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| 1. |  | Title: A magic still dwells: comparative religion in the postmodern age Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine) 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: The first thorough assessment of the field of comparative religion in forty years, this groundbreaking volume surmounts the seemingly intractable division between postmodern scholars who reject the comparative endeavor and those who affirm it. The contributors demonstrate that a broader vision of re . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Playing with power in movies, television, and video games: from Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  Author: Kinder, Marsha Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | Television and Radio | Popular Culture Publisher's Description: How do children today learn to understand stories? Why do they respond so enthusiastically to home video games and to a myth like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? And how are such fads related to multinational media mergers and the "new world order"? In assessing these questions, Marsha Kinder provides . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Mind games: American culture and the birth of psychotherapy Author: Caplan, Eric 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | United States History | American Studies | Science | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, Mind Games tells the remarkable story of how a widely assort . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Sainthood: its manifestations in world religions Author: Bond, George Doherty 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions | Philosophy Publisher's Description: Every major religion exalts certain individuals who occupy a dual role. On the one hand they serve as exemplars of virtue to be imitated, and on the other hand they stand removed from other mortals, privileged and unique. Christianity knows them as saints, and in the study of religion the term has b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Tiny game hunting: environmentally healthy ways to trap and kill the pests in your house and garden Author: Klein, Hilary Dole 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Gardening | Entomology | Plants | Environment Publisher's Description: Every year Americans use a staggering five hundred million pounds of toxic pesticides in and around their homes, schools, parks, and roads - a growing health risk for people and the environment. But are these poisons really necessary? This book, appealing to the hunter in us all, shows how to triump . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Beyond second opinions: making choices about fertility treatment Author: Turiel, Judith Steinberg 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Science | Sociology | Gender Studies | Medicine Publisher's Description: Beyond Second Opinions is both an exposé of the risks, errors, and distortions surrounding fertility medicine and an authoritative guide for people seeking treatment. Accessible, comprehensive, and extremely well-informed, this book takes the reader beyond hype to the hard data on diagnoses and trea . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Imagining karma: ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth Author: Obeyesekere, Gananath Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Anthropology | Buddhism | Classics | Indigenous Religions | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: With Imagining Karma, Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of West Africa, Melanesia, traditional Siberia, Canada, and the northwest coast of North America, Obeyese . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Regulatory choices: a perspective on developments in energy policy Author: Gilbert, Richard J 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Economics and Business | Public Policy Publisher's Description: Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Feminism and politics: a comparative perspective Author: Gelb, Joyce 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | Gender Studies | European Studies | Public Policy Publisher's Description: This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present. Based on extensive interviews in each of the three countries, Feminism and Politics focuses not only on the internal dynamics of the movements . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Rich democracies: political economy, public policy, and performance Author: Wilensky, Harold L Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | Social Theory | Public Policy | Economics and Business | Sociology Publisher's Description: In this landmark work, the culmination of 30 years of systematic, comprehensive comparison of 19 rich democracies, Wilensky answers two basic questions: (1) What is distinctly modern about modern societies--in what ways are they becoming alike? (2) How do variations in types of political economy sha . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Gender in Amazonia and Melanesia: an exploration of the comparative method Author: Gregor, Thomas Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Geography Publisher's Description: One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Scarcity, choice, and public policy in middle Africa Author: Rothchild, Donald S Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | Public Policy Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Bureaucratic authoritarianism: Argentina, 1966-1973, in comparative perspective Author: O'Donnell, Guillermo A Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Latin American Studies Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Aesthetics and analysis in writing on religion: modern fascinations Author: Gold, Daniel Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | Comparative Religions Publisher's Description: This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that su . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Choosing justice: an experimental approach to ethical theory Author: Frohlich, Norman Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Economics and Business | Philosophy | Political Theory | Social Theory | Ethics Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Seeing double: intercultural poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria Author: Stephens, Susan A Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Classical Politics Publisher's Description: When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering a new and expanded understanding of Alexandrian poetry, Susan Stephens argues that poets such as Callimachus, Theocr . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Democracy and moral development Author: Norton, David L Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Philosophy | Political Theory | Ethics Publisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more] Similar Items |