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Essays in population history: Mexico and the Caribbean

Author: Cook, Sherburne Friend 1896-1974

Publisher: University of California Press, 1979

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Descartes's imagination: proportion, images, and the activity of thinking

Author: Sepper, Dennis L

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: Renè Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorized a radica…

A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity

Author: Boyarin, Daniel

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jew…

The spiritual quest: transcendence in myth, religion, and science

Author: Torrance, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell) 1939-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our …

Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature

Author: Steinberg, Theodore 1961-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Abstract: The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs o…

The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity

Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Abstract: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years…

The sea acorn: Scripps Institution of Oceanography: the people and the place, 1936-1942: with prologue and epilogue

Author: Sargent, Peter

Publisher: Sargent, 1979

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White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India

Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960-

Publisher: University of California Press, 2000

Abstract: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village.…

Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships

Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1993

Abstract: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Roc…

Take my word: autobiographical innovations of ethnic American working women

Author: Goldman, Anne E 1960-

Publisher: University of California Press, 1996

Abstract: In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly…