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| 1. |  | Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview  Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Listening in the silence, seeing in the dark: reconstructing life after brain injury Author: Johansen, Ruthann Knechel 1942- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Medicine | Health Care | Autobiographies and Biographies | Medical Anthropology | Psychiatry Publisher's Description: Traumatic brain injury can interrupt without warning the life story that any one of us is in the midst of creating. When the author's fifteen-year-old son survives a terrible car crash in spite of massive trauma to his brain, she and her family know only that his story has not ended. Their efforts, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Gypsy law: Romani legal traditions and culture Author: Weyrauch, Walter O. (Walter Otto) 1919- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Law | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | European Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative collection brings together leading Gypsy and non . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Rugged justice: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891-1941 Author: Frederick, David C Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | Law Publisher's Description: Few chapters in American judicial history have enjoyed as colorful a past as has the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Created in 1891, its jurisdiction now encompasses California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Hawaii, and Alaska. David Frederick has mined archival . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab Author: Peirce, Leslie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anato . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Rethinking the borderlands: between Chicano culture and legal discourse Author: Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: American Studies | Chicano Studies | Literature | Language and Linguistics | Law | Social and Political Thought | Rhetoric | Postcolonial Studies | United States History | United States History Publisher's Description: Challenging the long-cherished notion of legal objectivity in the United States, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones argues that Chicano history has been consistently shaped by racially biased, combative legal interactions. Rethinking the Borderlands is an insightful and provocative exploration of the ways Chicano . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | Title: Narrowing the nation's power: the Supreme Court sides with the states Author: Noonan, John Thomas 1926- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Law | American Studies | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Narrowing the Nation's Power is the tale of how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has, in the last six years, cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states. The immunity from suit of the sovereign, Blackstone taught, is necessary to preserve the people's idea th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd: forgery and betrayal in eighteenth-century London Author: Andrew, Donna T 1945- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | European Studies | European History | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: The Perreaus and Mrs. Rudd tells the remarkable story of a complex forgery uncovered in London in 1775. Like the trials of Martin Guerre and O.J. Simpson, the Perreau-Rudd case--filled with scandal, deceit, and mystery--preoccupied a public hungry for sensationalism. Peopled with such familiar figur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: In the house of the law: gender and Islamic law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine Author: Tucker, Judith E Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Law | Islam | Women's Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: In an rewarding new study, Tucker explores the way in which Islamic legal thinkers understood Islam as it related to women and gender roles. In seventeenth and eighteenth century Syria and Palestine, Muslim legal thinkers gave considerable attention to women's roles in society, and Tucker shows how . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Oedipus lex: psychoanalysis, history, law Author: Goodrich, Peter 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought | Law | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and bore . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: In Search of equality: the Chinese struggle against discrimination in nineteenth-century America Author: McClain, Charles J Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Law | California and the West | History | United States History | Californian and Western History | American Studies | Asian American Studies Publisher's Description: Charles McClain's illuminating new study probes Chinese efforts to battle manifold discrimination - in housing, employment, and education - in nineteenth-century America. Challenging the stereotypical image of a passive, insular group, McClain reveals a politically savvy population capable of mobili . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350 Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Judaism | Jewish Studies | European History | Law | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The prince and the law, 1200-1600: sovereignty and rights in the western legal tradition Author: Pennington, Kenneth Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Medieval History | Law Publisher's Description: The power of the prince versus the rights of his subjects is one of the basic struggles in the history of law and government. In this masterful history of monarchy, conceptions of law, and due process, Kenneth Pennington addresses that struggle and opens an entirely new vista in the study of Western . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Legal hermeneutics: history, theory, and practice Author: Leyh, Gregory Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Politics | Political Theory | Postcolonial Studies | Law | Language and Linguistics Publisher's Description: Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and constructive directions. Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Dioscorus of Aphrodito: his work and his world Author: MacCoull, Leslie B Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics Publisher's Description: From the hand of Dioscorus of Aphrodito, sixth-century Coptic lawyer and poet, we have the only autograph poems to come down to us on papyrus from the late ancient world. Both the poetry he wrote for special occasions and the documents he produced in his legal career, in Greek and Coptic, reflect th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The vestal and the fasces: Hegel, Lacan, property, and the feminine Author: Schroeder, Jeanne Lorraine Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Law | Philosophy | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: In this feminist exploration of the erotics of the marketplace, Hegel's notion of property and Lacan's idea of the phallus serve parallel functions in creating the subjectivity necessary for self-actualization. Subjectivity requires intersubjective relationships mediated through a regime of possessi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984 Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History | Rhetoric | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Similar Items |