The columbia anthology of traditional chinese literature

Aleksandr prokhanov and post-soviet esotericism

This book, the first on Prokhanov, offers an account of his writing and of the ‘red-brown’ esotericism he expounds.

Austerity

John Fender explains how the economics of austerity works in theory and how it has played out in practice in the UK, U.S., and the EU. He provides students with a clear and rigorous guide to the principles and mechanisms of austerity economics and offers a balanced point of reference.

The politics of sorrow

The Politics of Sorrow tells the story of the Group of Thirteen, a collective of chieftains and lamas from the regions of Kham and Amdo, who sought to preserve Tibet’s cultural diversity in exile.

Understanding east asia's economic "miracles"

Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Concise yet comprehensive, Zhiqun Zhu’s book is the perfect introduction to the political economy of East Asia for undergraduate and advanced high school classes. Zhu’s analysis of the economic ‘miracles’ of Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan takes into acco...

Water and environment in the selenga-baikal basin

The water resources of the Selenga River/Lake Baikal system are essential to the ecosystems and economic development of the surrounding region. In this large river and lake basin, there are strong contrasts between relatively pristine areas and massive anthropogenic impacts on the environment. Th...

Tibetan buddhists in the making of modern china

Over the past century and with varying degrees of success, China has tried to integrate Tibet into the modern Chinese nation-state. In this groundbreaking work, Gray Tuttle reveals the surprising role Buddhism and Buddhist leaders played in the development of the modern Chinese state and in foste...

Climate finance

This book develops an expansive definition of climate finance and a critical framework for analysing its political economy. The authors highlight the diversity, scale and contradictions of climate finance entanglements – from funding renewable energy, putting a price on carbon, responsible invest...

Memory, trauma, and history

In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory. He first examines the development in nineteenth-century France of medical criteria for diagnosing m...

Electric dreamland

Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary ...

Buddhism in america

Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups tha...

Provision for surviving dependants in social security

This book explores survivors’ benefits, a long-standing pillar of social security systems worldwide.

Troubled fields

In Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide—not accident as previously assumed—was the leading cause of agricultural fatalities among farmers. Men were five times more likely to die by suicide than by accident. What was causing these men—but not women—to want to kill themselves? Ramírez-Ferrero s...

Loveknowledge

Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respec...

Queer and feminist relationships in contemporary fiction

This book analyzes friendly, amorous, sexual, political and artistic contacts within and around contemporary fictions of Romance cultures.

Creative control

Michael L. Siciliano draws on nearly two years of ethnographic research as a participant-observer in a Los Angeles music studio and a multichannel YouTube network to explore the contradictions of creative work. Creative Control explains why “cool” jobs help us understand how workers can participa...

Freedom undone

Michael Davis takes us on the constitutional journey of Hong Kong’s vigorous defense of freedom and its repressive undoing.

Financing metropolitan governments in developing countries

This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report includes policy recommendations and explores the effective use of metropolitan revenue instruments,...

Journalism and new media

Ubiquitous news, global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity, multimedia content, extreme customization: Journalism is undergoing the most fundamental transformation since the rise of the penny press in the nineteenth century. Here is a report from the front lines on the imp...

Topographies of japanese modernism

What happens when a critique of modernity—a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"—is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of Japanese...

Accidents and the state

The beginning of the twentieth century saw a reinterpretation of the concept of the accident. The contributions in this volume explore social, cultural, political, administrative, and medical responses to accidents in modern states. The case studies include British, French, German, Italian, Chine...

Russia's overlooked invasion

In his new book, Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014 to demonstrate that the pre-2022 conflict was not a civil war.

The empire remains shop

The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on a public installation, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program, using food to trace new geographies across the present an...

Resilient coastal city regions

This book reports on national, state, and local responses to climate-related risks of sea level rise and storm surge, drought and water shortage, floods, wildfires, and heat waves in nine coastal city regions: New York City, the Southeastern states, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in ...

Black sun

Julia Kristeva addresses the subject of melancholia, examining this phenomenon in the context of art, literature, philosophy, the history of religion and culture, and psychoanalysis.

Beginner's chinese with online audio

The #1 Chinese self-study course on the market is now available with online audio! Designed for the beginner who has no previous knowledge of Chinese, this guide provides 10 easy-to-follow lessons that cover the basics of the language and can be mastered during the equivalent of one academic seme...

Bullshit jobs: a work rant

Bullshit Jobs is part polemic, part social theory, and part cathartic scream—a razor-sharp diagnosis of a system that rewards appearance over substance, and a call to imagine something radically better.

Voice assistants in private homes

This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.

Resisting eviction

This book Meticulously documents how real estate investment firms and government colluded to gentrify a racialized neighborhood and how tenants fought back.

Digital culture & society (dcs)

This issue discusses theoretical and artistic investigations of citizen engagement, digital citizenship, and grassroots information politics. Articles reflect on the role of the digital citizen.

Foucault's futures

Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault’s thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. Foucault’s Futures brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to provide new insights into the conflicted political status of reproductive conduct and w...

Freedom and neurobiology

Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical parti...

Okinawa

Located between the tip of Japan and Taiwan, Okinawa is a tiny island of huge geopolitical importance. Its sovereignty is contested by China and as a strategic asset for US and Japanese military it is a potential target for North Korean missiles.

Socio-economic foundations of the russian post-soviet regime

Simon Kordonsky divides the social structure of contemporary Russia into distinct estates or social groups and describes each organization's unique resource-based political and economic nature. As he guides readers through Russia's peculiar service and support estate system, Kordonsky reveals how...

The forgotten borough

What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? Kenneth M. Gold argues that the lack of a subway connection has deeply shaped Staten Island’s history and identity. He chronicles decades of recurrent efforts to build a rail link, using this history to explore the borough’s fraught re...

Fables and forensics

Emily Watlington, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts.

The philosopher's plant

A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

Modernity's corruption

Nicholas Hoover Wilson develops a new account of the changing category of corruption by examining the English East India Company and its transformation from a largely commercial enterprise to a militarized offshoot of British empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Planning support systems for cities and regions

Editor Richard K. Brail has brought together the wisest of the field’s thinkers, the most inventive of the toolmakers, the most experienced of those working at the interface with real clients, and the most battle-seasoned practicing planners (and many of these individuals occupy more than one of ...

Conquering lyme disease

Written for the educated patient and health care provider, Conquering Lyme Disease gives an up-to-the-minute overview of the science that is transforming the way we address this complex illness. Brian A. Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky argue forcefully that the expanding plague of Lyme and other tick-...

Mind-body medicine in inpatient psychiatry

David Tomasi presents new, groundbreaking research on the science and application of mind-body medicine strategies to improve clinical outcomes in inpatient psychiatry settings. This book is a thorough description of how mind-body medicine can be successfully applied to the full spectrum of psych...

Opposing desires

Dynamic and continuous alike: the framing strategies, networks, and hegemonic struggles of conservative Christians’ anti-LGBT activism in South Korea.

The creativity complex

There is a demand to be new and special, conspicuous and singular. How did this creativity complex and its imperative to be creative come about? Gathering and interweaving forty short and incisive essays, this companion maps, investigates, and illuminates the contemporary creativity complex.

The metamorphoses of fat

Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.