Columbia University Press
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The Top 500 Poems
$34.95 Add to cartThe Top 500 Poems offers a vivid portrait of poetry in English, assembling a host of popular and enduring poems as chosen by critics, editors, poets, and general readers. These works speak across cent… [more below]
- Series: Columbia Anthologies
- Author: Harmon, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1132
- Publish Date: December 10 1992
- ISBN10: 023108028X
- Language: English
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartSeth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Ler… [more below]
- Author: Lerer, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0231174470
- Language: English
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The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldo
- Series: Film and Culture
- Author: O’Meally, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0231104499
- Language: English
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Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense
$19.95 Add to cartOur existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our… [more below]
- Series: No Limits
- Author: Kearney, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0231199538
- Language: English
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Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
$24.95 Add to cartIn his new book, Gordon M. Shepherd expands on the startling discovery that the brain creates the taste of wine. This approach to understanding wine’s sensory experience draws on findings in neuroscie
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0231177003
- Language: English
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The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking
$34.95 Add to cartEating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food’s components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of es
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Vega, César
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0231153449
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Geisha
$24.95 Add to cartThe glamorous world of big-city geisha is familiar to many readers, but little has been written of the life of hardship and pain led by the hot-springs-resort geisha. Indentured to geisha houses by fa
- Author: Masuda, Sayo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0231129513
- Language: English
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Pain: The Science of Suffering
$26.95 Add to cartPain is one of medicine’s greatest mysteries. When farmer John Mitson caught his hand in a baler, he cut off his trapped hand and carried it to a neighbor. “Sheer survival and logic” was how he descri
- Series: Maps of the Mind
- Author: Wall, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0231120079
- Language: English
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The Art of War: Sun Zi’s Military Methods
$16.95 Add to cartCompiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Zi, Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 13 2009
- ISBN10: 0231133839
- Language: English
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Humans: Perspectives on Our Evolution from World Experts
$63.33 Add to cartHow did humanity evolve? And what does our evolutionary history tell us about what it means to be human? These questions are fundamental to our identity as individuals and as a species and to our rela
- Author: Alm?cija, Sergio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0231201214
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
$16.95 Add to cartNoam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist
- Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0231175973
- Language: English
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Sports Analytics: A Guide for Coaches, Managers, and Other Decision Makers
$24.95 Add to cartBenjamin C. Alamar founded the first journal dedicated to sports statistics, the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports. He developed and teaches a class on sports analytics for managers at the Un
- Author: Alamar, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0231162928
- Language: English
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Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
$24.95 Add to cartLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging t
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0231159110
- Language: English
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Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters
$29.95 Add to cartLeading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the “human brain flavor system,” laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging t
- Author: Shepherd, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0231159102
- Language: English
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Vaccines and Your Child: Separating Fact from Fiction
$18.95 Add to cartPaul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser answer questions about the science and safety of modern vaccines. In straightforward prose, they explain how vaccines work, how they are made, and how they are tes
- Author: Offit, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0231153074
- Language: English
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The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
$26.95 Add to cartA 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 destru… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0231149522
- Language: English
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The Logic of Sense
$26.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the most important works of one of France’s foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonder
- Series: European Perspectives
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: June 10 1993
- ISBN10: 0231059833
- Language: English
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Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
$39.95 Add to cartTrilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of
- Author: Secher, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 023120096X
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$22.95 Add to cartThe American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geop
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 023118848X
- Language: English
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Postcolonial Melancholia
$24.95 Add to cartIn an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That’s the provocati
- Series: Wellek Library Lectures
- Author: Gilroy, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 023113455X
- Language: English
