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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plato's Parmenides Author: Plato Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Of all Plato's dialogues, the Parmenides is notoriously the most difficult to interpret. Scholars of all periods have disagreed about its aims and subject matter. The interpretations have ranged from reading the dialogue as an introduction to the whole of Platonic metaphysics to seeing it as a colle . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Plato's Euthydemus: analysis of what is and is not philosophy Author: Chance, Thomas H Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Philosophy \| Social and Political Thought \| Classical Philosophy \| Literature Publisher's Description: With Plato's Euthydemus , Thomas Chance solves a longstanding riddle of Platonic studies. Thought to be an early, immature work, the Euthydemus has come across to scholars as lacking Plato's characteristic greatness. This apparent lack, Chance argues, is not a failure of the text but of scholarly pe . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Form and good in Plato's Eleatic dialogues: the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman Author: Dorter, Kenneth 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics \| Philosophy \| Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis, Plato's four eleatic dialogues are treated as a continuous argument. In Kenneth Dorter's view, Plato reconsiders the theory of forms propounded in his earlier dialogues and through an examination of the theory's limitations reaffirms and proves it essential. Contradicted . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: Society and individual in Renaissance Florence Author: Connell, William J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| European History Publisher's Description: Renaissance Florence has often been described as the birthplace of modern individualism, as reflected in the individual genius of its great artists, scholars, and statesmen. The historical research of recent decades has instead shown that Florentines during the Renaissance remained enmeshed in relat . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Religion \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance History \| Christianity \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: American scream: Allen Ginsberg's Howl and the making of the Beat Generation Author: Raskin, Jonah 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: American Studies \| Literature \| Sociology \| Poetry Publisher's Description: Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in w . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Eating right in the Renaissance Author: Albala, Ken 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Food and Cooking \| Renaissance History \| History of Science \| History of Food Publisher's Description: Eating right has been an obsession for longer than we think. Renaissance Europe had its own flourishing tradition of dietary advice. Then, as now, an industry of experts churned out diet books for an eager and concerned public. Providing a cornucopia of information on food and an intriguing account . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Venice's hidden enemies: Italian heretics in a Renaissance city Author: Martin, John Jeffries Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| European History \| Christianity \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Orphans of Petrarch: poetry and theory in the Spanish Renaissance Author: Navarrete, Ignacio Enrique 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: In Spain as elsewhere, Renaissance poets transformed the lyric tradition by using Petrarch as a source of poetic renewal. But political unity and military hegemony, coupled with a sense of cultural inferiority and an obsession with ethnic purity, made Spain different. Drawing on modern critical theo . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: A Renaissance court: Milan under Galeazzo Maria Sforza Author: Lubkin, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History Publisher's Description: Ambitious, extravagant, progressive, and sexually notorious, Galeazzo Maria Sforza inherited the ducal throne of Milan in 1466, at the age of twenty-two. Although his reign ended tragically only ten years later, the young prince's court was a dynamic community where arts, policy making, and the pano . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish life in renaissance Italy Author: Bonfil, Roberto Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Renaissance History \| European History Publisher's Description: With this heady exploration of time and space, rumors and silence, colors, tastes, and ideas, Robert Bonfil recreates the richness of Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. He also forces us to rethink conventional interpretations of the period, which feature terms like "assimilation" and "acculturation. . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Renaissance Paris: architecture and growth, 1475-1600 Author: Thomson, David 1912- Published: University of California Press, 1985 Subjects: Art \| Architecture Publisher's Description: In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in 1528 to make Paris his residence have long since been lost. Thomson, however, restores t . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Resistant structures: particularity, radicalism, and Renaissance texts Author: Strier, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: Taking Wittgenstein's "Don't think, but look" as his motto, Richard Strier argues against the application of a priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. He argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading. His approach privileges particularity an . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: The rest is silence: death as annihilation in the English Renaissance Author: Watson, Robert N Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: How did the fear of death coexist with the promise of Christian afterlife in the culture and literature of the English Renaissance? Robert Watson exposes a sharp edge of blasphemous protest against mortality that runs through revenge plays such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet , and through plays o . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Deeply into the bone: re-inventing rites of passage Author: Grimes, Ronald L 1943- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion \| Anthropology \| Social Science Publisher's Description: Over the past two decades, North Americans have become increasingly interested in understanding and reclaiming the rites that mark significant life passages. In the absence of meaningful rites of passage, we speed through the dangerous intersections of life and often come to regret missing an opport . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jewish passages: cycles of Jewish life Author: Goldberg, Harvey E Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: American or Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi or Sephardi, insular or immersed in modern life - however diverse their situations or circumstances, Jews draw on common traditions and texts when they mark life's momentous events and rites of passage. The interplay of past and present, of individual practice a . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Knights at court: courtliness, chivalry, & courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance Author: Scaglione, Aldo D Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| European Literature \| Medieval Studies \| Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development of court culture and its various manifestations from the latter years of the Holy Roman Empire (ca. A . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: From c-numbers to q-numbers: the classical analogy in the history of quantum theory Author: Darrigol, Olivier Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Physics Publisher's Description: The history of quantum theory is a maze of conceptual problems, through which Olivier Darrigol provides a lucid and learned guide, tracking the role of formal analogies between classical and quantum theory. From Planck's first introduction of the quantum of action to Dirac's formulation of quantum m . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Between two islands: Dominican international migration Author: Grasmuck, Sherri Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Sociology \| Latino Studies \| Latin American Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. Between Two Islands is an interdisciplinary study of Do . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Philosophy \| Classical History \| Classical Literature and Language \| Social and Political Thought \| Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items