Columbia University Press
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Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richa
- Series: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-E
- Author: Downey, John T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0231199120
- Language: English
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The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
$100.00 Add to cartEpigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism’s genetic code is not enough to determine how
- Author: Carey, Nessa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0231161166
- Language: English
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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America
$24.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the conce
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Opie, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0231146396
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius
$19.95 Add to cartCompiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of the
- Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
- Author: Watson, Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0231141653
- Language: English
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Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754-2004
$39.95 Add to cartStand, Columbia! Alma Mater
Through the storms of Time abide Stand, Columbia! Alma Mater Through the storms of Time abide. “Stand, Columbia!” by Gilbert Oakley Ward, Columbia College 1902 (1904) Marki- Series: Columbiana
- Author: McCaughey, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 715
- Publish Date: October 22 2003
- ISBN10: 0231130082
- Language: English
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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike: Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, Ai, Immortality, and the Human
$19.95 Add to cartDoes technology change who we are, and if so, in what ways? Can humanity transcend physical bodies and spaces? Will AI and genetic engineering help us reach new heights or will they unleash dystopias?
- Author: Gleiser, Marcelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0231204116
- Language: English
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On Niccolò Machiavelli: The Bonds of Politics
$14.95 Add to cartFive hundred years after his death, Niccolò Machiavelli still draws an astonishing range of contradictory characterizations. Was he a friend of tyrants? An ardent republican loyal to Florence’s free
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Pedullà , Gabriele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0231205554
- Language: English
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Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
$26.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 0231136951
- Language: English
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A Little Gay History: Desire and Diversity Across the World
$19.95 Add to cartWhen was the first chat line between men established? Who was the first “lesbian”? Were ancient Greek men who had sex with each other necessarily “gay,” and what did Shakespeare think about crossdress
- Author: Parkinson, R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 023116663X
- Language: English
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Political Liberalism
$32.95 Add to cartThis book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work
- Series: Columbia Classics in Philosophy
- Author: Rawls, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 24 2005
- ISBN10: 0231130899
- Language: English
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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
$19.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0231197292
- Language: English
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
$17.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0231188498
- Language: English
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
$26.95 Add to cartAre art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give
- Author: Kandel, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0231179634
- Language: English
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Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight
$32.95 Add to cartThis unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers i
- Author: Hepburn, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 023116145X
- Language: English
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Nietzsche and Philosophy
$26.95 Add to cartNietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche’s philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation… [more below]
- Series: Columbia Classics in Philosophy
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 20 1985
- ISBN10: 0231056699
- Language: English
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Bernoulli’s Fallacy: Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
$37.95 Add to cartThere is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire discipline
- Author: Clayton, Aubrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0231199945
- Language: English
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Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade
$24.95 Add to cartLocated on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand’s capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners and “the City of Angels” to Thais, has been home to smugglers and adventurers since the l
- Author: Maguire, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0231161352
- Language: English
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Difference and Repetition
$26.95 Add to cartThis brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,… [more below]
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0231081596
- Language: English
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New York City Trees: A Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area
$19.95 Add to cartIf you’re not a tree lover now, this pocket-sized gem–dedicated to the idea that every species of tree has a story and every individual tree has a history–will make you one. Produced in consultation
- Author: Barnard, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0231128355
- Language: English
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The Trilobite Collector’s Guide
$59.95 Read moreFor more than 250 million years, the primeval oceans of the Paleozoic teemed with trilobites. These hardy invertebrates evolved into an astonishing array of separate species–more than 25,000 at last
- Author: Secher, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 231213808
- Language: English
