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Selected Poems, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 106, Part 1)
In this inspiring volume, Rosanna Warren chronologically arranges poems selected from her four published collections of poetry. She places the poetry under the protection of two poetry saints: William Blake and Hart Crane, and convincingly reminds us that poems have …
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Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Miltons Neo-Latin Writings Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 102, Part 1)
This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Miltons neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual …
View book details for Peirescs History of Provence
Antiquarianism and the Discovery of a Medieval Mediterranean Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 101, Part 3)
This is both a historical detective work -- piecing together an innovative research project of the 1620s -- and a provocative argument, based on the reconstruction of Peirescs project. Our understanding of the history of historical scholarship needs to be …
George Szirtes came to Britain as an eight-year-old refugee after the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Educated in England, he trained as a painter, and has always written in English. This comprehensive retrospective of his work covers poetry from over a …
Columbia University Press
In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin). Written in …
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Theory for the New Century
Columbia University Press
Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated meditation on feminist thinking over the past three decades moves away from the all too common dependence on French theorists and male thinkers and instead builds on a wide-ranging …
View book details for Sexual Orientation and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Sexual Science and Clinical Practice
Columbia University Press
This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present …
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Conviction, Conflict, Community
Columbia University Press
In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism. According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is …
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Risky Business on the Campaign Trail
Columbia University Press
Alan Schroeder's big-picture history recounts the phenomenon of American televised presidential debates and its evolution over the past half century. From pundits to political operatives, from debate moderators to the viewing public, Presidential Debates reveals how the various stakeholders make …
Columbia University Press
Social work practitioners write for a variety of publications, and they are expected to show fluency in a number of related fields. Whether the target is a course instructor, scholarly journal, fellowship organization, or general news outlet, social workers must …
View book details for Forgetting Children Born of War
Setting the Human Rights Agenda in Bosnia and Beyond
Columbia University Press
Sexual violence and exploitation occur in many conflict zones, and the children born of such acts face discrimination, stigma, and infanticide. Yet the massive transnational network of organizations working to protect war-affected children has, for two decades, remained curiously silent …
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A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China
Columbia University Press
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The …
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The Future of Journalism
Columbia University Press
For a century and a half, journalists made a good business out of selling the latest news or selling ads next to that news. Now that news pours out of the Internet and our mobile devicesfast, abundant, and mostly freethat …
Columbia University Press
Massimo Montanari draws readers into the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisinewhich consisted of bread, wine, and oliveswith the barbarian dietrooted in bread, milk, and meatfirst formed …
View book details for Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan
The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism
Columbia University Press
Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of …
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Putting the Strength Perspective Into Social Work Practice
Columbia University Press
This book bridges the gap between theory and implementation to illustrate how resiliency enhancement enables social workers to put the strengths perspective successfully into practice for their clients. Contributors to this volume show how social workers can use interventions to …
Columbia University Press
Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In …
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Toward a New Theory of Clinical Inquiry
Columbia University Press
Traditionally, two clinical models have been dominant in psychoanalysis: the classical paradigm, which views the analyst as an objective mirror, and the participant-observation paradigm, which views the analyst as an intersubjective participant-observer. According to John Fiscalini, an evolutionary shift in …
View book details for The Financiers of Congressional Elections
Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
Columbia University Press
Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the …
View book details for The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende
A New Translation of the Prologue and Book One
Columbia University Press
The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum is arguably the most important medieval treatise on the symbolism of church architecture and rituals of worship. Written by the French bishop William Durand of Mende (1230-1296), the treatise is ranked with the Bible as one …
Columbia University Press
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past four decades, "resilience theory," which embraces uncertainty and nonlinear dynamics in …
View book details for Stem Cell Dialogues
A Philosophical and Scientific Inquiry Into Medical Frontiers
Columbia University Press
Stem cells and the emerging field of regenerative medicine are at the frontiers of modern medicine. These areas of scientific inquiry suggest that in the future, damaged tissue and organs might be repaired through personalized cell therapy as easily as …
View book details for Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media
Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture
Columbia University Press
Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culturein the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and …
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Principles and Applications to National Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and BLM Lands
Columbia University Press
Integrated Public Lands Management is the only book that deals with the management procedures of all the primary public land management agenciesNational Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and the Bureau of Land Managementin one volume. This book fills the need for …
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Poetry in the Age of Global Media
Columbia University Press
The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond …
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