Columbia University Press

Author: Dean R. LomaxPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 11, 2022Number of Pages: 296 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231197292ISBN-13: 9780231197298

Lyrical Individualism presents a selection of André Colomer's crucial writings, with a focus on anarchist theory and the philosophy of Henri Bergson.Author: André ColomerPublisher: Columbia...

One of the twentieth century's great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague, mentor, and friend. In...

Introduction -- The alt-right's goals and predecessors -- The first wave of the alt-right -- The alt-right returns -- The alt-right attack on the conservative movement -- The alt-right and the 2016...

This book offers a new account of economic policy making in China over the past four decades that reveals how bureaucrats have spurred large-scale transformations from within.Author: Yingyao...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. J. E. Smyth tells...

Through a historically informed, empirically nuanced analysis of towns and cities across the West Bank, Diana B. Greenwald offers a new theory of local government under indirect rule.Author: Diana B...

Julieta Brambila provides a ground-level view of how Mexican journalists have navigated a perilous environment, offering insight into how they protect themselves while reporting on the most critical...

Timothy P. A. Cooper examines the diverse and coexisting moral atmospheres that surround media in Pakistan, tracing public understandings of ethical life and showing how they influence economic...

Considering the diverse heritage of the pilgrimage site of Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka, Alexander McKinley develops a new account of pluralism based in political ecology, representing the full array of...

My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Phillip Lopate's selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and...

Author: Nancy K. MillerPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Dec 21, 2021Number of Pages: 232 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231190557ISBN-13: 9780231190558

Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "the greatest Russian poet of our time." In each of the book's nine chapters, Khodasevich...

Newshawks in Berlin reveals how the Associated Press covered Nazi Germany from its earliest days through the aftermath of World War II.Author: Larry Heinzerling, Randy HerschaftPublisher: Columbia...

Nothing Sacred makes a bold call for reconceptualizing the projects of humanism and democracy as creative sources of emancipatory meaning, from the immediate political sphere to the farthest reaches...

The thinking and leadership we need to avoid an irreversible tragedy.Author: Joseph CirincionePublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Jun 16, 2015Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage:...

Oil Leaders offers an unprecedented glimpse into the strategic thinking of top figures in the energy world from the 1980s through the recent past. Ibrahim AlMuhanna--a close adviser to four different...

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) made a pioneering and durably influential argument for women's equality. Emerging from the turbulent decade of the French Revolution,...

Five hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence's free...

Ovid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells...

Ordering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to...

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of paranormal experiences reported by converts to Buddhism and their implications for both humanistic and scientific study of the paranormal.Author: D E...

James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible...

In 2016, Thae Yong-ho, the North Korean Deputy Ambassador to the UK, defected to South Korea. In this book, he reveals the truth of what he saw during his career as a North Korean ambassador, and why...

Korean writer Ch'oe Myongik was a lifelong resident of Pyongyang, a city his short stories masterfully evoke in exquisite modernist prose. This book presents a selection of Ch'oe's short fiction in...

George G. Szpiro guides readers through the puzzling world of paradoxes, from Socratic dialogues to the Monty Hall Problem.Author: George G. SzpiroPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication...

Podcasting's stratospheric rise has inspired a new breed of audio reporting. Offering immersive storytelling for a binge-listening audience as well as reaching previously underserved communities,...

Marco Politi takes us deep inside the power struggle roiling the Roman Curia and the Catholic Church worldwide, beginning with Benedict XVI, the pope who famously resigned in 2013, and intensifying...

Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing on Freud and Lacan, she analyzes the nature of attitudes toward repulsive subjects and examines the...

Throughout their careers, social scientists must come up with compelling research topics, decide when and where to publish, and revise their manuscripts for publication. Practicing Sociology brings...