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


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: Selected letters of Alessandra Strozzi Author: Macinghi Strozzi, Alessandra 1407-1471 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Renaissance History \| Women's Studies \| European Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Autobiography \| European History \| Letters Publisher's Description: The letters of Alessandra Strozzi provide a vivid and spirited portrayal of life in fifteenth-century Florence. Among the richest autobiographical materials to survive from the Italian Renaissance, the letters reveal a woman who fought stubbornly to preserve her family's property and position in adv . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Letters and autobiographical writings Author: Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright) 1916-1962 Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: American Studies \| Anthropology \| Sociology \| Literature \| United States History \| Letters Publisher's Description: One of the leading public intellectuals of twentieth-century America and a pioneering and brilliant social scientist, C. Wright Mills left a legacy of interdisciplinary and hard-hitting work including two books that changed the way many people viewed their lives and the structure of power in the Uni . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: King Charles I Author: Gregg, Pauline Published: University of California Press, 1984 Subjects: History \| European History Publisher's Description: This is a lucid, fair-minded account of a difficult and tragic man. Pauline Gregg has drawn heavily on original documents, letters, and speeches to show how Charles's heritage, upbringing, and personality, as well as his relationships with friends, advisors, and favorites, all took place against a b . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The tireless traveler: twenty letters to the Liverpool Mercury Author: Trollope, Anthony 1815-1882 Published: University of California Press, 1978 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature \| Letters Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340 to 290 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Classics \| Ancient History \| Archaeology Publisher's Description: Furthering his masterful new approach to classifying and interpreting epigraphical data presented in Attic Letter-Cutters of 229 to 86 B.C. , Stephen V. Tracy has produced a masterful study of the inscriptions from the time of King Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great, Demosthenes, and Demetrios. . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Letters from freedom: post-cold war realities and perspectives Author: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Social and Political Thought \| European History \| Intellectual History Publisher's Description: A hero to many, Polish writer Adam Michnik ranks among today's most fearless and persuasive public figures. His imprisonment by Poland's military regime in the 1980s did nothing to quench his outpouring of writings, many of which were published in English as Letters from Prison . Beginning where tha . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: The poet's truth: a study of the poet in Virgil's Georgics Author: Perkell, Christine Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics \| Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The controversy over Virgil's optimism or pessimism, which has long absorbed readers of his poetry, might fruitfully yield to a perspective which allows contradictions to stand unresolved, to constitute, in fact, the essence of his poems' meaning. So interpreted, the pervasive contradictions of the . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Living letters of the law: ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity Author: Cohen, Jeremy 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Religion \| Medieval History Publisher's Description: In Living Letters of the Law , Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how - and why - medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutic . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Collected prose Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Poetry \| Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmoder . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Border correspondent: selected writings, 1955-1970 Author: Salazar, Ruben 1928- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Ethnic Studies \| Latino Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies \| United States History \| Media Studies \| American Studies Publisher's Description: This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and in the evolution of race relations in the U.S. Taken together, the articles serve as a documentary hist . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Dear Carnap, dear Van: the Quine-Carnap correspondence and related work Author: Carnap, Rudolf 1891-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Philosophy \| History and Philosophy of Science \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Rudolf Carnap and W. V. Quine, two of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, corresponded at length - and over a long period of time - on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philos . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: A question of balance: Charles Seeger's philosophy of music Author: Greer, Taylor Aitken 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Music \| Ethnomusicology \| Musicology \| Composers Publisher's Description: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now the . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Poets on painters: essays on the art of painting by Twentieth-century poets Author: McClatchy, J. D 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| Art \| Poetry \| Art History Publisher's Description: What are poets looking at , looking for , when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened languag . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Letters from prison and other essays Author: Michnik, Adam Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Politics \| European History Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: Athens and Macedon: Attic letter-cutters of 300 to 229 B.C Author: Tracy, Stephen V 1941- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics \| Classical History \| Archaeology \| Ancient History Publisher's Description: Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time. In this book Stephen Tracy, the world's preeminent expert in this area, provides new insight into an . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: Best friends and marriage: exchange among women Author: Oliker, Stacey J Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Popular Culture \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this fascinating book, Stacey Oliker delves into the intimate realm of women's friendships and explores the complex relation between friendship and family life. Based on a series of interviews with women from the middle and working classes, this work reveals the distinctive values of best friends . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: The collected essays of Robert Creeley. Author: Creeley, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Literature \| English Literature Publisher's Description: For nearly four decades, Robert Creeley has been a popular and often controversial force in American poetry and letters. His essays, written from the 1950s to the 1980s and collected here for the first time, show a poet deeply touched by and in touch with the concerns of his post-war generation. His . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| Poetry \| American Studies \| American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: A. Sutzkever: selected poetry and prose Author: Sutzkever, Abraham 1913- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Literature in Translation \| Poetry Publisher's Description: The work of A. Sutzkever, one of the major twentieth-century masters of verse and the last of the great Yiddish poets, is presented to the English reader in this banquet of poetry, narrative verse, and poetic fiction. Sutzkever's imposing body of work links images from Israel's present and past with . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature \| Poetry \| Latin American Studies \| Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items