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 | A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey: The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza ISBN: 9780231508582 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Cavalli-Sforza L. L. (Luigi Luca) 1922–; Geneticists -- California -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | America''s Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century ISBN: 9780520964174 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ross Fred 1910–1992; Community Service Organization -- History; Community activists -- California -- Biography; Community organization -- California -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- Civil rights -- California -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford ISBN: 9780520973565 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Stanford Leland 1824–1893; Governors -- California -- Biography; Businesspeople -- California -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; California -- Politics and government -- 1850–1950; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Anneliese Landau''s Life in Music: Nazi Germany to Émigré California ISBN: 9781787445048 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Boydell & Brewer Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Landau Anneliese 1903–1991; Musicologists -- Biography; National socialism and music; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox ISBN: 9780816541065 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arizona Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hickox Elizabeth Conrad 1872-1947; Hickox Louise Merrill 1896-1962; Karok women -- Biography; Indian basket makers -- Klamath River Valley (Or. and Calif.) -- Biography; Karok baskets -- Collectors and collecting -- California; Basket making -- Klamat; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon ISBN: 9781640122550 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Reagan Ronald; Reagan Ronald -- Childhood and youth; Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography; Governors -- California -- Biography; Dixon (Ill.) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics ISBN: 9780520923348 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Unruh Jesse 1922–1987; Politicians -- California -- Biography; Legislators -- California -- Biography; California. Legislature. Assembly -- Speakers -- Biography; California -- Politics and government -- 1945–; California -- Social conditions -- 20th ce; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers'' Oral History ISBN: 9780295806204 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco Calif.); Construction workers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews; Structural steel workers -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews; Construction workers -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography; Structu; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative ISBN: 9780520945890 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lange Dorothea; Women photographers -- United States -- Biography; Taylor Paul Schuster 1895 – 1984; Social scientists -- United States -- Biography; Rural poor -- United States -- History; Depressions -- 1929 -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | California Rising: The Life and Times of Pat Brown ISBN: 9780520939844 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Brown Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) 1905–; Brown Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) 1905 -- Family; Brown family; Governors -- California -- Biography; California -- Politics and government -- 1951–; California -- Social conditions -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Campus Sexpot: A Memoir ISBN: 9780820330761 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Carkeet David -- Childhood and youth; Carkeet David -- Homes and haunts -- California -- Sonora; Novelists American -- 20th century -- Biography; Sonora (Calif.) -- Social life and customs; Fiction -- Authorship; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Claiming Home, Shaping Community: Testimonios de los valles ISBN: 9780816537457 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arizona Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Education (Higher) -- California; Mexican Americans -- Biography; Mexican American agricultural laborers -- California -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cliffs and Challenges: A Young Woman Explores Yosemite, 1915–1917 ISBN: 9780700627998 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kansas Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Description and travel; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions -- History -- 20th century; Brunner Laura White 1899–1973; Young women -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Biography; Hikers --; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Coastal Sage: Peter Douglas and the Fight to Save California''s Shore ISBN: 9780520958913 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Douglas Peter 1942–2012; Conservationists -- California -- Biography; California Coastal Commission; Coastal zone management -- California; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer ISBN: 9780520969667 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Guevara Ruben; Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography; Mexican American musicians -- California Southern -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Crises and Compassion: From Russia to the Golden Gate ISBN: 9780773586499 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Letiche John M. 1918; Economists -- United States -- Biography; College teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography; Economics teachers -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family ISBN: 9780295806532 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Uchida Yoshiko; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation 1942– 1945; Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno Calif.); Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography; World War 1939–1945 -- Personal narratives America; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President ISBN: 9780520931114 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gardner David Pierpont 1933–; College presidents -- United States -- Biography; University of California Berkeley -- Presidents -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte ISBN: 9781978805521 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: El Monte (Calif.) -- History; El Monte (Calif.) -- Social life and customs; Popular culture -- California -- El Monte -- History; El Monte (Calif.) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Entrepreneurial President: Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995–2003 ISBN: 9780520952218 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Atkinson Richard C -- University of California (System) -- President -- Biography; University of California (System) -- History; University of California (System) -- Management; Nuclear energy -- Research -- Laboratories -- Management; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Father Luis Olivares, a Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles ISBN: 9781469643335 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Olivares Luis 1934–1993; Catholic Church -- Clergy -- Biography; Sanctuary movement -- California -- Los Angeles; Church work with refugees -- California -- Los Angeles; Social justice -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Political refugees -- Centr; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California ISBN: 9780520943186 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Farm life -- California -- Sonoma -- Anecdotes; Organic farming -- California -- Sonoma -- Anecdotes; Farmers -- California -- Sonoma -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Filipino American Lives ISBN: 9781439905579 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Filipino Americans -- California -- San Diego -- Biography; Filipino Americans -- California -- San Diego -- Interviews; San Diego (Calif.) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Freedom without Justice: The Prison Memoirs of Chol Soo Lee ISBN: 9780824857943 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lee Chol Soo 1952–2014 -- Imprisonment; Prisoners -- California -- Biography; False imprisonment -- California; Judicial error -- California; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From Caligari to California: Eric Pommer''s Life in the International Film Wars ISBN: 9781785330100 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Berghahn Books Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Pommer Erich 1889–1966; Motion picture producers and directors -- Germany -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | From Okinawa to the Americas: Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century ISBN: 9780824860950 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Yamagawa Hana 1894–1995; Ryukyuans -- California -- Biography; Ryukyuans -- Peru -- Biography; Okinawa-shi (Japan) -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American ISBN: 9780295802145 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Jamero Peter -- Childhood and youth; Jamero Peter -- Family; Filipino Americans -- California -- Livingston -- Biography; Livingston (Calif.) -- Biography; Livingston (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; Filipino Americans -- Ethnic iden; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies ISBN: 9780231507554 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hearst William Randolph 1803–1951; Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography; Publishers and publishing -- United States -- Biography; Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, With a New Preface ISBN: 9780520933484 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Biography; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography; Elite (Social sciences) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- History; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Environmental conditions; Pacific Area -- Environmental condi; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jim and Jap Crow: A Cultural History of 1940s Interracial America ISBN: 9781400842216 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kikuchi Charles. Kikuchi diary; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation 1942–1945; Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno Calif.); Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Race disc; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Justice and Science: Trials and Triumphs of DNA Evidence ISBN: 9780813543949 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Clarke George 1951–; Public prosecutors -- California -- San Diego County -- Biography; DNA fingerprinting -- United States; Forensic genetics -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Many Forms of Madness: A Family''s Struggle with Mental Illness and the Mental Health System ISBN: 9781451417814 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Augsburg Fortress, Publishers Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Ruether David 1959 -- Mental health; Schizophrenics -- California -- Biography; Schizophrenics -- Family relationships; Mental illness -- Treatment -- United States; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | New Classic Winemakers of California: Conversations with Steve Heimoff ISBN: 9780520932685 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Vintners -- California -- Biography; Wine and wine making -- California -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | No Such Country: Essays toward Home ISBN: 9781587294136 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Lueth Elmar 1965–; German Americans -- Biography; Immigrants -- United States -- Biography; Transnationalism; Hamburg (Germany) -- Biography; Berlin (Germany) -- Biography; Iowa -- Biography; California -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History, c.1840 ISBN: 9780520950290 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Tac Pablo 1822–1841; Luiseño Indians -- California -- Biography; Indian scholars -- California -- Biography; Luiseño Indians -- History; Luiseño language -- Grammar; Luiseño language -- Dictionaries; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics ISBN: 9781496205346 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Hearst Phoebe Apperson 1842–1919; Upper class women -- United States -- Biography; Philanthropists -- California -- Biography; Women philanthropists -- California -- Biography; University of California (System). Regents -- Biography; Women civic leaders; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Rascuache Lawyer: Toward a Theory of Ordinary Litigation ISBN: 9780816521029 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Arizona Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mirandé Alfredo; Cause lawyers -- California -- Biography; Sociology teachers -- California -- Biography; Hispanic Americans -- Legal status laws etc. -- California; Legal assistance to the poor -- California; Critical legal studies -- United States; R; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | San Francisco''s Queen of Vice: The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns ISBN: 9781496203076 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Burns Inez Brown -- Health; Clinic managers -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography; Abortion services -- California -- San Francisco; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Skeptic Among Scholars: August Frugé on University Publishing ISBN: 9780520914414 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: University of California Press -- History; University presses -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- 20th century; Frugé August 1909–; Publishers and publishing -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative ISBN: 9780813542386 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Willard Charles Dwight 1866–1914; Tuberculosis -- Patients -- California -- Los Angeles -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Case of Rose Bird: Gender, Politics, and the California Courts ISBN: 9780803295445 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Bird Rose Elizabeth; California. Supreme Court; Judges -- California -- Biography; Political questions and judicial power -- California; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Culture Broker: Franklin D. Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles ISBN: 9780520925557 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Murphy Franklin D. 1916–92; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Biography; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Cultural policy; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Civilization -- 20th century; Arts -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; Museums -- California -- Los Ange; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison ISBN: 9780803206922 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Madison Nellie May 1895-1953; Women murderers -- California -- Biography; Abused women -- California -- Biography; Sex role -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America ISBN: 9780520959262 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Savio Mario; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley Calif.) -- History; Political activists -- United States -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography; Student movements -- California -- Berkeley -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Estrada Plot: How the FBI Captured a Secret Army and Stopped the Invasion of Mexico ISBN: 9781640122987 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Estrada Enrique 1890–1942; California -- History Military -- 20th century; Conspiracies -- California -- History -- 20th century; Generals -- Mexico -- Biography; Paramilitary forces -- California -- History -- 20th century; Insurgency -- Mexico -- His; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967: Volume Two: Political Turmoil ISBN: 9780520929531 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kerr Clark 1911–; University of California Berkeley -- Presidents -- Biography; University of California -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The House on Lemon Street: Japanese Pioneers and the American Dream ISBN: 9781607321668 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Colorado Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Harada Jukichi 1875–1944; Harada Ken 1881–1943; Harada Jukichi -- Family; Harada Jukichi -- Trials litigation etc.; Japanese Americans -- California -- Riverside -- Biography; Immigrants -- California -- Riverside -- Biography; Riverside (Calif.); ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California ISBN: 9780292796379 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Texas Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mexican Americans -- California -- Biography; Mexican Americans -- California -- History; Mexican American families -- California -- History; Aztecs -- First contact with Europeans -- California -- History; Lugo family; Olivas family; Murguía family; Murg; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson ISBN: 9780520933941 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: University of California Berkeley; Universities and colleges -- Administration; Education Higher -- United States -- Aims and objectives; Atkinson Richard C.; College presidents -- California -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim: A Writer in Early Hollywood ISBN: 9780813127071 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Kentucky Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Maas Frederica Sagor 1900-; Hollywood (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Social life and customs; Motion picture industry -- California -- Los Angeles; Women screenwriters -- United States -- Biography; Motion picture authorship; ■ Detailed Information |