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Changing the rules
Changing the Rules: The Politics of Liberalization and the Urban Informal Economy in Tanzania provides a comprehensive examination of Tanzania's informal economy, highlighting its critical role as both a survival mechanism and a force for political and economic change. Amid the economic crises of...
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A critic writes
Few twentieth-century writers on architecture and design have enjoyed the renown of Reyner Banham. Born and trained in England and a U.S. resident starting in 1976, Banham wrote incisively about American and European buildings and culture. Now readers can enjoy a chronological cross-section of es...
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Montaigne's unruly brood
Perhaps as old as writing itself, the metaphor of the book as child has depicted textuality as an only son conceived to represent its father uniformly and to assure the integrity of his name. Richard L. Regosin demonstrates how Montaigne's Essais both departs from and challenges this conventional...
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The romans
Roman civilization is one of the bases of the modern world. The extraordinary achievements of Rome—political, military, cultural—and its dramatic, thousand-year history, during which it grew to dominate the whole world of classical antiquity before being overwhelmed in its turn, have been continu...
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In their own interests
Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in ...
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Return to aztlan
Return to Aztlan analyzes the social process of international migration through an intensive study of four carefully chosen Mexican communities. The book combines historical, anthropological, and survey data to construct a vivid and comprehensive picture of the social dynamics of contemporary Me...
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Catullus and the traditions of ancient poetry
This volume, part of the esteemed Sather Classical Lectures series, explores the enduring legacy of Catullus and his intricate relationship with the traditions of Graeco-Roman poetry. Delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1928, these lectures aim to illuminate Catullus’ poetic g...
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The rise of professionalism
The Rise of Professionalism offers a penetrating reconstruction of how “the professions” emerged as distinctive power formations in modern capitalist societies. Magali Sarfatti Larson dismantles functionalist and ideal‐typical accounts that naturalize professional prestige by invoking disinterest...
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The cynics
This collection of essays—the first of its kind in English—brings together the work of an international group of scholars examining the entire tradition associated with the ancient Cynics. The essays give a history of the movement as well as a state-of-the-art account of the literary, philosophic...
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Music as cultural practice, 1800-1900
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms ...
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Poets on painters
What are poets looking at, looking for, when they walk into a room of pictures? Poets on Painters attempts to answer this question by bringing together, for the first time, essays by modern American and British poets about painting. The poets bring to their task a fresh eye and a freshened langua...
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Special district governments in the united states
Special District Governments in the United States by John C. Bollens provides the first comprehensive analysis of one of the least understood but most rapidly expanding elements of American governance. Special districts—independent, single-purpose governments created to provide services such as w...
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Language as symbolic action
From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them...
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Words of my roaring
Set in a small town south of San Francisco during World War II, Words of My Roaring is a compelling picture of the confusions, the dislocations, and the brutality of war as they affect the home front. The novel recreates a neighborhood in San Bruno and connects it to San Francisco and the larger ...
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Early uses of california plants
Information from many sources has been compiled here to present the most important uses of plants by early inhabitants of California, as well as methods of preparing the plants for use. The Indian method of leaching acorn meal so it could be eaten, the medicinal value of Yerba Mansa, the use of o...
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Rugged justice
Rugged Justice: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the American West, 1891–1941 by David C. Frederick offers the first full history of the nation’s largest regional appellate court during its formative half-century, showing how law and landscape shaped one another across a vast jurisdiction s...
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