Columbia University Press
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Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930â “1934
$26.95 Add to cartPre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a ser
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: Doherty, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 1999
- ISBN10: 0231110952
- Language: English
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Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
$35.00 Add to cartWritten by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender l
- Author: Teich, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 13, 2012
- ISBN10: 0231157134
- Language: English
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The Lotus Sutra
$26.95 Add to cartSince its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among g
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Watson, Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 07 1994
- ISBN10: 0231081618
- Language: English
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Essays on Art and Science
$19.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220855
- Language: English
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The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese: From Ancient Rome to Modern America
$28.95 Add to cartToday, macaroni and cheese is the ultimate comfort food, a staple of weeknight dinners, family gatherings, and Soul Food restaurants. Humble though the dish may seem, its history is filled with surpri
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Moyer-Nocchi, Karima
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0231215312
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and How to Fix Them
$32.95 Add to cartMeritocracy–the idea that individuals should be rewarded based on their talent and hard work–is one of the most widely celebrated ideals in education, business, and government. It shapes how organiz
- Author: Castilla, Emilio J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0231208421
- Language: English
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Why Black People Die Sooner: What Medicine Gets Wrong about Race and How to Fix It
$28.95 Add to cartThere is a persistent gap in life expectancy between Black people and their white counterparts in the United States. It is a direct result of structural racism within American society and has nothing
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 023121796X
- Language: English
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An Education: How I Changed My Mind about Schools and Almost Everything Else
$24.95 Add to cartFor many years, Diane Ravitch was among the country’s leading conservative thinkers on education. The cure for what ailed the school system was clear, she believed: high-stakes standardized testing, n
- Author: Ravitch, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220294
- Language: English
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The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs: Unearthing the Real Behaviors of Prehistoric Animals
$38.95 Add to cartBuried within a lost world, astonishing evidence reveals the behavior of extinct animals, giving us a glimpse at both everyday and epic events. If we look at these discoveries carefully, the untold st
- Author: Lomax, Dean R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0231211309
- Language: English
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Eating History: 30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
$24.95 Add to cartFood expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts–in delicious detail–the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn’t always as corporate, cong
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Smith, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0231140932
- Language: English
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Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America
$26.95 Add to cartAmerican diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country’s most popul
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Chen, Yong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0231168934
- Language: English
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Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions
$24.95 Add to cartCould ancient giant sharks called megalodons still exist in the deep sea? What should you do if stung by a jellyfish? Can we predict lightning strikes and how is climate change affecting hurricanes?
W- Author: Prager, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0231212496
- Language: English
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Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
$26.95 Add to cartHell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and mo
- Author: Morton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214715
- Language: English
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Essays on Art and Science
$26.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0231212569
- Language: English
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Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
$27.95 Add to cartOne of the twentieth century’s great paleontologists and science writers, Stephen Jay Gould was, for Bruce S. Lieberman and Niles Eldredge, also a close colleague and friend. In Macroevolutionaries, t
- Author: Lieberman, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0231208103
- Language: English
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Destination City: A Gallery of New York’s Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History
$24.95 Add to cartLeon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in commo
- Author: Pigott, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0231216475
- Language: English
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Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
$19.95 Add to cartSilver Medal in the Social Change and Social Justice Category, 2024 Nautilus Book Awards
Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every- Author: Munoz, Lisa M. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0231220847
- Language: English
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Harvard Square: A Love Story
$27.95 Add to cart“Harvard Square isn’t what it used to be.” Spend any time there, and you’re bound to hear that lament. Yet people have been saying the very same thing for well over a century. So what does it really m
- Author: Turco, Catherine J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231209282
- Language: English
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Putin’s Revenge: Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
$27.95 Add to cartIn February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe’s largest land war since World War II?
Luci- Series: Woodrow Wilson Center
- Author: Kim, Lucian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214022
- Language: English
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A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
$19.95 Read moreWinner – 2022 Deems Taylor / Virgil Thomson Book Awards in Pop from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
Bert Williams–a Black man forced to perform in blackface who challenged- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0231191839
- Language: English
