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Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and ...

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and ...

Devra Weber

In her incisive analysis of the shaping of California's agricultural work force, Devra Weber shows how the cultural background of Mexican and, later, Anglo-American workers, combined with the structure of capitalist cotton production and ...
¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the ...

¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the ...

Maylei Blackwell

Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement Maylei Blackwell. fiGure i.8. Young Chicanas participating in the Blow Outs. Courtesy of Devra Weber. fiGure i.10. UFW women marching. Courtesy of Devra Weber. fiGure. fiGure i.9.
The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers, Imperial ...

The Organizing of Mexicano Agricultural Workers, Imperial ...

Devra Weber

An oral history approach to telling the story of labor organization in California.
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement ...

Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement ...

Penny W. Lewis

Pamphlet, written sometime between August 29 and September 16, 1970, 2, Devra Weber Papers, Box 3 Folder 8, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA. 63. Lorena Oropeza, Raza Si! Guerra Nol: Chicano Protest and Patriotism during the ...
Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm: ...

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm: ...

Devra I. Jarvis

Principles and Applications in Research Practices Devra I. Jarvis, Toby Hodgkin, Anthony H. D. Brown, John Tuxill, Isabel López Noriega, Melinda Smale, Bhuwon Sthapit. Tooker, J. R., and S. D. Frank. 2012. “Genotypically diverse cultivar ...
Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and ...

Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and ...

Devra Weber

2 (Summer 1982); Kenneth Finegold, "Agriculture, State, Party, and Economic Crisis: American Farm Policy and the Great Depression," paper presented at the Conference on the Political Economy of Food and Agriculture in Advanced ...
Finite Elements in Vector Lattices

Finite Elements in Vector Lattices

Martin R. Weber

Martin R. Weber. Measure Rostock-Warnemuende 1977, part 1, 169–172, Greifswald, 1980. [129]M. R. Weber . Finite elements in the space of Radon measures. (Russian), SbornikOptimizacia ,47(64), (1990), 110–115.[130]M.R. Weber.
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space

The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space

William David Estrada

Devra Weber The book you are holding is about Los Angeles' historic heart, the Plaza, the Placita, a space of contested memories, forgotten histories and their reclamation. The Los Angeles Plaza is personal and evocative for those who grew ...
Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation ...

Hart Crane and the Modernist Epic: Canon and Genre Formation ...

D. Gabriel

Excerpts from THE LETTERS OF HART CRANE, 1916–1932, edited by Brom Weber. Copyright 1952 by Brom Weber. ... Used by permission of Eden E. Gusewelle, sole surviving heir of the Brom Weber Estate. • Excerpt from “Burnt Norton” in ...
For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate

For Weber: Essays on the Sociology of Fate

Bryan S Turner

This Second Edition, now available in paperback, includes a new Preface which reviews the scholarship on Weber since 1981.
Structure and activity of natural peptides: selected topics ...

Structure and activity of natural peptides: selected topics ...

Gesellschaft für Biologische Chemie

Weber, E., Voigt, K.H., Martin, R. : Endocrinology 1 02 , 1466-1474 (1978) . 34. Weber, E., Voigt, K.H., Martin, R. : Brain Res. 1 57 , 385-390 (1978). 35. Weber, E. , Voigt, K.H., Martin, R.: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 7_5, 6134-61 38 (1978). 36.
Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait

Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait

Reinhard Bendix

The purpose of this book is to make Weber's sociological work more accessible and more thematically coherent than it is either in the original or in translation.
No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Family Business Novel

No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Family Business Novel

Carl Weber

Fans are sure to appreciate this action-packed thriller that delivers love, drama, and suspense with Weber’s trademark flair for unexpected twists and turns.
Shadow of Victory:

Shadow of Victory:

David Weber

. . Readers may feel confident that they will be Honored many more times and enjoy it every time.”—Booklist About David Weber and the Honor Harrington series: “. . . everything you could want in a heroine . . .
The Evaporation of Sofi Snow

The Evaporation of Sofi Snow

Mary Weber

“I’ll read anything Mary Weber writes.
Kem Weber, Designer and Architect

Kem Weber, Designer and Architect

Christopher Long

This book, a result of significant new primary research in the Weber family's archives, represents the first major study of the life and career of this important designer.
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Max Weber

This classic collection, which includes a new preface by Professor Bryan S Turner, draws together in a single volume his key papers on a wide variety of subjects
Full Figured 3: Carl Weber Presents

Full Figured 3: Carl Weber Presents

Brenda Hampton

Urban Books publisher Carl Weber brings together two popular literary divas to give readers what they've been asking for: empowering stories about big, beautiful women.
Married Men

Married Men

Carl Weber

And as they fend off strippers, trippers, psycho ex-football players, and worse, they know there's one thing they can always count on. . .each other. Praise For The Novels Of Carl Weber "A fast-paced mix of scandal, jealousy and wickedness.
Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates

Theorising Religion: Classical and Contemporary Debates

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John Walliss Introduction In this chapter I intend to explore Max Weber's thesis concerning the 'disenchantment of the world' through a discussion of the emergence of Spiritualism in nineteenth-century America. Weber utilised this expression, ...
Out of the Dark

Out of the Dark

David Weber

But it may well be that Shongairi and the Hegemony alike have underestimated the inhabitants of that strange planet called Earth... in David Weber's Out of the Dark.
Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings

Max Weber: Collected Methodological Writings

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Weber’s methodological writings form the bedrock of key ideas across the social sciences.
The Political Vindication of Radical Empiricism: With ...

The Political Vindication of Radical Empiricism: With ...

Michel Weber

It is not just the breadth and depth of this essay, and the integrated studies of philosophical ideas and political contexts through history that is impressive; Weber is offering a path of escape from servitude through the political role ...
Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice

Bruce Weber

"Bruce Weber's poems about art and life keep pitching smart words at you like horseshoes made of glass"--Dave Brody. With artwork by Joanne Pagano and Arturo Rodriguez.
Atherosclerosis Risk Factors

Atherosclerosis Risk Factors

James J. Maciejko

Tcrkcltaub R, Boisvert WA, Curtiss LK, Chemokines and atherosclerosis. Curr Opin Lipidol 1998:9:397^05. 78. Weber KS, Draude G, Erl W, de Martin R, Weber C. Monocyte arrest and transmigration on inflamed endothelium in shear flow is ...
Paintings of New York, 1800-1950

Paintings of New York, 1800-1950

Bruce Weber

The city is a vibrant center of the international art world; no wonder then that both resident and sojourning painters have long felt compelled to capture, interpret, and evoke the place on canvas.Bruce Weber faced a daunting amount of ...
Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity

Scott Lash

Max Weber (1894-1920) is generally recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern sociology. This collection pays homage to his influence, not just within sociology, but also political theory, science and religion.
Player Haters

Player Haters

Carl Weber

"A fast-paced mix of scandal, jealousy, and wickedness." --Publishers Weekly Carl Weber delivers the drama as only he can in this page-turning tale of the ties that bind family together--and tear them apart. . .

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