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View book details for Integrated Public Lands Management
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 …
View book details for Italian Neorealism
Rebuilding the Cinematic City
Columbia University Press
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City is a valuable introduction to one of the most influential of film movements. Exploring the roots and causes of neorealism, particularly the effects of the Second World War, as well as its politics and …
View book details for Evolution
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
Columbia University Press
Donald R. Protheros Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the books widespread adoption in courses that …
View book details for Imaginal Politics
Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary
Columbia University Press
Between the radical, creative capacity of our imagination and the social imaginary we are immersed in is an intermediate space philosophers have termed the imaginal, populated by images or (re)presentations that are presences in themselves. Offering a new, systematic understanding …
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Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Columbia University Press
Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in …
Columbia University Press
In Adorno's Theory of Philosophical and Aesthetic Truth, Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno's epistemology and its material underpinnings, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt's novel interpretation casts Adorno's …
View book details for Conservatives Against Capitalism
From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization
Columbia University Press
Few beliefs seem more fundamental to American conservatism than faith in the free market. Yet throughout American history, many of the major conservative intellectual and political figures have harbored deep misgivings about the unfettered market and its disruption of traditional …
View book details for Aid Dependence in Cambodia
How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy
Columbia University Press
International intervention liberated Cambodia from pariah state status in the early 1990s and laid the foundations for more peaceful, representative rule. Yet the country's social indicators and the integrity of its political institutions declined rapidly within a few short years, …
View book details for Friends and Other Strangers
Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture
Columbia University Press
Friends and Other Strangers argues for expanding the field of religious ethics to address the normative dimensions of culture, interpersonal desires, friendships and family, and institutional and political relationships. Richard B. Miller urges religious ethicists to turn to cultural studies …
View book details for Last Words
Considering Contemporary Cinema
Columbia University Press
Last Words features extensive interviews with Christopher Nolan, Harmony Korine, Charlie Kaufmann, Nicolas Winding Refn, Wim Wenders, Michael Winterbottom, Christian Petzhold, and many others. Each interview is preceded by an overview of the director's work, and the volume's authoritative introductory …
Columbia University Press
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (12791368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic …
Columbia University Press
In 1974, The Wall Street Journal called this movie "grotesque, sadistic, irrational, obscene, incompetent," while New York Magazine declared it "a catastrophe." Upon its initial release, Sam Peckinpah s notorious work took a critical and commercial nosedive, but in later …
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PLO Decisionmaking During the 1982 War
Columbia University Press
Under Siege is Rashid Khalidi's firsthand account of the 1982 Lebanon War and the complex negotiations for the evacuation of the P.L.O. from Beirut. Utilizing unconventional sources and interviews with key officials and diplomats, Khalidi paints a detailed portrait of …
View book details for Let the Meatballs Rest
And Other Stories About Food and Culture
Columbia University Press
Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the phenomenon of food culture, food lore, cooking methods, and eating habits throughout history. An irresistible buffet of one hundred concise and engaging essays, this …
View book details for Survivors of Slavery
Modern-Day Slave Narratives
Columbia University Press
Slavery is not a crime confined to the far reaches of history. It is an injustice that continues to entrap twenty-seven million people across the globe. Laura Murphy offers close to forty survivor narratives from Cambodia, Ghana, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, …
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The Making of Modern Immaturity
Columbia University Press
Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one characterthe modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon …
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Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Columbia University Press
Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the …
Columbia University Press
James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) spawned a phenomenon that has been rooted in world culture for decades. This cinematic Prometheus has generated countless sequels, remakes, rip-offs, and parodies in every media, and this granddaddy of cult movies constantly renews its followers …
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Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
Columbia University Press
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through …
View book details for Environmental Ethics, Ecological Theology, and Natural Selection
Suffering and Responsibility
Columbia University Press
In the last few decades, religious and secular thinkers have tackled the world's escalating environmental crisis by attempting to develop an ecological ethic that is both scientifically accurate and free of human-centered preconceptions. This groundbreaking study shows that many of …
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A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Columbia University Press
Eric Walrond (18981966) was a writer, journalist, caustic critic, and fixture of 1920s Harlem. His short story collection, Tropic Death, was one of the first efforts by a black author to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction. Restoring …
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China's First Syncretist
Columbia University Press
By blending multiple strands of thought into one ideology, Chinese Syncretists of the pre-imperial period created an essential guide to contemporary ideas about self, society, and government. Merging traditions such as Ruism, Mohism, Daoism, Legalism, and Yin-Yang naturalism into their …
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A History of Consumer Surveillance and Financial Identity in America
Columbia University Press
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading credit bureaus are among the most powerful institutions in modern lifeyet we know almost nothing about them. Experian, …
Columbia University Press
The first edition of this pragmatic course text emphasized the policy value of a "big picture" approach to the ethical, political, technological, scientific, economic, and management aspects of environmental issues. The text then applied this approach to real-world case examples …
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