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Offers an overview of the state of theoretical ecology through a series of topical entries centered on both ecological and statistical themes. This title provides an introduction to fields such as Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology, Computational Ecology, Epidemiology and Epidemic Modeling, Spatial Ecology and Statistics in Ecology.

A comprehensive resource on California's diverse flora. It includes treatments of many taxa and reflects major improvements to plant taxonomy from phylogenetic studies. It also includes geographic distributions, elevation ranges, flowering times, and nomenclature.

A collection of cookbooks and culinary images. It guides readers through European and early American cuisine. It illuminates culinary crosscurrents among the cuisines of England, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain.

This text focuses on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia. In this study the author provides a detailed analysis of resistance and accommodation to colonial rule.

An analysis of three generations of women in a Chinese silk factory, this study is a critique of the meaning of modernity in a postmodern age. The text compares the lives of three generations of women workers.

Attempts to explain the remarkable economic success of Japan in the post-war period. The text provides an analysis of intercorporate capitalism in Japan, distinguishing between Japanese and American practices, and develops a theoretical context for understanding Japan's business networks.

This is an ethnography of a powerful western cultural organization, the renowned Institut de Recherche et de Co-ordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. The book studies the social and cultural economy of an institution for research and production of avant-garde and computer music.

Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. A comparison of Greek to Eastern and especially Indian models follows, this book concludes with an examination of the interpretation of Hindu ideas in Bali that demonstrates the importance of ambivalence in mask iconography.

Recognized as the patriarch of African American artists, the pioneering African American artist Henry O Tanner (1859-1937) forged a path to international success, powerfully influencing younger black artists who came after him. This book presents a complex overview of the life and career of the artist.

An exploration of the ways we talk about - and why we worry about - new crimes and new forms of victimization. Focusing on so-called random crimes such as freeway shootings, gang violence, and wilding, it shows how new crime problems emerge and how some quickly fade from public attention while others spread and become enduring subjects of concern.

An introduction to the complex theory of discourse ethics as rendered by its major proponent, Juergen Habermas. The study demonstrates how discourse ethics allows philosophers to overcome the principal criticisms that have been levelled against neo-Kantian moral theory.

A study of American love in the twentieth century that unravels the mass of images that define our ideas of love and romance, revealing that the experience of 'true' love is deeply embedded in the experience of consumer capitalism. It studies how individual conceptions of love overlap with the world of cliches and images.

Tracing the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations, this work explores how and why such a large Muslim population emerged in Bengal.

The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. This title examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion.

To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age.

Presents research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over 250 languages spoken in Southern China, the Himalayas, NE India, and peninsular Southeast Asia.

Lots of Javanese peasants live alongside state-controlled forest lands. Because their legal access and customary rights to the forest have been limited, they have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources. This book untangles the peasant and state politics which developed in Java.

Offers a finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism.

A guide for visitors - sightseers, hikers, swimmers, surfers, campers, birders, boaters, and anglers - who want to explore California's fabulous shoreline. It describes some 350 shoreline destinations, including every known publicly accessible beach along the coast of Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, and Monterey Counties.

Identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. This title also identifies aesthetics of anarchy - art-making without rules - that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists.

A guide for both experienced and novice gardeners in California. It covers trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, grasses, and vines, and also includes a plant selection guide.

Words are aspects of a much wider communicative context, most of which is not verbal at all. Yet words also have a nature peculiarly their own. And when discussing them as modes of action, we must consider this nature as words in themselves and the nature they get from the non-verbal scenes that support their acts. This book deals with this topic.

A collection of letters and writings which allows readers to see behind C Wright Mills' public persona. It includes his letters to Saul Alinsky, Daniel Bell, Lewis Coser, Carlos Fuentes, Hans Gerth, Irving Howe, Dwight MacDonald, Robert K Merton, Ralph Miliband, William Miller, David Riesman, and Harvey Swados.

Brings together linguistically informed criticism with more philosophically oriented literary theory. In this book, the resulting vision of literature is odd, personal, passionate, and even outlandish. It suggests a breakthrough in stylistic criticism so radical as to revitalize the entire field.

Western rationalism - nature, of course, and genesis - was Max Weber's dominant historical interest. It was the grand theme of his two world historical studies, Economy and Society and The Economic Ethics of the World Religions. This book presents the systematic analysis and elaboration of Weber's sociology as a developmental history of the West.

Gathers Garvey's speeches and essays about Black pride.

Dan Pagis (1930-1986) spent three of his adolescent years in a Nazi camp before arriving in Palestine in 1946. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry and is considered a major world poet of his generation. This title features translated poems, in which, Dan Pagis' voice can be heard celebrating the human spirit.

Intends to recreate the life and times of the Greek lyric poet Sappho. This novel introduces Sappho at the age of fifty, when she is shaken by her fatal and final love affair with Phaon. Including details about daily life on ancient Lesbos, it draws the reader into the political and social climate of Sappho's world.

Raises questions central to the field of anthropology - questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. This book discusses the Yanomami controversy, identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and assesses the state of anthropology.

Mimesis, the notion that art imitates reality, has long been recognized as one of the central ideas of Western aesthetics. Less well documented is the importance of mimetic theories of literature, theatre and the visual arts. This book contains an overview of the theory of mimesis in all its forms.