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America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940by Claude S. FischerISBN 0520086473 (0-520-08647-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Anarchism in the Chinese Revolutionby Arif DirlikISBN 0520082648 (0-520-08264-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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Ansel Adams and the American Landscape: A Biographyby Jonathan SpauldingISBN 0520089928 (0-520-08992-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Art and Politics of Wana Shamanshipby Jane Monnig AtkinsonISBN 0520078772 (0-520-07877-2)
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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primatesby Richard Despard Estes, Edward O. Wilson, Daniel OtteISBN 0520080858 (0-520-08085-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and on the research of many other scientists, Richard Estes describes and explains the behavior of four major groups of mammals. Estes's remarkably informative guide is as up-to-date for the zoologist as it is accessible for the interested onlooker.More editions of The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates:
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Berthe Morisotby Anne HigonnetISBN 0520201566 (0-520-20156-6)
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Between Two Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman Stateby Cemal KafadarISBN 0520088077 (0-520-08807-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New Worldby Irving Albert LeonardISBN 0520079906 (0-520-07990-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Broken Silence: Voices of Japanese Feminismby Sandra BuckleyISBN 0520085140 (0-520-08514-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Chinese Local Elites and Patterns of Dominanceby Joseph W. Esherick, Mary Backus RankinISBN 0520084349 (0-520-08434-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cinema and the Invention of Modern Lifeby Leo Charney, Vanessa R. SchwartzISBN 0520201124 (0-520-20112-4)
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City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miamiby Alejandro Portes, Alex StepickISBN 0520089324 (0-520-08932-4)
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"Makes a case for the importance of political capital . . . in building ethnic solidarity."--Contemporary SociologyMore editions of City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami:
Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century Indiaby David ArnoldISBN 0520082958 (0-520-08295-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936by Lisbeth HaasISBN 0520083806 (0-520-08380-6)
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Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Businessby Roland MarchandISBN 0520087194 (0-520-08719-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860by Ralph P. Locke, Cyrilla BarrISBN 0520083954 (0-520-08395-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Culture of Civil War in Kyotoby Mary Elizabeth BerryISBN 0520081706 (0-520-08170-6)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Deep Politics and the Death of JFKby Peter Dale ScottISBN 0520084101 (0-520-08410-1)
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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Gilliam BrownISBN 0520080998 (0-520-08099-8)
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Emerson: The Mind on Fireby Robert D. RichardsonISBN 0520088085 (0-520-08808-5)
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These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age.
Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator.
The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature.
Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings--from Persian poets to George Sand--and to his many friendships and personal encounters--from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston--evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.More editions of Emerson: The Mind on Fire:
An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structureby Bennett M. BergerISBN 0520200179 (0-520-20017-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Evenings on and Off the Roof: Pioneering Concerts in Los Angeles, 1939-1971by Dorothy Lamb CrawfordISBN 0520088913 (0-520-08891-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992by Shahid AminISBN 0520087801 (0-520-08780-1)
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The author, who was born fifteen miles from Chauri Chaura, brings to his study an empathetic knowledge of the region and a keen ear for the nuances of the culture and language of its people. In an ingenious negotiation between written and oral evidence, he combines brilliant archival work in the judicial records of the period with field interviews with local informants.
In telling this intricate story of local memory and the making of official histories, Amin probes the silences and ambivalences that contribute to a nation's narrative. He extends his boundaries well beyond Chauri Chaura itself to explore the complex relationship between peasant politics and nationalist discourse and the interplay between memory and history.More editions of Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992:
The Family Romance of the French Revolutionby Lynne HuntISBN 0520082702 (0-520-08270-2)
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Fast Food, Fast Talk: Service Work and the Routinization of Everyday Lifeby Robin LeidnerISBN 0520085000 (0-520-08500-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Films of Akira Kurosawaby Donald RichieISBN 0520200268 (0-520-20026-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Films of Akira Kurosawa'Book summary:In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a film set in the Edo period to be called The Ocean Was Watching.[via]
Kurosawa remains unchallenged as one of the century's greatest film directors. Through his long and distinguished career he managed, like very few others in the teeth of a huge and relentless industry, to elevate each of his films to a distinctive level of art. His Rashomon--one of the best-remembered and most talked-of films in any language--was a revelation when it appeared in 1950 and did much to bring Japanese cinema to the world's attention. Kurosawa's films display an extraordinary breadth and an astonishing strength, from the philosophic and sexual complexity of Rashomon to the moral dedication of Ikiru, from the naked violence of Seven Samurai to the savage comedy of Yojimbo, from the terror-filled feudalism of Throne of Blood to the piercing wit of Sanjuro.More editions of The Films of Akira Kurosawa:
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The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930by Robert M. FogelsonISBN 0520082303 (0-520-08230-3)
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Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheusby Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Barry MoserISBN 0520089421 (0-520-08942-1)
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Freedom and Taboo: Pornography and the Politics of a Self Dividedby Richard S. RandallISBN 0520080343 (0-520-08034-3)
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From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empireby Amelie Kuhrt, Susan Sherwin-WhiteISBN 0520081838 (0-520-08183-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversationby Gene Roddenberry, Yvonne FernISBN 0520088425 (0-520-08842-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation'Book summary:Gene Roddenberry created a mythology for the twentieth century: "Star Trek". One of the most successful television shows and cultural icons of all time, "Star Trek" was a forum for probing some of life's fundamental questions: What is the difference between sexuality and love? Where does duty end and morality begin? What does it mean to be human? As Roddenberry faced the end of his life, his last wish was to address humanity directly. Insisting that no one could really know him without becoming part of his private world, he invited Yvonne Fern to live with him and his wife, Majel Barrett. "I want you to write me," he said. But this book is more than a portrait of a single life - it is a shared journey, into the meaning and worth of human existence. The two began this book as a collaboration, but as Roddenberry's health failed, Fern's task was to convey the richness of what passed between them. Reading their dialogue, we are able to glimpse the luminous future that Gene Roddenberry knew was possible for all of us. [via]
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The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990by Peter Schjeldahl, Malin WilsonISBN 0520082826 (0-520-08282-6)
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I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Moviesby Nicholas Ray, Susan RayISBN 0520082338 (0-520-08233-8)
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In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century Americaby Charles J. McClainISBN 0520083377 (0-520-08337-7)
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Inventing Leonardoby Richard Turner, Da Vinci LeonardoISBN 0520089383 (0-520-08938-3)
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Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United Statesby James W. TrentISBN 0520082435 (0-520-08243-5)
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Japanese Workers in Protest: An Ethnography of Consciousness and Experienceby Christena L. TurnerISBN 0520085701 (0-520-08570-1)
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Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Textsby Greg SarrisISBN 0520080076 (0-520-08007-6)
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Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japanby Andrew GordonISBN 0520080912 (0-520-08091-2)
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The Last Generation of the Roman Republicby Erich S. GruenISBN 0520201531 (0-520-20153-1)
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Law and Disorder on the Narova River: The Kreenholm Strike of 1872by Reginald E. ZelnikISBN 0520084810 (0-520-08481-0)
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Lise Meitner: A Life in Physicsby Ruth Lewin SimeISBN 0520089065 (0-520-08906-5)
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Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250by John R. ClarkeISBN 0520200241 (0-520-20024-1)
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Lost Lullabyby Deborah Golden AlecsonISBN 0520088700 (0-520-08870-0)
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Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940by John M. FindlayISBN 0520084357 (0-520-08435-7)
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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920by Karen WigenISBN 0520084209 (0-520-08420-9)
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Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japanby Gary P. LeuppISBN 0520086279 (0-520-08627-9)
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Manufacturing Militance: Workers' Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970-1985by G. SeidmanISBN 0520083032 (0-520-08303-2)
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Masculinitiesby R. W. ConnellISBN 0520089995 (0-520-08999-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masculinities'Book summary:Here is a powerful reply to Iron John, a fresh look at the complicated nature of what R.W. Connell calls "masculinities." One of the most important voices in the new feminist scholarship by men, Connell provides a nuanced and incisive analysis of how our notions of masculinity have evolved in psychoanalysis, social science, and historically in the creation of a global economy. There is not one but many masculinities, he claims, in a bold critique of the "men's movement" and other simplistic approaches to sexual identity. Instead, Connell delineates the complicated dynamics of masculine politics and recent changes in male identity.[via]
Drawing on rich ethnographic work, Connell offers portraits of dozens of men of different classes, some working to change masculinities, some resisting change. Eel openly disparages his wife: "The first chance I can see to get rid of her, she's gone." Mark, who calls himself "a very straight gay," thinks men should behave in traditionally masculine ways. "If you're a guy why don't you just act like a guy?" he asks. Danny, undertaking the "long haul" of his own sexism, admits, "It's hard not to be aggressive sometimes."
Connell offers the first critical history of ideas and the most sophisticated theoretical analysis of masculinity to date. His attempts to understand changes in male identity and to think about these issues on a global scale are unique. Integrating social science, feminist theory, gay theory, and psychoanalysis in an innovative yet unusually accessible way, he develops a new theory of masculinity politics. This is a book for everyone interested in the history of western masculinities and the sexual politics of the contemporary era.More editions of Masculinities:
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth Century Koreaby Jahyun Kim Haboush, Hyegyonggung Hong SsiISBN 0520200551 (0-520-20055-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Coronaby Mario T. GarciaISBN 0520201523 (0-520-20152-3)
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Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouacby Gerald NicosiaISBN 0520085698 (0-520-08569-8)
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Micheletby Jules Michelet, Roland BarthesISBN 0520078268 (0-520-07826-8)
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The Modern Middle East: A Readerby Albert Hourani, Philip S. Khoury, Mary C. WilsonISBN 0520082419 (0-520-08241-9)
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Moorish Spainby Richard FletcherISBN 0520084969 (0-520-08496-9)
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Mozart's Operasby Daniel Heartz, Thomas BaumanISBN 0520078721 (0-520-07872-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mozart's Operas'Book summary:Renowned Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz brings his deep knowledge of social history, theater, and art to a study of the last and great decade of Mozart's operas. Mozart specialists will recognize some of Heartz's best-known essays here; but six pieces are new for the collection, and others have been revised and updated with little-known documents on the librettist's, composer's, and stage director's craft. All lovers of opera will value the elegance and wit of Professor Heartz's writing, enhanced by thirty-seven illustrations, many from his private collection.[via]
The volume includes Heartz's classic essay on Idomeneo (1781), the work that continued to inspire and sustain Mozart through his next, and final, six operas. Thomas Bauman brings his special expertise to a discussion of Die Entführung aus dem Serail (1782). The ten central chapters are devoted to the three great operas composed to librettos by Lorenzo da Ponte--Le nozze di Figaro (l786), Don Giovanni (l787), and Così fan tutte (l790). The reader is treated to fresh insights on da Ponte's role as Mozart's astute and stage-wise collaborator, on the singers whose gifts helped shape each opera, and on the musical connections among the three works. Parallels are drawn with some of the greatest creative artists in other fields, such as Molière, Watteau, and Fragonard. The world of the dance, one of Heartz's specialties, lends an illuminating perspective as well.
Finally, the essays discuss the deep spirituality of Mozart's last two operas, Die Zauberflöte and La Clemenza di Tito (both l79l). They also address the pertinence of opera outside Vienna at the end of the century, the fortunes and aspirations of Freemasonry in Austria, and the relation of Mozart's overtures to the dramaturgy of the operas.More editions of Mozart's Operas:
Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarshipby Ruth A. SolieISBN 0520201469 (0-520-20146-9)
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A.P. Giannini: Banker of Americaby Felice A. BonadioISBN 0520082494 (0-520-08249-4)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951by Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A RussellISBN 0520079507 (0-520-07950-7)
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Volume One contains many previously unpublished documents beginning with the letters King wrote to his mother and father during his childhood. We read firsthand his surprise and delight in his first encounter (during a trip to Connecticut) with the less segregated conditions in the North. Through his student essays and exams, we discover King's doubts about the religion of his father and we can trace his theological development. We learn of his longing for the emotional conversion experience that he witnessed others undergoing, and we follow his search to know God through study at theological seminaries. Throughout the first volume, we are treated to tantalizing hints of his mature rhetorical abilities, as in his 1945 letter to the Atlanta Constitution that spoke out against white racism.
Each volume in this series contains an introductory essay that traces the biographical details of Dr. King's life during the period covered. Ample annotations accompany the documents. Each volume also contains a chronology of key events in his life and a "Calendar of Documents" that lists all important, extant documents authored by King or by others, including those that are not trnascribed in the document itself.
The preparation of this edition is sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta with Stanford University and Emory University.More editions of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951:
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Rediscovering Precious Values July 1951-November 1955by Clayborne CarsonISBN 0520079515 (0-520-07951-5)
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Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in Chinaby Bret HinschISBN 0520078691 (0-520-07869-1)
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Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peruby Florencia E. MallonISBN 0520085051 (0-520-08505-1)
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The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15Th-18th Centuryby Fernand Braudel, Sian ReynoldsISBN 0520081161 (0-520-08116-1)
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Policing Shanghai 1927-1937by Frederic WakemanISBN 0520084888 (0-520-08488-8)
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Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980sby Barbara EpsteinISBN 0520084330 (0-520-08433-0)
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Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policyby Daniel M. FoxISBN 0520201515 (0-520-20151-5)
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Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban Americaby Frank J. DonnerISBN 0520080351 (0-520-08035-1)
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A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identityby Daniel BoyarinISBN 0520085922 (0-520-08592-2)
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Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910by William DeverellISBN 0520082141 (0-520-08214-1)
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Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900by Beshara DoumaniISBN 0520088956 (0-520-08895-6)
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Reds or Rackets?: The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfrontby Howard KimeldorfISBN 0520078861 (0-520-07886-1)
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Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japanby Mikiso HaneISBN 0520084217 (0-520-08421-7)
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Roland Barthesby Roland Barthes, Richard HowardISBN 0520087836 (0-520-08783-6)
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Roman Britainby Catherine Johns, T.W. PotterISBN 0520081684 (0-520-08168-4)
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The Roman Empire And Its Germanic Peoplesby Herwig Wolfram, Thomas DunlapISBN 0520085116 (0-520-08511-6)
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Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslimsby John RenardISBN 0520200950 (0-520-20095-0)
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Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Natureby Theodore SteinbergISBN 0520087631 (0-520-08763-1)
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Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature.
Beginning along the Missouri River, Steinberg recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. Then he travels to Louisiana, where an army of lawyers butted heads over whether Six Mile Lake was actually a lake or a stream. He continues to Arizona to investigate who owned the underground, then to Pennsylvania's Blue Ridge Mountains to see who claimed the clouds. He ends in crowded New York City with Donald Trump's struggle for air rights.
Americans' obsession with owning nature was immortalized by Mark Twain in the tale of Slide Mountain, where a landslide-prone Nevada peak turned the American dream of real estate into dust. In relating these modern-day "Slide Mountain" stories, Steinberg illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.More editions of Slide Mountain or the Folly of Owning Nature:
Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imaginationby Lynn M. GunzbergISBN 0520078403 (0-520-07840-3)
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The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possibleby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081145 (0-520-08114-5)
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Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle Eastby Edmund BurkeISBN 0520079884 (0-520-07988-4)
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Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocideby Donald E. Miller, Lorna Touryan MillerISBN 0520079841 (0-520-07984-1)
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Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia/Aku Dan Toba/Semasa Kecil Di Kampungby Susan RodgersISBN 0520085477 (0-520-08547-7)
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To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatismby Jerome L. HimmelsteinISBN 0520080424 (0-520-08042-4)
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The Transformation of Cinema 1907-1915by Eileen BowserISBN 0520085345 (0-520-08534-5)
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Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Franciscoby Judy YungISBN 0520088670 (0-520-08867-0)
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Understanding Vietnamby Neil L. JamiesonISBN 0520201574 (0-520-20157-4)
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Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Phyllis MacKISBN 0520089375 (0-520-08937-5)
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The Wheels of Commerceby Fernand BraudelISBN 0520081153 (0-520-08115-3)
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When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973by Leslie J. ReaganISBN 0520088484 (0-520-08848-4)
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The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700by David Harris SacksISBN 0520084497 (0-520-08449-7)
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Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920sby Kathleen M. BleeISBN 0520078764 (0-520-07876-4)
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Write All These Down: Essays on Musicby Joseph KermanISBN 0520083555 (0-520-08355-5)
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Writing the Character-Centered Screenplayby Andrew HortonISBN 0520084578 (0-520-08457-8)
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Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Storiesby Lila Abu-LughodISBN 0520083040 (0-520-08304-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories'Book summary:In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. She witnessed striking changes, both cultural and economic, and she recorded the stories of the women. Writing Women's Worlds is Abu-Lughod's telling of those stories; it is also about what happens in bringing the stories to others.[via]
As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.More editions of Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories:
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