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1. |  | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982 Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. |  | Title: African successes: four public managers of Kenyan rural development Author: Leonard, David K Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | African StudiesPublisher's Description: For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent pu . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. |  | 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 StudiesSimilar Items | 4. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. |  | 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 | PoliticsPublisher'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 | 6. |  | Title: Behind the postmodern facade: architectural change in late twentieth-century America Author: Larson, Magali Sarfatti Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Architecture | Architecture | Philosophy | Politics | American Studies | Sociology | Social TheoryPublisher's Description: Magali Larson's comprehensive study explores how architecture "happens" and what has become of the profession in the postmodern era. Drawing from extensive interviews with pivotal architects - from Philip Johnson, who was among the first to introduce European modernism to America, to Peter Eisenman, . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. |  | Title: Between marriage and the market: intimate politics and survival in Cairo Author: Hoodfar, Homa Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Homa Hoodfar's richly detailed ethnography provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of Arab Muslim families. Focusing on the impact of economic liberalization policies from 1983 to 1993, she shows the crucial role of the household in survival strategies among low-income Egyptians. Hoodfar, an Ira . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. |  | | 9. |  | Title: Bread and authority in Russia, 1914-1921 Author: Lih, Lars T Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Politics | Russian and Eastern European StudiesPublisher's Description: Between 1914 and 1921, Russia experienced a national crisis that destroyed the tsarist state and led to the establishment of the new Bolshevik order. During this period of war, revolution, and civil war, there was a food-supply crisis. Although Russia was one of the world's major grain exporters, th . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. |  | Title: Bureaucracy, politics, and decision making in post-Mao China Author: Lieberthal, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | ChinaPublisher's Description: Using a model of "fragmented authoritarianism," this volume sharpens our view of the inner workings of the Chinese bureaucracy. The contributors' interviews with politically well-placed bureaucrats and scholars, along with documentary and field research, illuminate the bargaining and maneuvering amo . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. |  | | 12. |  | Title: By popular demand: revitalizing representative democracy through deliberative elections Author: Gastil, John Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: PoliticsPublisher's Description: John Gastil challenges conventional assumptions about public opinion, elections, and political expression in this persuasive treatise on how to revitalize the system of representative democracy in the United States. Gastil argues that American citizens have difficulty developing clear policy interes . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. |  | Title: Changing the rules: the politics of liberalization and the urban informal economy in Tanzania Author: Tripp, Aili Mari Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Anthropology | African Studies | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: How are people in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, capable of surviving day to day when the downward decline of Tanzania's economy has become so pronounced that even high-ranking state employees receive among the lowest incomes in the country? In this impressively researched and highly . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. |  | Title: China's new business elite: the political consequences of economic reform Author: Pearson, Margaret M 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | ChinaPublisher's Description: The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. Another result of economic reform has been the creation of a ne . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. |  | | 16. |  | Title: The cigarette papers Author: Glantz, Stanton A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | Medicine | Public Policy | Law | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes - these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it al . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial StudiesPublisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items | 18. |  | Title: The color bind: California's battle to end affirmative action Author: Chavez, Lydia 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Politics | American Studies | Public Policy | California and the WestPublisher's Description: The Color Bind tells the story of how Glynn Custred and Thomas Wood, two unknown academics, decided to write Proposition 209 in 1992 and thereby set in motion a series of events, far beyond their control, destined to transform the legal, political, and everyday meaning of civil rights for the next g . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. |  | Title: Controlling bureaucracies: dilemmas in democratic governance Author: Gruber, Judith Emily Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics | PoliticsPublisher's Description: How can citizens of a democracy exercise control over government officials in ways that allow for effective government? In this book, Professor Gruber merges a sophisticated analysis with empirical research to develop a new approach to this perennial problem. Similar Items | 20. |  | Title: Coordination without hierarchy: informal structures in multiorganizational systems Author: Chisholm, Donald William Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Technology and SocietyPublisher's Description: The organizational history of American government during the past 100 years has been written principally in terms of the creation of larger and larger public organizations. Beginning with the Progressive movement, no matter the goal, the reflexive response has been to consolidate and centralize into . . . [more]Similar Items |
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