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The Age of Cultural Revolutions: Britain and France, 1750-1820by Dror Wahrman, Colin JonesISBN 0520229665 (0-520-22966-5)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960sby Daniel KaneISBN 0520233859 (0-520-23385-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collectionby Karin Breuer, Jacqueline Brody, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Albuquerque MuseumISBN 0520227638 (0-520-22763-8)
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American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919-1941by Dorothy B. Fujita RonyISBN 0520230957 (0-520-23095-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fictionby Anita Loos, Mary Anita Loos, Caria BeauchampISBN 0520228944 (0-520-22894-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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This collection has been selected by Anita's niece and close friend, the best-selling author Mary Anita Loos, together with the acclaimed film historian Cari Beauchamp. Their essays are laced throughout the volume, introducing each section and giving previously untold insights and behind-the-scenes stories about Anita--her life, her friendships, and her times.More editions of Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction:
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Art/Women/California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersectionsby Daniela Salvioni, Diana Burgess FullerISBN 0520230663 (0-520-23066-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Illustrated with more than one hundred color plates and duotones, Art/Women/California 1950-2000 reveals the richness of this fifty-year period by contrasting and comparing the artists and their varied artistic practices in relation to the larger sociopolitical context. The book employs a variety of historical perspectives to reflect the distinct and parallel experiences of California's major cultural communities while revealing points of intersection by analyzing shared themes and practices.
Because California serves as a gateway for a myriad of immigrants and an epicenter for the feminist movement, and because of its history of activism, its culture of experimentation, and its reputation for innovative technology and media, the state has evolved into a crucial and inspirational environment for women artists. Their work continues to transform our perceptions and revitalize art's connections to its surrounding environment and community. Exploring the conjuncture between place and artistic activity from multiple perspectives, this book stands as a testament to the rich diversity that is contemporary California culture.
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biographyby Peter BrownISBN 0520227573 (0-520-22757-3)
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Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-Five Years in a North Indian Villageby William Wiser, Charlotte Wiser, Susan S. Wadley, David G. MandelbaumISBN 0520227107 (0-520-22710-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahomaby Circe SturmISBN 0520230973 (0-520-23097-3)
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The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformationby Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 0520234022 (0-520-23402-2)
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Chechnya: Life In a War-Torn Societyby Valerii Aleksandrovich Tishkov, Mikhail S. GorbachevISBN 0520238885 (0-520-23888-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Children of Nafta: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Borderby David BaconISBN 0520237781 (0-520-23778-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacyby Peter Hays GriesISBN 0520232976 (0-520-23297-6)
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Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Techniqueby Marilyn FabeISBN 0520238915 (0-520-23891-5)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Colonial Subjects: Puerto Ricans in a Global Perspectiveby Ramon GrosfoguelISBN 0520230213 (0-520-23021-3)
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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Pastby David R. RoedigerISBN 0520240707 (0-520-24070-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past'Book summary:David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, O.J. Simpson, and Rudolph Giuliani--insist that continuities in white power and white identity are best understood by placing the recent past in historical context. Roediger illuminates that history in an incisive critique of the current scholarship on whiteness and an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. Du Bois and John Brown. He shows that, for all of its staying power, white supremacy in the United States has always been a pursuit rather than a completed project, that divisions among whites have mattered greatly, and that "nonwhite" alternatives have profoundly challenged the status quo.[via]
Colored White reasons that, because race is a matter of culture and politics, racial oppression will not be solved by intermarriage or demographic shifts, but rather by political struggles that transform the meaning of race--especially its links to social and economic inequality. This landmark work considers the ways that changes in immigration patterns, the labor force, popular culture, and social movements make it possible--though far from inevitable--that the United States might overcome white supremacy in the twenty-first century. Roediger's clear, lively prose and his extraordinary command of the literature make this one of the most original and generative contributions to the study of race and ethnicity in the United States in many decades.More editions of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past:
Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservationby Karl JacobyISBN 0520239091 (0-520-23909-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War IIby Berend, T. Ivan (Tibor Ivan)ISBN 0520229010 (0-520-22901-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisibleby Joseph A. AmatoISBN 0520231953 (0-520-23195-3)
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Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000by Melani McAlisterISBN 0520228103 (0-520-22810-3)
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Evolution: The History of an Ideaby Peter J. BowlerISBN 0520236939 (0-520-23693-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bankby James CampbellISBN 0520234413 (0-520-23441-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Family on Trial in Revolutionary Franceby Suzanne DesanISBN 0520238591 (0-520-23859-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Fluxus Experienceby Hannah HigginsISBN 0520228677 (0-520-22867-7)
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Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Healthby Marion NestleISBN 0520240677 (0-520-24067-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health'Book summary:In the U.S., we're bombarded with nutritional advice--the work, we assume, of reliable authorities with our best interests at heart. Far from it, says Marion Nestle, whose Food Politics absorbingly details how the food industry--through lobbying, advertising, and the co-opting of experts--influences our dietary choices to our detriment. Central to her argument is the American "paradox of plenty," the recognition that our food abundance (we've enough calories to meet every citizen's needs twice over) leads profit-fixated food producers to do everything possible to broaden their market portion, thus swaying us to eat more when we should do the opposite. The result is compromised health: epidemic obesity to start, and increased vulnerability to heart and lung disease, cancer, and stroke--reversible if the constantly suppressed "eat less, move more" message that most nutritionists shout could be heard.
Nestle, nutrition chair at New York University and editor of the 1988 Surgeon General Report, has served her time in the dietary trenches and is ideally suited to revealing how government nutritional advice is watered down when a message might threaten industry sales. (Her report on byzantine nutritional food-pyramid rewordings to avoid "eat less" recommendations is both predictable and astonishing.) She has other "war stories," too, that involve marketing to children in school (in the form of soft-drink "pouring rights" agreements, hallway advertising, and fast-food coupon giveaways), and diet-supplement dramas in which manufacturers and the government enter regulation frays, with the industry championing "free choice" even as that position counters consumer protection. Is there hope? "If we want to encourage people to eat better diets," says Nestle, "we need to target societal means to counter food industry lobbying and marketing practices as well as the education of individuals." It's a telling conclusion in an engrossing and masterfully panoramic exposé. --Arthur Boehm [via]
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Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Agesby J. D. MacDougallISBN 0520239229 (0-520-23922-9)
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Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Cultureby Paul Lawrence RoseISBN 0520229266 (0-520-22926-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Centuryby Ivan T. Berend, T. Ivan BerendISBN 0520232992 (0-520-23299-2)
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The Houses of Hanover & Saxe-Coburg-Gothaby John Clarke, Jasper Ridley, Antonia FraserISBN 0520228014 (0-520-22801-4)
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Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africaby Roderick P. NeumannISBN 0520234685 (0-520-23468-5)
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In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record With a New Afterwordby Lewis R. BinfordISBN 0520233395 (0-520-23339-5)
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Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwestby Clark, Robert B. InverarityISBN 0520239261 (0-520-23926-1)
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Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plaguesby Paul FarmerISBN 0520229134 (0-520-22913-4)
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Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions--remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.More editions of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues:
Intensive Care: A Doctor's Journalby John F. MurrayISBN 0520234677 (0-520-23467-7)
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The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global Cityby Ara WilsonISBN 0520239687 (0-520-23968-7)
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The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining of identities, relationships, and economics during Bangkok's boom years. Using innovative case studies of women's and men's participation in a range of modern markets--department stores, go-go bars, a popular downtown mall, a telecommunications company, and the direct sales corporations Amway and Avon--Wilson chronicles the powerful expansion of capitalist exchange into further reaches of Thai society. She shows how global economies have interacted with local systems to create new kinds of lifestyles, ranging from "tomboys" to corporate tycoons to sex workers.
Combining feminist theory with classic anthropological understandings of exchange, this historically grounded ethnography maps the reverberations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity at the hub of Bangkok's modern economy.More editions of The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City:
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North Americaby Theodora Kroeber, Karl KroeberISBN 0520229401 (0-520-22940-1)
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Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California. Finally identified as an Indian by an anthropologist, Ishi was brought to San Francisco by Professor T. T. Waterman and lived there the rest of his life under the care and protection of Alfred Kroeber and the staff of the University of California's Museum of Anthropology. Karl Kroeber adds an informative tribute to the text, describing how the book came to be and how Theodora Kroeber's approach to the project was both a product of her era and of her insight and her empathy.More editions of Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America:
John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditationsby John Donne, Evelyn Mary Spearing SimpsonISBN 0520239288 (0-520-23928-8)
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Journey Through the Ice Ageby Paul G. Bahn, Jean VertutISBN 0520229002 (0-520-22900-2)
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The King's Trial: The French Revolution Vs. Louis XVIby David P. JordanISBN 0520236971 (0-520-23697-1)
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The Language Warby Robin LakoffISBN 0520232070 (0-520-23207-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language War'Book summary:Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights."[via]
Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from languagein short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we are connected to one another, who has power and who does not, the stories reflect the language war.
We use language to analyze what we call "reality," the author argues, but we mistrust how language is used today--witness the "politics of personal destruction" following the Clinton impeachment. Yet Lakoff sees in the struggle over language a positive goal: equality in the creation of our national discourse. Her writing is accessible and witty, and her excerpts from the media are used to great effect.More editions of The Language War:
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Life Along the Silk Roadby Susan WhitfieldISBN 0520232143 (0-520-23214-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Along the Silk Road'Book summary:In the first 1,000 years after Christ, merchants, missionaries, monks, mendicants, and military men traveled on the vast network of Central Asian tracks that became known as the Silk Road. Linking Europe, India, and the Far East, the route passed through many countries and many settlements, from the splendid city of Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield creates a rich and varied portrait of life along the greatest trade route in history in a vivid, lively, and learned account that spans the eighth through the tenth centuries. Recounting the lives of ten individuals who lived at different times during this period, Whitfield draws on contemporary sources and uses firsthand accounts whenever possible to reconstruct the history of the route through the personal experiences of these characters.[via]
Life along the Silk Road brings alive the now ruined and sand-covered desert towns and their inhabitants. Readers encounter an Ulghur nomad from the Gobi Desert accompanying a herd of steppe ponies for sale to the Chinese state; Ah-long, widow of a prosperous merchant, now reduced to poverty and forced to resort to law and charity to survive; and the Chinese princess sent as part of a diplomatic deal to marry a Turkish kaghan. In the process we learn about women's lives, modes of communication, weapons, types of cosmetics, methods of treating altitude sickness in the Tibetan army, and ways that merchants cheated their customers. Throughout the narrative, Whitfield conveys a strong sense of what life was like for ordinary men and women on the Silk Road--everyone from itinerant Buddhist monks, to Zoroastrians and Nestorian Christians seeking converts among the desert settlers, to storytellers, musicians, courtesans, diviners, peddlers, and miracle-workers who offered their wares in the marketplaces and at temple fairs. A work of great scholarship, Life along the Silk Road is at the same time extremely accessible and entertaining.More editions of Life Along the Silk Road:
Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survivalby Frances AshcroftISBN 0520234200 (0-520-23420-0)
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Waterby Philip BallISBN 0520230086 (0-520-23008-6)
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Listening in the Silence, Seeing in the Dark: Reconstructing Life After Brain Injuryby Ruthann Knechel JohansenISBN 0520231147 (0-520-23114-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversityby Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. Vitt, Harry W. GreeneISBN 0520234014 (0-520-23401-4)
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Part One explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socialize. In Part Two the authors take us on a fascinating tour of the world's manifold lizard species, beginning with iguanians, an evolutionary group that includes some of the most bizarre lizards, the true chameleons of Africa and Madagascar. We also meet the glass lizard, able to break its tail into many highly motile pieces to distract a predator from its body; lizards that can run across water; and limbless lizards, such as snakes. Part Three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their future.
A definitive resource containing many entertaining anecdotes, this magnificent book opens a new window to the natural world and the evolution of life on earth.More editions of Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity:
Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250by John R. ClarkeISBN 0520229045 (0-520-22904-5)
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Loss: The Politics of Mourningby David L. Eng, David KazanjianISBN 0520232364 (0-520-23236-4)
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Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979by David A. CookISBN 0520232658 (0-520-23265-8)
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The Making of Revolutionary Parisby David GarriochISBN 0520232534 (0-520-23253-4)
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The Middle Agesby John Gillingham, Peter Earle, Antonia FraserISBN 0520227999 (0-520-22799-9)
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Miles and Meby Quincy TroupeISBN 0520234715 (0-520-23471-5)
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issuesby Joel BestISBN 0520238303 (0-520-23830-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues'Book summary:In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues: missing numbers are relevant but overlooked; confusing numbers bewilder when they should inform; scary numbers play to our fears about the present and the future; authoritative numbers demand respect they don't deserve; magical numbers promise unrealistic, simple solutions to complex problems; and contentious numbers become the focus of data duels and stat wars. The author's use of pertinent, socially important examples documents the life-altering consequences of understanding or misunderstanding statistical information. He demystifies statistical measures by explaining in straightforward prose how decisions are made about what to count and what not to count, what assumptions get made, and which figures are brought to our attention. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. [via]
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Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voiceby Kyle GannISBN 0520229827 (0-520-22982-7)
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The Nation and Its New Women: The Palestinian Women's Movement, 1920-1948by Ellen FleischmannISBN 0520237900 (0-520-23790-0)
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No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oaklandby Chris RhombergISBN 0520236181 (0-520-23618-1)
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Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublimeby Immanuel Kant, John T. GoldthwaitISBN 0520240782 (0-520-24078-2)
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Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Veniceby Margaret F. MacDonald, James McNeill WhistlerISBN 0520230493 (0-520-23049-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice'Book summary:In September 1879, James McNeill Whistler boarded the Venice-bound night train in Paris. He was forty-five years old and bankrupt. What was to be a three-month stay in the Italian city--long enough to complete a set of twelve etchings--stretched to fourteen months. When Whistler returned to London, he brought back over fifty magnificent etchings and a hundred pastels, far in excess of the original commission. In Palaces in the Night, Margaret F. MacDonald looks at this key period in Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. She shows how he reestablished himself in the art world of London and Paris, turning disaster and disgrace into profit and prestige. Lavishly illustrated with some of the most beautiful and intriguing images Whistler ever produced, this book provides a fascinating account of a pivotal period in the artist's long and complicated career.[via]
Whistler's aim was to restore both his fortune and reputation with the Venetian etchings. To that end he included views of familiar sights like the Riva degli Schiavoni and San Marco, but he also captured quiet backwaters, secret gardens, and lantern-lit windows that did not appear in any guidebook. His selection of views and compositions, plus the expressiveness of his line and printing, differentiated his work from that of others, and MacDonald shows the process by which Whistler selected, shaped, and edited his Venetian corpus. He drew figures in distinctively Italian costume, each an individual, moving, gesturing, and interacting with other real people.
An appendix of Whistler's letters from Venice provides an entertaining account of his time there and also deepens the reader's understanding of how the city challenged and inspired him.More editions of Palaces in the Night: Whistler in Venice:
Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great Warby Glenn WatkinsISBN 0520231589 (0-520-23158-9)
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Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobsby Deirdre A. RoysterISBN 0520239512 (0-520-23951-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs'Book summary:From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test--and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a workplace that favors the white job-seeker over the black. At the heart of this study is the question: Is there something about young black men that makes them less desirable as workers than their white peers? And if not, then why do black men trail white men in earnings and employment rates? Royster seeks an answer in the experiences of 25 black and 25 white men who graduated from the same vocational school and sought jobs in the same blue-collar labor market in the early 1990s. After seriously examining the educational performances, work ethics, and values of the black men for unique deficiencies, her study reveals the greatest difference between young black and white men--access to the kinds of contacts that really help in the job search and entry process.[via]More editions of Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs:
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Reorganizing the Rust Belt: An Inside Study of the American Labor Movementby Steven Henry LopezISBN 0520235657 (0-520-23565-7)
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Rethinking American History in a Global Ageby Thomas BenderISBN 0520230582 (0-520-23058-2)
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Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Dietby Harvey A. LevensteinISBN 0520234391 (0-520-23439-1)
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The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fieldingby Ian WattISBN 0520230698 (0-520-23069-8)
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In a new foreword, W. B. Carnochan accounts for the increasing interest in the English novel, including the contributions that Ian Watt's study made to literary studies: his introduction of sociology and philosophy to traditional criticism.More editions of The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding:
A River And Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleansby Ari KelmanISBN 0520234332 (0-520-23433-2)
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The River Stops Here: Saving Round Valley, a Pivotal Chapter in California's Water Warsby Ted SimonISBN 0520230566 (0-520-23056-6)
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Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail-Order" Marriagesby Nicole ConstableISBN 0520238702 (0-520-23870-2)
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The Saga of the Volsungsby Jesse L. ByockISBN 0520232852 (0-520-23285-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Saga of the Volsungs'Book summary:A trove of traditional lore, this Icelandic prose epic tells of love, jealousy, vengeance, war, and the mythic deeds of the dragonslayer, Sigurd the Volsung. The saga is of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his Ring Cycle. With its magical ring acquired by the hero, and the sword to be reforged, the saga has also been a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and romantics such as William Morris. Byock's comprehensive introduction explores the history, legends, and myths contained in the saga and traces the development of a narrative that reaches back to the period of the great folk migrations in Europe when the Roman Empire collapsed.[via]More editions of The Saga of the Volsungs:
Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Imagesby David LubinISBN 0520229851 (0-520-22985-1)
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Show and Tell: New Yorker Profilesby John LahrISBN 0520233778 (0-520-23377-8)
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria RilkeISBN 0520229223 (0-520-22922-3)
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Rainer Maria Rilke was one of Germany's most important poets. His influences include the paintings of the Worpswedders and the French Impressionists, the sculpture of Rodin (to whom he was both friend and secretary), and the poetry of Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarmé, and other symbolists. His poetry is innovative, enigmatic, and entertainingly idiosyncratic. C.F. MacIntyre's translations are both true to the original and poetic in their own right, and in each book he includes an introduction and notes. German text faces the English translation.More editions of Sonnets To Orpheus:
Spacefaring: The Human Dimensionby Albert A. HarrisonISBN 0520236777 (0-520-23677-7)
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Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Nowby Martin Kemp, Marina WallaceISBN 0520227921 (0-520-22792-1)
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Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communismby Vladimir TismaneanuISBN 0520237471 (0-520-23747-1)
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Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin With a New Afterwordby James CampbellISBN 0520231309 (0-520-23130-9)
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Tate Modern: The Handbookby Simon Wilson, Iwona BlazwickISBN 0520227700 (0-520-22770-0)
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Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violenceby Mark JuergensmeyerISBN 0520232062 (0-520-23206-2)
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There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligenceby David CunninghamISBN 0520239970 (0-520-23997-0)
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspectiveby J. Samuel WalkerISBN 0520239407 (0-520-23940-7)
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Toshie: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japanby Simon PartnerISBN 0520238532 (0-520-23853-2)
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Tunes for toons: Music And the Hollywood Cartoonby Daniel GoldmarkISBN 0520236173 (0-520-23617-3)
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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Deathby Margaret LockISBN 0520228146 (0-520-22814-6)
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Under Antarctic Ice: The Photographs of Norbert Wuby Norbert WuISBN 0520235045 (0-520-23504-5)
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Tortureby John ConroyISBN 0520230396 (0-520-23039-6)
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The Wars of the Rosesby Antonia Fraser, Anthony CheethamISBN 0520228022 (0-520-22802-2)
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What Is Sexual Harassment?: From Capitol Hill to the Sorbonneby Abigail Cope SaguyISBN 0520237412 (0-520-23741-2)
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The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Leftby Todd GitlinISBN 0520239326 (0-520-23932-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left'Book summary:"The whole world is watching!" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. In this classic book, originally published in 1980, acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made leaders into celebrities and estranged them from their movement base; how it inflated the importance of revolutionary rhetoric, destabilizing the movement, then promoted "moderate" alternatives--all the while spreading the antiwar message. Finally, Gitlin draws together a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management--which he sees at work also in media treatment of the anti-nuclear and other later movements.Updated for 2003 with a new preface, The Whole World Is Watching is a subtle and sensitive book, true to the passions and ironic reversals of its subject, and filled with provocative insights that apply to the media's relationship with all activist movements. [via]
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