Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Becoming the News
How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a news story? A refugee family, the survivor of a shooting, a primary voter in Iowa—the views and experiences of ordinary people are an important component of journalism. While much has been written about how journalists work and gather...
Chinese Script
History, Characters, Calligraphy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this brisk and accessible history, sinologist Thomas O. Höllmann explains the development of the Chinese writing system and its importance in literature, religion, art, and other aspects of culture. Spanning the earliest epigraphs and oracle bones to writing and texting on computers and mobile...
Across the Lines of Conflict
Facilitating Cooperation to Build Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Through a comparative analysis of six case studies, this volume illustrates key conflict-resolution techniques for peacebuilding. Outside parties learn how to facilitate cooperation by engaging local leaders in intensive, interactive workshops. These opposing leaders reside in small, ethnically divided...
Captive Society
The Basij Militia and Social Control in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Iran's Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed (Sazeman-e Basij-e Mostazafan), commonly known as the Basij, is a paramilitary organization used by the regime to suppress dissidents, vote as a bloc, and indoctrinate Iranian citizens. Captive Society surveys the Basij's history, structure,...
A History of the Iraq Crisis
France, the United States, and Iraq, 1991–2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In March 2003, the United States and Great Britain invaded Iraq to put an end to the regime of Saddam Hussein. The war was launched without a United Nations mandate and was based on the erroneous claim that Iraq had retained weapons of mass destruction. France, under President Jacques Chirac and Foreign...
Al-Qaeda's Revenge
The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings, Fernando Reinares tells the story of "3/11" - the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. He examines the development of an al-Qaeda conspiracy in Spain from the 1990s...
Wall Streeters
The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
The 2008 financial collapse, the expansion of corporate and private wealth, the influence of money in politics—many of Wall Street's contemporary trends can be traced back to the work of fourteen critical figures who wrote, and occasionally broke, the rules of American finance.
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Lady in the Dark
Iris Barry and the Art of Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Iris Barry (1895–1969) was a pivotal modern figure and one of the first intellectuals to treat film as an art form, appreciating its far-reaching, transformative power. Although she had the bearing of an aristocrat, she was the self-educated daughter of a brass founder and a palm-reader from the...
Philosophical Temperaments
From Plato to Foucault
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts...
The Black Circle
A Life of Alexandre Kojève
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) was an important and provocative thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most of his life in France. His interpretation of Hegel and his notorious declaration that history had come to an end exerted great influence on French thinkers and writers such as Raymond Aron, Georges...
The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in...
by Adrienne Munich
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 1996
Drawing upon feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches, Munich searches out the myriad, often contradictory incarnations of Queen Victoria in the minds of her subjects.
The Power of a Single Number
A Political History of GDP
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure...
The Most Important Thing Illuminated
Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints...