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Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost Khalsa Raj,...

Proximity Politics is a groundbreaking examination of the role of distance in shaping attitudes, behaviors, and understandings of the world.Author: Jeronimo CortinaPublisher: Columbia University...

Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings.Author: CATE I...

Author: Joseph L. Graves Jr.Publisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Feb 07, 2023Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231200676ISBN-13: 9780231200677

In this inviting book, philosopher Christopher Hamilton reflects on the nature of rapture and its crucial yet unacknowledged place in our lives.Author: Christopher HamiltonPublisher: Columbia...

A man tests the limits of what is possible in life and love in this early twentieth-century novel.Author: IliazdPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: May 16, 2017Number of Pages: 248...

Emma Planinc argues that liberal democracies must open themselves up to a regenerative politics that accepts all claims against political convention as self-determinative--including those that desire...

Andreas E. Feldmann examines the disparate behavior of actors including guerrilla groups, state security forces, and paramilitaries during Colombia's long and bloody civil war. Analyzing the...

Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit--the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today--offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of...

In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and...

Author: Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. PilkeyPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Nov 28, 2017Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

David N. Gibbs explores the forces that shaped the turn toward free market economics and wealth concentration and finds their roots in the 1970s. He argues that the political transformations of this...

Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a...

River Profiles - the People Restoring Our WaterwaysAuthor: PETE. HILLPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Apr 09, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This book presents Edward W. Said's insightful and elegant analyses of four major operas--originally delivered as the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University in 1997--showcasing the power of his...

Dana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action--but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events.Author:...

Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of the Black collectors who dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to...

We are obsessed with self-improvement; it's a billion-dollar industry. But apps, workshops, speakers, retreats, and life hacks have not made us happier. Obsessed with the endless task of perfecting...

Mikhail Zoshchenko's Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. An original perspective on Soviet life...

Author: Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. EmmettPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Feb 03, 2014Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Author: Siddharth KaraPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Aug 29, 2017Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231180330ISBN-13: 9780231180337

Shattered Grief is an intimate portrait of how COVID-19 changed the ways Americans approach, understand, and mourn death.Author: Natasha L. MiklesPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date:...

This reader presents the latest and most cutting-edge work in Sinophone studies, bringing together both senior and emerging scholars to highlight the interdisciplinary reach and significance of this...

The first English translation of this remarkable 1910 novel by Alexei Remizov, Sisters of the Cross is a masterpiece of early modernist fiction. It tell the story of a poor clerk who rebels against...

It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to the heart of this proposal by reviewing in detail each...

Smoother Pebbles presents a collection of essays authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Cole, a leading Columbia Program figure, that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of...

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand...

Author: Ashley JuavinettPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Dec 08, 2020Number of Pages: 328 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231190891ISBN-13: 9780231190893

Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke present a new management framework for developing and measuring the success of partnerships among the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. Social Value...