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Detail from the cover art from Eliot Weinberger’s English translation of Octavio Paz’ Piedra de sol

Octavio Paz (Mexico City, Mexico, 1914-1998) was a poet, essayist, diplomat, and editor. He served in Mexico's diplomatic corps until 1968, when he resigned in protest of the massacre of student protesters by the Mexican Armed Forces in 1968.

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Detail of a eighteenth century Kangra Painting: Rati begs Śiva to revive Kama

Asceticism & Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva was written by American Indologist and scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty. This is book is available in the main stacks of the University Library, and in Special Collections and Archives where it is part of the  Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender.

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Rooftop Employee Grace Harrison filling meal orders, October 14, 1981

The University Archives and Digital Collections in the University Library house a complete run of the campus newspaper, the Daily (and Summer) Sundial. A lot has happened in CSUN’s 64 years, and for some things our only record of them exists there. While that will hopefully change, for now let’s get (re)acquainted with the CSUN Snacketeria. 

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Orignal Beba Leventhal interview tapes recorded on Betamax tapes

The Child Survivors of the Jewish Holocaust Collection grew out of the work of Dr. Sarah Traister Moskovitz, who has done much research and writing on peoplep who survived the Holocaust as children. The collection consists of twenty-three oral history interviews done with child survivors recorded on video tape....

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