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A compilation of interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. It features interviews reflecting a wide range of approaches to filmmaking.

What explains California? The author states that it is the multiple landscapes and the different states of mind that best define America's most populous, diverse, and fabled state. Describing geographical regions based on their emblematic landscape features, he intertwines natural and social history.

Focusses the corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions. This title offers a critical appraisal of the emerging appearance of downtown urban form. It explores both the poetics of design and the politics and economics of development decisions.

Focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture showing how a growing state interest in religious instruction changes the way the Islamic tradition is reproduced.

Explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. This title looks at the period that began when France's Jews were offered citizenship during the Revolution. It is of interest to general readers and scholars alike.

Investigates the diverse voices of Christian women who claimed the authority to preach and prophesy. The text examines centuries of arguments against women's public speech and the ways in which women have nonetheless exercised religious leadership in their communities.

Contains a series of essays that demonstrate how, at the close of the twentieth century, the world's children are affected by global political-economic structures and by everyday practices embedded in the micro-level interactions of local cultures.

An account of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the 60s. It chronicles the hopes, confusion and disillusionment of a generation whose rites of passage defined one of the most contentious decades of this century.

Radical ecology typically brings to mind media images of ecological activists standing before loggers' saws, staging anti-nuclear marches, and confronting polluters on the high seas. This book offers a balanced appraisal of radical ecology's principles, goals, and limitations.

This text argues against the application of priori schemes to Renaissance (and all) texts. It argues for the possibility and desirability of rigorously attentive but "pre-theoretical" reading, taking an approach that privileges particularity and respects "resistant structures" of texts.

The 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, resulted in the deaths of four federal agents and eighty Branch Davidians, including seventeen children. This title address the accusations of illegal weapons possession, strange sexual practices, and child abuse that were made against David Koresh and his followers.

American Indian affairs are much in the public mind today. The unique legal status of American Indians rests largely on the historical treaty relations between Indian tribes and the federal government. This history details these treaties and their role in American life.

Challenges the dominant legal history of American Indians and their tribes - a history that concedes far too much power to the laws and courts of the 'conqueror'. This book makes an urgent call for the advancement of tribal sovereignty and of tribal court systems that are based on Indian culture and values.

Based on three years of field work with the Kodi people of Sumba, Indonesia, this ethnographical study focuses on Kodi calendar rituals, exchange transactions and confrontations with the historical forces of the colonial and postcolonial world.

He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision. This book presents an account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again.

Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.'

This text chronicles the chaotic path to what could be one of the greatest natural disasters of modern times: the disappearance of the Atlantic Forest. Based on documentary and scientific resources, the book is a history of Brazil told from an environmental perspective.

Linking the personal and the political, this book depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' Focusing on Lancashire, Glasgow, and London, it contrasts the experience of artisans and textile workers, demonstrating how each created distinctively gendered communities and political strategies.

Investigating the state of upheaval in Japan during a period which destroyed the medieval order and established modern polity, this historical study uses diaries and archive material to examine the structures of order which abated war and chaos and encouraged transformation.

The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching impact on post-World War II American poetics. This volume presents his works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969. It backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems.

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, the author inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were deprived of freedom and dignity.

For the African-American community the image of the teenage mother is especially troublesome. The author's interviews with the women themselves, and their mothers and grandmothers, provide a picture of their lives caught in the intersection of race, class and gender.

This text reconstructs the nature of Hellenistic epigram books and interprets individual poems as if they remained part of their original collections. The final chapter reconstructs much of the poetic structure of Meleager's "Garland", an ancient anthology of Hellenistic epigrams.

An analysis of how women in the United States perceive the threat of crime in their everyday lives and how that perception controls their behavior. It shows that race and class position play a role in a woman's sense of vulnerability. It argues that fear itself is a strong element in keeping women in subservient and self-limiting social positions.

Josephus (AD 37-?100), a pro-Roman Jew closely associated with the emperor Titus, is one of the earliest commentators on the Bible. This text attempts to understand Josephus's purposes and techniques in retelling the Bible, and reviews his treatment of 12 key biblical figures.

In this text, palaeontologist Niles Eldredge reviews the relation between biological and cultural evolution, showing how the agricultural revolution freed humans from dependence on local ecosystems and allowed us to assert our dominion, as the Christian Bible has it, over the beasts and the field.

Examining the work of Plato, Descartes, Hume and Wittgenstein, this introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought explores debates about empiricism, the mind/body problem, the nature of matter, and the status of language, consciousness and scientific explanation.

A novel about coming of age in the new America, a place in which races and cultures have not so much melded as collided and in which no identity is secure.

A selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, "The Poodle Springs Story", left unfinished at his death.

This text is an anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison and perception of the law. The case studies include evidence from Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania, and they reflect the shift from a concern with what law is to what law does.