Cornell University Press imprint: 972 books
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul...
Humanitarianism in Question
Politics, Power, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Various matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader...
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts
The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Big, attention-grabbing numbers are frequently used in policy debates and media reporting: "At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia." "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between...
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Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book uses hundreds of hours of newly opened interviews and other sources to illuminate the life and times of the nation's forty-second president, Bill Clinton. Combining the authoritative perspective of these inside accounts with the analytic powers of some of America’s most distinguished presidential...
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China
Power and Politics in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China demonstrates how structural and domestic variables influence how East Asian states adjust their strategy in light of the rise of China, including how China manages its own emerging role as a regional great power. The contributors note that the shifting regional...
Asian Designs
Governance in the Contemporary World Order
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Asian nations are no longer "rising" powers in the world order; they have risen. How will they conduct themselves in world politics? How will they deploy their considerable and growing power individually and collectively? These questions are critical for global governance. Conventional wisdom claims...
Presence
Philosophy, History, and Cultural Theory for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The philosophy of "presence" seeks to challenge current understandings of meaning and understanding. One can trace its origins back to Vico, Dilthey, and Heidegger, though its more immediate exponents include Jean-Luc Nancy, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, and such contemporary philosophers of history as Frank...
Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be
Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training...
by Giambattista Vico
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical autobiography. Referring to himself in the third person,...
by Pin Yathay
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Public Works. Successful and highly educated, he had been critical of the corrupt Lon Nol regime and...
Nabokov
The Mystery of Literary Structures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed...
by Chekitan S. Dev
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In recent years the brand has moved squarely into the spotlight as the key to success in the hospitality industry. Business strategy once began with marketing and incorporated branding as one of its elements; today the brand drives marketing within the larger hospitality enterprise. Not only has it...
Food Policy for Developing Countries
The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies.
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The Art of English Poesy
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
George Puttenham's Art of English Poesy is a foundational work of English Renaissance criticism and literary theory. Rich in detail about the nature, purpose, and functions of poetry as well as the poet's character and goals, it is also a valuable historical document, offering generous insight into...