Columbia University Press
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The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
$9.95 Add to cartThe year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and–fi
- Author: Oreskes, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 023116954X
- Language: English
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The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
$28.95 Add to cartToday’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a glo
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0231193742
- Language: English
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The Botany of Beer: An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing
$39.95 Read moreFrom mass-produced lagers to craft-brewery IPAs, from beers made in Trappist monasteries according to traditional techniques to those created by innovative local brewers seeking to capture regional te
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Caruso, Giuseppe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0231201583
- Language: English
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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
$25.95 Add to cartSince the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery
- Author: Kara, Siddharth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0231180330
- Language: English
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The Universal Timekeepers: Reconstructing History Atom by Atom
$32.95 Add to cartAtoms are unfathomably tiny. It takes fifteen million trillion of them to make up a single poppy seed–give or take a few billion. And there’s hardly anything to them: atoms are more than 99.999999999
- Author: Helfand, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0231210981
- Language: English
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So You Want to Be a Neuroscientist?
$22.95 Add to cartThe pursuit to understand the human brain in all its intricacy is a fascinatingly complex challenge and neuroscience is one of the fastest-growing scientific fields worldwide. There is a wide range of
- Author: Juavinett, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0231190891
- Language: English
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The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
$39.95 Read moreCities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and w
- Author: Despommier, Dickson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0231205503
- Language: English
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Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
$24.95 Add to cartThe science on race is clear. Common categories like “Black,” “white,” and “Asian” do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science,
- Author: Graves, Joseph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200676
- Language: English
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Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action
$19.95 Add to cartWe’ve known for decades that climate change is an existential crisis. For just as long, we’ve seen the complete failure of our institutions to rise to the challenge. Governments have struggled to meet
- Series: Society and the Environment
- Author: Fisher, Dana R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0231209304
- Language: English
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Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
$200.00 Add to cartWhy is cows’ milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the population is lactose-intolerant? Why are gigantic new da
- Series: Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary H
- Author: Mendelson, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0231188188
- Language: English
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More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)
$24.95 Add to cartSince its first publication, Michael J. Mauboussin’s popular guide to wise investing has been translated into eight languages and has been named best business book by BusinessWeek and best economics b
- Series: Columbia Business School Publishing
- Author: Mauboussin, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2013
- ISBN10: 0231143737
- Language: English
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The Age of Sustainable Development
$83.33 Read moreJeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world’s most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can
- Author: Sachs, Jeffrey D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0231173156
- Language: English
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Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
$28.95 Add to cartWhether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience.
- Author: Schwabish, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0231175213
- Language: English
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Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts
$16.95 Add to cartAlexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repar
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Hulick, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0231189796
- Language: English
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A Double Life
$16.95 Add to cartAn unsung classic of nineteenth-century Russian literature, Karolina Pavlova’s A Double Life alternates prose and poetry to offer a wry picture of Russian aristocratic society and vivid dreams of esca
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Pavlova, Karolina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0231190794
- Language: English
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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
$32.95 Add to cartIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes’s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to dis
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 023113617X
- Language: English
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Stravaging “Strange”
$17.95 Add to cart“I’m not on good terms with the present day,” Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky once mused, “but posterity loves me.” Virtually unknown during his lifetime and unpublishable under Stalin, he now draws comparis
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Turnbull, Joanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231199473
- Language: English
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To the Stars and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in “becoming” a dog and howling at the
- Author: Fusso, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200056
- Language: English
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On Ovid’s Metamorphoses
$14.95 Add to cartOvid’s Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundred
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Williams, Gareth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231200714
- Language: English
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Necropolis
$19.95 Add to cartNecropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memori
- Series: Russian Library
- Author: Khodasevich, Vladislav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 023118705X
- Language: English
