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| 1. |  | Title: Fish: an enthusiast's guide Author: Moyle, Peter B Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Marine and Freshwater Sciences | Ecology | Sports | Biology Publisher's Description: Engagingly written, with both learning and humor, Fish bridges the gap between purely pictorial books and scholarly texts, and provides a succinct summary of fish biology and conservation for students and fish enthusiasts. Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Ahead of the curve: David Baltimore's life in science Author: Crotty, Shane 1974- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Autobiographies and Biographies | History of Science | Science Publisher's Description: Shane Crotty's biography of David Baltimore details the life and work of one of the most brilliant, powerful, and controversial scientists of our time. Although only in his early sixties, Baltimore has made major discoveries in molecular biology, established the prestigious Whitehead Institute at MI . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: California's salmon and steelhead: the struggle to restore an imperiled resource  Author: Lufkin, Alan Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | California and the West | Marine and Freshwater Sciences Publisher's Description: Millions upon millions of salmon and steelhead once filled California streams, providing a plentiful and sustainable food resource for the original peoples of the region. But over the years, dams and irrigation diversions have reduced natural spawning habitat from an estimated 6,000 miles to fewer t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Henry David Thoreau and the moral agency of knowing Author: Tauber, Alfred I Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | History and Philosophy of Science | Ethics Publisher's Description: In his graceful philosophical account, Alfred I. Tauber shows why Thoreau still seems so relevant today - more relevant in many respects than he seemed to his contemporaries. Although Thoreau has been skillfully and thoroughly examined as a writer, naturalist, mystic, historian, social thinker, Tran . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Capitalism from within: economy, society, and the state in a Japanese fishery Author: Howell, David Luke Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Japan's stunning metamorphosis from an isolated feudal regime to a major industrial power over the course of the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries has long fascinated and vexed historians. In this study, David L. Howell looks beyond the institutional and technological changes that followed Jap . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | Title: The oceans, their physics, chemistry, and general biology Author: Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik) 1888-1957 Published: Prentice-Hall, 1942 Subjects: Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: probing the oceans, 1936 to 1976 Author: Shor, Elizabeth Noble Published: Tofua Press, 1978 Subjects: Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Season of high adventure: Edgar Snow in China Author: Thomas, S. Bernard 1921- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | China | Autobiographies and Biographies | Asian Studies Publisher's Description: In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships wi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Adventures of a mathematician Author: Ulam, Stanislaw M Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Mathematics | United States History Publisher's Description: The autobiography of mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, one of the great scientific minds of the twentieth century, tells a story rich with amazingly prophetic speculations and peppered with lively anecdotes. As a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1944 on, Ulam helped to precipitate some . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Why Waco?: cults and the battle for religious freedom in America Author: Tabor, James D 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Religion | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. Whether these tragic deaths could have been avoided is still debatable, but what seems clear is that the events in Te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Exploring the deep Pacific. Author: Raitt, Helen Published: Norton, 1956 Subjects: Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Broken tablets: the cult of the law in French art from David to Delacroix Author: Ribner, Jonathan P Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Art | Art History | French Studies | European Literature | European History | Law Publisher's Description: In this first study of art, law, and the legislator, Jonathan Ribner provides a revealing look at French art from 1789 to 1848, the period in which constitutional law was established in France. Drawing on several disciplines, he discusses how each of the early constitutional regimes in France used i . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Eloquent gestures: the transformation of performance style in the Griffith Biograph films Author: Pearson, Roberta E Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film Publisher's Description: Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood cinema. This book is the only extensive treatment of a critical period in the history of film acting: the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Elephant seals: population ecology, behavior, and physiology Author: Le Boeuf, Burney J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Natural History | Biology | Ecology Publisher's Description: The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Another kind of love: male homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920 Author: Craft, Christopher 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Sociology | Literary Theory and Criticism | Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earli . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Just interpretations: law between ethics and politics Author: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: American Studies | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory Publisher's Description: In pluralistic societies that lack common ethical, social, and political values, legal interpretation is constantly under siege. Just interpretations - that is, interpretations that reflect a shared vision of justice - may become just interpretations in the sense of mere interpretations, rooted in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | Title: Oil age Eskimos Author: Jorgensen, Joseph G 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | Ecology | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In a book made especially timely by the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Joseph Jorgensen analyzes the impact of Alaskan oil extraction on Eskimo society. The author investigated three communities representing three environments: Gambell (St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea), Wainwright . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Ecology of the Southern California Bight: a synthesis and interpretation Author: Dailey, Murray D Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science | Environmental Studies | Ecology | Biology Publisher's Description: Here is a benchmark study of one significant stretch of the Pacific Ocean, the Southern California Bight. Extending from Point Conception to the Mexican border and out to the 200-mile limit, these waters have never before been investigated in such detail, from so many points of view, by such an emin . . . [more] Similar Items |