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Haruo Aoki

Nez Perce Dictionary

$55.00

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, linguist Haruo Aoki illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature. In addition, Aoki retranscribes and incorporates words from earlier publications that are recognized by today's Nez Perce speakers. The dictionary includes an English-Nez Perce index, appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names, and illustrations from Nez Perce life. Originally published in 1994, the Nez Perce Dictionary continues to be a reference and resource for new generations of speakers and scholars.

Patrick Wilson

Two Kinds of Power

$39.95

Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control by Patrick Wilson addresses one of the most enduring challenges of intellectual life: how to navigate, organize, and master the overwhelming abundance of written material that surrounds us. From libraries and archives to offices and attics, the world is saturated with documents of every kind—some of enduring cultural and intellectual value, others ephemeral records of daily life. Wilson explores what it means to exercise “bibliographical control” over this mass: the ability to discover, organize, and access what is valuable amid the trivial, and to understand how writings serve as both the record of human activity and the medium of knowledge transmission. He treats bibliographical control not simply as a technical problem but as a form of power—power over knowledge itself, and therefore power over action, culture, and memory.

Far from offering a manual of techniques, Wilson develops a searching theoretical analysis of the concepts underlying bibliographical practice. He examines the notions of organization and control, relevance and subject, and the ways in which lists, catalogs, bibliographies, and information-retrieval systems serve—or fail to serve—human purposes. Drawing a distinction between organizing things and exercising control over them, Wilson highlights the roles of people, institutions, and technologies in shaping bibliographical power. His reflections anticipate debates about information overload, digital retrieval, and knowledge management, while remaining grounded in the philosophical and historical traditions of librarianship and bibliography. Two Kinds of Power remains a foundational meditation on how societies make sense of the vast universe of writings, a work that combines conceptual rigor with practical urgency, and that continues to resonate wherever questions of information, organization, and access are at stake.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

James A. Matisoff

The Tibeto-Burman Reproductive System

$38.95

This pioneering book is the prototype of the etymological thesaurus that has been the goal of the Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus project (STEDT) since 1987. It presents nearly 170 Proto-Tibeto-Burman etymologies in the semantic area of the reproductive system, along with discussions of possible Chinese cognates. Special attention is paid to patterns of semantic associations between the reproductive system and other areas of the lexicon.

Brent D. Galloway

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

$94.95

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Maria C. Pantelia

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

$200.00

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works (TLG®) is a comprehensive catalog of the authors and works that have survived in Greek from antiquity (eighth century BCE) to the present era and have been collected and digitized by the TLG® in its fifty-year history. It provides biographical information about each author, such as dates, place of birth, and literary activity, as well as a list of their extant works and print publications. This volume encompasses more than 4,400 authors and 17,000 individual works. It offers a concise and authoritative literary history of Greek literature and is an indispensable reference source for its study.

Wolf Leslau

Concise Amharic Dictionary

$45.00

Although Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia and English its international language, until publication of this book in hardcover there was no concise Amharic-English, English-Amharic dictionary. Students of Amharic as well as visitors to Ethiopia and foreign workers will benefit from this concise dictionary with phonetic transcriptions that allow for its use by those unfamiliar with Amharic script.

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Zhibin Zhang

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

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Zheng Jinsheng

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators.

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Hermann Tessenow

A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen

$59.95

This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, translated by Hermann Tessenow and Paul U. Unschuld. The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine and natural philosophy. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and the blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including acupuncture. The original printing of this title contained an enclosed CD containing two concordances that list all characters along the pinyin-alphabetical sequence. These contents can now be accessed on the book's page on the UC Press website via "Downloads" (www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520253582).

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William Frawley

Making Dictionaries

$38.95

Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding endangered languages and for the increasing number of native communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.

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Brent Douglas Galloway

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

$94.95

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

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Melvyn C. Goldstein

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

$95.00

The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans, have created a widening circle of English-speakers—in government, business, academia, and elsewhere—who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity. For these people, and for others who want to communicate with Tibetans in their own language, Professor Goldstein's Dictionary will be an indispensable aid.

The first scholarly English-Tibetan dictionary, as well as the only one that is semantically sensitive, this work specifies the Tibetan terms that correspond to the submeanings of a single English term. Containing roughly 16,000 main entries, most of which have multiple subentries, the Dictionary treats a total of 45,000 lexical items. Each entry includes both the written Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are also noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanticization of the written Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay familiarizes users with the main features of Tibetan grammar.

The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western s

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Alhaji Maina Gimba

Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist

$65.00

This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa section has full definitions and explanations of meaning in English with numerous examples of use. Each entry has a Hausa gloss. The English-Bole section is intended mainly as an index to the Bole-English-Hausa section. There are appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.

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Melvyn C. Goldstein

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

$56.95

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness. Containing more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic, literary, and scientific discourse, this invaluable sourcebook includes the tens of thousands of new words that have been coined or that have come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951. The dictionary lists lexical items characteristic of the special written genre that was used by Tibetan government officials up to 1959 as well as new terminology used in the Tibetan exile communities in South Asia. It contains both the core lexical terminology used in everyday life and standard modern writing and many proverbs and sayings that appear frequently in contemporary literary materials. The entries provide spoken pronunciation and thousands of illustrative sentences.

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Haruo Aoki

Nez Perce Dictionary

$32.95

In this dictionary of the Nez Perce language, linguist Haruo Aoki illustrates how each word is used by citing examples from published Nez Perce oral literature. In addition, Aoki retranscribes and incorporates words from earlier publications that are recognized by today's Nez Perce speakers. The dictionary includes an English-Nez Perce index, appendixes listing phonosymbolic words and Nez Perce animal and plant names, and illustrations from Nez Perce life. Originally published in 1994, the Nez Perce Dictionary continues to be a reference and resource for new generations of speakers and scholars.

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Hua Linfu

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.

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Brent D. Galloway

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

$94.95

Packaged together as a set, the Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem Volumes 1 and 2 remains a comprehensive resource for students in linguistics and Indigenous studies.

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C., giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

Zheng Jinsheng

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators.

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 3

Hua Linfu

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This second book in a three-volume series verifies and localizes all 2,158 geographical and associated administrative names referred to in the Ben cao gang mu in connection with the origin and use of pharmaceutical substances.

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 2

Alhaji Maina Gimba and Russell G. Schuh

Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist

$65.00

This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa section has full definitions and explanations of meaning in English with numerous examples of use. Each entry has a Hausa gloss. The English-Bole section is intended mainly as an index to the Bole-English-Hausa section. There are appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.

Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist

Zhibin Zhang

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

$150.00

The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This first book in a three-volume series analyzes the meaning of 4,500 historical illness terms.

Dictionary of the Ben cao gang mu, Volume 1

Paul U. Unschuld and Hermann Tessenow

A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen

$100.00

This dictionary reflects the English meanings of Chinese characters and character compounds laid down in the annotated edition of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen, translated by Hermann Tessenow and Paul U. Unschuld. The Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine and natural philosophy. It reflects empirical knowledge and the doctrines of yin-yang and Five Agents in the perception of the human body and its organs, qi and the blood, pathogenic agents, concepts of disease and diagnosis, and a variety of therapies, including acupuncture. The original printing of this title contained an enclosed CD containing two concordances that list all characters along the pinyin-alphabetical sequence. These contents can now be accessed on the book's page on the UC Press website via "Downloads" (www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520253582).

A Dictionary of the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen

William Frawley

Making Dictionaries

$38.95

Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding endangered languages and for the increasing number of native communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.

Melvyn C. Goldstein, editor

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

$95.00

The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan surpasses existing dictionaries in both scope and comprehensiveness. Containing more than 80,000 lexical items used in political, social, economic, literary, and scientific discourse, this invaluable sourcebook includes the tens of thousands of new words that have been coined or that have come into use since Tibet was incorporated into the People's Republic of China in 1951. The dictionary lists lexical items characteristic of the special written genre that was used by Tibetan government officials up to 1959 as well as new terminology used in the Tibetan exile communities in South Asia. It contains both the core lexical terminology used in everyday life and standard modern writing and many proverbs and sayings that appear frequently in contemporary literary materials. The entries provide spoken pronunciation and thousands of illustrative sentences.

Wolf Leslau

Concise Amharic Dictionary

$47.95

Although Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia and English its international language, until publication of this book in hardcover there was no concise Amharic-English, English-Amharic dictionary. Students of Amharic as well as visitors to Ethiopia and foreign workers will benefit from this concise dictionary with phonetic transcriptions that allow for its use by those unfamiliar with Amharic script.

Melvyn C. Goldstein

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

$95.00

The liberalization of political and intellectual life in China and the rise of Tibetan exile communities throughout the world have produced a resurgence of spoken and written Tibetan. These developments, together with increasing contacts between Western scholars and Tibetans, have created a widening circle of English-speakers—in government, business, academia, and elsewhere—who need to speak or write Tibetan with precision and clarity. For these people, and for others who want to communicate with Tibetans in their own language, Professor Goldstein's Dictionary will be an indispensable aid.

The first scholarly English-Tibetan dictionary, as well as the only one that is semantically sensitive, this work specifies the Tibetan terms that correspond to the submeanings of a single English term. Containing roughly 16,000 main entries, most of which have multiple subentries, the Dictionary treats a total of 45,000 lexical items. Each entry includes both the written Tibetan orthography and a phonemic notation to indicate pronunciation. Grammatical features are also noted, and all examples of usage are presented with the romanticization of the written Tibetan and phonemic notation of the spoken forms. An introductory essay familiarizes users with the main features of Tibetan grammar.

English-Tibetan Dictionary of Modern Tibetan

Maria C. Pantelia

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

$200.00

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A Bibliographic Guide to the Canon of Greek Authors and Works (TLG®) is a comprehensive catalog of the authors and works that have survived in Greek from antiquity (eighth century BCE) to the present era and have been collected and digitized by the TLG® in its fifty-year history. It provides biographical information about each author, such as dates, place of birth, and literary activity, as well as a list of their extant works and print publications. This volume encompasses more than 4,400 authors and 17,000 individual works. It offers a concise and authoritative literary history of Greek literature and is an indispensable reference source for its study.

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J. Richard Blanchard

Literature of Agricultural Research

$23.95

Literature of Agricultural Research provides an exhaustive overview of the vast and rapidly expanding body of literature surrounding agriculture and its related fields. This guide addresses the challenges posed by the immense growth in agricultural publications, including journals, research reports, and other informational resources that span a wide range of formats and topics. Organized by broad subjects such as plant sciences, animal sciences, physical sciences, food and nutrition, and social sciences, the guide categorizes key reference works, including bibliographies, abstracting journals, encyclopedias, and directories, offering annotations to clarify the utility of each resource. This structured approach aims to bridge gaps in bibliographic tools, providing a much-needed roadmap for navigating the complex and overlapping landscape of agricultural research literature.

This inaugural entry in a series of bibliographic guides sponsored by the University of California represents years of meticulous work by its compilers, utilizing resources from major libraries and bibliographic tools. Emphasizing American publications while also highlighting significant international works, the guide offers a practical resource for researchers, librarians, and practitioners. By shedding light on the strengths and weaknesses of current bibliographic systems, it not only facilitates access to vital agricultural information but also inspires future advancements in bibliographic control and resource development within the agricultural research domain.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.

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Patrick Wilson

Two Kinds of Power

$23.95

Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control by Patrick Wilson addresses one of the most enduring challenges of intellectual life: how to navigate, organize, and master the overwhelming abundance of written material that surrounds us. From libraries and archives to offices and attics, the world is saturated with documents of every kind—some of enduring cultural and intellectual value, others ephemeral records of daily life. Wilson explores what it means to exercise “bibliographical control” over this mass: the ability to discover, organize, and access what is valuable amid the trivial, and to understand how writings serve as both the record of human activity and the medium of knowledge transmission. He treats bibliographical control not simply as a technical problem but as a form of power—power over knowledge itself, and therefore power over action, culture, and memory.

Far from offering a manual of techniques, Wilson develops a searching theoretical analysis of the concepts underlying bibliographical practice. He examines the notions of organization and control, relevance and subject, and the ways in which lists, catalogs, bibliographies, and information-retrieval systems serve—or fail to serve—human purposes. Drawing a distinction between organizing things and exercising control over them, Wilson highlights the roles of people, institutions, and technologies in shaping bibliographical power. His reflections anticipate debates about information overload, digital retrieval, and knowledge management, while remaining grounded in the philosophical and historical traditions of librarianship and bibliography. Two Kinds of Power remains a foundational meditation on how societies make sense of the vast universe of writings, a work that combines conceptual rigor with practical urgency, and that continues to resonate wherever questions of information, organization, and access are at stake.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

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By J. Richard Blanchard and Harald Ostvold

Literature of Agricultural Research

$95.00

Literature of Agricultural Research provides an exhaustive overview of the vast and rapidly expanding body of literature surrounding agriculture and its related fields. This guide addresses the challenges posed by the immense growth in agricultural publications, including journals, research reports, and other informational resources that span a wide range of formats and topics. Organized by broad subjects such as plant sciences, animal sciences, physical sciences, food and nutrition, and social sciences, the guide categorizes key reference works, including bibliographies, abstracting journals, encyclopedias, and directories, offering annotations to clarify the utility of each resource. This structured approach aims to bridge gaps in bibliographic tools, providing a much-needed roadmap for navigating the complex and overlapping landscape of agricultural research literature.

This inaugural entry in a series of bibliographic guides sponsored by the University of California represents years of meticulous work by its compilers, utilizing resources from major libraries and bibliographic tools. Emphasizing American publications while also highlighting significant international works, the guide offers a practical resource for researchers, librarians, and practitioners. By shedding light on the strengths and weaknesses of current bibliographic systems, it not only facilitates access to vital agricultural information but also inspires future advancements in bibliographic control and resource development within the agricultural research domain.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.

By J. Richard Blanchard and Harald Ostvold

Literature of Agricultural Research

$39.95

Literature of Agricultural Research provides an exhaustive overview of the vast and rapidly expanding body of literature surrounding agriculture and its related fields. This guide addresses the challenges posed by the immense growth in agricultural publications, including journals, research reports, and other informational resources that span a wide range of formats and topics. Organized by broad subjects such as plant sciences, animal sciences, physical sciences, food and nutrition, and social sciences, the guide categorizes key reference works, including bibliographies, abstracting journals, encyclopedias, and directories, offering annotations to clarify the utility of each resource. This structured approach aims to bridge gaps in bibliographic tools, providing a much-needed roadmap for navigating the complex and overlapping landscape of agricultural research literature.

This inaugural entry in a series of bibliographic guides sponsored by the University of California represents years of meticulous work by its compilers, utilizing resources from major libraries and bibliographic tools. Emphasizing American publications while also highlighting significant international works, the guide offers a practical resource for researchers, librarians, and practitioners. By shedding light on the strengths and weaknesses of current bibliographic systems, it not only facilitates access to vital agricultural information but also inspires future advancements in bibliographic control and resource development within the agricultural research domain.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.

Patrick Wilson

Two Kinds of Power

$95.00

Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control by Patrick Wilson addresses one of the most enduring challenges of intellectual life: how to navigate, organize, and master the overwhelming abundance of written material that surrounds us. From libraries and archives to offices and attics, the world is saturated with documents of every kind—some of enduring cultural and intellectual value, others ephemeral records of daily life. Wilson explores what it means to exercise “bibliographical control” over this mass: the ability to discover, organize, and access what is valuable amid the trivial, and to understand how writings serve as both the record of human activity and the medium of knowledge transmission. He treats bibliographical control not simply as a technical problem but as a form of power—power over knowledge itself, and therefore power over action, culture, and memory.

Far from offering a manual of techniques, Wilson develops a searching theoretical analysis of the concepts underlying bibliographical practice. He examines the notions of organization and control, relevance and subject, and the ways in which lists, catalogs, bibliographies, and information-retrieval systems serve—or fail to serve—human purposes. Drawing a distinction between organizing things and exercising control over them, Wilson highlights the roles of people, institutions, and technologies in shaping bibliographical power. His reflections anticipate debates about information overload, digital retrieval, and knowledge management, while remaining grounded in the philosophical and historical traditions of librarianship and bibliography. Two Kinds of Power remains a foundational meditation on how societies make sense of the vast universe of writings, a work that combines conceptual rigor with practical urgency, and that continues to resonate wherever questions of information, organization, and access are at stake.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.