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• Author(s): John Hof • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyWhether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategie...

• Author(s): Colleen Boggs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralColleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subje...

• Author(s): Rosi Braidotti • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryFor more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy ...

• Author(s): Gilles Deleuze • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernAt last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist tur...

• Author(s): Judith Butler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionThis classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the gen...

• Author(s): Dmitri Nikulin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SocialMost of the core concepts of the Western philosophical tradition originate in antiquity. Yet boredom is strikingly ab...

• Author(s): Jane Elliott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyFrom The Road to Game of Thrones, across works as seemingly different as Gone Girl and Saw, literature, ...

• Author(s): David Helfand • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - MathematicsWe live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data just two swipes away. Yet ho...

• Author(s): Adam Clulow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanThe Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state...

• Author(s): Andrew Seth Meyer • Publisher: Columbia UP • Publisher Imprint: ColumbiaUP • Subject: Military and Police Studies • BISAC: TaoistMaster Sun's The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One ch...

• Author(s): Zheng Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHow could the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not only survive but even thrive, regaining the support of many Chinese...

• 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): Stephen Gillers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismA healthy democracy requires vigorous, uncompromising investigative journalism. But today the free press faces a...

• Author(s): Leon Hurvitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Sacred WritingsOriginally published in 1976, Leon Hurvitz's monumental translation of the Lotus Sutra is the work ...

• Author(s): Jahyun Kim Haboush • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaThe Imjin War (1592-1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korea...

• Author(s): Nancy Bauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by est...

• Author(s): Marianne Hirsch • Publisher: Columbia UP • Publisher Imprint: ColumbiaUP • Subject: History • BISAC: Jewish StudiesCan we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events...

• Author(s): Anthony Shaw • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peacemaking, ...

• Author(s): Ling Hon Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseEmotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Fascism & TotalitarianismFor fascism, myth was reality--or was realer than the real. Fascist notions of the leader, the nat...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - Hispanic & LatinoIn Powers of Horror, Julia Kristeva offers an extensive and profound consideration of the nature of abjection. Drawing...

• Author(s): Josef Sorett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Institutions & OrganizationsWinner, 2022-2023 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award for chapter 5 "Everybody Knew He Was 'That ...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoetryWriting about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances...