Displacing the divine

As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Walr...

Black intellectuals and black society

This book presents the trailblazing political scientist Martin L. Kilson’s essays on leading Black intellectuals of the twentieth century.

The putin system

Grigory Yavlinsky, a Russian economist and opposition leader, explains his country’s politics from a unique perspective, voicing a Russian liberal critique of the post-Soviet system that is vital for the West to hear.​ He argues that Putin is as much a product of the system as its creator.

The curious history of the heart

This book traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to the present. Vincent M. Figueredo—an accomplished cardiologist and expert on the history of the human heart—explores the role and significance of the heart in art, culture, religion, philosophy, and ...

The cult of the fox

For more than five centuries the shamanistic fox cult has attracted large portions of the Chinese population and appealed to a wide range of social classes. Deemed illicit by imperial rulers and clerics and officially banned by republican and communist leaders, the fox cult has managed to survive...

The financial restructuring tool set

The restructuring veteran Mike Harmon provides an indispensable go-to guide tailored for executives, business owners, boards of directors, creditors, advisors, and investors grappling with financial distress.

Adenauer's germany and the nazi past

Of all the aspects of recovery in postwar Germany perhaps none was as critical or as complicated as the matter of dealing with Nazi criminals, and, more broadly, with the Nazi past. While on the international stage German officials spoke with contrition of their nation's burden of guilt, at home ...

Agrarian and other histories

There is no area of Indian agrarian history that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. This volume considers his work on the peasantry and the political economy of agriculture in eastern India, including the process of 'depeasantization' and the forcible induction of tribes and forest dwelle...

Dickinson's nerves, frost's woods

William Logan reconciles history and poetry to provide new ways of reading poets ranging from Shakespeare and Shelley to Lowell and Heaney. In these striking essays, Logan presents the poetry of the past through the lens of the past, attempting to bring poems back to the world in which they were ...

Uncertainty, expectations, and financial instability

Eric Barthalon applies the neglected theory of psychological time and memory decay of Maurice Allais to model investors’ psychology in the present context of recurrent financial crises

Our forest, your ecosystem, their timber

Community-based forest management (CBFM) is a model of forest management in which a community takes part in decision making and implementation, and monitoring of activities affecting the natural resources around them. CBFM provides a framework for a community members to secure access to the produ...

Left-wing melancholia

Uncovering the melancholic tradition of the global left.

Chop suey, usa

An epic tale of globalized cultural exchange by means of our first “fast food.”

Translating mount fuji

Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of...

Two acres of time

Richard S. Laub tells the story of the Byron Dig, an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts. Recounting twenty-nine years of intensive excavation involving more than a thousand participants, he provides a comprehensive account of a working paleontological and archaeological field project.

Empire in the western ocean

This book discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming.

Nations without nationalism

We dig ammonites

Jodi Summers—an accomplished journalist and passionate fossil collector—guides readers through the entire arc of ammonite history.

How the gloves came off

An examination of the legal and national-security debates that made torture an acceptable act of counterterrorism.

Money and promises

In Money and Promises, the distinguished banker, executive, and historian Paolo Zannoni examines the complex relationship between states and banks that has changed the world.

Twentieth-century italian drama

Npr

The people who shaped America's public broadcasting system thought it should be "a civilized voice in a civilized community"—a clear alternative to commercial broadcasting. This book tells the story of how NPR has tried to embody this idea. Michael P. McCauley describes NPR's evolution from virtu...

Genes, brains, and human potential

A rigorous critique of how science has promoted an ideology of limited intelligence and social inequality—and how to overcome it.

The making of salafism

Sees the Salafi movement as a recent conception of Islam projected back onto the past and its purist evolution as a direct result of decolonization

Duchamp and the aesthetics of chance

Marcel Duchamp is often viewed as an "artist-engineer-scientist," a kind of rationalist who relied heavily on the ideas of the French mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincaré. Yet a complete portrait of Duchamp and his multiple influences draws a different picture. In his 3 Standard Stoppages...

Vote gun

Patrick J. Charles charts the rise of gun rights activism from the early twentieth century through the 1980 presidential election, pinpointing the role of the 1968 Gun Control Act. Offering a deep dive into the politicization of gun rights, Vote Gun reveals the origins of the acrimonious division...

Financial statement analysis for value investing

How should an investor challenge the market price and find value? This book provides a new lens, arguing that value investing is a matter of understanding the business through accounting.

On bicycles

Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.

The sacred universe

A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an...

Spreading indra's net

Spreading Indra’s Net presents D. T. Suzuki’s 1952–1953 lectures at Columbia University in full, giving a vivid look at how one of the most important global Buddhist figures of the twentieth century interpreted Zen for an American audience.

The king's plunder, the king's bodies

This work establishes the monarchical form of the British empire between CE 1600 and 1900.

The orphan of zhao and other yuan plays

The zaju in this volume explore the consequences of loyalty and betrayal, ambition and enlightenment, and piety and drunkenness.

C. t. hsia on chinese literature

Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Liter...

Coping with the climate crisis

Coping with the Climate Crisis brings together leading experts from academia and policy circles to explore issues related to the implementation of the COP21 Paris Agreement and the challenges of accelerating the transition toward sustainable development. The book synthesizes the key insights of c...

Literature and history in the shi ji of sima qian

An excellent introduction to Sima Qian’s masterpiece, Shi Ji.

The awakened ones

While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonration...

Industrial policy and economic transformation in africa

Explores the vital role that industrial policies can play in bringing about a transformation of African economies