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| 101. |  | 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] Similar Items |
| 102. |  | 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 |
| 103. |  | Title: Songs without music: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice Author: Manderson, Desmond Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 104. |  | Title: Residues of justice: literature, law, philosophy Author: Dimock, Wai-chee 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Studies | Law | Philosophy Publisher's Description: In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls, challenging its conception of justice as foundational, self-evident, and all-encompassing. The idea of justice is based on the premise that the world can be resolved into commensurate terms: punishment e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 105. |  | Title: From chemical philosophy to theoretical chemistry: dynamics of matter and dynamics of disciplines, 1800-1950 Author: Nye, Mary Jo Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physical Sciences | Physics Publisher's Description: How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry from physics and subsequent reconvergences of the two, from Lavoisier and Dalton in the late eighteen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 106. |  | Title: Essential subtleties on the silver sea: the Yin-hai jing-wei: a Chinese classic on ophthalmology Author: Sun, Simiao 581-682 Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | China | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Here is the first translation into English of the complete Yin-Hai Jing-Wei , a classic fifteenth-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. As one of the few original manuscripts on traditional Chinese medicine translated into a Western language, this work offers an unprecedented view of the practice o . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 107. |  | Title: Contesting Earth's future: radical ecology and postmodernity Author: Zimmerman, Michael E 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Natural History | Ecology | Sociology Publisher's Description: Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. Yet for more than twenty years, the activities of organizations such as the Greens and Earth First! have been influen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 108. |  | Title: A company of scientists: botany, patronage, and community at the Seventeenth-century Parisian Royal Academy of Sciences Author: Stroup, Alice Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | European History Publisher's Description: Who pays for science, and who profits? Historians of science and of France will discover that those were burning questions no less in the seventeenth century than they are today. Alice Stroup takes a new look at one of the earliest and most influential scientific societies, the Académie Royale des S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 109. |  | Title: Illness and culture in the postmodern age Author: Morris, David B Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Sociology | Philosophy | Medicine | Technology and Society | Anthropology | American Studies Publisher's Description: We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 110. |  | Title: The problems of a political animal: community, justice, and conflict in Aristotelian political thought Author: Yack, Bernard 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 111. |  | Title: Averting catastrophe: strategies for regulating risky technologies Author: Morone, Joseph G Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Environmental Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Politics Publisher's Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and gen . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 112. |  | Title: What is Enlightenment?: eighteenth-century answers and twentieth-century questions Author: Schmidt, James Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | German Studies Publisher's Description: This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 113. |  | Title: Nineteenth-century origins of neuroscientific concepts Author: Clarke, Edwin Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | Ethics Publisher's Description: This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery. Similar Items |
| 114. |  | Title: A mind always in motion: the autobiography of Emilio Segrè Author: Segrè, Emilio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Science | History and Philosophy of Science | Physics | Autobiography Publisher's Description: The renowned physicist Emilio Segrè (1905-1989) left his memoirs to be published posthumously because, he said, "I tell the truth the way it was and not the way many of my colleagues wish it had been." This compelling autobiography offers a personal account of his fascinating life as well as candid . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 115. |  | Title: Hermann von Helmholtz and the foundations of nineteenth-century science Author: Cahan, David Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Victorian History Publisher's Description: Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a polymath of dazzling intellectual range and energy. Renowned for his co-discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and his invention of the ophthalmoscope, Helmholtz also made many other contributions to physiology, physical theory, philosophy of science an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 116. |  | Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European History Publisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 117. |  | Title: Abuses Author: Lingis, Alphonso 1933- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | Cultural Anthropology | Social and Political Thought | Psychology | Travel Publisher's Description: Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 118. |  | Title: On Heidegger's Nazism and philosophy Author: Rockmore, Tom 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: That Martin Heidegger supported National Socialism has long been common knowledge. Yet the relation between his philosophy and political commitments remains highly contentious and recently has erupted into a vociferous debate. Boldly refuting arguments that the philosopher's political stance was acc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 119. |  | Title: Cleomedes' lectures on astronomy: a translation of The heavens Author: Cleomedes Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Science | Astronomy | History of Science | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 120. |  | Title: Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Author: LaFollette, Marcel C. (Marcel Chotkowski) Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Media Studies | History and Philosophy of Science | Print Media | Public Policy | Science Publisher's Description: False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded. A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University in the wake of a scandal involving a co-author accused of fabricating data. A university investigating committee de . . . [more] Similar Items |