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Mark Twain's letters for 1874 and 1875 encompass one of his most productive and rewarding periods as author, husband and father, and man of property. This is sixth volume contains 348 of his letters covering this period, all of which have been thoroughly annotated and indexed.

The new millennium began with the triumph of democracy and markets. But for whom is life just, how so, and why? And what is being done to correct persisting injustices? This book offers fresh insights that deepen our understanding of social justice as ideology and practice.

In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. This title explores nthe social problem of sexual harassment.

Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories shaping immigration patterns. This collection of essays brings together work on this subject.

California's unique plants range in size from the stately Coast Redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts. This book features photographs that illustrate plants and typical plant communities around the state, and chapters containing discussions of the evolution of the California landscape, changes in California's flora, and more.

On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI of France abandoned his Paris chateau, walked across the Tuileries gardens, and surrendered his crown. In the tumultuous months that followed, he was tried, found guilty, and sent to the guillotine. This title provides an account of that turbulent time.

Explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. This book identifies three fundamental areas of cultural inventiveness related to this Prague circle's political and cultural dilemma.

Offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. The author sees Islamic fundamentalism as the result of Islam's confrontation with modernity and not only - as it is widely believed - economic adversity.

Offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the most important and influential early practitioners of jazz. This book sheds light on Morton's personal and artistic development, as well as on the crucial role played by Anita Gonzales.

Long before the 1970s and the feminist revolution that shattered traditional notions of the family, black women in America had already accomplished their own revolution. This study argues that black women in two-parent families were practicing an egalitarian lifestyle that was envisioned by few of their white counterparts until many decades later.

An account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies. It provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a chronicle of the loss of the author's father.

Lawyer, educator, novelist, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. This biography helps us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture.

This is the story of one of the world's great philharmonic societies, told by a distinguished conductor and writer. Established in 1828 with roots stretching back to the 1790's, it reflected and in many ways encapsulated the development of French culture, and of Western music, in the 19th and 20th centuries.

What are we to make of the speed with which the climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look strange against a backdrop of the much-touted divisiveness of American life? This book answers these questions and states that the contrast of time of divisiveness before and the time of unity that followed is much too stark.

This work is a vision of wilderness in the Klamath Mountains of northwest California and southwest Oregon, seen through the lens of "evolutionary mythology". Using his explorations of the diverse ecosystems in this region, the author ponders the role of evolution and myth in American culture.

Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a composer. This book collects the music criticism that Bowles published between 1935 and 1946 as well as an interview conducted by Irene Herrmann shortly before his death.

An informative view of California during its years of prosperity in the late-20th century, and more recent insecurity. Based on findings of a public opinion survey in the state, this book examines the beliefs, concerns, and public policy preferences of Californians during the 1990s.

The diverse coastal habitats of the spectacular Pacific Coast include sandy beaches and dunes, salt- and freshwater marshes, coastal prairies and bluffs, riparian woodlands, and coniferous forests. This guide introduces the wildflowers and other plants that grow along the coastline.

Helps amateur and intermediate wildflower enthusiasts learn the names of the flowers located in some of California's accessible areas - from below the yellow pine belt in the Sierra Nevada westward to the coast. This guide includes 244 color photographs and 102 drawings.

Some of the most spectacular and famous spring wildflower displays in California occur in the state's deserts. This guide identifies more than 240 wildflowers in informative species accounts. It covers such popular destinations as Death Valley, Palm Springs, and Joshua Tree National Park.

Aims to present a provocative meditation on bioregionalism and what it means to live, work, eat and play in relation to naturally defined areas. This work gives a textured portrait of the author's own home, the Putah-Cache watershed in California's Sacramento Valley, demonstrating how bioregionalism can be practiced in everyday life.

Expands and deepens the contemporary discourse on simple living. The author articulates his conception of a politics of simplicity - one rooted in beauty, peace of mind, appreciativeness, and generosity of spirit.

A collection of the writings of sociologist Robert N. Bellah, including essays that consider the entire sweep of Japanese history and the character of Japanese society and religion. The book features an introduction that brings together intellectual and institutional dimensions of Japanese history.

A painstaking and skillful autopsy of ruinous western-style rational economic development policy forced upon a fragile, yet self- sustaining society. It is also a disquieting demonstration of the general folly of such an approach and an attempt to articulate a better, more sensitive, and more productive model of change.

Tells the story of how radio listeners at the American mid-century were active in their listening practices. Argues that the 1930's witnessed the emergence of a symbiotic relationship between between advertising and activism.

Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives.

Introduces California's mammals by describing techniques for recognizing their presence, and when possible, methods for watching them in their natural habitats. This guide includes 144 line drawings, 143 range maps, and 18 illustrated color plates. It gives overviews of mammal evolution, biology and anatomy, natural history, and conservation.

The Exclamation Damsel, Bison Snaketail, Powdered Dancer, Black Meadowhaw and Sedge Sprite are just a few of California's abundant dragonflies and damselflies. This reference is a complete guide to finding and identifying all 108 of the state's dragonfly and damselfly species.

An examination of power struggles and ideological shifts in various social sectors where the public authority of religion has diminished, in particular, education, science, law and journalism. Together the essays depict a cultural and institutional revolution.

Demonstrates how, despite a hostile legal environment and the punitive anti-unionism of US employers, a few unions have organized hundreds of thousands of low-wage service workers in the past few years. This title illustrates how post-industrial, low-wage workers are providing the backbone for a reinvigorated labor movement across the country.