Columbia University Press: 2355 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Primarily comprising works from the People's...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological sections:...
Nicholas Miraculous
The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was "Nicholas Miraculous," the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was "the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy," a champion of "false and cruel ideals."...
Stanford White
Decorator in Opulence and Dealer in Antiquities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2005
The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively...
Torn at the Roots
The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
When Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdom held that Jews were uniformly liberal. This book explodes the myth of a monolithic liberal Judaism. Michael Staub tells the story of the many fierce battles that raged in postwar America over...
Hollywood and the Culture Elite
How the Movies Became American
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
As Americans flocked to the movies during the first part of the twentieth century, the guardians of culture grew worried about their diminishing influence on American art, education, and American identity itself. Meanwhile, Hollywood studio heads were eager to stabilize their industry, solidify their...
Friendlyvision
Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary...
The Politics of the Governed
Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups....
Mobilizing the Community for Better Health
What the Rest of America Can Learn from Northern Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways...
Journalism After Snowden
The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower or source, signaled...
Traditional Japanese Literature
An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of...
Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
Climate Change is geared toward a variety of students and general readers who seek the real science behind global warming. Exquisitely illustrated, the text introduces the basic science underlying both the natural progress of climate change and the effect of human activity on the deteriorating health...
by Michael Dummett
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2003
Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures—"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"—were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays...
Conquering Lyme Disease
Science Bridges the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States, with more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, giving rise to the controversy known as the “Lyme Wars.” Firmly entrenched camps have emerged, causing...