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• Author(s): Ken Albala • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryWithout a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely di...

• Author(s): Kenneth Goldsmith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryCan techniques traditionally thought to be outside the scope of literature, including word process...

• Author(s): Lee–Ann Hayek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologySurveying Natural Populations is a user-friendly primer to the essential methodologies of quantitativ...

• Author(s): Lalitha Gopalan • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinema of India examines in detail twenty-four landmark films from one of the world's largest national cin...

• Author(s): Partha Chatterjee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EssaysPartha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual his...

• Author(s): Donald Chew • Publisher: Columbia Business School Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Columbia Business School Publishing • BISAC: Government & BusinessCorporate governance constitutes the internal and external institutions, markets,...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his...

• Author(s): Frances Guerin • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of origin...

• Author(s): Hannah Patterson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWith 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to ...

• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismFrom the Back CoverWhile in prison, Gramsci wrote a series...

• Author(s): John Wiens • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyLandscape ecology integrates humans with natural ecosystems and brings a spatial perspective to such fie...

• Author(s): Rebecca Copeland • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralBrings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with tr...

• Author(s): J. Thomas Rimer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapanesePortrays changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of Pacific War. Beginning with the A...

• Author(s): Heinz Halm • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Islam - Shi'aHeinz Halm's work presents a thorough and accessible discussion of the history, theology, and current state of thi...

• Author(s): Alison Landsberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialInstead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture m...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - ScreenwritingOprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, ...

• Author(s): Daniel Gardner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralA pioneering study of Zhu Xi's reading of the Analects, this book demonstrates how commentary is both informe...

• Author(s): John Cunningham • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralHungarian cinema has often been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path. Through the failed 1919 revolution to the def...

• Author(s): Paul Wells • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA comprehensive introduction to the history and key themes of the genre. The main issues and debates raised by horr...

• Author(s): Betty Blythe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkDetails how social workers engaged in direct practice can carry out research projects within the constraints of ag...

• Author(s): Lance Gunderson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animals - WildlifeFrom the Back CoverThe result of a three-year project involving a combination of prominent ecologists an...

• Author(s): June Nash • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralIn this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of moder...

• Author(s): Louis Levine • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsA discussion of the life and wok of Theodosius Dobzhansky and an assessment of the cur...

• Author(s): Thomas Docherty • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFrom the Back CoverPostmodernism: A Reader gathers in one volume a comprehensive selection of articl...

• Author(s): Alexander Alland Jr. • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn anthropologist rebuts recent simplistics descriptions of human behavior which rest on anologies with lower ...

• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralFrom the Back CoverWhile in prison, Gramsci wrote a series of notebooks covering an extraord...

• Author(s): Dorothee Brantz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCould the concepts of metropolitanism and "thick space" aid our under...

• Author(s): Min Zhou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralBased on a study of V. S. Naipaul's postcolonial writings, The Transcription of Identities explores the process...

• Author(s): Samuel Behloul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionConspicuously, Islam has become a key issue in most European societies with respect to issues of immig...

• Author(s): Kojin Karatani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanKojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered...

• Author(s): Gananath Obeyesekere • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionWhile a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer k...

• Author(s): Chris Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDo states have the right to be left to their own devices even if this means accepting that in...

• Author(s): Jean Cavailles • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic/Sequence Press • BISAC: LogicA new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavaillès.In this short, dense essay, Jean Cavaillès evaluates philo...

• Author(s): David Palmer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Exercise - GeneralQigonga regimen of body, breath, and mental training exerciseswas one of the most widespread cultural and r...

• Author(s): Joe Muggs • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralAn oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Y...

• Author(s): Stephen Thrower • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press

• Author(s): Agnes Gayraud • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic • BISAC: AestheticsA philosophical exploration of pop music that reveals a rich, self-reflexive art form with unsuspected depths.In the first major philosophical...

• Author(s): Ch`Oe Yun • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryCh'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of th...

• Author(s): Kaushik Basu • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryLeading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises.Mo...

• Author(s): Peter Wachtler • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksJolly Rogers is a collection of Peter Wächtler's latest short texts, written in preparation for his two solo 2...

• Author(s): Francesco Garutti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesThe architectural implications of the intangible guidelines of happiness indexes, the new marketplace of emotions. and the relen...

• Author(s): Alexandra Midal • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: History & CriticismA counterhistory and new historiography of design.In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design,...

• Author(s): Melissa Mccarthy • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryHow sharks have been depicted over centuries and across cultures—and what sharks see when they look back.We encounter the...

• Author(s): Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic/Sequence Press • BISAC: PoliticalA fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will t...

• Author(s): Ruth Bayer • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Strange Attractor Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - PunkMore than 100 iconic photographs of key players in the English musical post-punk underground, taken by Ruth Bayer.“...

• Author(s): Reza Negarestani • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic/Sequence Press • BISAC: Mind & Bodya critique of both classical humanism and dominant trends in Posthumanism that formulates the ultimate form of intellig...

• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHitchcock Annual, volume 21, contains essays on textured characters in The Skin Game, hospitality in Dial M for Murder, spars...

• Author(s): Zong–Qi Cai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, sp...

• Author(s): Zong–Qi Cai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, sp...

• Author(s): Michael Kelly • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsFor decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or ...

• Author(s): Sidney Gottlieb • Publisher: Hitchcock Annual • Publisher Imprint: Hitchcock Annual • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHitchcock Annual: Volume 20 is forthcoming in the fall of 2015. Scheduled articles include analyses of several individual fil...

• Author(s): Amy J. L. Baker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareSocial service agencies are facing the same expectations in quality managemen...

• Author(s): Victoria Walden • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryWhen Hammer Productions was formed in the 1920s, no one foresaw the impact this small, independent...

• Author(s): Von Nebbitt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkIncorporates data from multiple public-housing sites in large U.S. cities to shine light on the symptoms and behavi...

• Author(s): Seyom Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacySeyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World...

• Author(s): Seyom Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacySeyom Brown's authoritative account of U.S. foreign policy from the end of the Second World...

• Author(s): Steven Soifer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human ServicesThis cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice

• Author(s): Steven Soifer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human ServicesThis cutting-edge text explores the intersection of CED and social work practice

• Author(s): Aaron Edlin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThe Economists' Voice: Top Economists Take On Today's Problems featured a core collection of accessible, ti...