Books from Columbia University Press

The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, and Fiction, 1660-1800
By Janet Todd
... medical writer Dr William Smellie and other ' Instrumentarians ' who ' cut their Way in with iron and steel ' . ( For her pains she was much mocked by the novelist Tobias Smollett and indeed is still belittled by male writers .
The Columbia Guide to Online Style
By Janice R. Walker, Todd W. Taylor
A clear and complete guide to bibliographic and footnoting style for citing on-line information fills a desperate need for coherent rules for these citations, as well as gives guidelines for formating documents for online preparation, and ...
Strategies for Work With Involuntary Clients
By Ronald H. Rooney
Families in Society : The Journal of Contemporary Human Services 80 ( 5 ) : 468–477 . Stanton , M. D. 1980. Family treatment approaches to drug abuse problems : A review . Family Process 18 : 251–280 . Stein , T. 1987.
One Long Experiment: Scale and Process in Earth History
By Ronald E. Martin
In K. O. Mann , H. R. Lane , and J. A. Stein , eds . , Graphic Correlation and the Composite Standard Approach . Society for Sedimentary Geology Special Publication No. 53 , Tulsa , Okla . MacLeod , N. , and G. Keller . 1991.
Determinants of Health: An Economic Perspective
By Michael Grossman
Gary G. Becker, “Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach,” 76 J. Pol. Econ. 169 (1968). In Becker's model, a system of monetary fines is optimal in most situations. Since teenagers involved in serious automobile accidents presumably ...
The Demand for Health: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation
By Michael Grossman
These are some of the major revelations of Grossman's model, findings that have great relevance as we struggle to understand the links between poverty, education, structural disadvantages, and health.
State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity
By Marc Lynch
Even King Hussein ' s personal friendship with George Bush , and the general understanding in the Bush Administration of Jordan ' s difficult strategic and political situation , could not overcome the power of this interpretive frame .
Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today
By Marc Lynch
Toward War When U.S. President George W. Bush announced his determination to combat an “axis of evil” in his 2002 State of the Union Address, it seemed clear that Iraq would be the primary target in the new campaign.
America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations
By Warren I. Cohen
Three books helpful for understanding Chinese behavior in this period are Peter Van Ness, Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy (1970), Bruce Larkin, China and Africa, 1949–1970 (1971), and John Garver, Foreign Relations of the People's ...
The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk, Don't Run
By Rob Stone
... El 63 Marker, Chris 20, 89 Martin 10 Martin-Jones, David 97, 133 Masculin feminine:15faits précis 60, 63 Masculine Feminine: In 15 Acts see Masculin feminine:15faitsprécis Matrix, The 162 McCabe and Mrs Miller 67 McCarthy, Cormac 9, ...
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets
By Todd Mcgowan
On August 15, 1971, Nixon tried to stem the tide of inflation and massive foreign redemption of dollars for gold by freeing the dollar from its link to the American supply of gold. As a result, the Federal Reserve could print dollars in ...
Studying Fight Club
By Mark Ramey
In terms of the producers on Fight Club who actually get screen credits alongside Ross Grayson-Bell there are: Cean Chaffin, a female producer and business partner of David Fincher who has production credits on all of his feature films ...
Stalking Nabokov
By Brian Boyd
In Nabokov's first English novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, V's search for the past of his half-brother, the novelist Sebastian Knight, becomes a comic nightmare of frustrations, dead ends, and wrong trails because he has no ...
Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict
By Larry Berman, Ariel Levite, Bruce W. Jentleson
On March 13 , Senator Eugene McCarthy startled the nation with his strong showing in the New Hampshire primary . The New Hampshire primary became , in retrospect , the loose thread which , when pulled , unraveled the Johnson presidency ...
New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life
By Bruce B. Lawrence
... setting of twenty - first - century North America and the challenges of cultural citizenship in the USA ? This philosophical issue has been argued in the abstract . It has fueled a debate between Thomas McCarthy and Charles Taylor .
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
By Evan Friss
Paving the Right to the City” (PhD diss., New York University, 2011), 147–48, 109–13; Ryan Russo, interview by the author, April 2018. For Doctoroff's own take on this transformation, see Daniel L. Doctoroff, Greater Than Ever: New ...
Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal
By Dana Evan Kaplan
The following year, they have a Chrismukkah Bar Mitz-vahkkah for Seth's non-Jewish friend Ryan where the Torah is read and everyone sways to Dionne Warwick music. The group of friends persuades the real Jew on the show, Sandy, ...
After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934
By Michael Slowik
Connors becomes involved with murder while defending his girlfriend and then delays returning to jail, thus causing the warden to receive heavy criticism from both the governor and the press. When Connors finally returns, ...
The Impossible David Lynch
By Todd Mcgowan
Robert Julian ( London : BFI , 1995 ) , 155 . 3. Chion , David Lynch , 156 . 4. One should resist the idea that the many roles Laura occupies testify to Lynch's status as an ironic or postmodern filmmaker who sees identity as variable ...
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution
By Todd Mcgowan
How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges? In this book, Todd McGowan offers us a Hegel for the twenty-first century.