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Hard Core. Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible", Paperback - Linda Williams

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Artifacts and Allegiances. How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display, Paperback - Peggy Levitt

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The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration, Paperback - Anthony Giddens

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Uncorking the Past. The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages, Paperback - Patrick E. McGovern

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Tells the compelling story of humanity's ingenious, intoxicating quest for the perfect drink. This title offers information on what we know about h...

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Life and Words. Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, Paperback - Veena Das

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Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies including the extreme violenc...

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Earth Sound Earth Signal. Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts, Paperback - Douglas Kahn

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Offers a study of energies in aesthetics and the arts, from the birth of modern communications in the nineteenth century to the global transmission...

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Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy, Paperback - Christy Thornton

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Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of postrevolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international eco...

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Dance of the Tiger. A Novel of the Ice Age, Paperback - Bjorn Kurten

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A novel that illuminates the lives of the humans who left us magnificent paintings in the caves of France and Spain.Publisher: University of Califo...

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Imagining the Heartland. White Supremacy and the American Midwest, Paperback - Joshua O. Reno

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua O. RenoIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2022Di...

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The Peyote Effect: From the Inquisition to the War on Drugs, Paperback - Alexander S. Dawson

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Neuropsychedelia. The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain, Paperback - Nicolas Langlitz

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Examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain". This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical refl...

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Moon California Hiking: The Complete Guide to 1, 000 of the Best Hikes in the Golden State, Paperback - Tom Stienstra

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The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts. War, Fear, and the Roots of Dysfunction, Paperback - Alison Peck

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The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World. 2 ed, Paperback - John Leddy Phelan

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): John Leddy PhelanNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

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Handbook of the Indians of California, Paperback - A. L. Kroeber

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The Doctor Faustus Dossier: Arnold Schoenberg, Thomas Mann, and Their Contemporaries, 1930-1951, Paperback - E. Randol Schoenberg

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DescriptionArnold Schoenberg and Thomas Mann, two towering figures of twentieth-century music and literature, both found refuge in the German-exile...

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Chief of Staff. Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 1 frontisp.Number of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 19Cover type...

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Fragments of the City. Making and Remaking Urban Worlds, Paperback - Colin McFarlane

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Colin McFarlaneIllustration(s): 28 photosNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

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Global Muslims in the Age of Steam and Print, Paperback - ***

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Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring conseq...

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The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well, Paperback - Tom Goldstein

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Reducere. In this critically acclaimed book, Tom Goldstein and Jethro K. Lieberman demystify legal writing, outline the causes and consequences of poor writi...

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Treatise on Musical Objects: An Essay Across Disciplines, Paperback - Pierre Schaeffer

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The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

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Rockhounding California: A Guide to the State's Best Rockhounding Sites, Paperback - Gail A. Butler

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Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, Paperback - Paul Schrader

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Contributor(s): Author: Paul SchraderWith a new introduction, acclaimed director and screenwriter Paul Schrader revisits and updates his contemplat...

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The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, Paperback - David Rains Wallace

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The Fascinating Native-American Involvement in Early California History, Paperback - Guy Nixon

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Haunted Hotels of the California Gold Country, Paperback - Nancy K. Williams

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California Apricots: The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley, Paperback - Robin Chapman

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Ocean Outbreak. Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease, Paperback - Drew Harvell

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Survivors: An Oral History of the Armenian Genocide, Paperback - Donald E. Miller

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DescriptionBetween 1915 and 1923, over one million Armenians died, victims of a genocidal campaign that is still denied by the Turkish government. ...

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Conversation Pieces. Community and Communication in Modern Art, Paperback - Grant H. Kester

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Some of the most innovative art over the years has been created far outside conventional galleries and museums. This title discusses a disparate ne...

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Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers, Paperback - Dennis Schaefer

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DescriptionThrough conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of...

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Meat Planet. Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food, Paperback - Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft

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Ink under the Fingernails. Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico, Paperback - Corinna Zeltsman

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On the Postcolony, Paperback - Achille Mbembe

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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understa...

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A Solution to Homelessness: Valley View Senior Housing, Napa County, California, Paperback - Charles Durrett

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The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, Paperback - Ilza Veith

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Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question, Paperback - Lazaro Lima

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DescriptionBeing Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country's first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice's ris...

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California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State, Paperback - David Kulczyk

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After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images, Paperback - Avram Finkelstein

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Happy Singlehood: The Rising Acceptance and Celebration of Solo Living, Paperback - Elyakim Kislev

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Happy Singlehood charts a way forward for singles to live life on their terms, and shows how everyone--single or coupled--can benefit from acceptin...

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Lode Gold Mines of the Alleghany Downieville Area, Sierra County, California, Paperback - Denton W. Carlson

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Becoming Salmon. Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish, Paperback - Marianne Elisabeth Lien

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Explores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient be...

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Sensitive Reading. The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation, Paperback - ***

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Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 2 b-w illustrationsTranslator: David ShulmanNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dim...

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Saving the Children. Humanitarianism, Internationalism, and Empire, Paperback - Emily Baughan

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Emily BaughanIllustration(s): 22 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 314Collection: Berkeley Seri...

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The Road Less Traveled: A Journey Through the Degrees of the Scottish Rite, Paperback - Michael J. Sekera

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The Civil War in Arizona: The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861-1865, Paperback - Andrew E. Masich

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Fruit from the Sands. The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat, Paperback - Robert N. Iii Spengler

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Pottery from the University of California, Berkeley Excavations in the Area of the Maski Gate (MG22), Nineveh, 1989-1990, Paperback - ***

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Nineveh, Iraq, is one of the longest occupied cities in the world, dating at least back to the mid-7th millennium BC. UC Berkeley excavations uncov...

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Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War, Paperback - Hugh Gusterson

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An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States, Paperback - Rosina Lozano

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The History of the Church: A New Translation, Paperback - Eusebius of Caesarea

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DescriptionEusebius's groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries o...

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New York To California. A journey across the East of England searching for the not quite visible, Paperback - Jeremy Page

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Novelist and traveller Jeremy Page takes a walk through the Lincolnshire fens and along the Norfolk coast, in search of something within himself, a...

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Passions of the Cut Sleeve: The Male Homosexual Tradition in China, Paperback - Bret Hinsch

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Yesterday's Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole, Paperback - Hadar Aviram

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In 1969, the world was shocked by a series of murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family" of followers. Although the defendants were sente...

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From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, Paperback - Xiaotong Fei

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This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the ...

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Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans, Paperback - Corey D. Fields

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What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectation that all blacks must vote...

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Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry, Paperback - Julie Guthman

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Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America, Paperback - Philip G. Schrag

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California Community Property. Guide to the Course and the Bar Exam, 2 Revised edition, Paperback - John E.B. Myers

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Helps students enrolled in community property courses succeed on law school exams and prepare for the Bar Exam. The book describes California commu...

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Heart at Fire's Center. The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann, Paperback - Steven C. Smith

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Bernard Herrmann is a music composer who in over 40 scores enriched the work of directors like Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, a...

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Black London. The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Marc Matera

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Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

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Consuming the Romantic Utopia. Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Paperback - Eva Illouz

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A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the ex...

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War of Shadows. The Struggle for Utopia in the Peruvian Amazon, Paperback - Eduardo Fernandez

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Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a ...

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Imperial Encore, Volume 18: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire, Paperback - Caroline Ritter

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In the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric...

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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush, Paperback - Susan Lee Johnson

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Reducere. The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social histor...

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The Haunted Screen: Expressionism in the German Cinema and the Influence of Max Reinhardt, Paperback - Lotte H. Eisner

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Reducere. The golden age of German cinema began at the end of the First World War and ended shortly after the coming of sound. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caliga...

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The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution, Paperback - Vijay Prashad

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Reducere. This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to t...

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