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Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks provides a practitioner's guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.Author: John MarksPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication...

This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism.Author:...

Grad school isn't easy. It's even less easy when you're also managing a second job, a family, or depression--or when you are a first-generation student, or if you come from an underrepresented group...

Author: Marcelo GleiserPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2022Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231204116ISBN-13: 9780231204118

Tracing the trans-Pacific tea trade from the eighteenth century onward, green with Milk and Sugar shows how the interconnections between Japan and the United States have influenced the daily habits...

How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being...

This groundbreaking book is an incisive and comprehensive analysis of Harun Farocki's oeuvre, shedding new light on his media experimentation and writings across platforms and venues.Author: Nora M...

This groundbreaking book shows how the Tea Party and its extremist narratives paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump, his MAGA movement, and the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol.Author:...

Escaping global warming hell, this revelatory book shows, requires a radical, mystical marriage of Christianity and biology that awakens a future beyond white male savagery.Author: Timothy...

Born in Berryville, VA in 1885, received a BA from Howard University and an MA from Columbia University. Returning to Washington, DC to teach, she created the first junior high school for Black...

Homeward from Heaven is Boris Poplavsky's masterpiece, written just before his life was cut short by a drug overdose at the age of thirty-two. Set in Paris and on the French Riviera, it recounts the...

The Japanese Red Cross Society (JRCS) was Japan's first international humanitarian organisation and among the largest civic organisations in Japan before 1945. The book explores the role of the JRCS...

Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and performance at the center of his investigation into how literature comes to be defined and produced within a language, specifically,...

Drawing on extensive field research and hundreds of interviews with stakeholders, Erica L. Gaston unpacks the challenges of attempting to control proxy forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.Author:...

Images of the Present Time presents nearly three years of Alain Badiou's seminars, held from 2001 to 2004, which consider the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present."Author:...

Christopher P. Hanscom questions common understandings of political art by examining four figures central to recent Korean fiction, film, and public discourse: the migrant laborer, the witness to or...

Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, Adrian Johnston reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness.Author: Adrian...

Author: Mark C. TaylorPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231198213ISBN-13: 9780231198219

A masterful, engaging history of the English language from the age of "Beowulf" to the rap of Eminem, this book percolates with creative energy ("Publishers Weekly").Author: Seth LererPublisher:...

Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world's intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us creates an inner world. This book is a thought-provoking...

Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.Author: David ScottPublisher: Columbia...

As the longest-running English-language film series, the James Bond franchise has remained popular across generations of viewers, historical time periods and political eras. Films in the series have...

JAPANESE IDEOLOGY : A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and FascismAuthor: JUN. TOSAKAPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. Alexander Radishchev's account of a fictional journey...

Joy, Despair, Illusion, Dreams presents a selection of No plays, magnificently rendered in English by Royall Tyler, an eminent scholar and translator of classical Japanese literature.Author:...

This book is a groundbreaking intellectual biography of Kenneth Waltz, shedding new light on the development and significance of his key contributions.Author: Paul R. ViottiPublisher: Columbia...

Klotsvog is a novel about being Jewish in the Soviet Union and the historical trauma of World War II--and it's a novel about the petty dramas and demons of one strikingly vain woman. Maya Abramovna...

The novel straddles multiple genres and modes of writing, including novel, diary, fantasy, surrealism, mythology, historical writing, and philosophy. It is primarily set in Pondicherry, the former...

Both landscape and aesthetics are all too often considered disengaged categories associated with leisure and contemplation. This book establishes landscape as a key concept in contemporary thought...

Thomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio,...