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• Author(s): Benedicte Maurseth • Publisher: Terra Nova Press • Publisher Imprint: Terra Nova Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsDialogues between student and master about music, learning, teaching, the healing power of art, and the ar...

• Author(s): Lincoln Harvey • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Christian Theology - Systematic" In The Theology of Colin E. Gunton, a number of contemporary theologians from across the world critically engage...

• Author(s): Christopher Schaberg • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: American - GeneralThis is a book about airport stories. It is about common narratives of airports that circulate in everyday life...

• Author(s): Burton Watson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ClassicsThe Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today...

• Author(s): Henry Wansbrough • Publisher: Burns & Oates • Publisher Imprint: Burns & Oates • BISAC: Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - GeneralReflections on the Sunday readings from leading Catholic biblical scholar, Henry Wansbro...

• Author(s): Alfred Kadushin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GerontologyThe only textbook to outline the skills social workers need to conduct effective client interviews, this volume...

• Author(s): A. N. Roquelaure • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: Erotica - GeneralAnne Rice's, author of Interview With the Vampire, best-selling erotic trilogy in a boxed set In 1983, before E.L. James' Fifty Shad...

• Author(s): Charles Larmore • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsRanging broadly through English, French, and German philosophy, literature, and art, Charles Larmore untangles t...

• Author(s): Katherine Verdery • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom the Back CoverSince 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhu...

• Author(s): Kempe Ronald Hope Sr • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentKenya is a country of geopolitical and economic importance in East Africa. It share...

• Author(s): Marina Van Zuylen • Publisher: Sequence Press • Publisher Imprint: Sequence Press • BISAC: GeneralA second look at distraction, extracting untold pleasures from its alleged dangers, defending and celebrating the unfocused life for th...

• Author(s): Philip Yampolsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Sacred WritingsDating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundati...

• Author(s): Paul Hackett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanFrom the Inside FlapIn 1937, Theos Casimir Bernard (1908 1947), the self-proclaimed "White Lama," became th...

• Author(s): Caitlin Smith Gilson • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues f...

• Author(s): Caitlin Smith Gilson • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Metaphysical Presuppositions of Being-in-the-World brings St. Thomas Aquinas and Martin Heidegger into dialogue and argues for the nec...

• Author(s): Paul Lendvai • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryAn updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to ...

• Author(s): Michael Mann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeThe ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive...

• Author(s): Ana M. Luszczynska • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: American - GeneralThe Ethics of Community initiates a conversation between continental philosophy and cultural/literary studies that is long overdue. I...

• Author(s): Ana M. Luszczynska • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: American - GeneralThe Ethics of Community initiates a conversation between continental philosophy and cultural/literary...

• Author(s): Jerome Taylor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalFrom the Back CoverThis is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of Saint Vict...

• Author(s): Peter Katzenstein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military ScienceContributors ask whether it is more useful to conceive of the world as arrayed in regional, cultural, in...

• Author(s): Richard John Lynn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Taoism (see also PHILOSOPHY - Taoist)The essential Taoist book and one of a triad that make up the most influential reli...

• Author(s): Henricus Lettus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe only English translation available of the most important first-hand account of the "Northern Crusades"...

• Author(s): Louis Bouyer • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: MysticismA scholarly and masterful exploration of the meaning and importance of 'mystery' and 'mysticism' to the Christian revelation, offering a f...

• Author(s): Andrew Holborn • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralTrained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day. I...

• Author(s): Martha Selby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earlies...

• Author(s): Martha Selby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earlies...

• Author(s): Lina Khatib • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismStorytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 2: Contexts addresses the questions of what and why particular stories are tol...

• Author(s): Ainslie Embree • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralSince 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition has been one of the most important and widely used texts on ci...

• Author(s): Tanya Krzywinska • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema ...

• Author(s): Tanya Krzywinska • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralFrom the sanctioned to the forbidden, the suggestive to the blatant, evocations of sex have saturated cinema with a heady dis...

• Author(s): Andrew O'Shea • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PhilosophySelfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.

• Author(s): Andrew O'Shea • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: PhilosophySelfhood and Sacrifice is an original exploration of the ideas of two major contemporary thinkers.

• Author(s): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Hinduism - HistoryThe figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Maha...

• Author(s): Romila Thapar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Hinduism - HistoryThe figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Maha...

• Author(s): Ina Merdjanova • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • BISAC: GeneralReligion as a Conversation Starter is the first comprehensive analysis of the present state of interreligious dialogue for peacebuilding in Southeas...

• Author(s): Ina Merdjanova • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: GeneralReligion as a Conversation Starter is the first comprehensive analysis of the present state of interreligious dialogue for peacebuilding i...

• Author(s): Michael Walzer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceMaintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French ...

• Author(s): Eric Kandel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common grou...

• Author(s): Morten Schlutter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)The Platform Sutra comprises a wide range of important Chan/Zen Buddhi...

• Author(s): George S. Greenstein • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Physics - Quantum TheoryA physicist's efforts to understand the enigma that is quantum mechanics.Quantum mechanics is one of the glories of our age. ...

• Author(s): Thomas Cronin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyFrom the Back CoverGreenhouse gases, global warming, thinning ozone layers -- ...

• Author(s): John Rawls • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThis book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John ...

• Author(s): Leela Prasad • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralLeela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and coo...

• Author(s): Tod Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyThe field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially with regard ...

• Author(s): David W. Nagorsen • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsIn Opossums, Shrews, and Moles of British Columbia David W. Nagorsen presents a c...

• Author(s): Arianne Gaetano • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - RuralThis book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of...

• Author(s): Susanna Paasonen • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAn exploration of how and why social media content is tagged as "not safe for work" and an argument against conflating sexual content with r...

• Author(s): Rosi Braidotti • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryRosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, ne...

• Author(s): David Baldwin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn light of the recent demise of the Soviet Union and the subsequent withdrawal of Soviet f...

• Author(s): Alexander Garcia Duttmann • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Memory of Thought reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance...

• Author(s): Jon Fosse • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press • Publisher Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press • BISAC: GeneralWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023"Melancholy" takes us deep inside a painter's fragile consciousness, vulnerable to ...

• Author(s): William Harris Stahl • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryPart of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing ...

• Author(s): Dennis Dalton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralDennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the...

• Author(s): William Jankowiak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)No culture is ever completely successful or satisfied with it...

• Author(s): Paul Lendvai • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryThis book, by an author uniquely qualified to describe and comment on the Hungarian situation, is the first...

• Author(s): Zong-Qi Cai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoetryIn this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to ...

• Publisher: Iron Circus Comics • Publisher Imprint: Iron Circus Comics • BISAC: Nonfiction - General"After all this time, I can finally smoke a weed! But . . . where do I even begin?" Sprout, a wee babe of a Weeping Giant Sequoia, is psyched to...

• Author(s): Bon Ku • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryApplying the principles of human-centered design to real-world health care challenges, from drug packaging to early detection of breast cancer....

• Author(s): Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryA masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary sce...