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CUP Alumni Memories
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CUP Alumni Memories
Book Of The Week
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Book Of The Week / Enter our weekly raffle for a copy of our Book of the Week #BookGiveAway
Book Excerpts
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Book Excerpts
Human-Animal Studies
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Human-Animal Studies / Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human–animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions, perspectives, and theories that require nuanced explanation and contextualization.
Film and Culture Series
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Film and Culture Series / The Film and Culture series publishes books that attempt to integrate recent work in cultural theory with film historiography, especially with work that engages with primary research materials, in an effort to see how films are embedded within specific social, historical, and cultural contexts.
Contemporary Asia in the World Series
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Contemporary Asia in the World Series / This series aims to address a gap in the public-policy and scholarly discussion of Asia. It seeks to promote books and studies that are on the cutting edge of their respective disciplines or in the promotion of multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary research but that are also accessible to a wider readership. The editors seek to showcase the best scholarly and public-policy arguments on Asia from any field, including politics, history, economics, and cultural studies.
Weatherhead Books on Asia (Fiction)
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Weatherhead Books on Asia (Fiction)
Cultographies
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Cultographies / Cultographies provides a comprehensive introduction to those films which have attained the coveted status of cult classic, focusing on their particular appeal, the ways in which they have been conceived, constructed and received, and their place in the broader popular cultural landscape.
Weatherhead Books on Asia (Nonfiction)
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Weatherhead Books on Asia (Nonfiction)
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
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Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture / Edited by Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, and Jeffrey W. Robbins. The intersection of religion, politics, and culture is one of the most discussed areas in theory today. It also has the deepest and most wide-ranging impact on the world. Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture will bring the tools of philosophy and critical theory to the political implications of the religious turn.
Social Work
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Social Work
Columbia Business School Publishing
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Columbia Business School Publishing / Columbia Business School Publishing's program extends Columbia Business School's commitment to bridging academic research and business practice, and reaching the global academic and business communities. By leveraging knowledge gained through innovative research and professional experiences, CBSP seeks to publish books that incorporate the entrepreneurial mindset promoted by the business school. The program is inclusive, multi-format, and interdisciplinary.
Gender and Culture Series
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Gender and Culture Series / The Gender and Culture series was started by Carolyn G. Heilbrun and Nancy K. Miller in 1983, when Women's Studies was emerging as a vital area of inquiry among scholars in the United States. Since that time, Gender and Culture has become the leading series in the field and has published more than 35 books, many of which have gone on to become feminist classics. The series is dedicated to work that is innovative, historically engaged, and of interest to a broad academic audience.
Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Columbia Studies in International and Global History / The idea of “globalization” has become a commonplace, but we lack histories that can explain the global processes that have shaped the contemporary world. Columbia Studies in International and Global History will encourage serious scholarship on international and global history explaining the origins of the contemporary era. Grounded in empirical research, these titles will transcend the usual area boundaries and will address questions of how history can help us understand contemporary problems.
Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Series
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Terrorism and Irregular Warfare Series / This series seeks to fill a conspicuous gap in the burgeoning literature on terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and insurgency. It adheres to the highest standards of scholarship and discourse and publishes books that elucidate the strategy, operations, means, motivations, and effects posed by terrorist, guerrilla, and insurgent organizations and movements. It thereby provides a solid and foundation of knowledge on these subjects for established scholars and informed readers alike.
New Directions in Critical Theory
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New Directions in Critical Theory / New Directions in Critical Theory presents outstanding classic and contemporary texts in the tradition of critical social theory, broadly construed. The series aims to renew and advance the program of critical social theory, with a particular focus on theorizing contemporary struggles around gender, race, sexuality, class, and globalization and their complex interconnections. Amy Allen, General Editor.
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
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Religion, Culture, and Public Life / Devoted to the investigation of the role of religion in society and culture today, this series focuses on issues related to questions of difference, identity, and practice within local, national, and international contexts. Special attention is paid to the ways in which religious traditions encourage conflict, violence, and intolerance and also support human rights, ecumenical values, and mutual understanding.
Standing Up for Science
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Standing Up for Science / Columbia University Press is committed to publishing science books that cut through media hype, partisan interests and unsubstantiated claims, informing readers instead about the scientific evidence and facts behind some of the most pressing issues of our time, including public health, climate change, and more. From Michael Mann's "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" to Paul Offit's "Autism's False Prophets," our aim is to help champion sound science and those who practice it.
The life and works of Alain Badiou
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The life and works of Alain Badiou / Alain Badiou, author of, among many other works, The Incident at Antioch (http://bit.ly/VhIQ0A) and Plato's Republic (http://bit.ly/ZPCkAG), both now available for the first time in English from CUP, is perhaps the foremost living French philosopher. In this board, we review Badiou's history and look at some of his important philosophical contributions.
Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip
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Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip / A tribute to the visuals of Bollywood cinema as selected by Kush Varia, author of "Bollywood: Gods, Glamour, and Gossip".
Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor
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Rewiring the Real with Mark C. Taylor / Professor Mark C. Taylor's latest book Rewiring the Real, is an interdisciplinary examination of the ties between religion and technology, as seen through four novels: William Gaddis's The Recognitions, Richard Powers's Plowing the Dark, Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, and Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Mankind Beyond Earth
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Mankind Beyond Earth
The Many Faces of Roland Barthes
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The Many Faces of Roland Barthes / With our recent publication of the first-ever English translation of "How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces" by Roland Barthes, we thought a visual tribute was in order. Below are photos of Roland Barthes, frequently with cigarette in hand, looking like the quintessential French intellectual.
Satyajit Ray on Cinema
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Satyajit Ray on Cinema / Pictures, clips and posters for Satyajit Ray on the occasion of the publication of "Satyajit Ray on Cinema"
Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
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Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History / Albert Sonnenfeld, series editor
Wang Renmei - The Wildcat of Shanghai
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Wang Renmei - The Wildcat of Shanghai / Wang Renmei was one of China's leading film stars in the 1930s, with her films being applauded by audiences and critics alike. Renmei played a major role in the film Song of the Fishermen which was the first Chinese motion picture to win an International Award in Moscow in 1935.
The Nature of Value
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The Nature of Value / Through unique illustrations, Nick Gogerty explores the function of economic value in the context of evolution’s processes to explain how investors can improve their allocation decisions.
The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution
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The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution / In 1989, Texas executed Carlos DeLuna, a poor Hispanic man with childlike intelligence, for the murder of Wanda Lopez, a convenience store clerk. His execution passed unnoticed for years until a team of Columbia Law School faculty and students almost accidentally chose to investigate his case and found that DeLuna almost certainly was innocent. What they discovered may shake your confidence in our criminal justice system.
Mathilde Roussel's drawings for The Philosopher's Plant, by Michael Marder
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Mathilde Roussel's drawings for The Philosopher's Plant, by Michael Marder / THE PHILOSOPHER'S PLANT: AN INTELLECTUAL HERBARIUM, by Michael Marder, is a journey through the history of philosophy from a unique perspective: the way that philosophical thought has interacted with plant life. Each chapter focuses on the role of plants in a specific philosopher's work, and Mathilde Roussel's drawings illustrate Marder's points in creative and beautiful ways.
New Releases
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New Releases
Book Reviews
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Book Reviews