Books from Columbia University Press
-
Universality and Identity Politics
By Todd McgowanThis book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Todd McGowan argues that universals such as equality and freedom are not imposed on us.
-
Mobile Modernity: Germans, Jews, Trains
By Todd Samuel Presner, Assistant Professor of Germanic Languages and Jewish Studies Todd PresnerHugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), 96. 2. Paul Celan, Der Meridian: Endfassung, Entwurfe, Materialen, ed. Bernhard BOschenstein and Heino Schmull (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1999),104. 3.
-
Women, Men, and Spiritual Power: Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators
By John Wayland CoakleyIn Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages.
-
An All-consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America
By Gary S. Cross19 James Watt , Reagan's first Secretary of the Interior , was an ideologue . His qualification for office was his experience as a lawyer fighting environmental advocates for western oil , power , and mining companies .
-
Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed
By Charles B. StrozierYour Friend Forever, A. Lincoln is a rich analysis of a relationship that was both a model of male friendship and a specific dynamic between two brilliant but fascinatingly flawed men who played off each other's strengths and weaknesses to ...
-
Freud and Oedipus
By Peter L. RudnytskyA reassessment of Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex, using the interlocking perspectives of biography, intellectual history and Greek tragedy.
-
Reality TV: Realism and Revelation
By Anita Biressi, Heather NunnMorris leaves no doubt that Leuchter's forensic 'evidence' that the bricks at Auschwitz contain no traces of cyanide gas was amateur claptrap without scientific or historical merit. His lack of historical insight and depth of response ...
-
Human Ecology of Beringia
By John F. Hoffecker, Scott A. EliasBocherens, H., D. Billiou, A. Mariotti, M. Patou-Mathis, M. Otte, D. Bonjean, and M. Toussaint. 1999. Palaeoenvironmental and palaeodietary implications of isotopic biogeochemistry of Last Interglacial Neanderthal and mammal bones at ...
-
The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice
By Carel B. Germain, Carolyn Knight, Alex GittermanBoston: Pearson Education. ... Learning solution-focused interviewing skills: BSW student voices. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 31, 21–37. Dentato, M. P., Craig, S. L., Lloyd, M. R., Kelly, B. L., Wright, C., & Austin, A. (2016).
-
People, Plants, and Justice: The Politics of Nature Conservation
By Charles ZernerPh.D. dissertation , United States International University , San Diego , CA. Fosbrooke , H. 1990. ... In D. Miller , and P. Reill , eds . , Visions of Empire : Voyages , Botany and Representations of Empire , pp . 108–114 .
-
Sources of Japanese Tradition
By Yoshiko Kurata DykstraBrown, Delmer, and Ichiro ̄ Ishida. The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study ... Cartas qve os Padres e Irma ̃os da Companhia de Iesus escreuera ̃o dos Reynos de Iapa ̃ & China. Evora, 1598. The Collected Works of Shinran. Vol.
-
Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
By Eric ChaissonAlong the way he examines the development of the most microscopic and the most immense aspects of our universe and the complex ways in which they interact."--Jacket.
-
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
By Professor of English and African-American Studies Robert O'MeallyYes , swing , without which jazz “ don't mean a thing . ... in an anecdote saxophonist Coleman Hawkins related to Bill Grauer and Paul Bacon during a 1956 interview ( released by Riverside as one of their Spoken Word Recordings ) .
-
Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films
By James Chapman135-6 . 4. Linda Wood ( ed . ) , British Film Industry : BFI Information Guide No. 1 ( London , 1980 ) , p . A - 2 . s . Walker , National Heroes , p . 276 . 6. ' Cubby counts the cost of keeping 007 in the manner .
-
Truth and the Past
By Michael DummettDonald Davidson is well known for having proposed that a Tarskian truth-definition for a natural language be turned on its head to provide a truth-conditional theory of meaning for that language. By “turning it on its head” he had in ...
-
Sex and World Peace
By Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary CaprioliValerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli, Chad F. Emmett ... Gamma .419 .100 4.038 .000 Spearman Correlation .336 .083 3.641 .000c Interval by Interval Pearson's R .272 .078 2.881 .005c N of Valid Cases 106 aNot assuming ...
-
Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions about Genetics
By Lori B. AndrewsPrentice Hall , 1991 ) . 100. “ CDC Speaks Out on Gene Testing : Won't Scan Healthy Populations , ” Medical Utilization Management , May 28 , 1998 ( reported by Brian Ward , vice president of laboratory operations of Myriad Genetics ...
-
The Silence of the Lambs
By Barry Forshaw... and some of the energy generated by his endless capacity for bloody slaughter is captured by director Webber and his actors (although Gaspard Ulliel is never really able to render the character more than superficially plausible).
-
The Media in Britain
By Jeremy Tunstall, Research Professor of Sociology Jeremy TunstallOne form of classification would distinguish between the mainly print companies ( Reed , Pearson , Lonrho , Trafalgar - Fleet , Thomson , Associated and News ) and the mainly electronic companies ( Thorn - EMI , Central , Granada ...
-
Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
By Jean Albert Bédé, William Benbow Edgerton( 1899 ; The Imaginary Prisons ) . The title is an indication of the author's idealism . He proclaimed the earnest desire for goodness that constituted the guiding star of his whole life in 1911 with the publication of Vida austera ( Austere Life ) , a work that won him the acclaim of critics , who called it a kind of modern effort in the search for saintliness . " Pere Coromines also played an active role in politics ...