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Prematurity in Scientific Discovery
One of the depressing by-products of the fantastically rapid progress that was made in molecular genetics in the past twenty-five years is that now merely middle-aged participants in its early ...
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The Myth of Continents
In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial ...
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The first attempt to understand medieval emotional responses to buildings like Notre-Dame built across the whole of Western Europe. In this time of rapid evolution, we offer a thoroughly updated and ...
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From the Royal to the Republican Body
In this innovative volume, leading scholars examine the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France. Some essays focus on the ...
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The History of Polish Literature, Updated edition
This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date. Czeslaw ...
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From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry
How did chemistry and physics acquire their separate identities, and are they on their way to losing them again? Mary Jo Nye has written a graceful account of the historical demarcation of chemistry ...
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Researching and Writing in History
Much agony over writing research papers originates in the failure of the academic system to teach students how to use the library and how to write formally structured English. This handbook is ...
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UC Press November Award Winners
Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ...
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Q&A with Camilo Sanz, author of "Cancer Intersections"
Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally ...
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Interview with Vietnamese Dissident Journalist and Author Huy Đức
In this essay, UC Berkeley historian and Journal of Vietnamese Studies Co-Editor Peter Zinoman discusses the detention of Trương Huy San (Huy Đức) and his interview with the imprisoned journalist.
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A Q&A with CPCS Associate Editor Paulina Pospieszna
Paulina Pospieszna is Associate Professor of Political Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research interests include democracy promotion, democratization, and democratic ...