Columbia University Press: 2355 books
The Seventh Sense
How Flashes of Insight Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Flashes of insight—the "Eureka!" moments that produce new and useful ideas in a single thought—are behind some of the world's most creative and practical innovations. This book shows how to cultivate more and better flashes of insight by harnessing the science and practice of the "seventh...
by C. T. Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature...
Bargaining with the State from Afar
American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, 1844-1942
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2001
In the early 1990s, when organizations representing the 2.6 million U.S. nationals living abroad appealed to Congress for their own non-voting representative, the response of one Senator was to dismiss these "moans of the mink-swathed Americans abroad." However, the image of a life of luxury...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent drive to replace...
American Environmental History
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis....
Journalism Under Fire
Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
A healthy democracy requires vigorous, uncompromising investigative journalism. But today the free press faces a daunting set of challenges: in the face of harsh criticism from powerful politicians and the threat of lawsuits from wealthy individuals, media institutions are confronted by an uncertain...
Strategic Intuition
The Creative Spark in Human Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
How "Aha!" really happens.
When do you get your best ideas? You probably answer "At night," or "In the shower," or "Stuck in traffic." You get a flash of insight. Things come together in your mind. You connect the dots. You say to yourself, "Aha!...
Buddhism and Medicine
An Anthology of Premodern Sources
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
From its earliest days, Buddhism has been closely intertwined with medicine. Buddhism and Medicine is a singular collection showcasing the generative relationship and mutual influence between these fields across premodern Asia. The anthology combines dozens of English-language translations of premodern...
The Bhāgavata Purāna
Selected Readings
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological message focuses on devotion to Krishna or Vishnu,...
Voices of Revolution
The Dissident Press in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2001
Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and...
Behind the Gate
Inventing Students in Beijing
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology...
The Fabulous Imagination
On Montaigne's Essays
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University
"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes...
Law and War
International Law and American History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
In this classic text, Peter Maguire follows America's legal relationship with war, both before and after the Nuremberg trials of the 1940s. Maguire argues that the precedents set by the trials were nothing less than revolutionary, and he traces the development of these new attitudes throughout American...
Neuroscience and Philosophy
Brain, Mind, and Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
In Neuroscience and Philosophy three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience (Blackwell, 2003), which questions...