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An unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova's A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of...

This book presents the first comprehensive history of Buddhism among the Uyghurs from the ninth to the seventeenth century.Author: Johan ElverskogPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date:...

This book presents a wide array of warrants and methodologies for comparison to improve explanations of historical change in social-scientific research.Author: Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Damon...

Author: Tom LutzPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Jan 26, 2021Number of Pages: 184 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 023119935XISBN-13: 9780231199353

This book traces the development of Alexander Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and...

Ambitious and Anxious - How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in American Higher EducationAuthor: Yingyi MaPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2024Number of...

In Jerusalem, as World War II was coming to an end, an extraordinary circle of friends came together across religious lines in a fleeting moment of possibility within a troubled history. Sonja...

Natalie B. Aviles examines seventy years of federally funded scientific breakthroughs in the laboratories of the U.S. National Cancer Institute to shed new light on how bureaucratic organizations...

Another Person's Poison traces the trajectory of the debate over food allergies and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Matthew Smith...

Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into view. It...

Art Monster takes readers to the margins of the professional art world, populated by unseen artists who make a living working behind the scenes in galleries and museums while making their own art to...

Christopher T. Fan offers a new way to understand Asian American fiction through the lens of the class and race formations that shaped its authors both in the United States and in Northeast Asia...

The oceanographer Tessa Hill and the science journalist Eric Simons profile efforts to understand and protect marine environments, taking readers to habitats from shallow tidepools to the deep sea...

With a new preface by the author--Cover.Author: Paul Offit M.D.Publisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: March 29, 2010Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Backfire explores the surprising ways sanctions affect multinational companies, governments, and ultimately millions of people around the world. Drawing on interviews with experts, policy makers, and...

Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods illuminated...

Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel,...

This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.Author: Prabhat PatnaikPublisher:...

In this critical study, Joseph McBride offers new ways to understand Wilder's work, stretching from his days as a reporter and screenwriter in Europe to his distinguished as well as forgotten films...

This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.Author: Sarah Phillips CasteelPublisher: Columbia...

Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.Author: Julia...

Blessing America First : Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump AdministrationAuthor: NAPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Indigenous Peoples Before the City -- Dutch Beginnings, 1624-1664 -- The British Colonial City and the Nascent Republic, 1664-1800 -- Growing Pains, 1800-1840 -- Development of the Modern City,...

In three final essays, Robert N. Bellah grapples with the contradictions of modernity, and seven leading thinkers respond with profound new perspectives on our present predicament.Author: Robert N...

Chimpanzees fascinate people for many reasons. We are struck by the apes' resemblance to humanity, as seen in their use of tools and their complex social lives, and we are moved by the threats that...

This book offers a critical account of the history of Chinese in Hawai'i from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in this context of U.S. empire, settler colonialism, and racialization.Author:...

After the transition from military rule to procedural democracy through popular movements, South Korea actively embraced globalization in 1990s under its Civilian Government (munmin jæongbu:...

Climate of Contempt offers a voter-centric, bottom-up explanation of national climate and energy politics, one that pinpoints bitter partisanship as the key impediment to transitioning to a net zero...

CLOCK IN THE SUN : How We Came to Understand Our Nearest StarAuthor: PIERRE. SOKOLSKYPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...