Columbia University Press
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Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor
$29.95 Add to cartHerv This (pronounced “Teess”) is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierr… [more below]
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: This, Hervé
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 023113312X
- Language: English
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Inwardness: An Outsider’s Guide
$19.95 Add to cartWhere do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tr
- Series: No Limits
- Author: Ganeri, Jonardon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0231192290
- Language: English
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Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
$22.95 Add to cartIn this passionate and powerful book–part manifesto, part plan of action–the renowned economist Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a practical strategy to move America, seemingly more divided than ever, toward… [more below]
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0231184042
- Language: English
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Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World
$29.95 Add to cartBorn just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight o
- Author: Ki-moon, Ban
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0231198728
- Language: English
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Passcode to the Third Floor: An Insider’s Account of Life Among North Korea’s Political Elite
$32.95 Add to cartThae Yong-ho was a leading North Korean diplomat to the United Kingdom and Northern Europe–until his dramatic defection to South Korea in 2016. In this gripping tell-all, he reveals the inner working
- Author: Yong-Ho, Thae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0231198868
- Language: English
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Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
$39.95 Add to cartBits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Pottery shards dating to 600
- Author: Rothschild, Nan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0231194951
- Language: English
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Sex and World Peace
$24.95 Add to cartSex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of
- Author: Hudson, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0231131836
- Language: English
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Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
$36.95 Add to cartA renowned philosopher of the mind, also known for his groundbreaking work on Buddhism and cognitive science, Evan Thompson combines the latest neuroscience research on sleep, dreaming, and meditation
- Author: Thompson, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0231137095
- Language: English
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2013
$17.95 Add to cartChosen by the American Society of Magazine Editors, the stories in this anthology include National Magazine Award-winning works of public interest, reporting, feature writing, and fiction. This year’s… [more below]
- Series: Best American Magazine Writing
- Author: Holt, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0231162251
- Language: English
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Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
$17.95 Add to cartA London researcher was the first to assert that the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine known as MMR caused autism in children. Following this “discovery,” a handful of parents declared that a
- Author: Offit, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 29 2010
- ISBN10: 023114637X
- Language: English
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Life Itself: A Comprehensive Inquiry Into the Nature, Origin, and Fabrication of Life
$28.95 Add to cartWhy are living things alive? As a theoretical biologist, Robert Rosen saw this as the most fundamental of all questions-and yet it had never been answered satisfactorily by science. The answers to thi
- Series: Complexity in Ecological Systems
- Author: Rosen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0231075650
- Language: English
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On John Stuart Mill
$14.95 Add to cartJohn Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill’s apparent victory in the marketplace of ideas has numbed us to the power
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Kitcher, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231204159
- Language: English
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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein’s Ideas, and Why They Matter
$18.95 Add to cartIt is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett poi
- Author: Bennett, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2016
- ISBN10: 023116727X
- Language: English
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Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor’s me
- Author: Wallace, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0231151578
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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Vaccines and Your Family: Separating Fact from Fiction
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines. Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser–scientists and parents with decades of exper
- Author: Offit, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0231213395
- Language: English
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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
$29.95 Add to cartFossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow cre
- Author: Lomax, Dean R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0231197284
- Language: English
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I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo
$39.95 Add to cartLate one night in December 2008, police arrived at the home of Liu Xiaobo–China’s leading dissident, a key figure in the prodemocracy manifesto Charter 08–and took him away. When Liu won the 2010 No
- Author: Link, Perry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0231206348
- Language: English
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Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah
$29.95 Add to cartThe spread of Islam around the globe has blurred the connection between a religion, a specific society, and a territory. One-third of the world’s Muslims now live as members of a minority. At the hear… [more below]
- Series: CERI Series in Comparative Politics and International Studies (Paperback)
- Author: Roy, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231134991
- Language: English
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Food: A Culinary History
$35.00 Add to cartWhen did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did “cuisine” become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of pre
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Flandrin, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 023111155X
- Language: English
