Books from Columbia University Press
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Keeping House in Lusaka
By Karen Tranberg Hansen1934. Memorandum on the Native Tribes and Tribal Areas of Northern Rhodesia . Lusaka : Government Printer . Timberlake , Michael , ed . 1985.
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The Problem with Pleasure: Modernism and Its Discontents
By Laura FrostIn The Problem with Pleasure, Frost draws upon a wide variety of materials, linking interwar amusements, such as the talkies, romance novels, the Parisian fragrance Chanel no. 5, and the exotic confection Turkish Delight, to the artistic ...
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The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy Tale
By Karen McNally... Carl, 49 Reynolds, Debbie, 39–40 Rhimes, Shonda, 111 Rich, Allan, 98 Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess (1983), 82 Robeson, Paul, 113 Robinson, Bill “Bojangles,” 110–11 Robson, Mark, 96 Robson, May, 29, 31 Rocketman (2019), 101 Rogers, ...
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Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice
By Terry A. Wolfer, Lori D Franklin, Karen A GrayJEAN GIBSON A native of Alabama, Jean Gibson had received her MSW from the University of Alabama. A twenty-eight-year-old lesbian, she was in a long-term committed relationship. As a therapist at Highland, she saw the writing on the ...
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Evolving Eden: An Illustrated Guide to the Evolution of the African Large-mammal Fauna
By Alan Turner, Mauricio AntónLinking the evidence of the past with that of the present, this exquisitely illustrated guide examines the evolution of the mammalian fauna of Africa within the context of dramatic changes over the course of more than 30 million years of ...
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Tracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells: The Enigmatic Smile
By Betsey Dexter DyerThis study draws evidence from the fossil record and from molecular biology to develop and support the theory that complex cells are symbiotic unions of bacterial cells.
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The Cinema of Michael Mann: Vice and Vindication
By Jonathan Rayner... of robberies and undercover work proliferate in Mann's films as examples of deliberately performative professional roles requiring skill, commitment and methodological absorption. In The Insider, Mike Wallace's (Christopher Plummer) ...
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Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian Americas
By David Lewis Lentzucion sedimentologica y geomorphologica ladas , J. Feathers , W. Barnett , M. Imazio da de la llanura aluvial de desborde en el Bajo Silveira , A. Henderson , J. Silva , B. CherLlano . Boletin de la Sociedad Venezolana noff , D. Reese ...
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Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
By Susan Stanford FriedmanElaine H. Kim and Norma Alarcón, 103–142. Berkeley, Calif.: Third Woman, 1994. Woodside, Alexander. ... Ed. Anne Olivier Bell. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. ——. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 1925–1930. Vol. 3.
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Decision Cases for Advanced Social Work Practice: Confronting Complexity
By Terry A. Wolfer, Lori D Franklin, Karen A GrayAlthough the Overton Brooks VA had staff who could address issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and other mental health issues, there were no specialty programs or inpatient psychiatric facilities at ...
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The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies
By William A. Katz, Linda Sternberg Katz, Esther CrainAmong the recipients who have achieved national prominence are X. J. Kennedy , Robert Hayden , and Frank O'Hara . Short biographies of each poet show that ... Stanley W. Lindberg and Stephen Corey , eds . ( 1987 ) University of Georgia ...
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Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer: Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities
By JenniferDezalay, Yves and Garth, Bryant G., 2002, La mondialisation des guerres de palais. La restructuration du pouvoir d'État en Amérique latine. Entre notables du droit et “Chicago Boys”, Paris, Seuil. Dezalay, Yves, 2007, “De la défense de ...
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Designing Women: Cinema, Art Deco, and the Female Form
By Lucy FischerHere , in Greta Garbo's first cinematic “ glamour shot ” ( photographed by William Daniels , who would come to be known as her cameraman [ Katz 2001 : 329 ] ) , she is adorned in chic fashion and inhabits a modernist space .
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Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge: Two Memoirs About Courtesans
By Mao Xiang, Yu Huai... 87 Xia Yunyi, 135–36, 174 Xiao Boliang, 78, 154 Xiaoqing, 102, 111, 283n145 Xiaosheng (Dong Xiaosheng), 24, 134 Xie An, xxviii, 169, 170, 179, 276n71, 278n82 Xie Qiuniang, 148 Xie Zhaozhi, 70 Xie Zhuang, 39 Xu Da, 160.
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A Tower for the Summer Heat
By Yu LiThe poets Tao Qian ( 365–427 ) and Xie Lingyun ( 383—443 ) celebrated the joys of private life in the country . 4. The text alludes to a mythical convention at which 6 A TOWER FOR THE SUMMER HEAT.
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Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West
By Anthony C. Yu... such as Tao Qian, Xie Lingyun, Li Bo, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Bo Juyi, Li Shangyin, and Su Dongbo. But as one recalls that the 900 sections of the Quan Tangshi (Complete Tang Poems) encompass over 48,000 shi poems by some 2,200 authors, ...
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Family Problem Solving
By William James ReidThese agencies and supervisors include Colonie Youth Center ( Robert Frawley ) , Catholic Family Service of Schenectady ( Paul Bernard ) , and Catholic Family Service of Troy ( Ross Westhuis ) . An additional source of ideas ...
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City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York
By David M. HenkinM. Christine Boyer , Manhattan Manners , 9-15 ; Thomas Bender , Toward an Urban Vision , 173 21. Quoted in Spann , The New Metropolis , 104 . 22. New York Mirror , quoted in ibid . , 158 . 23. Quoted in Still , Mirror for Gotham , 99 .
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Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-genomic Age
By Jonathan Kahn125 As early as June 2006, Kenneth Bate, then CFO of NitroMed, noted that prescriptions were significantly below expectations because NitroMed was having trou- ble getting “large payers” (i.e., prescription benefit management corpora- ...
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Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels
By Michael AwkwardIn the present chapter, I shall focus on Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Morrison's narrative stands as her initial attempt at generic denigration, as her first effort to create what she has elsewhere called "A genuine Black . . . Book.