Paul Cohen: 23 books
Discovering History in China
American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Since its first publication, Paul A. Cohen's Discovering History in China has occupied a singular place in American China scholarship. Translated into three East Asian languages, the volume has become essential to the study of China from the early nineteenth century to today.
Cohen critiques...
History and Popular Memory
The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation....
by Paul Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Reluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancé in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site...
by Elie paul Cohen
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Une plongée bouleversante au coeur de la guerre en Afghanistan, à travers les yeux d'un médecin urgentiste engagé par l'armée française. Jusqu'à nos propres rues d'Occident... Un témoignage exceptionnel.Ce livre est le récit d'une histoire vécue, celle de Paul, un médecin urgentiste franco-britannique....
Speaking to History
The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans—even students and specialists of this era—have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History, Paul A. Cohen opens...
Kiew – Revolution 3.0
Der Euromaidan 2013/14 und die Zukunftsperspektiven der Ukraine
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Nach der Revolution „auf dem Granit“ von 1990 und der Or-angenen Revolution von 2004 hat von November 2013 bis Februar 2014 ein weiterer ukrainischer Volksaufstand, der Euromaidan, das Janukowitsch-Regime weggespült. Die vielschichtigen Probleme der Ukraine sind damit allerdings nicht gelöst....
A Machine to Make a Future
Biotech Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
A Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet of Celera Diagnostics--the California biotech company whose formative work during 2003 is the focus of the...
Piety and Politics
Catholic Revival and the Generation of 1905-1914 in France
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
In this book, first published in 1984, Paul Cohen examines the Catholic revival among the young French intelligentsia prior to the First World War. He explores this intellectual revival by studying that period’s "talas", the Catholic students at the elite Ecole Normale Supérieure, and...
Infantile Autism
The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
by Eric W. Sanderson, Ph.D., Paul E. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni...
China Unbound
Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent...
by Devra B. Adelstein, Ann Alaoglu, E. James Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This volume offers very specific illustrations of psychoanalytic ways of thinking and working in both clinical and pedagogical contexts with children. It is designed for professionals who work with infants, children, and adolescents, and who are seeking modes of working that respects emotions, that...
Diasporas
Concepts, Intersections, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping...
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