Columbia University Press: 2355 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic...
Eating Disorders
New Directions in Treatment and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2000
Fully revised to reflect changes in the field, this collection of essays by psychotherapists who specialize in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia explains in accessible and humane terms how the treatment process works and demonstrates strategies that lead to recovery. The book details the...
by Avner Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 1998
Until now, there has been no detailed account of Israel's nuclear history. Previous treatments of the subject relied heavily on rumors, leaks, and journalistic speculations. But with Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen has forged an interpretive political history that draws on thousands of American and...
Pomodoro!
A History of the Tomato in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
More than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in its farming, processing, exchange, and consumption. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for those who grow it, and a symbol of Old World nostalgia...
Not So Different
Finding Human Nature in Animals
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational...
Atlas
The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Set in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong), Atlas is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling to rebuild a thrilling metropolis. Divided into four sections—"Theory," "The City," "Streets," and "Signs"—the...
Paving the Great Way
Vasubandhu's Unifying Buddhist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu (fourth–fifth century C.E.) is known for his critical contribution to Buddhist Abhidharma thought, his turn to the Mahayana tradition, and his concise, influential Yogacara–Vijñanavada texts. Paving the Great Way reveals another dimension of his legacy:...
Another Person’s Poison
A History of Food Allergy
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth.
Another Person's Poison parses the...
The City Trilogy
Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Taiwan's most innovative science fiction writer presents three tales of intrigue, espionage, betrayal, political strife, time travel, and Chinese history and mysticism. After thousands of years of civil unrest and countless wars, the weary Huhui people of Sunlon City have once again succumbed to a...
by Allan Kellehear
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
This unique book recounts the experience of facing one's death solely from the dying person's point of view rather than from the perspective of caregivers, survivors, or rescuers. Such unmediated access challenges assumptions about the emotional and spiritual dimensions of dying, showing readers that—along...
French Global
A New Approach to Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary understanding of language, literature,...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social...
by Nora M. Alter
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Nora M. Alter reveals the essay film to be a hybrid genre that fuses the categories of feature, art, and documentary film. Like its literary predecessor, the essay film draws on a variety of forms and approaches; in the process, it fundamentally alters the shape of cinema. The Essay Film After Fact...
The New European Cinema
Redrawing the Map
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
New European Cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s. Made around the time of the revolutions of 1989...