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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: Rethinking home: a case for writing local history Author: Amato, Joseph Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History \| Intellectual History \| United States History \| Writing Publisher's Description: Joseph A. Amato proposes a bold and innovative approach to writing local history in this imaginative, wide-ranging, and deeply engaging exploration of the meaning of place and home. Arguing that people of every place and time deserve a history, Amato draws on his background as a European cultural hi . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Sabra: the creation of the new Jew Author: Almog, Oz Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Jewish Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: The Sabras were the first Israelis - the first generation, born in the 1930s and 1940s, to grow up in the Zionist settlement in Palestine. Socialized and educated in the ethos of the Zionist labor movement and the communal ideals of the kibbutz and moshav, they turned the dream of their pioneer fore . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Nietzsche legacy in Germany, 1890-1990 Author: Aschheim, Steven E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: German Studies \| Intellectual History \| Social and Political Thought \| Politics \| German Studies Publisher's Description: Countless attempts have been made to appropriate the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche for diverse cultural and political ends, but nowhere have these efforts been more sustained and of greater consequence than in Germany. Aschheim offers a magisterial chronicle of the philosopher's presence in German li . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Requires cookie*	Title: Taste and power: furnishing Modern France Author: Auslander, Leora Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History \| European History \| Art History \| European Studies Publisher's Description: Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twent . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Framing the bride: globalizing beauty and romance in Taiwan's bridal industry Author: Adrian, Bonnie 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Asian Studies \| Cultural Anthropology \| East Asia Other \| Gender Studies \| Anthropology Publisher's Description: With a wedding impending, the Taiwanese bride-to-be turns to bridal photographers, makeup artists, and hair stylists to transform her image beyond recognition. They give her fairer skin, eyes like a Western baby doll, and gowns inspired by sources from Victorian England to MTV. An absorbing consider . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonizing the body: state medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India Author: Arnold, David 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Asian Studies \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Medicine \| History Publisher's Description: In this innovative analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India, David Arnold explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.Focusing on three major epidemic dis . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: The art and politics of Wana shamanship Author: Atkinson, Jane Monnig Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology \| Cultural Anthropology \| Southeast Asia \| Religion \| Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Rituals are valued by students of culture as lenses for bringing facets of social life and meaning into focus. Jane Monnig Atkinson's carefully crafted study offers unique insight into the rich shamanic ritual tradition of the Wana, an upland population of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar culture Author: Ankum, Katharina von Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: German Studies \| Women's Studies \| European Literature \| Film \| European History Publisher's Description: Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide r . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Science \| Computer Science \| Physics Publisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: Jazz cultures Author: Ake, David Andrew 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music \| American Music \| Jazz \| Ethnomusicology \| American Studies \| African American Studies \| Jazz Publisher's Description: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities h . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History \| European History \| Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: The English Civil War and after, 1642-1658 Author: Ashton, Robert 1924- Published: University of California Press, 1970 Subjects: History \| European History \| Military History Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	Title: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature \| African American Studies \| Gender Studies \| Literary Theory and Criticism \| American Literature \| GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Requires cookie*	Title: The ciné goes to town: French cinema, 1896-1914 Author: Abel, Richard 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts \| Film \| French Studies \| European History \| Popular Culture Publisher's Description: This updated edition of Richard Abel's magisterial history of French cinema between 1896 and 1914 is based on extensive investigation of rare archival films and documents. Similar Items
16.	Requires cookie*	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History \| Politics \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Requires cookie*	Title: Customers and patrons of the mad-trade: the management of lunacy in eighteenth-century London: with the complete text of John Monro's 1766 case book Author: Andrews, Jonathan 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History \| History of Science \| Psychology \| Social Problems \| Psychiatry Publisher's Description: This book is a lively commentary on the eighteenth-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791). Monro's case book, c . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Requires cookie*	Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: To the rescue of art: twenty-six essays Author: Arnheim, Rudolf Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Art \| Art History Publisher's Description: Never before published essays by the widely admired psychologist of art. Arnheim spiritedly asserts art's fundamental achievements.Rudolf Arnheim has spent a lifetime analyzing the basic psychological principles that make works of visual art meaningful, stirring, indispensable, and lasting. But rece . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics \| Public Policy \| Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items

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