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• Author(s): Hans–Georg Moeller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralNiklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was a German sociologist and system theorist who wrote on law,...

• Author(s): J. Thomas Rimer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFeaturing choice selections from the core anthologies The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Re...

• Author(s): Jacques Rancière • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsJacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthet...

• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 2011-12 Edition is a comprehensive ye...

• Author(s): Jacques Rancière • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsJacques Rancière has continually unsettled political discourse, particularly through his questioning of aesthet...

• Author(s): James Marcus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismThe Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of repo...

• Author(s): Robert Waska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MethodologyOne of therapy's greatest challenges is the moment of transference, when a patient unconsciously transfers emotion...

• Author(s): Victor Turner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryFirst published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctri...

• Author(s): Victor Turner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryFirst published in 1978, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture is a classic work examining the theological doctri...

• Author(s): James Marcus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EssaysThe Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportag...

• Author(s): Alan Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - SchizophreniaThe Origins of Schizophrenia synthesizes key findings on a devastating mental disorder that has ...

• Author(s): David Bates • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWe fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential conc...

• Author(s): Michael Roth • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsIn these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a m...

• Author(s): Michael Roth • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsIn these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a m...

• Author(s): David Bates • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWe fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential conc...

• Author(s): William Banks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: InternationalAn internationally-recognized authority on constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism, Wil...

• Author(s): Melvin Delgado • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Small Business - GeneralLatino small businesses provide social, economic, and cultural comfort to their communities. They a...

• Author(s): Udi Aloni • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj...

• Author(s): Udi Aloni • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineIn the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people...

• Author(s): Maria Manzon • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: ComparativeDespite its long history and widespread institutionalisation into university academic courses, professional saci...

• Author(s): Sheldon Krimsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyDo advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories...

• Author(s): Wendi Adamek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text ...

• Author(s): Wendi Adamek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Rituals & PracticeThe Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Ch...

• Author(s): Richard Locke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe ten novels explored in Critical Children portray children so vividly that their names are...

• Author(s): Corey Shdaimah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MethodologyCollaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners ...

• Author(s): Corey Shdaimah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MethodologyCollaborating with community members adds a critical dimension to social work research, providing practitioners ...

• Author(s): Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: EssaysThis is an excellent companion for anyone familiar with Tsien's work and also a welcome re...

• Author(s): Lingzhen Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female...

• Author(s): Joseph Kip Kosek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateIn response to the massive bloodshed that defined the twentieth century, American religious...

• Author(s): Avidan Milevsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SiblingsThe most long-lasting and enduring relationship an individual can develop is with a sibling. Considering the close...

• Author(s): Kerry Malawista • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyThere couldn't be a more appropriate method for illustrating the dynamics of psychoanalysis than...

• Author(s): Kerry Malawista • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Research & MethodologyThere couldn't be a more appropriate method for illustrating the dynamics of psychoanalysis than...

• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFinding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asia...

• Author(s): Paul Robert Magocsi • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis fourth volume includes 743 entries listing books, articles, and chapters in books published between...

• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFinding Wisdom in East Asian Classics is an essential, all-access guide to the core texts of East Asia...

• Author(s): Diana Lobel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionDiana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions t...

• Author(s): Diana Lobel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionDiana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions t...

• Author(s): Susan Boynton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralIn this volume, specialists in literature, theology, liturgy, manuscript studies, and history intr...

• Author(s): Manying Ip • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

• Author(s): Evelyn Blackwood • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFalling into the Lesbi World offers a compelling view of sexual and gender differen...

• Author(s): Ami Pedahzur • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: TerrorismAmi Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, world experts on the study of terror and security, propose a theory of violence that...

• Author(s): Richard Bulliet • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralA boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate i...

• Author(s): Mihály Fülöp • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: PeaceAlready published to critical acclaim in Romania and France, The Unfinished Peace examines the impact of the Council of Fo...

• Author(s): Richard Wang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseBy analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material c...

• Author(s): Jorg Schweinitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureSince the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cliché, convention...

• Author(s): Barry Mccrea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn the Company of Strangers shows how a reconception of family and kinship underlies the revolutionary ...

• Author(s): Rachel Mcdermott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Hinduism - Ritual & PracticesAnnually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor ...

• Author(s): Jorg Schweinitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the early days of film, critics and theorists have contested the value of formula, cli...

• Author(s): Scott Lyall • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAUTHOR-APPROVED The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid Edited by Scott Lyall and Ma...

• Author(s): Victor Mair • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyIn The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologis...

• Author(s): Mircea Stanescu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThe reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners ...

• Author(s): Ion Vlad • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: European - GeneralIon Vlad investigates the distinct heraldry of "the novel of ideas" and whether this taxonomy is still viable wit...

• Author(s): Ruth Hayhoe • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book examines the ways in which China’s universities have changed in the dramatic m...

• Author(s): Michael Newman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionAmerica's independent films often seem to defy classification. Their strategies of storyte...

• Author(s): Stephen Schryer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAmerica's post–World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of univ...

• Author(s): Alfredo Gomez–Muller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broa...

• Author(s): Diana Rhoten • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherHigher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens...

• Author(s): Alfredo Gomez–Muller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book of tightly woven dialogues engages prominent thinkers in a discussion about the role of culture-broa...

• Author(s): Charles Kao • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsExplores the turbulent rift that forced the author from his family. This groundbreakin...