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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:...

Cold War Modernists documents how the CIA, the State Department, and private cultural diplomats transformed modernist art and literature into pro-Western propaganda during the first decade of the...

This book offers a philosophical introduction to the theory and practice of contemplation. Kevin Hart examines a variety of religious, aesthetic, and philosophical notions, shedding light on the...

Millions of people in the United States and Europe have responded to the negative effects of neoliberal capitalism--isolation, alienation, economic insecurity--by turning to extreme right movements...

Ai Weiwei is one of the world's most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and...

Bernard E. Harcourt develops a transformative theory and practice that builds on worldwide models of successful cooperation.Author: Bernard E HarcourtPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication...

Author: Jacob Emery, Alexander SpektorPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231202377ISBN-13:...

In Creditworthy, Josh Lauer explores the evolution of credit reporting from from an industry that relied on personal knowledge to the modern consumer data industry. He highlights the role that...

This book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists.Author: Jonathan Judaken, Spence L Wilson Chair of...

Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and...

Crowded Orbits offers readers a valuable primer on space policy from an international perspective. This second edition is thoroughly updated to cover events of the decade following the book's...

Lauren D. Olsen argues that the way medical students encounter humanities and social sciences material in practice has served to reinforce the status quo by teaching them to individualize systemic...

In this unconventional book, Kay Harel uses biophilia as a lens to explore Charles Darwin's life and thought in deeply original ways. In a set of interrelated essays, she considers how the love of...

Maggie Hennefeld reveals the forgotten histories of "hysterical laughter," exploring how women's amusement has been theorized and demonized, suppressed and exploited.Author: Maggie...

Defeating Dengue - a Multistakeholder Approach to Problem SolvingAuthor: R. Edward Freeman, Andrew SellPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Democracy in Default offers a new perspective on the birth of neoliberalism, showing that the conventional story confuses cause and effect. Financialization was not the offspring of deregulation but...

Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation into the semiotics of literature and the arts. Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel...

South Africans and international commentators alike have held the country up as a global icon of racial reconciliation, using phrases like the South African Option" and the "South African Miracle" to...

Many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance. Edward Morris details Wall...

This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis, allying visionary political theory with environmental activism.Author: Ali Aslam, David W McIvor,...

A study of the origins of noh theater. The first part of the book delves into the performance forms and religious, political, and cultural conditions that shaped sarugaku (the early form of noh),...

Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She...

This book presents essays by Eric R. Kandel. They vary widely in subject matter, but each essay focuses on the interaction of art and science.Author: ERIC R. KANDELPublisher: Columbia University...

Every Brain Needs Music - the Neuroscience of Making and Listening to MusicAuthor: Lawrence Sherman, Dennis Plies, Susi DavisPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number...

This book brings together essays by scholars, practitioners, activists, and writers, including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, to explore the harms of making punishment the main...

Expatriates of No Country - the Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald KeeneAuthor: Shirley Hazzard, Donald Keene, Brigitta OlubasPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 22,...

Faangand Other Stor's (r'an Liary) - 9780231189774Author: Bryan KaretnykPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Jan 07, 2020Number of Pages: 312 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information works--and breaks down.Author: Paul...

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals...

This essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays presents The Hurdy-Gurdy, Fourteen Little Red Huts, and Grandmother's Little Hut. Written in 1930 and 1933, respectively, The Hurdy-Gurdy and...