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Archpriest Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and '70s from a cell in an Arctic...

This book tells the story of Simone Weil's most dedicated--and at points surprising--literary conversation partners, exploring why writers with varied political and religious commitments have found...

Alexei Remizov was one of the greatest writers of the Russian Symbolist movement. In the thirteen stories collected in this volume, his exceptional stylistic achievements are on full display. The...

The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their...

In the chaos of early 199s Russia, a paralyzed veteran's wife and stepdaughter conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him--and his pension--alive, until it turns out the tough...

The Met : A History of a Museum and Its PeopleAuthor: NAPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. They showcase Nikolai Gogol's vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a...

One of the most influential commentaries on the Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, for the past thousand years has been that of Zhu Xi (1130-1200). Joseph A. Adler's translation of the Yijing...

This book tells the story of Gen Z's growing political participation--and why it is poised to drive U.S. politics leftward.Author: MELISSA. DECKMANPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication...

The President's Day is a groundbreaking study of the history, theory, and practice of modern presidential time management.Author: Matthew N BeckmannPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication...

Mark S. Ferrara tells the stories of the ordinary people who lived, worked, and died along the banks of the Erie Canal, emphasizing the forgotten role of the poor and working class in this epochal...

The Rebirth of Suspense in CinemaAuthor: Rick WarnerPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10:...

The Rise of Pacific Literature : Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and ModernismAuthor: NAPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Same Moon Shines on All explores the world of Seigan and Koran, pairing an in-depth account of their lives and times with an inviting selection of their poetry.Author: Yanagawa SeiganPublisher:...

The Shape of Spirituality : The Public Significance of a New Religious FormationAuthor: NAPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and life through the ages, telling the remarkable stories of the scientists who made...

The Talnikov Family (1848) follows Natasha, a girl growing up in a psychologically and physically abusive household of Petersburg actors. Modeled on Panaeva's own life prior to her marriage to...

The master distiller Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes readers on a world tour of whiskey and the...

A leading physician scientist explains why, despite major advances in our understanding of addiction, treatment continues to be ineffective--even harmful--and how we can achieve better outcomes...

An inside look at the experience of space travel and the destinations we may one day visit as space tourists.Author: NEIL F. COMINSPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 22,...

Author: Peter T. ColemanPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Nov 08, 2022Number of Pages: 296 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0231197411ISBN-13: 9780231197410

Author: Eric KandelPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Dec 07, 2021Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0231200145ISBN-13: 9780231200141

This Incredible Need To Believe (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)Author: Julia KristevaPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 25,...

This book historically examines film noir visual style, aesthetic technique, and the technological, industrial, and material production conditions which contributed to the multifaceted evolution of...

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A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in "becoming" a dog and howling at...

Richard Kearney offers a timely call for the cultivation of the basic human need to touch and be touched. Making the case for the complementarity of touch and technology, this book is a passionate...

This book brings together a range of contributors to reconsider transformative social work, focusing on concrete examples in academic settings both inside and outside the classroom.Author: Danielle...

Drawing on two and a half years of in-depth fieldwork spent among CERN's research community surrounding the discovery of the Higgs boson, Arpita Roy offers a rich analysis of science in the making...

Unseasonable - Climate Change in Global LiteraturesAuthor: Sarah DimickPublisher: Columbia University PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...