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Rewrites the history of gender politics in the 1920s with a compelling assessment of the impact of feminist ideals on the Chinese Communist Party during its formative years. In this book, we learn about the intersection of the personal and political lives of male communists and how this affected their beliefs about women's emancipation.

Argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. This book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. It also discusses new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality.

Thailand's foremost writers about women are brought together in this collection of 11 short stories and excerpts from five novels. The selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the 20th century.

This text explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship between research, teaching and study. It offers a comparative analysis of five countries' university systems and draws provocative conclusions about the future of the research-teaching-study nexus.

Every California schoolchild's first interaction with history begins with the missions and Indians. It is the pastoralist image, of course, and it is a lasting one. This portrait clings to the memory, capturing the critical view of the missionization of California's indigenous inhabitants.

Part of a trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature, this book contains eleven essays that covers 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California's coast is justifiably famous. This guide features well-known beaches of soft, golden sand. It describes rocky shores and tide pools, hidden pocket beaches, historic lighthouses, the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and much more.

Offers an insider's account of the interface between political science and real-life politics. This title weaves together stories of politics and policy with theoretical models. It demonstrates how politics extend beyond the public sphere into many aspects of life involving diverse values and interests.

A reference to one of the most spectacular stretches of California's coastline - Monterey Bay shoreline. Beginning in the north with Point Ano Nuevo and ending some 120 miles to the south at Point Sur, it deals with the natural, cultural, and historical riches of the coastline.

Focuses on the possibilities of being at home on the earth: finding place, reinhabitation, and becoming native. This title includes essays that accentuate the links between culture and nature and speak to the loss of place and to being stewards of nature and of interdependent communities, be they in rural areas or urban neighborhoods.

This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins's series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism. It conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of Dzong-ka-ba's "The Essence of Eloquence", and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses.

This collection of essays examines Frank Lloyd Wright's importance in countries around the world. Interwoven in the essays are stories of champions and critics, rivals and acolytes, books and exhibitions, attitudes toward America and individualism, and the ways his ideas were brought to the world.

Examines controversial faultlines in contemporary feminism pornography, the beauty myth, sadomasochism, prostitution, and the issue of rape. This title focuses on how, among many feminists, the concepts of sex and sexism became fragmented and mutually exclusive.

Focuses on the rebirth of Chinese art in the twentieth century under the influence of Western art and culture. This book documents the conflicting pulls of traditional and Western values on Chinese art and provides 364 illustrations to show the great range of artistic expression and the historical processes that occurred within various movements.

Includes essays that represent a dialogue between theory and data. This volume extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base - the advanced industrial democracies - to different territory; the literature on rural Africa.

Presents stories of twenty-three little-known remarkable inhabitants of the Spanish, English, and Portuguese colonies of the New World between the 16th and the 19th centuries. It is of interest to students of the history of women, of Native Americans, and of Black people in the Americas.

A recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language.

The Chumash, reduced by the 20th century from one of the most populous groups in California to a pitiful remnant, had almost lost their strage and ecstatic mental world by the time John Peabody Harrington set out to collect what was still remembered of their language and oral literature. This title deals with Chumash oral narratives.

A collection of Walker Pater's essays that gave memorable expression to an aesthetic view of life. It provides a set of critical and explanatory notes on each of Pater's essays; headnotes outlining the story of its composition, publication, and reception; and an essay on the history of the book as a whole.

A feature of the second edition (1953) of Counter-Statement was the Curriculum Criticum in which the author placed the book in terms of his later work. In this edition, he continues his "curve of development" in an Addendum which surveys the course of his subsequent books (up to the publication of Collected Poems, 1915-1967) and work-in-progress.

Treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation. In this book, the author establishes that form permeates society just as it does poetry and the arts. It states that forms of art are not exclusively aesthetic: the cycles of a storm, the gradations of a sunrise, the undoing of Prince Hamlet are all instances of progressive form.

Conveys the poet's vision of the realities of day-to-day life and describes the genesis of the poems.

For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. This book examines Mandelstam's legacy and lays the groundwork for approaching modernist Russian poetry as a charismatic institution.

Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. The author argues that the author of this treatise belonged to the moderate conservative Jews of Alexandria, whose practices were contrary to the contemporary trends of Hellenistic Judaism.

The world's first mountain-top observatory and America's first big-science research center, Lick Observatory exemplifies astronomy's dramatic development in the past century. This book presents Lick Observatory from the point of view of the people who breathed life into its giant telescopes.

Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s. This book describes how Chavez and the UFW's imprint can be found in the modern reshaping of the American labor movement, and the building of Latino political power.

Offers a visual perspective on westward expansion through a survey of the major Indian images painted by Euro-American artists before and after the American Revolution.

Focuses on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with accounts of the history of their usage. This dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.

Plucked from tropical America, the pineapple was brought to European tables and hothouses before it was conveyed back to the tropics, where it came to dominate US and world markets. This title presents the history of the world's tropical and temperate zones told through the pineapple's illustrative career.