| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Centennial book"--Half title page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Fin de Siecle: End and Beginning -- 2. Berkeley in the 1950s: The Place and How I Came to Be There -- 3. The University Press in the 1940s: Recto and Verso -- 4. An Unavoidable Conflict -- 5. How We Joined the Editorial Committee -- 6. A Kind of Metamorphosis -- 7. Where to Look for Books: Athens in Berkeley -- 8. Looking to the South: Many Americas -- 9. Looking West to the East: Pel and the Asian Books -- 10. Ishi, Don Juan, and the Anthropologists: A Tale of Two Best-Sellers -- 11. Hollywood and Berkeley: Getting into the Film Business -- 12. London, 1660 and 1960: The Coded Words of Sam Pepys -- 13. Nevada in the 1860s: Sam Clemens -- 14. In Any Language but English: Poetry at the Press -- 15. The Poetry-Hating Director -- 16. A Few Pounds of Lit Crit -- 17. Mega Biblion: Exposing the Press to Art History -- 18. The Book as Artifact: Design and Printing -- 19. Anybody Can Write a Book, but ... -- 20. The Bird That Was Overdue for Evolution: And Other Tales of the Financial Wars -- 21. Waiting for the God from the Machine -- 22. Earthquakes and Endings -- Addenda: Alternative Views -- I. God, Swahili, Bandicoots, and Euphoria / Hugh Kenner -- II. Publishing The Plan of St. Gall / James H. Clark. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
University of California Press -- History.
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University of California Press. |
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History. |
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Frugé, August, 1909-2004.
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Frugé, August, 1909-2004. |
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University of California Press. |
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University presses -- California -- Berkeley -- History -- 20th century.
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University presses. |
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California -- Berkeley. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Publishers and publishing -- California -- Berkeley -- Biography.
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Publishers and publishing. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Frugé, August, 1909- Skeptic among scholars. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993 0520077334 (DLC) 93013477 (OCoLC)27976291 |
| ISBN |
9780520914414 (electronic book) |
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0520914414 (electronic book) |
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0585081530 (electronic book) |
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9780585081533 (electronic book) |
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9780520077331 (alkaline paper) |
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0520077334 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520084261 (alkaline paper) |
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0520084268 (alkaline paper) |
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1306329728 (e-book) |
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9781306329729 (e-book) |
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0520077334 (alkaline paper) |
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0520084268 (alkaline paper) |
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