Columbia Press: 2357 books
Manly States
Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how...
Species Matters
Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race, class, gender, sexuality, disability,...
by James Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate...
by Jean Baudrillard
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2000
Aren't we actually sick of sex, of difference, of emancipation, of culture? With this provocative taunt, the indomitable sociologist Jean Baudrillard challenges us to face up to our deadly, technologically empowered renunciation of mortality and subjectivity as he grapples with the complex issues...
The War of the Soups and the Sparks
The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2005
Like the cracking of the genetic code and the creation of the atomic bomb, the discovery of how the brain's neurons work is one of the fundamental scientific developments of the twentieth century. The discovery of neurotransmitters revolutionized the way we think about the brain and what it means...
Adolescents in Public Housing
Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Adolescents in Public Housing incorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine much-needed light on African American youth living in non–HOPE VI public-housing neighborhoods. With findings grounded in research, the book gives practitioners and policy makers a solid...
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?
An Autobiographical Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great oppression,...
by T'aejun Yi
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Yi T’aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea’s true masters of the short story—and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Soviet-occupied northern zone of his country. In South Korea, where he is known today as “one who went north,” Yi’s work was banned until 1988....
Electric Sounds
Technological Change and the Rise of Corporate Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Electric Sounds brings to vivid life an era when innovations in the production, recording, and transmission of sound revolutionized a number of different media, especially the radio, the phonograph, and the cinema.
The 1920s and 1930s marked some of the most important developments in the history...
Down the Up Staircase
Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth...
The Undiscovered Country
Poetry in the Age of Tin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
William Logan has been called both the "preeminent poet-critic of his generation" and the "most hated man in American poetry." For more than a quarter century, in the keen-witted and bare-knuckled reviews that have graced the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement...
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Environment and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms...
Sprezzatura
Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with...
by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Translated into English for the first time, the novel weaves an engaging tale of manipulation, infatuation,...