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Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Ba...

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Marketed as a life-saving advancement, flame retardants are now mired in controversy. Alissa Cordner describes how stakeholders use scientific evid...

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Reducere. In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring pl...

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Reducere. DescriptionMeaningful Making 2 is a second volume of projects and strategies from the Columbia University FabLearn Fellows. This diverse group of l...

Reducere. Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Hon...

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DescriptionWhy is belief in an afterlife so persistent across times and cultures? And how can it coexist with disbelief in an afterlife? Most moder...

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Reducere. Gabriel Garc a M rquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. The little-known author, s...

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"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Bar...

DescriptionThis book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment a...

DescriptionOf all of the Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer's many built works, his Algerian projects are among the least well known. Beginning in ...

DescriptionPantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical--that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the...

DescriptionOften dismissed as the rumblings of "the street, " popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Par...

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Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders--but not because of what it ...

DescriptionCan presidents influence whether Congress enacts their agenda? Most research on presidential-congressional relations suggests that presi...

In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward am...

Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical t...

``My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing a...

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DescriptionAllen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was one of the most famous American poets of the twentieth century. Yet, his career is distinguished by not o...

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Anyone can buy stock in a public company, but not all shareholders are equally committed to a company's long-term success. In an increasingly fragm...

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they deva...

DescriptionHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. St...

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Architecture Is All Over investigates architecture's simultaneous diminishment and ubiquity in the early twenty-first century. As a diagnostic and ...

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DescriptionWill the use of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it--or its savior? In N...

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A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marque...

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

DescriptionCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to actio...

First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of lit...

DescriptionThree Steps on the Ladder of Writing is a poetic, insightful, and ultimately moving exploration of 'the strange science of writing.' In ...

DescriptionKim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. ...

Reducere. Christ, the Life of the Soul is a modern spiritual classic. Drawing upon the Scriptures, the Liturgy, and the Doctors of the Church, Blessed Columb...

DescriptionPhilosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism--either a radical separation of mind and bod...

Highly acclaimed dissection of the "new racism, " from one of the greatest radical black intellectuals of our time Many in the United States, inclu...

Jazz has always been a genre built on the blending of disparate musical cultures. Latin jazz illustrates this perhaps better than any other style i...

Reducere. In the early seventies, when America began to awaken to locally sourced food and wine, Gretchen Glasscock, returned to Texas from the East with a d...

Reducere. It seemed all she had to do was show up.Kathalynn Turner Davis ditched beauty pageants for Hollywood, finding herself in the living rooms, nightclu...

Reducere. Nancy Turner and Richard Hebda present the results of many years of working with botanical experts from the Saanich Nation on southern Vancouver Is...

Reducere. Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experime...

Reducere. All of the sciences―physical, biological, and social―have a need for quantitative measurement. This influential series, Foundations of Measurement,...

Reducere. While many proponents of transracial adoption claim that American society is increasingly becoming "color-blind, " a growing body of research revea...

DescriptionA fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to speak up. By promoting open dialogue across the...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael FrezeThe Catholic Roman Rite of Exorcism (Rituale Romanum). An updated, scholarly treatment of the Rite, qualities ...

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As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...