UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Postsuburban California: the transformation of Orange County since World War II Author: Kling, Rob Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Sociology \| United States History \| American Studies \| California and the West \| Urban Studies \| Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Neither a city nor a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind of social formation. This multidisciplinary volume offers a cogent case study of the "postsuburban" phenomenon. Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Sea cliffs, beaches, and coastal valleys of San Diego County: some amazing histories and some horrifying implications Author: Kuhn, Gerald G Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Geography \| California and the West \| Marine and Freshwater Sciences \| Geology \| Ecology Publisher's Description: California's coastal zones are areas of extreme vulnerability, subject to the vicissitudes of weather and prone to erosion, landslides, and flooding. Gerald Kuhn and Francis Shepard examine and analyze these threats to coastal stability in a thought-provoking and detailed study of the coastal area o . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Strategic bankruptcy: how corporations and creditors use Chapter 11 to their advantage Author: Delaney, Kevin J 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Sociology \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In 1982 Johns-Manville, a major asbestos manufacturer, declares itself insolvent to avoid paying claims resulting from exposure to its products. A year later, Continental Airlines, one of the top ten carriers in the United States, claims a deficit when the union resists plans to cut labor costs. Lat . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Ming society: Tài-ho County, Kiangsi, fourteenth to seventeenth centuries Author: Dardess, John W 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: John Dardess has selected a region of great political and intellectual importance, but one which local history has left almost untouched, for this detailed social history of T'ai-ho county during the Ming dynasty. Rather than making a sweeping, general survey of the region, he follows the careers of . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The magistrate's tael: rationalizing fiscal reform in eighteenth-century Chʿing China Author: Zelin, Madeleine Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| Asian History \| China Publisher's Description: Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possib . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: How the other half works: immigration and the social organization of labor Author: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| Urban Studies \| Ethnic Studies \| Labor Studies \| Immigration \| Chicano Studies \| Social Problems \| Urban Studies \| California and the West \| California and the West Publisher's Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors tha . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: William Faulkner and the tangible past: the architecture of Yoknapatawpha Author: Hines, Thomas S Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Architectural History \| Literature \| American Literature \| United States History Publisher's Description: The world of William Faulkner is seen from a new perspective in Thomas Hines's imaginative and many-faceted study. Hines assesses the impact of the built environment on Faulkner's consciousness and shows how the architecture of the writer's fictional county of Yoknapatawpha reflects the actual archi . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana Author: Lofgren, Donald L 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Science \| Paleontology Publisher's Description: Bug Creek assemblages from Montana, transitional in composition between typical Cretaceous and Paleocene vertebrate faunas, are critical to K-T extinction debates because they have been used to support both gradual and catastrophic K-T extinction scenarios. Geological and palynological data from McG . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recovery Author: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture \| Urban Studies \| Public Policy \| Economics and Business \| California and the West Publisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Conquests and historical identities in California, 1769-1936 Author: Haas, Lisbeth Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History \| Californian and Western History \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| American Studies \| Gender Studies \| California and the West \| United States History Publisher's Description: Spanning the period between Spanish colonization and the early twentieth century, this well-argued and convincing study examines the histories of Spanish and American conquests, and of ethnicity, race, and community in southern California. Lisbeth Haas draws on a diverse body of source materials (mi . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rural China takes off: institutional foundations of economic reform Author: Oi, Jean Chun Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics \| China \| Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this incisive analysis of one of the most spectacular economic breakthroughs in the Deng era, Jean C. Oi shows how and why Chinese rural-based industry has become the fastest growing economic sector not just in China but in the world. Oi argues that decollectivization and fiscal decentralization . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: American domestic priorities: an economic appraisal Author: Quigley, John M Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Economics and Business Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Chechnya: life in a war-torn society Author: Tishkov, Valeriĭ Aleksandrovich Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| European History \| Sociology \| Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: This book illuminates one of the world's most troubled regions from a unique perspective - that of a prominent Russian intellectual. Valery Tishkov, a leading ethnographer who has also served in several important political posts, examines the evolution of the war in Chechnya that erupted in 1994, un . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Empire and revolution: the Americans in Mexico since the Civil War Author: Hart, John M. (John Mason) 1935- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Latin American History \| United States History \| American Studies \| Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Havana USA: Cuban exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994 Author: García, Maria Cristina 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Latin American History \| Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies Publisher's Description: In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García - a Cuban refugee raised in Miami - has experienced firsth . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: African Studies \| Politics \| African History Publisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: When walking fails: mobility problems of adults with chronic conditions Author: Iezzoni, Lisa I Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Medicine \| Health Care \| Sociology \| Public Policy Publisher's Description: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults who . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378 Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Religion \| Christianity \| European History \| Medieval History \| Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: The frontier in American culture: an exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995 Author: White, Richard 1947- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| United States History \| Native American Ethnicity Publisher's Description: Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: When capitalists collide: business conflict and the end of empire in Egypt Author: Vitalis, Robert 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| Ancient History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Robert Vitalis's empirically rich study challenges the left-nationalist paradigm through which twentieth-century Egyptian history and politics has generally been interpreted. He argues with those who explain Egyptian economic development primarily in terms of class and of power struggles between Bri . . . [more] Similar Items