Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Serious Play
Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers...
Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star
A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan—the murder and emasculation of her lover. What made her do it? And why was she found guilty of murder yet sentenced to only six years in prison? Why have this woman and her crime remained so famous for so long, and...
Possible Lives
Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2005
Possible Lives uses the saints'lives written by humanists of the Italian Renaissance to explore the intertwining of classical and religious cultures on the eve of the European Reformation. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern...
One Out of Three
Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City. Contributors show how nearly fifty years of massive inflows have transformed New York City's economic and cultural life...
by Ann Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Many hospice social workers must address spiritual issues with their clients, but do not feel competent to do so effectively. This targeted volume draws upon multidisciplinary theory and research to advance a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The book will help readers elevate...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The Vessantara Jataka tells the story of Prince Vessantara, who attained the Perfection of Generosity by giving away his fortune, his children, and his wife. Vessantara was the penultimate rebirth as a human of the future Gotama Buddha, and his extreme charity has been represented and reinterpreted...
Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth
A Brief History and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
For serious yoga practitioners curious to know the ancient origins of the art, Stephen Phillips, a professional philosopher and sanskritist with a long-standing personal practice, lays out the philosophies of action, knowledge, and devotion as well as the processes of meditation, reasoning, and self-analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Despite considerable research on the Jewish diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa since 1800, there has until now been no comprehensive synthesis that illuminates both the differences and commonalities in Jewish experience across a range of countries and cultures. This lacuna in both Jewish...
Race and Real Estate
Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Through the lens of real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and reveals the complex interactions between whites and African Americans at a critical time of migration and development. During these decades Harlem saw a dramatic...
Drinking History
Fifteen Turning Points in the Making of American Beverages
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
A companion to Andrew F. Smith's critically acclaimed and popular Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, this volume recounts the individuals, ingredients, corporations, controversies, and myriad events responsible for America's diverse and complex beverage scene....
Slow Food
The Case for Taste
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Take a breath.... Read slowly.
How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our...
by Massimo Montanari
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Massimo Montanari draws readers into the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine—which consisted of bread, wine, and olives—with the barbarian diet—rooted in bread, milk, and meat—first formed the basics of modern...
Confidence Game
The Limited Vision of the News Gurus
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Dean Starkman takes on what has become a dominant perspective on the future of news in the digital age as personified by three well known media thinkers—Jay Rosen, Clay Shirky, and Jeff Jarvis—who have dominated the "future of news" debate. Starkman makes a powerful case that the perspective...
Leprosy in China
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Angela Ki Che Leung's meticulous study begins with the classical annals of the imperial era, which contain the first descriptions of a feared and stigmatized disorder modern researchers now identify as leprosy. She then tracks the relationship between the disease and China's social and political spheres...