General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• 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): 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...

• Author(s): Barry Keith Grant • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis is a concise evaluation of film genre, discussing genre theory and sample analyses of the western, scie...

• Author(s): Shameem Black • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralTheorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties ...

• Author(s): Daniel Oberhaus • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIf we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? The endlessly fascinating question of...

• Author(s): Donald R. Prothero • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionOver the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including...

• Author(s): An Li King of Huainan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalCompiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chines...

• Author(s): Anne Carson • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe insights presented in the volume are many and wide-ranging, recognizably in tune with the subtlest ...

• Author(s): Lydia Goehr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Instruction & Study - AppreciationAs illustrated in Goethe's famous novel of the same name, elective affinities are powerf...

• Author(s): Michael Lewis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThis primer for social work students introduces the general definitions and concepts of economics and uses...

• Author(s): Gerald A. Voorhees • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-r...

• Author(s): Gerald A. Voorhees • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryDungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens is a collection of scholarly essays that seeks to represent the far-reaching sc...

• Author(s): Sera Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryHumans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and oth...

• Author(s): Sera Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHumans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice...

• Author(s): Oliver Marchart • Publisher: Sternberg Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Art & PoliticsA new political theory of art and artistic praxis.Leaping into current debates about the political efficacy of art, the essa...

• Author(s): Matthew Pustz • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: GeneralComic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic books can be used to understand the history...

• Author(s): Matthew Pustz • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: GeneralComic Books and American Cultural History is an anthology that examines the ways in which comic books can be used to ...

• Author(s): J. 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 Restorati...

• Author(s): Patrick Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationEqually suitable for undergraduates and specialists in the humanities, this collection provid...

• Author(s): Robin MacKay • Publisher: Urbanomic • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic • BISAC: GeneralAn assembly of perspectives on risk, contingency, and chance--at the gaming table, in the markets, and in life.A transdisciplinary survey of practices...

• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JapaneseIn 2005, the celebrated scholar of Japanese literature Haruo Shirane published Classical Japanese: A Grammar. Now, w...

• Author(s): Thomas Oliver Beebee • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: European - GermanAmong Western literatures, only the German-speaking countries can boast a list of world-class writers such as Go...

• Author(s): Karl Barth • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicDescribed by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss past...

• Author(s): Karl Barth • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicDescribed by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss past...

• Author(s): Karl Barth • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Christian Theology - SystematicDescribed by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss past...

• Author(s): Ranjit Lal • Publisher: Harper Children's • Publisher Imprint: Harper Children's • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralThey form a formidable team: 14-year-old Budgie, outspoken to a fault; Bridge, a steady teenager with a rocky p...

• Author(s): D. Densil Morgan • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Christian Theology - History" This is the first book length assesment in English of the impact of Karl Barth's theology in Britain. Beginning w...

• Author(s): Robert Wright • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingToday's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and...

• Author(s): Philip Napoli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Advertising & PromotionFocusing on the electronic media--television, radio, and the Internet--Audience Economics bridges...

• Author(s): Arthur Cronquist • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Plants - Flowers

• Author(s): Andrew Holborn • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General"Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the follo...

• Author(s): Molly Russell • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Philanthropy & CharityThis book is written to assist those planning a fund-raising event, especially for those new to fund...

• Author(s): Alan F. Schatzberg • Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing • Publisher Imprint: American Psychiatric Publishing • BISAC: Psychiatry - PsychopharmacologyUpdated to reflect the new DSM-5 classification, this revised Fifth Edition ...

• Author(s): Julie Cruikshank • Publisher: University of Washington Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press • BISAC: Historical GeographyDo Glaciers Listen? explores the conflicting depictions of glaciers to show how natural and...

• Author(s): Samantha Collett • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Investments & Securities - Real EstateThis inspirational book contains the guiding principles to help you become a succ...

• Author(s): Danielle Labbe • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several ...

• Author(s): Kathleen Weiler • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,Maria Baldwin (1856-1922) held a special p...

• Author(s): O'Ong Maryono • Publisher: Silkworm Books • Publisher Imprint: Silkworm Books • BISAC: Martial Arts & Self-DefenseThis manual lays out techniques of the Keluarga Pencak Silat Nusantara (KPSN), one of the leading pencak silat orga...

• Author(s): Kate Puddister • Publisher: UBC Press • Publisher Imprint: UBC Press • BISAC: World - CanadianCan Parliament legalize same-sex marriage? Can Quebec unilaterally secede from Canada? Can the federal government create a national firearm...

• Author(s): Annette Yates • Publisher: Constable & Robinson • Publisher Imprint: Constable & Robinson • BISAC: Courses & Dishes - Soups & StewsThis book contains soups for very season: light and chilled for a warm summer's day, s...

• Author(s): David J. Dzurec • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn October 1785, American statesman John Jay acknowledged that the more his country...