Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: University of California Pre California
Keywords: art, chinese, history, short
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1970
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520012399
ISBN-13: 9780520012394

Authors:Robert Kronenberg, Christopher Scoates, Henry Urba
Publisher: D.A.P./University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Keywords: unit, dwelling, mobile
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-07-02
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 189102468X
ISBN-13: 9781891024689

Since 1955, when they were first standardized, shipping containers have had a radical effect on our physical reality. Seven million of these steel containers are now moving around the world, and their measurements have defined the design of ships, railroad cars, trucks, and cargo airplanes, as well as the landscape of ports, airports, and trucking yards. And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the wider and much more invisible system of distribution, of just-in-time-inventory, of information networks in which the container moves.LOT/EK, the New York-based studio with a reputation for cre

Authors:Linda L. McCabe, Edward R.B. McCabe MD.,
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: peril, promise, dna
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0520251873
ISBN-13: 9780520251878

The genetic revolution has provided incredibly valuable information about our DNA, information that can be used to benefit and inform--but also to judge, discriminate, and abuse. An essential reference for living in today’s world, this book gives the background information critical to understanding how genetics is now affecting our everyday lives. Written in clear, lively language, it gives a comprehensive view of exciting recent discoveries and explores the ethical, legal, and social issues that have arisen with each new development.

Author: Susan L. Shirk
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: political, social, choice, economy, series, china, logic, economic, reform, california
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1993-07-15
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0520077075
ISBN-13: 9780520077072

In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were.Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews

Author: David Shambaugh
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: lilienthal, book, asian, studies, philip, prospects, china’s, military, progress, problems, modernizing
Number of Pages: 402
Published: 2003-03-25
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0520225074
ISBN-13: 9780520225077

David Shambaugh, a leading international authority on Chinese strategic and military affairs, offers the most comprehensive and insightful assessment to date of the Chinese military. The result of a decade’s research, Modernizing China’s Military comes at a crucial moment in history, one when international attention is increasingly focused on the rise of Chinese military power. Basing his analysis on an unprecedented use of Chinese military publications and interviews with People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers, Shambaugh addresses important questions about Chinese strategic

Author: Jacob Smith
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: media, sound, performance, tracks, vocal
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-08-04
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0520254937
ISBN-13: 9780520254930

This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively style, Jacob Smith looks at these media technologies and industries through the lens of performance, bringing to light a fascinating nexus of performer, technology, and audience. Combining theories of film sound, cultural histories of sound technologies and industries, and theories of performance, Smith convincingly connects disparate and largely neglected performance niches to explore the developm

Author: S. Bernard Thoma
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: philip, lilienthal, books, china, snow, adventure, edgar, season
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 1996-05-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0520202767
ISBN-13: 9780520202764

In 1928, Edgar Snow (1905-1972) set out to see the world, hoping to make his mark as a travel-adventure writer. Shanghai was to be a mere stopover, but Snow stayed on in China for thirteen more years. The idealistic young Midwesterner became a journalist and ultimately developed close friendships with China’s emerging revolutionary leaders. His 1938 classic, Red Star over China, strongly influenced American views of the Chinese Communists and is still in print nearly sixty years later. This biography breaks fresh ground with its unique and extensive use of Snow’s diaries of over fo