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An examination of Chicano antiwar mobilization. It demonstrates how the pivotal experience of activism during the Viet Nam War era played itself out among Mexican Americans. It portrays Chicano protest and patriotism. It considers larger themes of American nationalism and citizenship and the role of minorities in the military service.

Presents an analysis of Roman political culture in the middle Republic that focuses on the concerns of the Roman Senate as it decided whether or not to award a victorious general triumphal honors. This book examines several Senate debates as reported by the historian Livy.

A guide to Sierra Nevada for hikers, campers, tourists, naturalists, students and those who want to know more about this mountain range. It describes more than 750 of the species most likely to be encountered with more than 500 color photographs and 218 detailed black-and-white drawings.

Presents a series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery that shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. This book examines the salience of slavery and abolition in the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism.

Describes how a cohesive majority of the Supreme Court has cut back the power of Congress and enhanced the autonomy of the fifty states.

A disturbing look at the hidden world of organized racism, this text focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews, the author dispels many misconceptions of organized racism.

Mobilizing traditional literary forms such as terza rima and the villanelle while simultaneously exploring the poetics of prose and other 'formless' modes, this book negotiates the impasse between traditional and experimental approaches to writing in contemporary American poetry.

A study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas (1835-1852).

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic "The Artist in His Museum". He was a revolutionary soldier, a radical activist, an impresario of moving pictures, a natural historian, an inventor, and the proprietor of one of the first modern museums. This book presents his autobiography.

Because low birth weight is often accompanied by social risk factors such as minority racial status, low education, young maternal age, and low income, the question of causes and consequences - of precisely how biological and social factors figure into this equation - becomes especially tricky to sort out. This title answers this question.

A shaman and visionary - not a poet in any ordinary sense - Maria Sabina lived out her life in the Oaxacan mountain village of Huautla de Jimenez. This work includes a presentation from Sabina's recorded chants and an English translation of her oral autobiography, her vida, as written and arranged in her native language.

A guide to Pacific coast marine invertebrates of coastal waters, rocky shores, sandy beaches, tidal mud flats, salt marshes, and floats and docks. It includes various common and many rare species from Point Conception, California, to the Columbia River. It features chapters on marine habitats and biogeography, and interstitial marine life.

Discusses both the human and the natural history of the islands of California, including all eight Channel Islands, Ano Nuevo, the Farallons, and the islands of San Francisco Bay. This title explores the formation of the islands; discuss the history of human habitation.

A memoir presents David Powell's lifelong love of the ocean and gives a highly personal, behind-the-scenes look at California's magnificent and innovative aquariums. David Powell, for many years curator of the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium, tells the story of his life as a pioneering aquarist.

Exploring the link between the creative and the sacred, the author of this text claims that artists have become the spiritual vanguard of our time. Drawing on interviews with painters, sculptors, writers, singers, dancers and actors, he includes the spiritual insights of accomplished artists.

Henry David Thoreau was caught at a critical turn in the history of science, between the ebb of Romanticism and the rising tide of positivism. This book shows how he responded to the challenges posed by the new ideal of objectivity not by rejecting the scientific world view, but by humanizing it for himself.

Provides an account of the knowledge that science provides. This title offers an absorbing discussion of how life works, of the nature of reproduction, aging, and death, and of the necessary fragility of the individual life compared to the resilience of life itself.

This work intends to convey the complicated story of how West Germans recast the past after the Second World War. It demonstrates the the "selective remembering" that took place among West Germans during the postwar years: in particular, they remembered crimes committed against Germans.

Composed by Tibet's great yogi-scholar and founder of the Ge-luk-ba school, Dzong-ka-ba's (1357-1419) "The Essence of Eloquence" stands as a landmark in Buddhist philosophy. This title focuses on how the conflict between appearance and reality is presented in the Mind-Only, or Yogic Practice, School.

In this study of unwed, divorced, widowed and married women at home across three political regimes, the author traces the transitions from early National Socialism through the war and on to the consolidation of democracy in the West and communism in the East.

As Mexican-Americans stand poised to become the largest nonwhite minority in the United States, their struggles with poverty assume national significance. Drawing on fieldwork in two impoverished California communities, this text provides a comparative perspective on Latino poverty in America.

Takes the reader on an informed and engaging journey into the social and ritual life of contemporary Vietnam. This title moves beyond the troubled wartime history of both nations to a deeper portrayal of how Vietnamese of different ages, ethnicities, occupations, and circumstances live at the start of the twenty-first century.

In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the state of California. This is a collection of his letters at the time describing the new state.

In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma. This work offers a reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history.

Explores the legacy of Lewis and Clark's momentous journey and, on the occasion of its bicentennial, considers the impact of their westward expedition on American culture.