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The Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, was the birthplace of particle accelerators, radioisotopes, and modern big science. This title presents the laboratory's history. It helps you learn how Ernest Lawrence used local and national technological, economic, and manpower resources to build the cyclotron.

Reveals the history of the Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. This is the story an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued, and more.

The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landscape. In this biography, based on a re-examination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, the author offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievements.

Studies Ford's films in the context of his character, demonstrating their intelligence and their profound critique of our culture.

Features a collection of guidelines for the site design of low-rise, high-density family housing. This title is suitable for housing designers and planners, but also for developers, housing authorities, citizens' groups, and tenants' organizations - anyone involved in planning or rehabilitating housing.

The author sits in a jail belonging to the totalitarian regime, yet his first concern. In this book, his essays are a guide to the origins of the revolution, and, more particularly, to its innovative practices.

States that inequality is not inherent or inevitable in heterosexual relations. This title examines how gender differences get translated into gender inequalities and how this process relates to the structure of the nuclear family and to the social organization of modern societies.

In the two generations before World War I, Germany emerged as Europe's foremost industrial power. The basic facts of increasing industrial output, lengthening railroad lines, urbanization, and rising exports are well known. This book contains translated selections from the autobiographies of nineteen of those now-forgotten millions.

Offers a picture of the daily life of rural Malays, focusing on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures.

Yue Daiyun was a revolutionary from her early school days. She had been a child during the anti-Japanese war and hated the Guomundang. Accepted as a student at Beida in 1948, she joined the Communist Party's underground Democratic youth League and became a Party member the following year and helped with the Liberation of Beijing.

Presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. This book attempts to place these thinkers within the wider context of the crisis-oriented modernism and postmodernism that have been the source of much of what is most original and creative in twentieth-century art and thought.

On the frontier, says conventional wisdom, a structured society did not exist and social control was largely absent. This view of the frontier is projected by motion pictures, television, and most scholarly histories. But was the frontier really all that violent? This book attempts to answer these questions and others about the frontier.

Traces the career paths of such criminal types as the thief, the hustler, and the junkie, as well as the non-criminal 'square john'. This book explores the career of the felon, from early environment to crime to prison to parole, from the point of view of the felon himself.

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. This title features eight articles that support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights.

Introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. This book focuses on the works of four contemporary Chicana poets - Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora.

Reveals the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: the aftermath of the tumultuous 1922 convention. This title demonstrates how important Marcus Garvey and the mass movement he controlled were to Afro-American history.

Drawing on the phenomenological tradition in the philosophy of science and philosophy of nature, this title states that perception is a cognitive, world-building act, and is therefore never absolute or finished.

Covers 400 million years of physical evolution, tracing the volcanic activity, the folding and building of mountains, the breaking of blocks along fault lines, and the work of erosion and glaciers that have created a dramatic landscape in Sierra Nevada and the adjacent lands.

Offers a comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. This work considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as 'nation', 'national culture', and 'language' are problematic.

Helps all those concerned with understanding the tradition that has shaped Japanese culture and religion. This book is of interest to a student of Japanese literature and thought from the eleventh century onwards.

A collection that includes "The Great McGinty", "Christmas in July", "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", and "Hail the Conquering Hero".

Designed to be serviceable to a wide variety of readers and consultants, whose range might include residents and tourists, this work is intended as a useful companion for anybody interested in general or basic knowledge about any aspect of the most populous state in the Union.

Includes essays that form a commentary on "Descartes' Meditations". Following the sequence of the meditational stages, this book analyzes the function of each stage in transforming the reader, to realize his essential nature as a rational inquirer, capable of scientific, demonstrable knowledge of the world.

With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, the author leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontological reconstruction of the Pensees' hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing ecriture - as the complex story of the 'Fall of Truth into language'.

Includes a discussion of contemporary American Indian poetry and fiction. This book offers intelligent and balanced insight into the contexts and work of a number of contemporary American Indian writers. Its provides clear illumination into this literature that is at once tribal and modern, western and traditional.

After September of 1921, membership declined and morale in the UNIA began to weaken. The final failure of the Black Star Line resulted when negotiations with the United States Chipping Board for the purchase of the long proposed African ship collapsed in March 1922. Deals with the period of crisis in the UNIA's political and economic fortunes.