Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Uncreative Writing
Managing Language in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Can techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word processing, databasing, identity ciphering, and intensive programming, inspire the reinvention of writing? The Internet and the digital environment present writers with new challenges and opportunities to reconceive...
by Bangqing Han
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a...
Harmattan
A Philosophical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds.
Evoking the hot, dust-filled...
by Paul Lurquin
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
The Origins of Life and the Universe is the culmination of a university science professor's search for understanding and is based on his experiences teaching the fundamental issues of physics, chemistry, and biology in the classroom. What is life? Where did it come from? How can understanding the...
God and Man in Tehran
Contending Visions of the Divine from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In God and Man in Tehran, Hossein Kamaly explores the historical processes that have made and unmade contending visions of God in Iran’s capital throughout the past two hundred years. Kamaly examines how ideas of God have been mobilized, contested, and transformed, emphasizing how notions of the...
The Way the Wind Blows
Climate Change, History, and Human Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
-- Robert W. Harms, Yale University
CBS’s Don Hollenbeck
An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood,...
Sports Analytics
A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Benjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the University of San Francisco and has published numerous cutting-edge studies on strategy and player evaluation....
Upsetting the Apple Cart
Black-Latino Coalitions in New York City from Protest to Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Upsetting the Apple Cart surveys the history of black-Latino coalitions in New York City from 1959 to 1989. In those years, African American and Latino Progressives organized, mobilized, and transformed neighborhoods, workplaces, university campuses, and representative government in the nation's urban...
by Saiichi Maruya
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges...
Fantasies of the New Class
Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
America's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open to...
The Death of the Animal
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding...
by Audrey Altstadt
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan follows a newly independent oil-rich former Soviet republic as it adopts a Western model of democratic government and then turns toward corrupt authoritarianism. Audrey L. Altstadt begins with the Nagorno-Karabagh War (1988–1994) which triggered Azerbaijani...
A Genetic and Cultural Odyssey
The Life and Work of L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2005
Drawing links between genetic and cultural development, Cavalli-Sforza developed groundbreaking techniques to trace the evolution of Homo sapiens and the origins of human differentiation, in addition to his earlier work in bacterial genetics. He is also the founder of the Human Genome Diversity Project...