Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Wrestling with the Muse
Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
And as I groped in darkness
and felt the pain of millions,
gradually, like day driving night across the continent,
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision.
—Dudley Randall, from "Roses and Revolutions"
In 1963, the African American poet Dudley Randall...
Passion for Reality
The Extraordinary Life of the Investing Pioneer Paul Cabot
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Paul Cabot (1898–1994) was an innovative mutual fund manager and executive known for his strong character, charismatic personality, and trendsetting financial achievements. Iconoclastic and rebellious, Cabot broke free from the Boston Brahmin trustee mold to pursue new ways of investing and serving...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year’s anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauer’s visceral “My Four Months as a Private Prison...
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares...
Shapeholders
Business Success in the Age of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. Executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders—shareholders, employees, and consumers—but they...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Intersecting Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in...
Measured Excess
Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
-- Elise Mellinger, University of Hawaii--Manoa, Korean Studies
Conversations with Gorbachev
On Perestroika, the Prague Spring, and the Crossroads of Socialism
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynar were friends for half a century, since they first crossed paths as students in 1950. Although one was a Russian and the other a Czech, they were both ardent supporters of communism and socialism. One took part in laying the groundwork for and carrying out the Prague...
The Education of John Dewey
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American...
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite...
Eternal Ephemera
Adaptation and the Origin of Species from the Nineteenth Century Through Punctuated Equilibria and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
All organisms and species are transitory, yet life endures. The origin, extinction, and evolution of species—interconnected in the web of life as "eternal ephemera"—are the concern of evolutionary biology. In this riveting work, renowned paleontologist Niles Eldredge follows leading...
Better Presentations
A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written document into slides, but the result is often...
Error and the Academic Self
The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
How and why did the academic style of writing, with its emphasis on criticism and correctness, develop? Seth Lerer suggests that the answer lies in medieval and Renaissance philology and, more specifically, in mistakes. For Lerer, erring is not simply being wrong, but being errant, and this book illuminates...