Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Inside Al Qaeda
Global Network of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
Inside Al Qaeda examines the leadership, ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics of the most violent politico-religious organization the world has ever seen. The definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with its members; field research...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler,...
Identity Poetics
Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2001
"Queer theory," asserts Linda Garber, "alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contributions." Rejecting the either/or choice between lesbianism and queer theory, she favors an inclusive approach that defies current...
Courtesans and Opium
Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning...
After Pluralism
Reimagining Religious Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
The contributors to this volume treat pluralism as a concept that is historically and ideologically produced or, put another way, as a doctrine that is embedded within a range of political, civic, and cultural institutions. Their critique considers how religious difference is framed as a problem that...
Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Chance
Art as Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard...
Field Notes from Elsewhere
Reflections on Dying and Living
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery...
by Sasha Sokolov
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Sasha Sokolov is one of few writers to have been praised by Vladimir Nabokov, who called his first novel, A School for Fools, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book." Sokolov's second novel, Between Dog and Wolf, written in 1980, has long intimidated translators because of its complex...
Twenty-first Century Motherhood
Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications...
The Primacy of the Political
A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the French and American Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The conflict between politics and antipolitics has replayed throughout Western history and philosophical thought. From the beginning, Plato's quest for absolute certainty led him to denounce democracy, an anti-political position challenged by Aristotle. In his wide-ranging narrative, Dick Howard puts...
Polishing Your Prose
How to Turn First Drafts Into Finished Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then scrutinize three extended paragraphs, suggesting with remarkable specificity how to improve them. The volume...
Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of...
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death,...
Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world,...