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| 1. |  | Title: The forgiving air: understanding environmental change  Author: Somerville, Richard Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | Science Publisher's Description: The Forgiving Air is an authoritative, up-to-date handbook on global change. Written by a scientist for nonscientists, this primer humanizes the great environmental issues of our time - the hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and air pollution - and explains everything in acce . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Water scarcity: impacts on western agriculture Author: Engelbert, Ernest A Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Water | Agriculture Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Storm over Mono: the Mono Lake battle and the California water future Author: Hart, John 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Environmental Studies | Natural History | California and the West Publisher's Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Global community: the role of international organizations in the making of the contemporary world Author: Iriye, Akira Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Politics | International Relations | History | Global Studies Publisher's Description: The "global community" is a term we take for granted today. But how did the global community, both as an idea and as a reality, originate and develop over time? This book examines this concept by looking at the emergence, growth, and activities of international organizations--both governmental and n . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Balancing water: restoring the Klamath Basin Author: Blake, Tupper Ansel Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Photography | Water Publisher's Description: The Klamath Basin is a land of teeming wildlife, expansive marshes, blue-ribbon trout streams, tremendous stretches of forests, and large ranches in southern Oregon and northern California. Known to waterfowl, songbirds, and shorebirds, the Klamath Basin's marshlands are a mecca for birds along the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Western times and water wars: state, culture, and rebellion in California Author: Walton, John 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Politics | California and the West | United States History | Californian and Western History | Social Theory | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: Western Times and Water Wars chronicles more than a hundred years of tumultuous events in the history of California's Owens Valley. From the pioneer conquest of the native inhabitants to the infamous destruction of the valley's agrarian economy by water-hungry Los Angeles, this legendary setting is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: When knowledge is power: three models of change in international organizations Author: Haas, Ernst B Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Do governments seeking to collaborate in such international organizations as the United Nations and the World Bank ever learn to improve the performance of those organizations? Can international organizations be improved by a deliberate institutional design that reflects lessons learned in peacekeep . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: A science of impurity: water analysis in nineteenth century Britain Author: Hamlin, Christopher 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | History and Philosophy of Science Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Water and American government: the Reclamation Bureau, national water policy, and the West, 1902-1935 Author: Pisani, Donald J Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | United States History | Water | Public Policy | Geography | California and the West | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country - shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Social change and modernity Author: Haferkamp, Hans 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Politics Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Steps under water: a novel Author: Kozameh, Alicia Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Latin American Studies | Gender Studies | Literature in Translation | Fiction Publisher's Description: Steps Under Water is a novel drawn from Alicia Kozameh's experiences as a political prisoner in Argentina during the "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: The real environmental crisis: why poverty, not affluence, is the environment's number one enemy Author: Hollander, Jack M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: EcologyEvolutionEnvironment | Conservation | Politics | Social Science | Politics Publisher's Description: Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global poverty. His balanced, authoritative, and lucid book challenges widely held beliefs that economic development and affluence pose a major threat to the worl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Social paralysis and social change: British working-class education in the nineteenth century Author: Smelser, Neil J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History | European History | Education Publisher's Description: Neil Smelser's Social Paralysis and Social Change is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain - often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict - struggled forward toward change. . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Globalization: culture and education in the new millennium Author: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Global Studies | Politics | Media Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Environmental Studies | Education | Global Studies Publisher's Description: Globalization defines our era. While it has created a great deal of debate in economic, policy, and grassroots circles, many aspects of the phenomenon remain virtual terra incognita. Education is at the heart of this continent of the unknown. This pathbreaking book examines how globalization and lar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Sherpas: reflections on change in Himalayan Nepal Author: Fisher, James F Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: James Fisher combines the strengths of technical anthropology, literary memoir, and striking photography in this telling study of rapid social change in Himalayan Nepal. The author first visited the Sherpas of Nepal when he accompanied Sir Edmund Hilary on the Himalayan Schoolhouse Expedition of 196 . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Claiming the high ground: Sherpas, subsistence, and environmental change in the highest Himalaya Author: Stevens, Stanley F Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Geography | Cultural Anthropology | Tibet Publisher's Description: Stanley Stevens brings a new historical perspective to his remarkably well-researched study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Khumbu Sherpas, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world's highest-altitu . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Romance on a global stage: pen pals, virtual ethnography, and "mail-order" marriages Author: Constable, Nicole Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Asian American Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Sociology | Gender Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade, and the business of matching up mostly Western men with women from Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America had become an example of globalization writ large. This provocative work opens a window onto the com . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Territories of grace: cultural change in the seventeenth-century Diocese of Grenoble Author: Luria, Keith P Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | French Studies Publisher's Description: Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that his . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake Titicaca Author: Orlove, Benjamin S Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Environmental Studies | Latin American Studies | Conservation Publisher's Description: This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters . . . [more] Similar Items |