Volcanology and geothermal energy Author: Wohletz, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | Physical Sciences | Earth Sciences Publisher's Description: Most high-temperature geothermal resources develop in volcanic regions, but very few have been successfully explored and developed despite the ever-growing need for renewable energy resources. This is particularly true of the many developing countries that exist in volcanic regions with potential ge . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...Geological occurrences of zeolites in marine environments. In: L. B. Sand and F.... Similar Items...the past 80,000 years as determined by marine tephrochronology. J. Volcanol.... ...For example, tuff deposited in a marine environment is called submarine tuff ,... |
| 43. |  | Title: Ritual ground: Bent's Old Fort, world formation, and the annexation of the Southwest Author: Comer, Douglas C Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | Cultural Anthropology | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: From about 1830 to 1849, Bent's Old Fort, located in present-day Colorado on the Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail, was the largest trading post in the Southwest and the mountain-plains region. Although the raw enterprise and improvisation that characterized the American westward movement seem t . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...8. Ibid. , 16. 9. Guy Prentice, "Marine Shells as Wealth Items in Mississippian... Similar Items...Press, 1982), 211. 11. Prentice, "Marine Shells," 196. 12. Jane F. Safer and... ...56. 13. Ibid. , 97. 14. Prentice, "Marine Shells," 198. 15. Ibid. , 194. Among... |
| 44. |  | Title: The beast in the boudoir: petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris Author: Kete, Kathleen Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | European Studies Publisher's Description: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourg . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...B. Popular History of the Aquarium of Marine and Fresh-Water Animals and Plants.... Similar Items...arrangement, and this will be a 'marine aquarium. '" The same impulse accounted... ...Popular History of the Aquarium of Marine and Fresh-Water Animals and Plants (... |
| 45. |  | Title: A golden state: mining and economic development in gold rush California Author: Rawls, James J Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: California and the West | American Studies | Natural History | Geography | Californian and Western History | United States History Publisher's Description: California's storied Gold Rush triggered momentous changes not only for the state, but also for the nation and the world. The economic impact of that epoch-making event is the focus of the second volume of the California History Sesquicentennial Series. The chapter contributors offer a range of pers . . . [more] Matches in book (9): ...populations of sea otters and other marine mammals to near extinction. One could... Similar Items...the same depletion and near extermination of marine mammals occurred. There, the... ...only sea otters that suffered from this marine carnage. The Alaska fur seal was... |
| 46. |  | Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Matches in book (10): ...II, at eighteen, I was a private in the Marine Corps stationed on the island of... Similar Items...the shame of scoring higher on the Marine Corps' mechanical-aptitude test than... ...assigned me an associate, a black Marine from Harlem (we were both New Yorkers... |
| 47. |  | Title: Information and organizations Author: Stinchcombe, Arthur L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Sociology | Economics and Business | Labor Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: An ambitious new work by a well-respected sociologist, Information and Organizations provides a bold perspective of the dynamics of organizations. Stinchcombe contends that the "information problem" and the concept of "uncertainty" provide the key to understanding how organizations function. In a de . . . [more] Matches in book (8): ...sources of loss), by the precedents in marine insurance adjudication, and by... Similar Items...to be supplied for each weld, and marine insurance contracts implicitly specify... ...other ships. Thus, the provision in marine insurance contracts that ships must... |
| 48. |  | Title: Winners in peace: MacArthur, Yoshida, and postwar Japan Author: Finn, Richard B Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Politics Publisher's Description: Singular for its breadth and balance, Winners in Peace chronicles the American Occupation of Japan, an episode that profoundly shaped the postwar world. Richard B. Finn, who participated in the Occupation as a young naval officer and diplomat, tells the full story of the activities from 1945 to 1952 . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...Liaison Mission USMCR United States Marine Corps Reserve YM Yoshida Memoirs... Similar Items...R. NUGENT. Former schoolteacher and U.S. Marine Corps reserve officer; served as... ...Dean Acheson also believed that the U.S. Marines should have been kept there (... |
| 49. |  | Title: Luminous debris: reflecting on vestige in Provence and Languedoc Author: Sobin, Gustaf Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | European Studies | Ancient History | Philosophy | French Studies Publisher's Description: Interpreting vestige with the eloquence of a poet and the knowledge of a field archaeologist, Gustaf Sobin explores his elected terrain: the landscapes of Provence and Languedoc. Drawing on prehistory, protohistory, and Gallo-Roman antiquity, the twenty-six essays in this book focus on a particular . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...lies underneath ten meters of rubble, marine deposit, and aeolian sedimentation.... Similar Items...deposits of a certain microscopic marine creature—the radiolarian—accumulating... ...any point, renouncing its eminently marine—eminently Mediterranean—origin. Was... |
| 50. |  | Title: The forgiving air: understanding environmental change Author: Somerville, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | Science Publisher's Description: The Forgiving Air is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our time - the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution - and explains everything in acce . . . [more] Matches in book (6): ...terrestrial ecosystems, atmospheric and marine chemistry, and the detailed... Similar Items...there was no ill effect, and some big marine mammals even seemed attracted to... ...research on the effects of sound on marine mammals, including whales. In fact,... |
| 51. |  | Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Matches in book (10): ...divisions, more than 50 percent of the Marine Corps divisions, one-third of U.S.... Similar Items...all of the major conventional army and marine ground-combat units, together with... ...a dynasty that had begun when U.S. Marines appointed his father head of the... |
| 52. |  | 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 (6): ...Arms of Krupp , 258-259. Allegedly the marine biologists Anton Dohrn and Otto... Similar Items...collected thirty-three new species of marine animals. 12. Muhlen, The Incredible... ...was the combative and controversial Jena marine biologist, Ernst Haeckel. In his... |
| 53. |  | Title: History and tradition in Melanesian anthropology Author: Carrier, James G Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | East Asia Other Publisher's Description: Melanesian societies, like village societies in many parts of the world, are frequently portrayed as existing in a timeless, traditional present. These seven original essays offer an alternative view, one showing that historical evidence can and must inform our understanding of contemporary cultures . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...to Ministre, 5 December 1882, Service historique de la Marine, BB4 1577). /... Similar Items...Noumea. Archives nationales, section Marine. Paris. Archives nationales, section... ...issue) :3–17. Service historique de la Marine, Paris. Shineberg, Dorothy. 1967.... |
| 54. |  | Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | African American Studies | Social Problems | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...Negro in the Navy and the Merchant Marine," Journal of Negro History LII (Oct.... Similar Items...Americans also suffered losses in the marine and steamboat service positions... ...Their neighbors included an actor, a marine engineer, and their families (at... |
| 55. |  | Title: A buccaneer's atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea waggoner: a sea atlas and sailing directions of the Pacific coast of the Americas, 1682 Author: Ringrose, Basil d. 1686 Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: History | Renaissance History | European History | Geography Publisher's Description: On July 29, 1681, a band of English buccaneers that had been terrorizing Spanish possessions on the west coast of the Americas captured a Spanish ship, from which they obtained a derrotero , or book of charts and sailing directions. When they arrived back in England, the Spanish ambassador demanded . . . [more] Matches in book (5): ...of the family Iguanidae; possibly the marine iguana ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus ),... Similar Items...and their bottoms cleaned of the marine growth that is so prevalent in those... ...With these feral goats and native marine animals, the buccaneers provisioned... |
| 56. |  | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South Asia Publisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more] Matches in book (3): ...Duncan. Reports on Mountain and Marine Sanitaria . Madras: Fort Saint George... Similar Items...Duncan MacPherson, Reports on Mountain and Marine Sanitaria (Madras, 1862), 31.... ...MacPherson, Reports on Mountain and Marine Sanitaria (Madras, 1862), 24. James... |
| 57. |  | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...London. Figure 7. Front of the Brighton Marine Pavilion (etching by John Nash,... Similar Items...Figure 8. Rear of the Brighton Marine Pavilion (Horsfield, History [1835], vol.... ...sea bathing and the reputedly healthful marine environment of Brighton. 56 Sea... |
| 58. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Matches in book (7): ...arthropods found primarily in aquatic or marine habitats, including such forms... Similar Items...bringing an onshore flow of cool marine air, stratus clouds, and fog to the... ...ground ice), aeolian (wind), marine (waves, tides, and currents), or... |
| 59. |  | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Matches in book (4): ...west to the Marc Plaza Hotel and possibly east beyond the Marine Bank Building.... Similar Items...a mixed-use development, and (6) Marine Bank (1961). 90. Hierarchical street ... ...Plaza Hotel, Milwaukee, 54 , 55 Marine Bank, Milwaukee, 54 , 126 Marketability,... |
| 60. |  | Title: The Quantifying spirit in the 18th century Author: Frängsmyr, Tore 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Intellectual History Matches in book (6): ...volunteers ( Volontairer ), M , marines ( Marinierer ) and B , tenement seamen (... Similar Items...As an Ingénieur-constructeur de la Marine française, Lancelin was a product of... ...the principal government land and marine surveys of the world (Washington,... |