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View book details for Security and Profit in Chinas Energy Policy
Hedging Against Risk
Columbia University Press
China has developed sophisticated hedging strategies to insure against risks in the international petroleum market. It has managed a growing net oil import gap and supply disruptions by maintaining a favorable energy mix, pursuing overseas equity oil production, building a …
Columbia University Press
The first text to explore the history, characteristics, and challenges of hospice social work, this volume weaves leading research into an underlying framework for practice and care. A longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in …
View book details for Economic Risks of Climate Change
An American Prospectus
Columbia University Press
Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest …
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A History of Sport in India
Columbia University Press
Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that …
Columbia University Press
1964: Mods clash with Rockers in Brighton, creating a moral panic. 1973: ex-Mod band The Who release Quadrophenia, a concept album following young Mod Jimmy Cooper to the Brighton riots and beyond. 1979: Franc Roddam directs Quadrophenia, a film based …
View book details for Love in the Dark
Philosophy by Another Name
Columbia University Press
Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light on the limits of erotic love, exploring its …
View book details for Journalism After Snowden
The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance State
Columbia University Press
Edward Snowden's release of classified NSA documents exposed the widespread government practice of mass surveillance in a democratic society. The publication of these documents, facilitated by three journalists, as well as efforts to criminalize the act of being a whistleblower …
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How France Has Defied Hollywood's New World Order
Columbia University Press
In Exception Taken, Jonathan Buchsbaum examines the movements that have emerged in opposition to the homogenizing force of Hollywood in global filmmaking. While European cinema was entering a steady decline in the 1980s, France sought to strengthen support for its …
View book details for Beyond the Cyborg
Adventures with Donna Haraway
Columbia University Press
Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying particular attention to her more recent work on companion …
View book details for A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park
How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City's Waterfront
Columbia University Press
By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around …
Columbia University Press
Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging …
Columbia University Press
Steve Coutinho explores in detail the fundamental concepts of Daoist thought as represented in three early texts: the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, and the Liezi. Readers interested in philosophy yet unfamiliar with Daoism will gain a comprehensive understanding of these works …
Columbia University Press
Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays …
Fundamentals of World Regional Geography brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools along with comprehensive text content for one semester/quarter courses. Whether you use a traditional printed text or the digital alternative, it's never …
For many years, I included short statements of my wit or wisdom in my business advertising. These things seem to just pop into my head.I kept a list of these and have had friends and acquaintances familiar with them encourage …
Kalamar sees only the bright possibilities that his new future offers. His youthful inexperience imagines only the greatest heights as he begins life as the Court Wizard's protege. This new chapter in his life will be his greatest adventure as …
Coleccion El arte de vivirComo aplicar el poder del pensamiento positivo es uno de los cuadernillos de la coleccion de ediciones de bolsillo sobre las ensenanzas de Paramahansa Yogananda, autor de Autobiografia de un yogui. Las charlas informales y los …
Tara Mata (1900-1971) nacio en San Francisco (California). Conocio a Paramahansa Yogananda en 1924 y profeso sus votos definitivos como renunciante en 1936. Bajo la direccion de Paramahansa Yogananda llego a ser editora jefe de las publicaciones de Self-Realization Fellowship …
View book details for Cruising the Library
Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Fordham University Press
Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks Epistemologies of …
The debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson, in which a poet realizes she's written the works of Baudelaire. One morning, Hazel Brown awakes in a badly decorated hotel room to find that shes written the complete works of Charles …
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The Systematic Evaluation of Comparative Data
Columbia University Press
The field of plant taxonomy has transformed rapidly over the past fifteen years, especially with regard to improvements in cladistic analysis and the use of new molecular data. The second edition of this popular resource reflects these far-reaching and dramatic …
Food and beverage is the largest portion of a meeting budget, but most meeting and event planners have no formal background in purchasing and managing this expense. This guide helps event, meeting, and convention planners save money, negotiate contracts, deal …
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Essays on the Legacy of an Opera
Columbia University Press
Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted …
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Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests
Columbia University Press
Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management …
This book details my personal and professional journey in this land of dreams as a foreign doctor.Life is very challenging for immigrants, and even more so for women. I like to bring out the struggle and difficult climb uphill, but …
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