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The Christian Mystery: From Pagan Myth to Christian Mysticism
Louis Bouyer
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• 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...
View full detailsThe 56th Infantry Brigade and D-Day: An Independent Infantry Brigade and the Campaign in North West Europe 1944-1945
Andrew Holborn
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• 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...
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century Anthology
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century Anthology
Martha Selby
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• 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...
View full detailsTamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the "Ainkurunuru"
Martha Selby
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• 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...
View full detailsStorytelling in World Cinemas: Forms
Lina Khatib
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• 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...
View full detailsSources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan
Ainslie Embree
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• 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...
View full detailsSex and the Cinema
Tanya Krzywinska
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• 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 ...
View full detailsSex and the Cinema
Tanya Krzywinska
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• 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...
View full detailsSelfhood and Sacrifice: Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity
Andrew O'Shea
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• 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.
Selfhood and Sacrifice: Rene Girard and Charles Taylor on the Crisis of Modernity
Andrew O'Shea
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• 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.
Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories
Romila Thapar
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• 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...
View full detailsSakuntala: The Question of the Islamic Republic
Romila Thapar
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• 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...
View full detailsReligion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacekeeping in the Balkans
Ina Merdjanova
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• 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...
View full detailsReligion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans
Ina Merdjanova
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• 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...
View full detailsRegicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI
Michael Walzer
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• 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 ...
View full detailsReductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Eric Kandel
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• 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...
View full detailsReadings of the "Platform Sutra"
Morten Schlutter
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• 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...
View full detailsQuantum Reality: Grasping the Metaphysical Implications of Bell's Theorem
George S. Greenstein
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• 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. ...
View full detailsPrinciples of Paleoclimatology
Thomas Cronin
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• 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 -- ...
View full detailsPolitical Liberalism
John Rawls
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• 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 ...
View full detailsPoetics of Conduct: Oral Narrative and Moral Being in a South Indian Town
Leela Prasad
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• 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...
View full detailsPlant Taxonomy: The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data
Tod Stuessy
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• 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 ...
View full detailsOpossums, Shrews and Moles of British Columbia
David W. Nagorsen
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• 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...
View full detailsOn the Move: Women and Rural-To-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Arianne Gaetano
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• 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...
View full detailsNsfw: Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media
Susanna Paasonen
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• 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...
View full detailsNomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti
Rosi Braidotti
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• 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...
View full detailsNeorealism and Neoliberalism: The Contemporary Debate
David Baldwin
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• 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...
View full detailsMemory of Thought
Alexander Garcia Duttmann
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• 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...
View full detailsMelancholy
Jon Fosse
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• 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 ...
View full detailsMartianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts: The Quadrivium of Martianus Capella: Latin Traditions in the Mathematical Sciences
William Harris Stahl
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• 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 ...
View full detailsMahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Dennis Dalton
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• 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...
View full detailsIntimacies: Love and Sex Across Cultures
William Jankowiak
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• 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...
View full detailsHungary: The Art of Survival
Paul Lendvai
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• 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...
View full detailsHow to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology
Zong-Qi Cai
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• 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 ...
View full detailsHealth Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health
Bon Ku
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• 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....
View full detailsGlobalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o
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• 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...
View full detailsFilm Genre: From Iconography to Ideology
Barry Keith Grant
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• 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...
View full detailsFiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late-Twentieth-Century Novels
Shameem Black
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• 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 ...
View full detailsExtraterrestrial Languages
Daniel Oberhaus
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• 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...
View full detailsEvolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Donald R. Prothero
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• 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...
View full detailsEssential Huainanzi: Liu An, King of Huainan
An Li King of Huainan
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• 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...
View full detailsEros the Bittersweet: An Essay
Anne Carson
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• 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 ...
View full detailsElective Affinities: Musical Essays on the History of Aesthetic Theory
Lydia Goehr
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• 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...
View full detailsEconomics for Social Workers: The Application of Economic Theory to Social Policy and the Human Services
Michael Lewis
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• 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...
View full detailsDungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game
Gerald A. Voorhees
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• 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...
View full detailsDungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens
Gerald A. Voorhees
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• 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...
View full detailsCraving Earth: Understanding Pica: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk
Sera Young
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• 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...
View full detailsCraving Earth: Understanding Pica--The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk
Sera Young
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• 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...
View full detailsConflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Oliver Marchart
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• 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...
View full detailsComic Books and American Cultural History: An Anthology
Matthew Pustz
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• 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...
View full detailsComic Books and American Cultural History
Matthew Pustz
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• 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 ...
View full detailsColumbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature
J. Rimer
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• 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...
View full detailsColonial Discourse/ Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader
Patrick Williams
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• 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...
View full detailsCollapse: Casino Real
Robin MacKay
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• 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...
View full detailsClassical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary
Haruo Shirane
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• 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...
View full detailsCities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
Joseph Roach
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• Author(s): Joseph Roach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesIn the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of...
View full detailsCitation and Precedent
Thomas Oliver Beebee
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• 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...
View full detailsBarth Reception in Britain
D. Densil Morgan
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• 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...
View full detailsBailouts: Public Money, Private Profit
Robert Wright
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• 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...
View full detailsAudience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace
Philip Napoli
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• 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...
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