Columbia University Press: 2355 books
by Ami Pedahzur
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
While Mossad is known as one of the world's most successful terrorist-fighting organizations, the state of Israel has, more than once and on many levels, risked the lives of its agents and soldiers through unwise intelligence-based intervention. The elimination of Palestinian leaders and militants...
The Politics of Inequality
A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Since the early days of the American republic, political thinkers have maintained that a grossly unequal division of property, wealth, and power would lead to the erosion of democratic life. Yet over the past thirty-five years, neoconservatives and neoliberals alike have redrawn the tenets of American...
The Long War
A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and sociologists examine the alarms, emergencies, controversies, and confusions that have characterized America's Cold War, the post-Cold War interval of the 1990s, and today's "Global War on Terror." This "Long...
Hiroshima After Iraq
Three Studies in Art and War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
Many on the left lament an apathy or amnesia toward recent acts of war. Particularly during the George W. Bush administration's invasion of Iraq, opposition to war seemed to lack the heat and potency of the 1960s and 1970s, giving the impression that passionate dissent was all but dead.
Through...
On Company Time
American Modernism in the Big Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois,...
Facing the Abyss
American Literature and Culture in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and...
The Epigenetics Revolution
How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity....
The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize
Advice for Young Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize, Doherty recounts his unlikely path to becoming a Nobel Laureate. Beginning with his humble origins in Australia, he tells how he developed an interest in immunology and describes his award-winning, influential work with Rolf Zinkernagel on T-cells...
The Quest for the Cure
The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
After more than fifty years of blockbuster drug development, skeptics are beginning to fear we are reaching the end of drug discovery to combat major diseases. In this engaging book, Brent R. Stockwell, a leading researcher in the exciting new science of chemical biology, describes this dilemma and...
Landscape of the Mind
Human Evolution and the Archaeology of Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
In Landscape of the Mind, John F. Hoffecker explores the origin and growth of the human mind, drawing on archaeology, history, and the fossil record. He suggests that, as an indirect result of bipedal locomotion, early humans developed a feedback relationship among their hands, brains, and tools that...
Salt
Grain of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2001
For the sake of salt, Rome created a system of remuneration (from which we get the word "salary"), nomads domesticated the camel, the Low Countries revolted against their Spanish oppressors, and Gandhi marched against the tyranny of the British. Through the ages, salt has conferred status,...
Enigmas of Health and Disease
How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak...
The Heretic in Darwin’s Court
The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually amicable but...
by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Evolutionary theory made its stage debut as early as the 1840s, reflecting a scientific advancement that was fast changing the world. Tracing this development in dozens of mainstream European and American plays, as well as in circus, vaudeville, pantomime, and "missing link" performances,...