Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging
Research and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2006
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging brings together cutting-edge research, practical information, and innovative thinking regarding the characteristics and processes of aging among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Written by experts in the field, the book covers a range...
by Cynthia Willett
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Interspecies Ethics explores animals' vast capacity for agency, justice, solidarity, humor, and communication across species. The social bonds diverse animals form provide a remarkable model for communitarian justice and cosmopolitan peace, challenging the human exceptionalism that drives modern moral...
by Wendy Law-Yone
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Wendy Law-Yone was just fifteen when Burma's military staged a coup and overthrew the civilian government in 1962. The daughter of Ed Law-Yone, the daredevil founder and chief editor of The Nation, Burma's leading postwar English-language newspaper, she experienced firsthand the perils and promises...
Visions of Belonging
Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories—A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun—entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s....
Dissenting Bodies
Corporealities in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turned.
Drawing...
Decoding Al-Qaeda's Strategy
The Deep Battle Against America
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy has more in common with the principles of Maoist guerrilla warfare than mainstream Islam. Encouraging strategists and researchers to devote greater attention to jihadi ideas...
Albert Camus the Algerian
Colonialism, Terrorism, Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
In these original readings of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays, David Carroll concentrates on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the deadly cycle...
by Adam of Adam of Bremen
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2002
Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth...
The Old Capital
A Novel of Taipei
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates fact from...
The Lost Garden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Zhu Zuyan spends his days luxuriating in his Lotus Garden,...
The Tet Offensive
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. Though the Communists failed to achieve their tactical and operational objectives, James Willbanks claims Hanoi won a strategic victory. The offensive proved that America's progress...
by Mikhail Zoshchenko
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Mikhail Zoshchenko’s Sentimental Tales are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, who is anything but a model Soviet author: not only is he still attached to the era of the old...
Cold War, Cool Medium
Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more open and tolerant place....
The Other Blacklist
The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the...