Cornell University Press
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Fast Tanks and Heavy Bombers
$26.95 Add to cartThe U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany’s blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and on
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Johnson, David E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 15 2003
- ISBN10: 0801488478
- Language: English
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We’re Having Much More Fun: Punk Archives for the Present from Cbgb to Gilman and Beyond
$29.95 Add to cartIn We’re Having Much More Fun Judith A. Peraino and Tom McEnaney celebrate the ways punks have built and documented their own misfit collectives since the mid-1970s, assembling alternative worlds of r
- Author: Peraino, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1501780328
- Language: English
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Autocracy 2.0: How China’s Rise Reinvented Tyranny
$29.95 Add to cartIn Autocracy 2.0, Jennifer Lind reveals how China’s leaders defied expectations and propelled the country to innovation-superpower status–and what that means for the balance of power and global strug
- Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- Author: Lind, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: November 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501784145
- Language: English
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Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem: Frontier Inventiveness in the Age of the Crusades
$34.95 Add to cartCultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the First Crusade in 1099, the newcomers from Europe, or
- Series: Medieval Societies, Religions, and Cultures
- Author: Kedar, Benjamin Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501781707
- Language: English
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet
$25.95 Add to cartThe clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book…. Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere…. Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians–?t
- Author: Rischin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472970
- Language: English
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A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age
$34.95 Add to cartAs threats to the security of information pervade the fabric of everyday life, A Vulnerable System describes how, even as the demand for information security increases, the needs of society are not be
- Author: Stewart, Andrew J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501758942
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
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America’s Cold Warrior: Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan
$32.95 Add to cartIn America’s Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze’s career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in
- Author: Wilson, James Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2024
- ISBN10: 150177607X
- Language: English
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Clara Schumann (Revised)
$25.95 Add to cartThis absorbing and award-winning biography tells the story of the tragedies and triumphs of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896), a musician of remarkable achievements. At once artist, composer, editor, t
- Author: Reich, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0801486378
- Language: English
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Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany
$49.92 Add to cartIn a book that is at once a major contribution to modern European history and a cautionary tale for today, Isabel V. Hull argues that the routines and practices of the Imperial German Army, unchecked
- Author: Hull, Isabel V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472938
- Language: English
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The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet
$26.95 Add to cartAs seen on CBS 60 Minutes
“No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”
Did y
- Author: Kosseff, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501714414
- Language: English
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Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War
$29.95 Add to cartBruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year
- Author: Dancis, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0801452422
- Language: English
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In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America’s Most Companionable of Writers
$24.95 Add to cart“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a world war.”–E. B. White on fatherhood
“I was lucky to be born abnormal. It ran in the family.”–on luck
“I would really rather feel bad in Ma
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0801449553
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
$22.95 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher’s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and mo
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Vico, Giambattista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 15 1963
- ISBN10: 080149088X
- Language: English
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My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture
$22.00 Add to cart“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagia
- Author: Blum, Susan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0801476615
- Language: English
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The Devil: A New Biography
$32.95 Add to cart“Although the Devil still ‘lives’ in modern popular culture, for the past 250 years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or i
- Author: Almond, Philip C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0801453372
- Language: English
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Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
$36.95 Add to cartIn Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers- Author: Colbourn, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766023
- Language: English
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Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
$32.95 Add to cartThe prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history–one of limited Japane
- Author: Samuels, Richard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1501741586
- Language: English
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New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State
$17.95 Add to cartTracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival resea
- Author: Johnson-Weiner, Karen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1501707604
- Language: English
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The Art of Quartet Playing
$20.95 Add to cartThis collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Blum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: June 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0801494567
- Language: English
