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The University of Chicago Press Representing Hip Hop Culture and the Production
Book SynopsisExamines developments in black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of ghettocentric films. The work examines a distinct contradiction in American society: black youth have become targets of a racial backlash but their popular cultures have become commercially viable.Table of ContentsIntroduction - black youth at century's end; social conservatism and the culture wars; black youth and the ironies of capitalism; black cinema and the changing landscape of industrial image making; producing the Spike Lee joint; Spike's joint; producing ghetto pictures; the ghettocentric imagination; epilogue - the culture industry and the hip hop generation
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Columbia University Press A History of Union Theological Seminary in New York
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Columbia University Press The Use and Abuse of Cinema
Book SynopsisExplores the screen fantasies and spectacles that derive from Germany’s fraught modern experienceTrade ReviewRentschler's command of individual filmmakers' oeuvres, from the unjustly forgotten and overlooked to the internationally recognized and celebrated auteurs, and of historical periods from the silents to the evolving present is as impressive as his ability to 'drill down' analytically and uncover significant details, motifs, or patterns. Throughout this book, he carefully historicizes its materials, finding an excellent balance between history, theory, and close analysis across a broad range of films. -- Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan Written in highly readable, elegant prose, Rentschler's volume is an authoritative study of the history of German film from the 1920s to the present day by one of the foremost scholars in the field. This is the work of an expert at the peak of his craft. -- Gerd Gemunden, author of Continental Strangers: German Exile Cinema, 1933-1951 [The Use and Abuse of Cinema] offers inspired juxtapositions and an authoritative range of knowledge, and is also a very good read. -- Martin Brady Modern Language Review The Use and Abuse of Cinema showcases the scope of Rentschler's work and provides a tantalizing introduction to his sensitive, far-reaching approach to film history... More broadly, the book argues for the importance of Germany as a case study for the ability of film as a medium to reflect, influence, and even shape the course of history. -- Lisa Wells Jacobson Film Quarterly Each chapter, whether it takes on a theoretical question, a "school" or movement, or a film or group of films, provides a model of how to produce an essay that is historically grounded, rich in erudition, and intellectually productive. -- Barton Byg MonatshefteTable of ContentsIntroduction: History Lessons and Courses in Time Part I. Critical Venues 1. How a Social Critic Became a Formative Theorist 2. Hunger for Experience, Spectatorship, and the Seventies 3. The Passenger and the Critical Critic 4. The Limits of Aesthetic Resistance 5. Springtime for Ufa Part II. Serials and Cycles 6. Mountains and Modernity 7. Too Lovely to Be True 8. The Management of Shattered Identity 9. After the War, Before the Wall Part III. From Oberhausen to Bitburg 10. Remembering Not to Forget 11. Many Ways to Fight a Battle 12. How American Is It? 13. The Use and Abuse of Memory 14. A Cinema of Citation 15. The Declaration of Independents Part IV. Postwall Projects 16. An Archaeology of the Berlin School 17. The Surveillance Camera's Quarry 18. Heritages and Histories 19. Life in the Shadows 20. Two Trips to the Berlinale Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Courtier Commoner in Ancient China Paper
Book SynopsisPan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D.Burton Watson has translated ten chapters from the biography section, including the lives of imperial princes, generals, officials, and some lesser figures.
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Columbia University Press The Return of the Unicorns
Book SynopsisDocumenting one of the rare success stories in the history of wildlife conservation, The Return of the Unicorns distills two decades of intensive fieldwork and research on one of the world's most endangered animals: Rhinoceros unicornis, commonly known as the greater one-horned rhinoceros.Trade ReviewDinerstein provides a glimmer of hope... with his success story of the conservation of the Indian or greater one-horned rhinoceros... [He] discusses the implications of this success story for conservation efforts elsewhere, and clearly rejects attempts to capture rare animals and maintain their populations by captive breeding. -- Donald R. Prothero Quarterly Review of Biology This book offers much to anyone interested in practical, how-to conservation, far-away landscapes, large and exotic-sounding mammals, biodiversity, planning, and tropical ecology... A beautifully candid account... this is the book that conservation pragmatists and cynics should read to discover why optimism about the conservation of large mammals in human-dominated landscapes is not misplaced. -- Joel Berger Conservation Biology an excellent overview of many aspects of the biology and conservation of greater one-horned rhinos in Nepal. -- Samuel Zschokke Basic and Applied Ecology A landmark contribution on the ecology and conservation of large mammals. -- Mark S. Boyce Ecology A serious book full of essential information, and one that has but few rivals... Dinerstein's book is a welcome contribution. PachydermTable of ContentsForeword, by George B. Schaller Preface Introduction Part I: Vanishing Mammals, Vanishing Landscapes 1. Vanishing Mammals: The Rise and Fall of the Rhinoceroses 2. Culture, Conservation, and the Demand for Rhinoceros Horn 3. Vanishing Landscapes: The Flood Plain Ecosystem of Chitwan Part II: Biology of an Endangered Megaherbivore 4. Size and Sexual Dimorphism in Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros 5. The Biology of an Extinction-Prone Species: Facing Demographic, Genetic, and Environmental Threats 6. Life on the Flood Plain: Spacing and Ranging Behavior, Feeding Ecology, and Activity Patterns 7. Male Dominance, Reproductive Success, and the "Incisor Size Hypothesis" 8. Endangered Phenomena: Rhinoceros as Landscape Architects Part III: The Recovery of Endangered Large Mammal Populations and their Habitats in Asia 9. Does Privately Owned Ecotourism Support Conservation of Charismatic Megafauna? 10. Making Room for Megafauna: Promoting Local Guardianship of Endangered Species and Landscape-scale Conservation 11. The Recovery of Rhinoceros and Other Asian Megafauna Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Measurements and other Physical Features of greater one-horned rhinoceros captured in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal Appendix C: Demographic and Genetic Data Appendix D: Seasonal Home Range and Daily Movements Appendix E: A Profile of Rhinoceros Behavior Appendix F: Reproductive Histories of Adult Female Rhinoceros References Index
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Columbia University Press Losing Control
Book SynopsisWhat determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?Trade ReviewSassen is particularly concerned with the transformation wrought by globalization on the national state and its basic attributes: sovereignty, exclusive territoriality, and citizenship. She does a fine job of outlining the positive and negative aspects of this process. World Affairs Sassen writes with a clarity that sacrifices none of the complexity of the issues she addresses. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The State and the New Geography of Power 2. On Economic Citizenship 3. Immigration Tests the New Order Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Serendipities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEco cajoles his readers to go out and learn more, and perhaps, to disagree with him. -- Scott Gordon The Daily Yomiuri Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous... The literary examples Eco employs range from Dante to Dumas, from Sterne to Spillane. His text is thought-provoking, often outright funny, and full of surprising juxtapositions. The Atlantic Fans of Eco's novels will not be left dissatisfied--his fictional players are still present: Templars, Illuminati, Jesuits, Theosophists, and Masons. They all have a part in this intriguing look at how the study of language can be full of surprises. Booklist Rich in historical anecdotes... Throughout, his treatments are informative, intellectually sophisticated, and thoroughly entertaining. Library Journal This collection will certainly appeal to specialists. But Eco's ability to balance technical subject matter with broadly intelligible anecdotes and illustrations should make it valuable and pleasurable for anyone seeking a gallant introduction to the philosophy of language. Publishers Weekly Eco's insistent curiosity, his vital imagination and his almost overwhelming erudition work together like forces of nature to push and pull the book's five essays in unpredictable directions. Review of Contemporary Fiction These essays are equally entertaining and unusual. Scotland on Sunday Informative, instructive, and entertaining. World Literature TodayTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Force of Falsity 2. Languages in Paradise 3. From Marco Polo to Leibniz: Stories of Intellectual Misunderstandings 4. The Language of the Austral Land 5. The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre Notes Index
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Columbia University Press The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
Book SynopsisThe influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush’s biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush’s most important works across four decades.Trade ReviewA brilliant engineer and incisive intellectual, Vannevar Bush stood at the crossroads of science and government policy at the height of the so-called American Century as few figures in history ever have. His penetrating reflections on the public role of scientists in a liberal democracy, a perennial concern, help give this collection an abiding, even urgent importance. -- Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnG. Pascal Zachary has thoughtfully curated and put into context a remarkable collection of Vannevar Bush’s writings. Bush’s prose transports us to the past—you can almost hear the clacking of a typewriter and catch a whiff of mimeograph ink—but his subject is the future and how to build it. Today, our challenges and aspirations for the years ahead are different. But Bush’s insights about research, technology, and America’s particular opportunity are as piercing and timely as ever. -- Arati Prabhakar, former director of DARPA and CEO of ActuateHistorians and engaged enthusiasts will find that Bush’s writings, brilliantly framed by Zachary’s introduction, provide both the compass and true north for our digital world. While imperfect, Bush’s visions are the bedrock of the world in which we live, work, and play. They codify the ideas and issues that shape the lion’s share of modern computing—and life as we know it does not exist without computing. -- Dan'l Lewin, president of the Computer History MuseumI can't think of a better guide through the writings of Vannevar Bush than G. Pascal Zachary, author of Endless Frontier, the definitive biography of Bush. This carefully curated collection belongs in the libraries of scholars and readers concerned with the origins of the information era: the technology, the politics, the institutions, and the people. -- Annalee Saxenian, University of California, BerkeleyZachary’s selection of Bush’s writings, and his insightful comments on them, are especially welcome today as a nation yearns for leadership in science and technology. -- Paul Ceruzzi, author of Computing: A Concise HistoryIn the aftermath of World War II, it was not at all certain whether the United States would sag back into the Great Depression. Fortunately, the nation had sound leadership, and one of those distinguished leaders was Vannevar Bush, who charted a new future for the country in science and engineering. Today, from the vantage point of the digital revolution, we need to honor leaders like Bush, as has G. Pascal Zachary by editing these significant essays. Bush’s thoughtful writings deserve the careful attention of every citizen who seeks to understand how America was transformed in the years since 1945. -- Louis Galambos, research professor and editor, The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins UniversityZachary has brought Bush’s oeuvre back to life in this valuable volume, at a time when the post-pandemic world may be as open to new frameworks for science policy as it was seventy-five years ago as World War II was about to end. -- Robert Cook-Deegan, author of The Gene Wars: Science, Politics, and the Human GenomeBush not only had his hand on the pulse of early computing, he was the one making the heart beat. With G. Pascal Zachary's Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, there is a full resource for historians to fill this gap in early computing history. -- Robin Boast, University of AmsterdamThese expertly selected writings by Vannevar Bush present the key ideas of America’s most influential public intellectual from the 1930s to the 1950s. They reveal engagement with a host of issues, ranging from the importance of funding basic science to the future of computing. Many of Bush’s ideas have a timeless quality and remain policy-relevant in our postindustrial society. -- David Emanuel Andersson, coauthor of Time, Space, and CapitalThis book is a remarkable journey back in time to the moment after World War II when government-sponsored research was starting to gain ground. Bush’s leadership, advice, and direction to governments and agencies, university and industry leaders, was foundational and has stood the test of time. -- France A. Córdova, director of the National Science FoundationIf Vannevar Bush hadn’t existed, the United States might not have become the unquestioned leader of a globally-technological civilization. Bush’s indispensable insights and counsel to presidents, and especially his groundbreaking writings and speeches, prodded and motivated America’s intellectual class. Zachary is our preeminent expert on Bush, and we needed him to compile this compendium of Bush’s mind-bendingly original ideas. -- David Kirkpatrick, founder of Techonomy Media and author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the WorldThis is a remarkable book about a remarkable man—and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand twentieth-century American history. Historians know Vannevar Bush as a brilliant scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, organizational leader, and powerful Cold Warrior. In this book, G. Pascal Zachary, Bush’s biographer, carefully selects and wisely edits some of Bush’s essays, correspondence, and speeches in order to reveal the aspects of Bush’s intellect and character that underlay his extraordinary career: his deep personal integrity; his passionate convictions about democracy and science; a contemplative and subtle faith in a better future; his profound insights, based on years of experience, into the politics of his own times; and, finally, a prescient understanding of the complex relationship between technology and society. -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Janice and Julian Bers Professor Emerita, History and Sociology of Science, University of PennsylvaniaZachary has brought into sharp focus the life and works of one of the great visionaries of the digital age. For those who understand that past is prologue, The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush may just be the key that unlocks a brighter future. -- Jerry Kaplan, author of Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to KnowZachary’s excellent selection and annotation of forty years of the foundational writings of Vannevar Bush lets us understand, from the pen of one of its architects, how the modern technological world came to be. -- Rush Holt, Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and former U.S. congressmanA fascinating collection of primary sources and, following in the footsteps of Bush himself, framed them in accessible prose. The book is an excellent resource for Cold War historians, college instructors, and undergraduates. * H-Sci-Tech-Med *Table of ContentsForeword, by Neal LaneIntroduction, by G. Pascal ZacharyEditor’s Note1. Preface to Operational Circuit Analysis (1929)2. The Key to Accomplishment (1932)3. The Inscrutable Past (1933)4. The Warren Weaver Letters on the Future of Computing Machinery (1933)5. The Persistent Fallacy of the Absent-Minded Professor (1933)6. Stimulation of New Products and New Industries by the Depression (1934)7. The Businessman in This Situation (1934)8. Against Isolation and for Application of Science to Warfare (1935)9. The Engineer and His Relation to Government (1937)10. The Qualities of a Profession (1939)11. Innovation, Enterprise, and Concentration of Economic Power (1939)12. Letter to Herbert Hoover on “The Whole World Situation” (1939)13. Letter to Archibald MacLeish on “Adequate Handling of Large Masses of Photographs” (1940)14. “Leave No Stones Unturned in Research” (1940)15. “To the Things of the Mind”: Memorandum Regarding Memex (1941)16. Science and National Defense (1941)17. Edison and Our Tradition of Opportunity (1944)18. Salient Points Concerning Future of Atomic Bombs (1944)19. The Builders (1945)20. Teamwork of Technicians (1945)21. As We May Think (1945)22. “Letter of Transmittal” to President Harry Truman (1945)23. “Summary” to Science, the Endless Frontier (1945)24. Soldiers and Scientists in Partnership (1946)25. Organizing Scientific Research for War (1946)26. The Danger of Dictation of Science by Laymen (1946)27. Should Scientists Resist Military Intrusion? (1947)28. Science, Democracy, and War (1949)29. How Science Works, or Doesn’t, Under Totalitarianism (1949)30. The Essence of Security (1949)31. The Atomic Bomb and the Defense of the Free World (1951)32. A Few Quick (1951)33. On Leadership and Management (1951)34. “The Timing of the Thermonuclear Test” (1952)35. “The Search for Understanding” (1953)36. The Peak Wave of Progress in Digital Machinery (1954)37. “An Opportunity Was Missed” to Halt Nuclear Arms Race (1954)38. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954)39. Some Things We Don’t Know About Solar Power (1954)40. The Future of Digital Information: Storage, Retrieval, Search, and the Construction of Knowledge (1955)41. Faith and Science (1955)42. Why Do We Pursue Science at All? (1955)43. The Pioneer (1957)44. “Those Who Talk Frequently Become Ignored” (1957/1959)45. On Sputnik (1957)46. “All-out War Unthinkable to Any Sane Individual” (1959)47. Machines to Free Men’s Minds (1960)48. On Space Exploration: The James Webb Letters (1961–1963)49. The Other Fellows’ Ball Park (1961)50. Two Cultures (1962)51. Automation’s Awkward Age (1962)52. What Is Research? (1963)53. The Art of Management (1967)54. “On the Difficulty in Vietnam” (1967)55. Do Birds Sing for the Joy of Singing? (1970)56. The Revolution in Machines to Reduce Mental Drudgery (1970)AcknowledgmentsIndex
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Columbia University Press Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media
Book SynopsisFocusing on the crossover between the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans.Trade ReviewIt is diffucult to imagine that Hoover and Clark's collection will not work to inspire and encourage further research...The book should have considerable value to students of this field. -- Gustav Niebuhr Journal of the American Academy of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age, by Stewart M. Hoover 1. Overview: The "Protestantization" of research into Media, Religion, and Culture, by Lynn Schofield Clark Part 1. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture, by David Morgan 3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture, by Erika Doss Part 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals In Los Angeles, by J. Shawn Landres 5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920, by Diane Winston 6. "Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in theChristian Century Magazine, 1946-1960, by Michele Rosenthal Part 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism, by John Schmalzbauer 8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press, by Mark G. Borchert Part 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion, by Carolyn Marvin 10. Ritual and the Media, by Ronald L. Grimes Part 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age, by Bruce B. Lawrence 12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning, by Jan Fernback 13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media, by David Nash Part 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception, by Alf Linderman 15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939, by Michael Berkowitz 16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism, by Knut Lundby 17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications, by Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Home in Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt is a tribute to the brilliance and ingenuity of Elisabeth Bronfen... Home in Hollywood is a significant achievement. -- Sam B. Girgus American StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue--Out of the Library Introduction: Not Master in His Own House 1. Uncanny Appropriations 2. Home--There's No Place Like It 3. Seduction of Departing 4. Hybrid Home 5. The Enigma of Homecoming 6. Sustaining Dislocation
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Columbia University Press Nuthin but a G Thang
Book SynopsisFocusing on the artists Ice Cube, Dr Dre, the Geto Boys, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, Quinn explores the origins, development, and immense popularity of gangsta rap. Including detailed readings in urban geography, neoconservative politics, subcultural formations, black cultural debates, and music industry conditions, this book explains how and why this music genre emerged.Trade ReviewQuinn has written an impressive academic study of gangsta rap's music and culture...recommended for music and cultural studies collections in academic or larger public libraries. -- Craig Shufelt Library Journal Quinn's narrative skillfully interweaves cultural trends and economic contextualisation with a thoroughness rarely encountered in studies of popular music. -- Tom Perchard Popular Music This book is a welcomed addition to a growing body of scholarship on hip-hop and a good contribution to the study of race, class, gender, and black cultural production. -- Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar Journal of American HistoryTable of Contents1. A Gangsta Parable 2. Gangsta's Rap: Black Cultural Studies and the Politics of Representation 3. Alwayz Into Somethin': Gangsta's Emergence in 1980s Los Angeles 4. Straight Outta Compton: Ghetto Discourses and the Geographies of Gangsta 5. The Nigga Ya Love To Hate: Badman Lore and Gangsta Rap 6. Who's the Mack? Rap Performance and Trickster Tales 7. It's a Doggy-Dogg World: The G-Funk Era and the Post-Soul Family 8. Tupac Shakur and the Legacies of Gangsta
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Columbia University Press A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese
Book SynopsisThis culture-based primer provides lessons organized around readings on Chinese history, culture, geography, literature, folktales and mythlogy, customs and cuisine. The focus is on reading strategies and the teaching of "discourse grammar", a more authentic approach to the study of languages.Table of ContentsVolume One List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Basics of Pronunciation and Characters Lesson 1. Chinese Names Lesson 2. Chinese Families Lesson 3. China: The North and the South Lesson 4. The Ten Suns Lesson 5. Heaven and Earth Lesson 6. The Story of Chinese Idioms Lesson 7. The Great Wall Lesson 8. Li Bai Learns A Lesson Lesson 9. Shen Nong and Chinese Medicine Lesson 10. Chinese Food Appendix I. A Brief History of the Creation of Chinese Characters and the Evolution of the Chinese Writing System Appendix II. Comprehensive Vocabulary List (English-Chinese and Chinese-English) Appendix III. Character Stroke Order Volume Two List of Abbreviations Lesson 11. The Chinese Zodiac Lesson 12. Chinese New Year Lesson 13. The Story of The Dream of Red Mansions Lesson 14. Shaolin Martial Arts Lesson 15. Confucius Lesson 16. The Story of Mencius Lesson 17. The Story of Silkworms Lesson 18. Chinese Tea Lesson 19. Chinese Porcelain Lesson 20. The Character of Bamboo Appendix I. Comprehensive Vocabulary List (English-Chinese and Chinese-English) Appendix II. Character Stroke Order
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA major scholarly work. -- Nancy Lorraine Midwest Book Review A brief yet engaging narrative that touches on the main themes of the region's history. New Mexico Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Maps PART I: HISTORY AND CULTURE 1. Introduction 2. Encounters with Europeans and Mexicans: Trade and Warfare (1529-1853) 3. American Expansion: Trade, Treaties, and Reservations 4. Surrender, Self-Determination, and Sovereignty PART II: PEOPLE, PLACES, AND EVENTS PART III: CHRONOLOGY PART IV: RESOURCES Index
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Columbia University Press Shivers Down Your Spine
Book SynopsisSince their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Focusing on several historical case studies, this work explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator.Trade ReviewThis is a scholarly, in-depth study of an important aspect of museum exhibitions today... Highly recommended. Choice With this volume, Griffiths has established herself as one of the most ambitious scholars now straddling the various fields that comprise visual studies. -- Randolph Lewis Museum Anthropology Review Beautifully illustrated... fascinating... engaging. -- Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska Technology and CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction Part I. From Cathedral to IMAX Screen: Case Studies in Immersive Spectatorship 1. Immersive Viewing and the "Revered Gaze" 2. Spectacle and Immersion in the Nineteenth-Century Panorama 3. Expanded Vision IMAX Style: Traveling as Far as the Eye Can See 4. "A Moving Picture of the Heavens": Immersion in the Planetarium Space Show Part II. Museums and Screen Culture: Immersion and Interactivity Over Centuries 5. Back to the (Interactive) Future: The Legacy of the Nineteenth-Century Science Museum 6. From Daguerreotype to IMAX Screen: Multimedia and IMAX at the Smithsonian Institution 7. Film and Interactive Media in the Museum Gallery: From "Roto-Radio" to Immersive Video 8. Conclusion Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Interracial Couples Intimacy and Therapy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis comprehensive, up-to-date book captures the realities of today's interracial couples via authentic and compelling narratives and is a landmark reference for seasoned scholars and practitioners, as well as for students in the social sciences and clinical professions. -- Peter Fraenkel, City College of New York and Ackerman Institute's Center for Work and Family Without fear, Kyle D. Killian inquires into the lives of interracial couples, inviting readers to appreciate how race relations unavoidably makes its way into the most intimate spaces. Adopting a strengths-oriented approach, his book wonderfully weaves history, couple formation, human development theory, family systems approaches, and social constructionist psychotherapy approaches to illuminate interracial couples' lived experience. It is a must addition in counseling psychology, couples therapy, and multicultural counseling courses and a welcome addition to undergraduate courses in family and human development. -- Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Director, Family Therapy Program, University of Massachusetts Boston Killian connects the experiences of twenty interracial couples to literature, cinema, and the intersections of culture, race, gender, and class. Contending that moving beyond silence about race can be transformative, he provides ways that professionals can help interracial couples make sense of their experiences of marginalization, find their voice, and reauthor their family identities in life-enhancing ways. This emancipatory book is for all those who support and celebrate relationships that may not fit society's conventions. -- Fred P. Piercy, Editor, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy Killian has made a major contribution to the scholarly literature on multiracialism in the twenty-first century, providing a means to affirm interracial intimacy while reinforcing, rather than rejecting or retiring, an anti-racist political project. This book should be required reading for all those in the helping professions struggling to understand better the matrix of race, gender, class, and sexuality in and beyond their clinical practice. To the extent that they are animated by a desire to live and love in a more just and equal world, rather than a 'free market,' this learned study should appeal to academic and general audiences alike. -- Jared Sexton, University of California, Irvine Killian does an excellent job of discussing the intersections of race, gender, and socioeconomic factors as they affect the development and progression of intimate relationships in the lives of his participants... A strong contribution to the literature on working therapeutically with such couples and to the broader literature on multiracial families. PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. What Interracial Couples Can Tell Us Significance of the Book Unpacking Basic Concepts: Race Interracial in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Color-Blind and "Postracial" Discourses The Politics of Voice: A Note from the Author The Couples 1. Racialized Bodies and Borders in the United States Defining and Demarcating Borders Interracial Borders from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Trends in Black-White Intermarriage Race and Sex Differences in Marriage Rates: The "Marriage Squeeze" Interracial Mate-Selection Theories Summary 2. Crossing a Black-and-White Border: Choosing the Other Attraction and Falling in Love Partners' Reactions to Differences Is There Any Difference? Negotiating Differences in Axes of Power to Establish a Couple Identity In Black and White: The Border of Race He Said Summary 3. Crossing Community Borders: Families of Origin Social Support and Resistance to the Relationship Strategies of Coping with Reactions Multiracial Couples and Social Networks Partner Sensitivity to Racism: The Community Context Summary 4. A Nexus of Borders: The Next Generation The Next Generation and Their Opportunities A Persistent Question: "What About the Children?" Intersections of Gender and Race Intersections of Race and Class White Male and Female Partners About Difference: Social and Political Dimensions Happy Together? Processes Contributing to Couple Identity Formation Couple Identities and Negotiation Styles Summary 5. Raising (and Erasing) Difference: Dominant and Marginalized Discourses in Interracial Couples' Narratives What Is Discourse Analysis? The Discourse of Homogamy The Discourse of Hypersensitivity The Discourse of History's Insignificance What These Findings Say About Multiracial Couples An Overarching Discourse of "No Race Talk" Summary 6. Systemic Interventions with Interracial Couples The Art of Drawing Distinctions Instead of Conclusions What Couples Said About Therapy Couples Who Might Present for Therapy Specific Assessments and Interventions A Narrative Approach to Therapy with Multiracial Couples Summary 7. (Re)presentations of Interracial Couples in Cinema Cinema and Literature: Racial Logics and the Hegemonic Aesthetics of Intimacy Interracial Couples' Own Depictions of Their Intimate Relations Reflecting on the Research and the Researcher: Integrating the Interview Process Are Interracial Couples Different from Intraracial Couples? Salience of Identities: Under Which Conditions Notes Appendix A. Summary of Participant Information Appendix B. Assessment Inventories Appendix C. Directions for Scoring the Assessment Inventories Appendix D. Resources for Interracial Couples and Multiracial Families and Individuals References Index
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Columbia University Press The Shape of Spectatorship
Book SynopsisDraws our eye to the role of scientific, medical, educational, and aesthetic observation in shaping modern conceptions of spectatorshipTrade ReviewI was invigorated and intrigued by the scholarly rigor, historical acumen, and interdisciplinary incentive of Scott Curtis's book. It brings significant inflections to our understanding of the multiple determinations of early German cinema as well as more generally to the complex relations between film and science. -- Eric Rentschler, Harvard University, author of The Use and Abuse of Cinema This important, historiographically innovative book examines a wide range of materials from the fields of aesthetics, education, medicine, and science-and Curtis knows how to read early film-theoretical texts like poetry. An original contribution to media archaeology, Curtis's research illuminates new sources in the debates about the promise and possible uses of cinema in Germany and beyond. -- Tony Kaes, University of California, Berkeley and author of Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War Scott Curtis has produced a fascinating study of the uses of cinema within medicine, science, and education in Germany in the early twentieth century. An exhaustive archival dig into cinema's uses by experts, The Shape of Spectatorship will itself shape conversations about cinema's usefulness as a way of observing and changing the world. -- Alison Griffiths, author of Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive ViewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Science's Cinematic Method: Motion Pictures and Scientific Research 2. Between Observation and Spectatorship: Medicine, Movies, and Mass Culture 3. The Taste of a Nation: Educating the Senses and Sensibilities of Film Spectators 4. The Problem with Passivity: Aesthetic Contemplation and Film Spectatorship Conclusion: Toward a Tactile Historiography Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Days of Death Days of Life
Book SynopsisExplores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. This book provides descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other religious practices. It analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.Trade Review[A] Masterful study... Highly recommended. Choice Norget's book should find a welcomed place on many of our shelves. -- Jeffrey H. Cohen Journal of Anthropological Research Will be useful to scholars... [while] still perfectly appropriate for the lay reader. -- Juanita Garciagodoy Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Death and Life in Oaxaca Part I Rites of Popular Life in Oaxaca 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City 2. Practicing Popular Religion in Oaxaca Part II Rites of Popular Death in Oaxaca 3. Living with Death 4. The Drama of Death Part III Living the Day of the Dead 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca 6. Spectacular Death and Cultural Change Epilogue: Life in Death Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press China on Screen
Book SynopsisExploring several hundred years of Chinese cinema, this book considers how movies from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora reflect changing views of the Chinese nation. Giving fresh perspectives on the key movements, themes, and filmmakers in Chinese cinema, it describes and analyzes the films of a variety of directors and actors.Trade ReviewA quite thought-provoking and extensively researched academic study. Wisconsin Bookwatch Recommended. Choice [China on Screen] will no doubt remain a standard reference for students of cinema studies and is eminently adoptable for the classroom. -- Haiyan Lee Nations & Nationalism An important and exceedingly satisfying read. -- Carolyn M. Bloomer The China Journal It is well worth the read for those interested in learning more about this understudied area of film. -- Antoinette Winstead Film & History Clear and entertaining... This book is as suitable for people just entering the field as for specialized scholars. China PerspectivesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements A Note on Translation and Romanization 1. Introduction: Cinema and the National 2. Time and the National: History, Historiology, Haunting 3. Operatic Modes: Opera Film, Martial Arts, and Cultural Nationalism 4. Realist Modes: Melodrama, modernity, and Home 5. How Should A Chinese Woman Look? Woman and Nation 6. How Should Chinese Men Act? Ordering the Nation 7. Where Do You Draw the Line? Ethnicity in Chinese Cinemas 8. The National in the Transnational Chronolgy Notes European Language Bibliography Chinese Language Bibliography Film List Index
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Columbia University Press Developmental Theories Through the Life Cycle
Book SynopsisDescribes theories of normal human development advanced by Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Jean Piaget, Nancy Chodorow, Daniel Levinson, Erik Erikson, and Margaret Mahler. This book features chapters examining corresponding ideologies concerning maturation and development in middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction, by Sonia G. Austrian 2. Infancy, Toddlerhood, and Preschool, by Sonia G. Austrian 3. The Journey of Middle Childhood: Who Are "Latency"-Age Children?, by Nancy F. Cincotta 4. Adolescence, by Sonia G. Austrian 5. Adulthood, by Sonia G. Austrian 6. Developmental Theories of Aging, by Patricia J. Kolb 7. Attachment Theories Through the Life Span, by Sonia G. Austrian with Toni Mandelbaum Epilogue, by Sonia G. Austrian List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Eye of the Century
Book SynopsisIs it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other art form? And what visions did it privilege? This book situates the cinematic experience within discourses of twentieth-century modernity. It examines film's nature as a medium in an age obsessed with immediacy, nearness, and accessibility.Trade Review"Casetti's writing is erudite, elegant, insightful, and with its repeated direct address to the reader, seductively dialogic and alluringly didactic." -- Sabine Hake, H-GermanTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Hundred Years, A Century 1. The Gaze of Its Age 2. Framing The World 3. Double Vision 4. The Glass Eye 5. Strong Sensations 6. Glosses, Exymorons, And Discipline Remains of the Day Notes Bibliography
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Columbia University Press Hollywood Science
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn entertaining, maybe indispensable guide for film buffs everywhere. Booklist "A grand roundup of technical movie masterpieces... praising scientific accuracy (A Beautiful Mind) and exposing turkeys (Volcano). Los Angeles Magazine An engaging and fun read. -- Claude Lalumiere Locus Hollywood Science is great fun... I give it two thumbs up! -- David Schneider American Scientist A fascinating read that will have you heading to your local DVD store. Physics World This is a terrific book... Essential. CHOICE Hollywood Science is a treat for anyone who looks from their television set to the Moon. -- John Findura Fortean Times An exceptionally accessible book, Hollywood Science provides a very good catalog of the ways Hollywood has used and abused science. -- Neil Easterbrook SFRA ReviewTable of ContentsPreface: A Personal Note Introduction 1. Looking for Science in the Movies? Check Out Science Fiction Films First Part I. Dangers from Nature 2. Alien Encounters 3. Devastating Collisions 4. Our Violent Planet Part II. Dangers from Ourselves 5. Atoms Unleashed 6. Genes and Germs Gone Bad 7. The Computers Take Over Part III. The Good, the Bad, and the Real 8. Scientists as Heroes, Nerds, and Villains 9. Solid Science and Quantum Loopiness: Golden Eagles and Golden Turkeys 10. Hollywood Science vs. Real Science Afterword: Finding Real Science in the Movies and Beyond Appendix: Alongside Hollywood Science, There's Popcorn Science Further Reading and Viewing Filmography Acknowledgments Index
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Columbia University Press The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLee Boyd Malvo's chaotic life at the hands of 'caregivers' didn't make headlines until he pulled the trigger. Carmeta Albarus's detailed account-from extensive interviews with the boy who was groomed by a predator to murder-provides compelling insight into the mitigating circumstances of his story. -- Kathleen Carty, president of the National Organization of Forensic Social Work This is an extremely well written book that reads like a novel, but is based on true events. I strongly recommend every medical student, psychiatric resident, and fellow in forensic psychiatry read it to learn of the psychodynamics behind homicide and violent behavior and the details of developing a proper mental health defense. -- Robert L. Sadoff, clinical professor of forensic psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo offers the unabashed truth about children who face emotional and psychological scars resulting from feelings of rejection, abandonment, and other trauma by being left home by parents who immigrated overseas. -- Geneive Brown Metzger, former Consul General Jamaica in New York fascinating Publishers Weekly A good book for readers interested in criminal justice, psychology, and social work. Library Journal helps explain how a good kid turned bad enough to coldly kill one person after another...fascinating Atlantic The book can be illuminating, especially when Albarus describes what it was like to pierce Malvo's shield and help wrest his psyche from Muhammad. Newark Star Ledger The book makes no effort to exculpate the Jamaican-born Mr. Malvo, but traces his life in detail. -- Paul Koring Toronto Globe and Mail One of the more interesting aspects of the book is its lengthy excerpts from Malvo's writings, poetry and artwork, which reveal an introspective youth trying to make sense of his crimes. -- Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Named a Best 2012 Book About Justice - if you want a sense of the damage a broken life can create for innocent victims decades later, read this book. -- Andrew Cohen The AtlanticTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Nation in Fear-the Crime 1. A Father Lost: The Genesis of Reactive Attachment Disorder in Lee Boyd Malvo 2. A False Father Found: Malvo Meets John Muhammad 3. A False Father Rejected: Separating Malvo from Muhammad 4. A Forensic Mental Health Analysis of Lee Boyd Malvo by Jonathan Mack, Psy.D. Epilogue References Index
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Columbia University Press Indie
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIndie makes a significant contribution to the literature on American independent cinema, one that is likely to reshape debates and discussions for several years to come. By broadening the definition of independent cinema beyond simple industrial formulations, Newman charts the contours of 'indie' as a particular taste culture involving particular structures of distribution, consumption, and critical reception. By showing how companies built a niche audience of upscale consumers by targeting their "indie" sensibilities, Newman's book beautifully captures the multidimensional quality of American independent cinema in the nineties and 'naughts': its formal play, multicultural appeal, and 'branding' as off-Hollywood product. -- Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin, author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music Quirky, 'outside the zombie mainstream,' authentic, alternative, playful, self-conscious: these are terms used to define 'indie' cinema. In this insightful and cogent book, Michael Z. Newman gathers together a set of American films produced since the mid-1980s and considers them as a social art world: films created in a network of festivals and critical praise that collectively make particular viewing requests to elite movie-goers. As an intelligent approach to grappling with this complex phenomenon, Newman's argument is highly successful. -- Janet Staiger, University of Texas, Austin, and author of Media Reception Studies Michael Z. Newman captures the very essence of American independent cinema during the 'Miramax-Sundance' years. Through an emphasis on the viewing strategies that independent films invite their audiences to utilize, his study delves into the core of what makes this type of cinema distinct while also revealing the connective tissue behind the culture that produces and consumes it. Thorough and extremely engaging, Indie is a most welcome addition to the study of American independent film. -- Yannis Tzioumakis, author of American Independent Cinema: An Introduction ...this concrete, objective study makes an important contribution to the ongoing coversation. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Context 1. Indie Cinema Viewing Strategies 2. Home Is Where the Art Is: Indie Film Institutions Part II: Character 3. Indie Realism: Character-Centered Narrative and Social Engagement Part III: Formal Play 4. Pastiche as Play: The Coen Brothers 5. Games of Narrative Form: Pulp Fiction and Beyond Part IV: Against Hollywood 6. Indie Opposition: Happiness vs. Juno Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Brains Buddhas and Believing
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGraduate students and scholars of Buddhist scholastic thought-particularly those engaged by the philosophical dimensions of Buddhism and science discourse-are in for a treat. Recommended. Choice I recommend Brains, Buddhas, and Believing to anyone interested in philosophy of mind and to those who would like to learn about a vigorous non-Western philosophy often thought of in purely practical rather than theoretical terms. -- Thomas Leahey PsycCritiques The book is strong both philosophically and philologically, with Arnold's characteristic erudition, analytic rigor, interpretive sensitivity, and enthusiasm evident throughout. -- Richard Nance H-Buddhism The book admirably shows how the philosophical views of Dharmakirti and others are not just exhibits in the Indian Wing of the Museum of the History of Ideas, but positions that are of considerable importance in our attempts of addressing contemporary philosophical problems. -- Jan Westerhoff Religions of South Asia ...an important work of philosophy... -- Charles Goodman Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Brains, Buddhas, and Believing is outstanding. It is exegetically robust, providing richly informed expositions of historical positions... It is exciting and refreshing to read a book that coherently explicates common issues between distinct intellectual traditions with such philosophical rigor and independence of thought. -- Bronwyn Finnigan Journal of Religion ...a rich and inspiring summary, livened up by many succint assessments of related positions. Journal of the American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Dharmakirti's Proof of Rebirth 2. The Cognitive-Scientific Revolution 3. Responsiveness to Reasons as Such 4. The Apoha Doctrine 5. The Svasamvitti Doctrine 6. Indian Arguments from Practical Reason Concluding Reflections Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press Mind in the Balance
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWallace is a master, guiding our inquiry into consciousness in exciting new directions. Shift Thought-provoking and at times insightful, this volume raises many interesting philosophical issues and presents many useful references. Choice Anyone interested in understanding more about the mind and consciousness would enjoy reading this book. -- Marcia Howton Inquiring MindTable of ContentsPreface Part I: Meditation: Where It Started and How It Got Here 1. Who Am I? 2. The Origins of Contemplation 3. The Scientific Externalization of Meditation 4. Scientific Studies of Meditation Part II: Meditation in Theory and Practice 5. Practice: Attending to the Breath of Life 6. Theory: Coming to Our Senses 7. Practice: The Union of Stillness and Motion 8. Theory: Knowing and Healing the Mind 9. Practice: Behold the Light of Consciousness 10. Theory: Exploring the Nature of Consciousness 11. Practice: Probing the Nature of the Observer 12. Theory: The Ground State of Consciousness 13. Practice: Oscillating Awareness 14. Theory: Consciousness Without Beginning or End 15. Practice: Resting in the Stillness of Awareness 16. Theory: Worlds of Skepticism 17. Practice: The Emptiness of Mind 18. Theory: The Participatory Worlds of Buddhism 19. Practice: The Emptiness of Matter 20. Theory: The Participatory Worlds of Philosophy and Science 21. Practice: Resting in Timeless Consciousness 22. Theory: The Luminous Space of Pristine Awareness 23. Practice: Meditation in Action 24. The Universe as a Whole 25. What Shall We Become? Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir should be considered essential reading by all film students and aspiring directors. Midwest Book Review This readable book provides welcome profiles of eminent cinematographers... and valuable research on the American Society of Cinematographers... Highly recommended. Choice This book taught my students and me to watch films in a new way. -- Karla Oeler Film QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Rhetoric of Light Part I: Lighting in the Silent Period 1. Mechanics or Artists? 2. From the Portrait to the Close-Up 3. The Drama of Light 4. Organizing the Image Part II: Classical Hollywood Lighting 5. Inventing the Observer 6. Conventions and Functions 7. The Art of Balance Part III: Shifting Patterns of Shadow 8. The Promises and Problems of Technicolor 9. The Flow of the River 10. Film Noir and the Limits of Classicism Conclusion: Epilogue Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Upsetting the Apple Cart
Book SynopsisAn exciting new history of the activists, protestors, politicians, and even recipes that changed New York City.Trade ReviewFrederick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the study of the mid- to late-twentieth-century history of New York City. His book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow account of the various attempts by African Americans and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions. -- Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, editor of CENTRO Journal Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of American working-class history and race relations. Frederick Douglass Opie's narrative delineates how black and Latino coalitions supported by organized labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging. -- Miguel "Mickey" Melendez, author of We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young LordsTable of ContentsA Note on Sources Abbreviations Introduction 1. Journeys: Black and Latino Relations, 1930-1970 2. Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black and Puerto Rican Hospital Workers, 1959-1962 3. Developing Their Minds Without Losing Their Souls: Black and Latino Student Coalition Building, 1965-1969 4. Young Turks: Progressive Activists and Organizations, 1970-1985 5. Coalition Politics, 1982-1984: The Chicago Plan 6. Where the Street Goes, the Suits Follow: Coalition Politics, 1985-1988 7. Latinos for Dinkins in 1989: The Coalition's Complicated Victory Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Diagnosis Schizophrenia
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These stories tell of experiences that all of us diagnosed with schizophrenia can relate to, so we don't feel so alone. And the more people know about their illness, the easier it is to cope with the symptoms and the more willing they will be to accept treatment, including medication. I wish I had this book when I first got sick." -- Tina, outpatient ...very important guide to schizophrenia... -- Daria Dibitonto MetapsychologyTable of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition Foreword Introductory Note A Note on the Title Acknowledgments About the Authors Using This Book Introduction: So They Say We Have Schizophrenia 1. In the Beginning 2. So Many Questions: The Quick Reference Guide 3. How the Brain Works 4. What Is Schizophrenia? 5. Why Me? 6. Diagnosing Schizophrenia 7. What Will People Think of Me Now? 8. Medication 9. Out of the Hospital and Staying Well 10. Coping with Positive and Negative Symptoms 11. Coping with Other Symptoms and Side Effects 12. Drugs, Alcohol, and Safer Sex 13. Under the Microscope 14. Zelda's Story 15.Who Am I Now? 16. Getting the Social Services You Need 17.Vocational Rehabilitation Appendix 1. Client Assistance Program Directory Appendix 2. Vocational Rehabilitation Directory Appendix 3. Other Resources Index
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Columbia University Press Creating a Learning Society
Book SynopsisTo understand how countries grow and develop, it is essential to know how they learn and become more productive and what government can do to promote learning. In Creating a Learning Society, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald cast light on the significance of this insight for economic theory and policy.Trade ReviewProfound and dazzling. In their new book, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald study the human wish to learn and our ability to learn and so uncover the processes that relate the institutions we devise and the accompanying processes that drive the production, dissemination, and use of knowledge. The authors' analysis provides the foundations of an understanding of the progress and regress of nations. This is social science at its best. -- Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge An impressive tour de force, from the theory of the firm all the way to long-term development, guided by the focus on knowledge and learning. Indeed, when economic theory takes knowledge on board-with its specific features and modes of accumulation-many of the conventional conclusions break down, from the welfare properties of competitive markets to the virtues of 'comparative advantages' in international exchanges. At the same time, in learning economies, public policies and institutions are shown to play a paramount role. This is an ambitious book with far-reaching policy implications. -- Giovanni Dosi, Director, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna If one's attention is on the economic long run and the processes involved in economic change, innovation and learning quickly can be seen as occupying the center of the stage. Unfortunately, for the last half century, the bulk of the attention in microeconomic theorizing has been on economic statics, which is blind to these variables. This book is a welcome exception. -- Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald have contributed a superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D. This important work continues the quest of Stiglitz and Greenwald for an appreciation of the role of public policy in overcoming market failures, asymmetries, and inefficiencies, and it provides insights on the limits and distortions of laissez-faire assumptions of optimality. This book should be at the very center of the next wave of policy debate. -- Robert Kuttner, coeditor, The American Prospect [A] sweeping work of macroeconomic theory. -- Walter Frick Harvard Business ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments for the Series Acknowledgments for the First Arrow Lecture Introduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald Part 1: Creating a Learning Society: A New Paradigm for Development and Social Progress: : Basic Concepts 1. The Learning Revolution 2. On the Importance of Learning 3. A Learning Economy 4. Creating a Learning Firm and a Learning Environment 5. Market Structure, Welfare, and Learning 6. The Welfare Economics of Schumpeterian Competition Part 2: Analytics 7. Learning in a Closed Economy-the Basic Model 8. A Two-Period, N-Good Model with Endogenous Labor Supply 9. Learning with Monopolistic Competition 10. Long-Term Growth and Innovation 11. The Infant-Economy Argument for Protection: Trade Policy in a Learning Environment Part 3: Policies for a Learning Society 12. The Role of Industrial and Trade Policy in Creating a Learning Society 13. Financial Policy and Creating a Learning Society 14. Macroeconomic and Investment Policies for a Learning Society 15. Intellectual Property 16. Social Transformation and the Creation of a Learning Society 17. Concluding Remarks Part 4: Commentary and Afterword 18. Introductory Remarks for the First Annual Arrow Lecture, by Michael Woodford 19. Further Considerations, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Bruce C. Greenwald 20. Commentary: The Case for Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion 21. Commentary, by Robert Solow 22. Commentary, by Kenneth Arrow Afterword: Rethinking Industrial Policy, by Philippe Aghion Notes References Notes on Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Americas Mayor John V. Lindsay and the
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Columbia University Press Humans Beasts and Ghosts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewQian is both funny and clever throughout Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts, and this volume serves as a good introduction to an author that is well worth knowing. -- M.A. Orthofer The Complete Review Excellently translated and well prepared with an introduction and endnote annotations, this volume of Qian's early short works is not only accessible to the general reader but should be read by all serious scholars of modern Chinese literature. -- Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College The European Legacy A valuable addition to the works of Chinese literature translated into English. -- Eileen J. Cheng China Review InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Author's Preface to the 1983 Editions of Written in the Margins of Life and Human, Beast, Ghost Written in the Margins of Life Dedication Acknowledgments Preface The Devil Pays a Nighttime Visit to Mr. Qian Zhongshu Windows On Happiness On Laughter Eating Reading Aesop's Fables On Moral Instruction A Prejudice Explaining Literary Blindness On Writers Notes Human, Beast, Ghost First Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition Second Preface to the 1946 Kaiming Edition God's Dream Cat Inspiration Souvenir Notes Editions Further Reading in English Translators
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA work of monumental proportions, filling a huge gap in a field that most Chinese literature scholars in the West and China have chosen to ignore. -- Susan R. Blader, Dartmouth College, translator of Tales of Magistrate Bao and His Valiant Lieutenants, Selections from Sanxia Wuyi The first book to offer a substantial, representative sample of China's rich and complex oral traditions. Given the unprecedented nature of its scope and scale, it will be novel and innovative even to old 'China hands' with its abundance of little known gems from ethnic minorities. Even the old favorites, stories derived from the most famous myths, legends, and fiction, are retold in regional oral genres rarely accessible in translation, appearing here new and fresh. -- Anne E. McLaren, author of Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China Impressive. This valuable resource gives insight into Chinese culture in all its ethnic diversity. With themes ranging across all aspects of human experience, it is a treasure trove of many genres that will explode preconceptions and captivate students and scholars alike. -- Margaret Wan, University of Utah an impressive and worthwhile enterprise, offering a wonderful selection of folk literature that would otherwise not be accessible to the English-speaking reader. -- Loh Su Hsing Asian Review of Books ...the publication of this anthology should be considered no less than epoch-making. -- Liangyan Ge, University of Notre Dame CHINOPERL Papers This valuable resource is the first anthology of China's rich oral tradition, and it also provides insight into the minority ethnic groups within the borders of modern China. Choice ...a sophisticated and engaging introduction to Chinese folk culture... Journal of Folklore Research It is no exaggeration to say that The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature will become the source book for all researchers working in the area of folk literature in China, and a valuable resource for all researchers in the subject area. -- James Grayson, University of Sheffield FolkloreTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chinese Units of Measure "I Sit Here and Sing for You": The Oral Literature of China 1. Folk Stories and Other Spoken Traditions 2. Folk Song Traditions 3. Folk Ritual 4. The Epic Traditions 5. Folk Drama 6. Professional Storytelling Traditions of the North and South Further Readings Contributors and Translators
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Columbia University Press The Kitchen as a Laboratory Reflections on the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBehind today's celebrity chefs and starred restaurants is a mostly unsung army of dedicated food and science lovers working to uncover the scientific principles that make our modern gastronomical marvels possible. In offering thirty-three highly readable and often amusing essays by warriors in this multinational kitchen army, the editors of this anthology have accomplished the great service of filling a much-needed gap in the public's understanding and appreciation of twenty-first-century culinary 'magic.' Where else can one have fun pondering the acoustics of crunchy foods or the texture of an ice cream that stretches like a rubber band? -- Robert Wolke, former Washington Post food columnist and author of What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained The editors of The Kitchen as Laboratory provide not just intimate and fascinating anecdotal insights but also the scientific principles that inspired them. They have created a new altar for chefs and gourmands to worship: the poetry of science. -- Will Goldfarb, creator of Willpowder, Experimental Cuisine Collective The Kitchen as Laboratory provides good perspective on the scientific approach to cooking while reflecting the interests and passions of each essay's author. Readers are likely to come away with a lot of new ideas to use in the kitchen, as well as some recognition of the breadth of contemporary applications of science in the kitchen. -- Peter Barham, author of The Science of Cooking The Kitchen as Laboratory is not only an in-depth study of many areas of food science, but also an entertaining read. For someone like me, who relishes understanding more about cooking from the inside out, it's heartening to see this area of literature expanded. -- Chef Wylie Dufresne, wd~50 Nothing is more difficult to master in the world than science itself. The Kitchen as Laboratory creates a beautiful synergy between food and science while amazingly representing difficult concepts in colloquial language. It is a powerful book. -- Chef Jose Andres, James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Cesar Vega, Job Ubbink, and Erik van der Linden have assembled a complete document that seamlessly bridges the inherent connection of the science of cooking and the art of cooking. They have created a testament to the fact that precise understanding and open minded observation are invaluable tools for creative cooking. Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking is a thought provoking, insightful and approachable resource for professional chefs and home cooks alike. -- Maxime Bilet, head chef for recipe research and development at The Cooking Lab, co-author of Modernist Cuisine serious and substantive anthology -- Harold McGee Nature Refreshingly, the Kitchen conveys simple and attainable advice... Scientist Engaging, thought-provoking and accessible Yum.fi Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Case for Science Inspired by the Kitchen, by Cesar Vega, Job Ubbink, and Erik van der Linden 1. The Science of a Grilled Cheese Sandwich, by Jennifer Kimmel 2. Sound Appeal, by Malcolm Povey 3. Mediterranean Sponge Cake, by Cristina de Lorenzo and Sergio Laguarda 4. Spherification: Faux Caviar and Skinless Ravioli, by Cesar Vega and Pere Castells 5. Konjac Dondurma: Designing a Sustainable and Stretchable "Fox Testicle" Ice Cream, by Arielle Johnson, Kent Kirshenbaum, and Anne E. McBride 6. Stretchy Textures in the Kitchen: Insights from Salep Dondurma, by Tim J. Foster 7. Moussaka as an Introduction to Food Chemistry, by Christos Ritzoulis 8. The Sticky Science of Malaysian Dodol, by Alias A. Karim and Rajeev Bhat 9. The Perfect Cookie Dough, by Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot 10. To Bloom or Not to Bloom, by Amelia Frazier and Richard Hartel 11. Bacon: The Slice of Life, by Timothy Knight 12. Scandinavian "Sushi": The Raw Story, by Pia Snitkjaer and Louise M. Mortensen 13. Maximizing Food Flavor by Speeding Up the Maillard Reaction, by Martin Lersch 14. Lighten Up! The Role of Gases in the Culinary Experience, by Matt Golding 15. The Meringue Concept and Its Variations, by Peter Wierenga, Helen Hofstede, Erik van der Linden, Sidney Schutte, and Jonnie Boer 16. Why Does Cold Milk Foam Better? Into the Nature of Milk Foam, by Julia Maldonado-Valderrama, Peter J. Wilde, and Maria J. Galvez-Ruiz 17. Ice Cream Unlimited: The Possibilities of Ingredient Pairing, by Elke Scholten and Miriam Peters 18. Egg Yolk: A Library of Textures, by Cesar Vega 19. Ketchup as Tasty Soft Matter: The Case of Xanthan Gum, by Thomas Vilgis 20. Taste and Mouthfeel of Soups and Sauces, by John R. Mitchell 21. Playing with Sound: Crispy Crusts, by Paula Varela and Susana Fiszman 22. Baked Alaska and Frozen Florida: On the Physics of Heat Transfer, by Adam Burbidge 23. On Superb Crackling Duck Skin: An Homage to Nicholas Kurti, by Christopher Young and Nathan Myhrvold 24. Sweet Physics: Sugar, Sugar Blends, and Sugar Glasses, by Natalie Russ and Thomas Vilgis 25. Coffee, Please, but No Bitters, by Jan Groenewold and Eke Marien 26. Turning Waste into Wealth: On Bones, Stocks, and Sauce Reductions, by Job Ubbink 27. Restructuring Pig Trotters: Fine Chemistry Supporting the Creative Culinary Process, by Jorge Ruiz and Julia Calvarro 28. Innovate: Old World Pizza Crust with New World Ingredients, by Thomas M. Tongue Jr. 29. Eating Is Believing, by Line Holler Mielby and Michael Bom Frost 30. Molecular Gastronomy Is a Scientific Activity, by Herve This 31. The Pleasure of Eating: The Integration of Multiple Senses, by Juan-Carlos Arboleya, Daniel Lasa, Oswaldo Oliva, Javier Vergara, and Andoni Luis-Aduriz 32. On the Fallacy of Cooking from Scratch, by Cesar Vega and David J. McClements 33. Science and Cooking: Looking Beyond the Trends a Personal, Practical Approach, by Michael Laiskonis Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Camera Historica The Century in Cinema European
Book SynopsisAntoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scene to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the cinematographic form of history, disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and interprets cinematographic forms in seven distinct bodies of cinema: 1950s modern cinema and its conjuring of the morbid trauma of war; French New Wave and its style, which became the negative imprint of the malaise felt by young contemporaries of the Algerian War; post-Communist Russian films, or the de-modern works ofTrade ReviewDe Baecque is one of our most meticulous and enterprising film historians, and in Camera Historica, he finds a new way of looking at the two sides of his interest, film and history, making each a clarifying reflection of the other. As a particular bonus, he's especially good on important filmmakers who emerged during the 1960s, such as the Nouvelle Vague and Peter Watkins. -- Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic Camera Historica marks a new stage in thinking about the relationship between cinema (as art) and history (as both real and narrative). Going beyond the classic 'histories of cinema,' this book reveals what cinema makes of history, its way of making history visible, and of allowing us to judge it. -- Alain Badiou Thanks to this book I now understand precisely why and how I am goth. -- Tim Burton Those in search of superb academic writing need look no further. De Baecque renders a beguiling mix of auteurism, rigorous methodology, and historical analysis in an evenhanded, engaging tone. -- Jonathan Robbins Film Comment Cinema and history are in lively dialogue here, which creates much more exciting reading...highly recommended. Choice Politics, social insights and film art blend in a scholarly international probe perfect for film analysts studying the art and culture of cinema. Midwest Book Review presents an intelligent, opinionated, emotionally engaging, intermittently flawed meditation on cinema's ongoing negotiations with history... -- David Sterritt Cineaste Camera Historica is a refreshing and stimulating read, ultimately offering a vital contribution to the ongoing need for serious discussions of the intersections between film and history. -- Paula Amad American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPrelude: The Tree of History Introduction: The Cinematographic Forms of History 1. Foreclosed Forms: How Images of Mass Death Reemerged in Modern Cinema 2. From Versailles to the Silver Screen: Sacha Guitry, Historian of France 3. "Me? Uh, Nothing!" The French New Wave, Politics, and History 4. Peter Watkins, Live from History: The Films, Style, and Method of Cinema's Special Correspondent 5. The Theory of Sparks: A History in Images, According to Jean-Luc Godard 6. Demodern Aesthetics: Filming the End of Communism 7. America Unraveled: Master Fictions in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Conclusion: All Histories Are Possible Notes Illustration Credits Index
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Columbia University Press Nutritionism The Science and Politics of Dietary
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening study undermining our focus on nutrients as the key to healthy eating.Trade ReviewNutritionism is an important contribution to the discourse of the alternative food movement, providing a unique, scholarly rationale for the food-quality paradigm. Gyorgy Scrinis provides a new language for talking about how our ideas about what makes a good diet have come to be. -- Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California, Davis Scrinis details the ideology of 'nutritionism,' in which the great majority of dietary advice is reduced to statements about a few nutrients. The resulting cascade is nutrient-based dietary guidelines, nutrition labeling, food engineering, and food marketing. I agree with Scrinis that a broader focus on foods would lead to quite a different scientific and political cascade, including a more healthful diet for many people and a different relationship between the public and the food industry. -- David Jacobs, Mayo Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota This book artfully brings together two fields. One is the huge body of scholarly and popular texts that provide nutritional advice, or tell us what to eat. Scrinis has combed through this literature in exhaustive detail to provide a magnificent synthesis. The other field is what I would call critical nutrition studies, referring to a growing literature that interrogates and historicizes nutritional advice. Scrinis critiques this on its own terms and then suggests other approaches to evaluating food. -- Julie Guthman, author of Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism It is an arithmetic of which too many of us are capable-casting our eyes over our plates and calculating under our breath the balance of carbohydrate, protein, calorie, and other nutritional values. The origins of this very modern, very capitalist grace are laid bare in Gyorgy Scrinis's important, iconoclastic, and long-awaited study. If you care about the nutritional content of your food, you should care about why you care. Nutritionism, in large doses, has the answers. -- Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World System Clear and readable overview of food, diet, and what we do and don't know about it. Colorado Springs Independent An impressive work of detailed scholarship and highly recommended for academic library Health & Medicine reference collections. Library BookwatchTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies 2. The Nutritionism Paradigm: Reductive Approaches to Nutrients 3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism: Protective Nutrients 4. The Era of Good- and-Bad Nutritionism: Bad Nutrients and Nutricentric Dietary Guidelines 5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars: From the Low-Fat Campaign to Low-Calorie 6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans-Fats Fiasco 7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism: Functional Nutrients 8. Functional Foods: Nutritional Engineering 9. The Food Quality Paradigm: Alternative Approaches to Food and the Body 10. After Nutritionism Acknowledgments Appendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality Lexicon Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Nutritionism The Science and Politics of Dietary
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening study undermining our focus on nutrients as the key to healthy eating.Trade ReviewNutritionism is an important contribution to the discourse of the alternative food movement, providing a unique, scholarly rationale for the food-quality paradigm. Gyorgy Scrinis provides a new language for talking about how our ideas about what makes a good diet have come to be. -- Charlotte Biltekoff, University of California, Davis Scrinis details the ideology of 'nutritionism,' in which the great majority of dietary advice is reduced to statements about a few nutrients. The resulting cascade is nutrient-based dietary guidelines, nutrition labeling, food engineering, and food marketing. I agree with Scrinis that a broader focus on foods would lead to quite a different scientific and political cascade, including a more healthful diet for many people and a different relationship between the public and the food industry. -- David Jacobs, Mayo Professor of Public Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota This book artfully brings together two fields. One is the huge body of scholarly and popular texts that provide nutritional advice, or tell us what to eat. Scrinis has combed through this literature in exhaustive detail to provide a magnificent synthesis. The other field is what I would call critical nutrition studies, referring to a growing literature that interrogates and historicizes nutritional advice. Scrinis critiques this on its own terms and then suggests other approaches to evaluating food. -- Julie Guthman, author of Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism It is an arithmetic of which too many of us are capable-casting our eyes over our plates and calculating under our breath the balance of carbohydrate, protein, calorie, and other nutritional values. The origins of this very modern, very capitalist grace are laid bare in Gyorgy Scrinis's important, iconoclastic, and long-awaited study. If you care about the nutritional content of your food, you should care about why you care. Nutritionism, in large doses, has the answers. -- Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World System Clear and readable overview of food, diet, and what we do and don't know about it. Colorado Springs Independent An impressive work of detailed scholarship and highly recommended for academic library Health & Medicine reference collections. Library BookwatchTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1. A Clash of Nutritional Ideologies 2. The Nutritionism Paradigm: Reductive Approaches to Nutrients 3. The Era of Quantifying Nutritionism: Protective Nutrients 4. The Era of Good- and-Bad Nutritionism: Bad Nutrients and Nutricentric Dietary Guidelines 5. The Macronutrient Diet Wars: From the Low-Fat Campaign to Low-Calorie 6. Margarine, Butter, and the Trans-Fats Fiasco 7. The Era of Functional Nutritionism: Functional Nutrients 8. Functional Foods: Nutritional Engineering 9. The Food Quality Paradigm: Alternative Approaches to Food and the Body 10. After Nutritionism Acknowledgments Appendix: The Nutritionism and Food Quality Lexicon Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Electric Dreamland
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewElectric Dreamland innovatively analyzes the early twentieth-century's twin technological entertainments: amusement parks and motion pictures. It demonstrates how crucial railroads and electricity were to both and how their inextricable development erased conventional notions of urban and rural difference. Amusement parks and motion pictures, Lauren Rabonovitz argues, served as unique venues of mass culture for people to adapt to modernity by experiencing its pleasures and dangers first hand and to share in the emergence of a new American national identity. -- Richard Abel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Electric Dreamland is a work of meticulous scholarship and original argument that deepens our knowledge and provokes new insights. Scholars of American popular culture are in Rabinovitz's debt. -- John F. Kasson, author of Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century Electric Dreamland is part of a growing body of work that builds an inter-medial reading of cinema's relationship to other early-twentieth-century phenomena. It draws on a wealth of archival materials, ephemera, and experiential data to demonstrate the remarkable inter-dependence of amusement parks and early motion pictures. Never again will the two entertainments be seen in isolation. -- Shelley Stamp, author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon ...accessible, but no less rigorous in its scholarship. -- Patrick Friel AfterImage An excellent pick for any collection strong in entertainment and social analysis.Midwest Book Review Midwest Book Review thought-provoking, theoretically savvy, and sometimes even amusing study...highly recommended. Choice
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Columbia University Press Worlds Without End The Many Lives of the
Book SynopsisAn exciting look at contemporary scientific cosmologies and their relationship to philosophy and religion.Trade ReviewRubenstein grounds the current debate on the plurality of universes on solid scholarship, skillfully exploring its historical and philosophical roots. -- Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College This is a work that performs the 'many-oneness' of the multiverse, whose history and potentiality it maps. As she traces the startling philosophical depths, mystical ancestry, and scientific shocks of this cosmic boundlessness, Rubenstein's brilliance sparkles like its innumerable stars. -- Catherine Keller, author of Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming Some physicists suggest that our cosmos has been caught in an endless loop, repeatedly cycling between big bangs since time immemorial. In Worlds Without End, Mary-Jane Rubenstein provides a remarkable tour of how such ideas-and competing ideas about whether our universe is embedded within some larger multiverse-have likewise been cycling throughout Western thought for millennia. This deeply learned excavation is a rare accomplishment: a page-turner that asks large questions about science, philosophy, and religion. Fascinating. -- David Kaiser, author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival We are living through a golden age of cosmology, when observations reveal a universe 13.8 billion years big and new theories and new evidence vie with one another almost on a daily basis. Rubenstein is an expert guide to this dramatic scene. Uncovering humorous comparisons with the past, she shows that our golden age is tarnished in only a few ways. We cannot tell which of the many-worlds hypotheses is the right one, whether they exist under an integrated set of laws, and we may never be able to so. Yet the quest continues and produces many profound insights. Rubenstein shows the way scientific worldviews grow from the kind of questions we ask, how metaphysics and physics are mutually entangled, and how the many worlds of her title emerge, again and again over two thousand years, often in spite of their authors' intentions and taste. A witty and mature view of views. -- Charles Jencks , author of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation A must read for anyone who is interested in the evolution of human thought about the cosmos. The reader is led through the history of philosophical, religious and scientific ideas and arguments for the existence of many worlds then left to contemplate their own ending to the cosmic story. A beautiful and authoritative description of the struggles and developments of competing ideas about nature for the past three millenia -- Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rubenstein's witty, thought-provoking history of philosophy and physics leaves one in awe of just how close Thomas Aquinas and American physicist Steven Weinberg are in spirit as they seek ultimate answers. Publishers Weekly Wonderful... A fun, mind-stretching read, clear and enlightening. San Francisco Book Review A fascinating and very well-written book... Green Spirit Magazine An excellent starting point for those wishing to go even deeper down the throat of the wormhole. Recommended. CHOICE If one seeks a scholarly account of the main ideas rather than of the detailed science, then Worlds Without End is excellent. Physics TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word 1. A Single, Complete Whole 2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity 3. Navigating the Infinite 4. Measuring the Immeasurable 5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two 6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press The Quest for Security Protection Without
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Quest for Security makes for a fascinating read, made all the more timely by the current outcry-across the country and beyond-over the unequal distribution of the pains and gains from the economic changes of recent years. The book examines globalization as the multidimensional phenomenon that it is, without complexifying it to the point where the key issues become obscured. It is an important book that offers both an introduction to key issues in global governance to a general audience and advances the debate among expert scholars and policymakers with serious, constructive proposals for making economic globalization politically sustainable by improving average citizens' economic, physical, and environmental security. -- Tim Buthe, Duke University This book takes the many and varied challenges facing the world, from the financial crisis to global warming, and explores how new forms of governance and cooperation can be developed to solve some of them or at least mitigate their effects. This book is original and pathbreaking, and its contributors are at the forefront of thinking about these questions. -- Andrew Gamble, Cambridge University Our interdependent but uncoordinated world, in which we are often at loggerheads with each other, generates many different problems. In an insightful collection of contributions led by Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz, this wonderful book offers constructive ways of avoiding disaster with the help of global cooperation. A great book for our time. -- Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist and Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University At a time when most initiatives to reinvigorate the multilateral system and its provision of global public goods are failing, it is encouraging to read the analyses and proposals contained in this volume. The key message of this excellent collection is reassuring: that the governance predicaments posed by globalization are solvable after all; the intellectual battle is not lost and it is still possible, with workable propositions, to win the political one in order to build a better international system. With strong conviction, I buy the argument. -- Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former president of Mexico This important book offers new thinking for exceptional times. It draws fascinating parallels between what is happening in the fields of economics, security, and the environment and demonstrates why and how global solutions are the answer to the current interlinked crises. -- Javier Solana, former secretary-general of NATO The Quest for Security is one of the most comprehensive assessments of globalization's challenges published to date. From mounting income inequality to the destructive power of climate change to the threat of terrorist attacks, this timely compilation of expert insight deftly exposes where global governance has failed and offers pragmatic solutions for building a secure, sustainable, and just post-crisis world. -- George Papandreou, former prime minister of Greece and president of Socialist International This is a near-perfect text for contemporary graduate courses outside any disciplinary 'box.' Journal of Global FaultlinesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Editors' Note Introduction Mary Kaldor and Joseph E. Stiglitz Part 1: Social Protection Without Protectionism Introduction 1. Social Protection Without Protectionism, by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2. Scandinavian Equality: A Prime Example of Protection Without Protectionism, by Karl Ove Moene 3. Further Considerations on Social Protection, by Kemal Dervis, Leif Pagrotsky, George Soros Part 2: Protection from Violence Introduction 4. Global Security Cooperation in the Twenty-First Century, by G. John Ikenberry 5. Restructuring Global Security for the Twenty-First Century, by Mary Kaldor 6. Recent Developments in Global Criminal Industries, by Misha Glenny Part 3: Environmental Protection Introduction 7. Sharing the Burden of Saving the Planet: Global Social Justice for Sustainable Development Lessons from the Theory of Public Finance, by Joseph E. Stiglitz Appendixes to Chapter 7 8. Designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime, by Joseph E. Aldy and Robert N. Stavins Part 4: Urbanizing the Challenges of Global Governance Introduction 9. A Focus on Cities Takes Us Beyond Existing Governance Frameworks, by Saskia Sassen 10. Violence in the City: Challenges of Global Governance, by Sophie Body-Gendrot 11. Cities and Conflict Resolution, by Tony Travers 12. Cities and Global Climate Governance: From Passive Implementers to Active Co-Decision-Makers, by Kristine Kern and Arthur P. J. Mol Part 5: Global Governance Introduction 13. Rethinking Global Economic and Social Governance, by Jose Antonio Ocampo 14. The G20 and Global Governance, by Ngaire Woods 15. Transforming Global Governance? Structural Deficits and Recent Developments in Security and Finance, by David Held and Kevin Young Contributors' Notes
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Columbia University Press American Literature in the World
Book SynopsisAmerican Literature in the World is an innovative anthology offering a new way to understand the global forces that have shaped the making of American literature. The wide-ranging selections are structured around five interconnected nodes: war; food; work, play, and travel; religions; and human and nonhuman interfaces.Trade ReviewAn inventive, exciting anthology of American literature that promises to make teaching and taking a survey course a global adventure! Collages of clustered texts around thematic nodes suggest creative juxtapositions certain to spark student interest. Familiar classics and less-known texts are well balanced, and the digital platform brings the American survey course into the twenty-first century of collaborations. -- Susan Stanford Friedman, author of Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time This is a vital anthology, both in conception and execution. For students and faculty alike, it will create an unprecedented sense of the dynamic force fields of American literature. I'm especially impressed by the anthology's fluid movement across media platforms and geographical divides. -- Rob Nixon, Princeton University With the inimitable vision we have come to expect from her, Dimock has assembled a nimble model for reading American literature beyond U.S. borders and traditional periodization, across both space and time. This vision of American literary history as an international, outward-facing, worldly tradition is timely and needed. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsIntroduction I. War Beginnings Anne Bradstreet, "Semiramis" Louise Gluck, "Parable of the Hostages" William Carlos Williams, "The Destruction of Tenochtitlan" Elizabeth Bishop, "Brazil, January 1, 1502" William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" French Revolution, 1789-1799 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to General Lafayette, June 16, 1792 Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804 Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe, July 14, 1793 Victor Sejour, "The Mulatto" Mexican War, 1846-1848 Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" Revolutionary Europe, 1848-1849 Margaret Fuller, Dispatch 29 Spanish-American War, 1898-1902 Stephen Crane, "Stephen Crane's Vivid Story of the Battle of San Juan" Mark Twain, "Incident in the Philippines" John Ashbery, "Memories of Imperialism" World War I, 1914-1918 Edith Wharton, Fighting France Rita Dove, "The Return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe" Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 Muriel Rukeyser, Mediterranean Langston Hughes, "Harlem Swing and Spanish Shells" Langston Hughes, "General Franco's Moors" Philip Levine, "To P.L., 1916-1937" World War II, 1939-1945 Gertrude Stein, Brewsie and Willie T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding," from Four Quartets Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Art Spiegelman, Maus Jorie Graham, "Soldatenfriedhof" William Faulkner, "Two Soldiers" Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead John Hersey, Hiroshima Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony Chang-Rae Lee, A Gesture Life Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle Korean War, 1950-1953 Thomas McGrath, "Ode for the American Dead in Asia" Myung Mi Kim, "Under Flag" Cuban Revolution, 1959 Jay Cantor, The Death of Che Guevara Vietnam War, 1955-1975 Michael Herr, Dispatches Yusef Komunyakaa, "Tu Do Street" W. S. Merwin, "The Asians Dying" Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men Latin American State Violence, 1947-1991 Joan Didion, Salvador Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Middle Eastern Conflict, 1991-present Philip Roth, Operation Shylock Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union Naomi Shihab Nye, "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15" II. Food Scarcity and Hunger Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, La Relacion Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God Louise Erdrich, "Captivity" Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders E. E. Cummings, The Enormous Room Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife Ha Jin, War Trash Sharon Olds, "The Food-Thief" Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness Procuring, Preparing, and Consuming Herman Melville, "Stubb's Supper," from Moby-Dick Jack London, "The Water Baby" Upton Sinclair, The Jungle Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop Alice B. Toklas, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook Monique Truong, The Book of Salt Natasha Trethewey, "Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata after the painting by Diego Velazquez, ca. 1619" Oscar Hijuelos, Our House in the Last World Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory Jhumpa Lahiri, "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" Allen Ginsberg, "One Morning I Took a Walk in China" Gerald Vizenor, Griever: An American Monkey King in China Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan Brainy Fruit Marianne Moore, "Nine Nectarines and Other Porcelain" Gary Snyder, "Mu Chi's Persimmons" Richard Blanco, "Mango No. 61" III. Work, Play, Travel Varieties of Fieldwork Frederick Douglass, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison, March 27, 1846 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun Henry James, The American Richard Wright, Black Power Norman Rush, Mating Robert Hass, "Ezra Pound's Proposition" Robert Pinsky, "The Banknote" Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Agha Shahid Ali, "In Search of Evanescence" Rivalries and Partnerships Herman Melville, "The Monkey Rope," from Moby-Dick Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin W. E. B. Du Bois, Dark Princess John Steinbeck, East of Eden Langston Hughes, "Something in Common" James Baldwin, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye Rolando Hinojosa, Partners in Crime Sherman Alexie, "The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning" Music-Making Walt Whitman, "Proud Music of the Storm" Claude McKay, Banjo Amiri Baraka, Blues People Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon Robert Pinsky, "Ginza Samba" IV. Religions Faith Without Dogma Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano George Washington, Letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, August 21, 1790 Benjamin Franklin, "A Parable Against Persecution" Thomas Paine, "Profession of Faith" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Divinity School Address" Herman Melville, "A Bosom Friend," from Moby-Dick Emily Dickinson, "The Bible is an Antique Volume" and "Apparently with No Surprise" Zitkala-Sa, "Why I Am a Pagan" Vernacular Devotions Zora Neale Hurston, Moses, Man of the Mountain Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn Denise Levertov, "The Altars in the Street" Gary Snyder, "Grace" Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Joanne Kyger, "Here in Oaxaca It's the Night of the Radishes" Many Islams Washington Irving, "Legend of the Arabian Astrologer" Paul Bowles, The Spider's House Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X John Updike, Terrorist Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist The Grateful Dead, "Blues for Allah" V. Human and Nonhuman Interfaces Ants Henry David Thoreau, Walden Marianne Moore, "Critics and Connoisseurs" Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX I Robert Lowell, "Ants" Toni Morrison, Tar Baby Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible Commodities and Markets Elizabeth Alexander, "Amistad" Herman Melville, "The Advocate," from Moby-Dick Frank Norris, The Octopus John Dos Passos, The Big Money Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng, What Is the What Destructive Agents Jack London, "The Scarlet Plague" Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" Carl Sandburg, "Buttons" Randall Jarrell, "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" Adrienne Rich, "The School Among the Ruins" Brian Turner, "Here, Bullet" George Oppen, "The Crowded Countries of the Bomb" Denise Levertov, "Dom Helder Camara at the Nuclear Test Site" Nonhuman Intelligence Isaac Asimov, I, Robot Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 William Gibson, Neuromancer Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Octavia Butler, Dawn Notes Permissions Index of Authors General Index
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Columbia University Press Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
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Columbia University Press Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTheodore Hughes's ambitious new study shows us how Korea's colonial past persisted beyond its 'liberation.' Taking up literature, film, and art, he traces a modern history of the senses, mapping the production, reproduction, and contestation of a new culture of visibility (and invisibility) in the decades before and after 1945. Sophisticated and engaging, Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea is a milestone in the study of East Asian modernity. -- Michael K. Bourdaghs, University of Chicago, author of Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop Step by step Theodore Hughes will convince you the visual/verbal relationship that developed in the Korean colonial period has everything to do with the very foundations and logics of the postcolonial, Cold War South Korean developmental state, regime, and aesthetic. In so doing, he profoundly disrupts received histories of 'Korean' literature and received approaches to canonical literary and film texts. It is not an exaggeration to say that with Hughes, you will simply 'see' Korea differently. This is a must read for all those interested in the Koreas, the Cold War, and non-Western modernities at large. -- Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois Theodore Hughes's book breaks new ground in the study of postliberation South Korean literary and visual culture. His insightful and nuanced readings of the inextricable links between 'the colonial modern' and South Korea's Cold War modernity are essential contributions to Korean studies scholarship in any language. -- Kyeong-Hee Choi, University of Chicago Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea deftly navigates various transitional historical moments, such as Korea's liberation, the outbreak of the Korean War, and the rise of a feverish anticommunist campaign in South Korea, while addressing the works of both canonical and often overlooked writers in Korean literature from the 1920s to 1970s. All in all, this is a masterful survey and analysis of twentieth-century Korean literary and visual culture that will bring an exciting new perspective to the field. -- Suk-Young Kim, University of California, Santa Barbara Head and shoulders above its competition. -- Kyu Hyun Kim Cross Currents Hughes delivers a postcolonial study of Korea's modern literary and cinematic history that no East Asian collection can be without... Highly recommended. Choice ...this work opens new doors for interpreting the subtle,and often overlooked, ways in which the Cold War was fought within the cultural field in East Asia. -- Christopher Grieve H-War Riveting... [Hughes's book] is a sophisticated, rich, and tantalizing study that should appeal not only to literature and film scholars, but to historians in general... This book should be compulsory reading not only for those with an interest in Korean culture studies, but also for Korean history majors. Journal of Asian Studies A welcome and thoughtful study. Journal of Cold War Studies A welcome contribution to the understanding of South Korea's Cold War culture. -- Seijin Chang The Review of Korean StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Visuality and the Colonial Modern: The Technics of Proletarian Culture 2. Visible and Invisible States: Liberation 3. Ambivalent Anticommunism: The Politics of Despair and the Erotics of Language 4. Development as Devolution: Overcoming Communism and the "Land of Excrement" Incident 5. Return to the Colonial Present: Translation Postscript Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is useful for all levels of practice and education, from undergraduate to graduate courses, because it links circumstances of daily living with social work issues. It will also be of interest to social work professionals, to other helping or care professions, and to a broad public. It is a moving book. It makes life appear as social and the social as a strong fiber of life. -- Adrienne Chambon, University of Toronto The stories in the book made me laugh, cry, and most of all think about the taken-for-granted, something we absolutely want our social work students to be able to do well and confidently. It is a brave and courageous work that must be made public. -- Sally St. George, University of Calgary A fascinating, unique, and often moving book. It explores the huge potential that 'autoethnography' has for expanding our understanding of both ourselves and social work and has clear practical implications. -- Nigel Parton, University of Huddersfield This is a unique collection of personal stories written by social workers... there are many pearls of wisdom to be gained from these heartfelt narratives that may help you not only become a better therapist but also better understand parts of your own history. Social Work Career Development An incredibly engaging, well-written, and unique reading experience. CHOICE Not only does this book have a set of fascinating well-referenced stories that show life as social and the social as central to life, it is also a unique, emotive, social work text which... is so engaging as to be hard to ignore... Journal of Social WorkTable of ContentsForeword, by W. David Harrison Preface 1. Autoethnography: The Opening Act, by Stanley L Witkin 2. Where's Beebee? The Orphan Crisis in Global Child Welfare, by Katherine Tyson McCrea 3. A Finn in India: From Cultural Encounters to Global Imagining, by Satu Ranta-Tyrkko 4. Being of Two Minds: Creating My Racialized Selves, by Noriko Ishibashi Martinez 5. Learning From and Researching (My Own) Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Social Difference, by Jan Fook 6. What Remains? Heroic Stories in Trace Materials, by Karen Staller 7. What Matters Most in Living and Dying: Pressing Through Detection, Trying to Connect, by Brenda Solomon 8. Will You Be with Me to the End? Personal Experiences of Cancer and Death, by Johanna Hefel 9. Holding on While Letting Go: An Autoethnographic Study of Divorce in Ireland, by Orlagh Farrell Delaney and Patricia Kennedy 10. The Pretty Girl in the Mirror: A Gender Transient's Tale, by Allan Irving 11. Reality Isn't What It Used to Be: An Inquiry of Transformative Change, by Stanley L Witkin 12. From Advising to Mentoring to Becoming Colleagues: An Autoethnography of a Growing Professional Relationship in Social Work Education, by Zvi Eisikovits and Chaya Koren List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Arab Uprisings Explained
Book SynopsisThe Arab Uprisings Explained offers a fresh rethinking of established theories and presents a new framework through which scholars and general readers can better grasp the fast-developing events remaking the regionTrade ReviewThis important volume addresses core questions about the origins, dynamics, and consequences of the Arab uprisings in a rigorous way that transcends headlines and quick, opinion-based analyses. -- Melani Cammett, author of Globalization and Business Politics in North Africa: A Comparative Perspective An outstanding volume on the Arab uprisings-one of the very best so far. The articles are thematic, covering key factors and actors at play as the uprisings continue to unfold. A well-informed, theoretically grounded collection. -- Shibley Telhami, author of The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East This extremely useful and timely book directs the reader toward thematic and topical arguments that provide a broader understanding of the Arab uprisings. Expected topics such as diffusion, media, the military, and elections are joined by analyses of less examined themes like labor, political space, and banking systems. The treatments are sophisticated yet accessible. An excellent contribution to the most important questions facing scholars of Middle East politics. -- F. Gregory Gause, III, author of The International Relations of the Persian Gulf This theoretically sound volume is one of the better books about the still unfolding phenomenon of Arab uprisings. Academics, journalists, and policy makers will benefit from the well-informed analyses offered. Library Journal This valuable collection of essays provides a thoughtful treatment of one of the most important turning point in the history of the modern Middle East... an essential book for those who wish to step back and assess what happened to the Middle East. Survival Offering a comparative overview of key structural issues such as the role of the military and the independence of the private sector... [The Arab Uprisings Explained] provides the most useful basis for understanding the differences in post-uprising trajectories and the factors that have limited opportunities for democratic change. -- Jane Kinninmont International Affairs An impressively comprehensive volume that sheds valuable light on this unexpected upsurge of contention and its disappointing outcomes. -- Kurt Weyland Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction, by Marc Lynch 2. Theories of Transition, by Daniel Brumberg Part I: Regional and Cross-National Dimensions 3. Diffusion and Demonstration, by David Patel, Valerie Bunce, and Sharon Wolchik 4. Authoritarian Learning and Counterrevolution, by Steven Heydemann and Reinoud Leenders 5. Media, Old and New, by Marc Lynch 6. Inter-Arab Relations and the Regional System, by Curtis R. Ryan Part II: Key Actors 7. States and Bankers, by Clement M. Henry 8. Arab Militaries, by Robert Springborg 9. Political Geography, by Jillian Schwedler and Ryan King 10. Labor Movements and Organizations, by Vickie Langohr 11. Islamist Movements, by Quinn Mecham 12. Elections, by Ellen Lust Part III: Public Opinion 13. Political System Preferences of Arab Publics, by Mark Tessler and Michael Robbins 14. Political Attitudes of Youth Cohorts, by Michael Hoffmann and Amaney Jamal 15. Constitutional Revolutions and the Public Sphere, by Nathan J. Brown 16. Conclusion, by Marc Lynch List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Cinematic Appeals
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAriel Rogers's fascinating book looks at the affective addresses of technologically-innovative periods in film history to explore the different notions of spectatorial embodiment these technologies provide, from the immersive participation of the widescreen era to the relative disembodiment of the fragmented and alienated spectator in the digital era. She has made an important intervention in the ongoing discussions of spectatorship and embodiment in the cinema that will determine the direction of future scholarship in those fields. -- John Belton, Rutgers University Cinematic Appeals offers readers a concise exploration of new cinema formats and the claims and debates that surround their introduction... a wealth of interesting historical material and engaging and informative case studies featuring fine-grained analysis of individual films. Projections Ariel Rogers leads us into a fascinating journey full of information, which is theoretically robust... Cinema & Cie Timely and provocative. A well written and highly engaging text, Cinematic Appeals will interest anyone contemplating the nature of cinema in today's mediatized environment, as well as anyone interested in the history of film technology or film spectatorship. Film and HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Moving Machines 1. "Smothered in Baked Alaska": The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema 2. East of Eden in CinemaScope: Intimacy Writ Large 3. Digital Cinema's Heterogeneous Appeal: Debates on Embodiment, Intersubjectivity, and Immediacy 4. Awe and Aggression: The Experience of Erasure in The Phantom Menace and The Celebration 5. Points of Convergence: Conceptualizing the Appeal of 3D Cinema Then and Now Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press New Strategies for Social Innovation
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable developmentTrade ReviewA timely and original conceptualization, this groundbreaking book analyzes the most recent trends in market-oriented approaches to social development. Through a rigorous assessment of corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, private sustainable development, and fair trade, Steven G. Anderson delivers a sound understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches. A stimulating analysis full of invaluable insights, this work is a must-read for social change agents. -- Neil Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley This is a terrific book that brings social entrepreneurship into perspective as one of many ways to achieve social impact and innovation. Anderson has done a masterful job in pulling together the fragmented literature on social innovation. He avoids the standard cheerleading that characterizes so many market-based approaches to solving global poverty and other seemingly intractable problems. Not only does he offer a set of clear-headed recommendations for harvesting thoughtful interventions but he is respectful toward all sides of the ongoing debate about what does and does not merit consideration as social innovation. -- Paul C. Light, New York University There is nothing quite like this book. It should make an important contribution to the academic literature on markets and social change and to our broader thinking about social policy and the comparative advantages of businesses, nonprofit organizations, and hybrids. -- Diane Kaplan Vinokur, University of Michigan A useful guide for scholars who are interested in the implications of public-private partnerships and various market-based strategies for nonprofits or social service organizations. -- Wonhyung Lee Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction to Market-Oriented Social Development Approaches 2. Developing Social Change Models 3. Corporate Social Responsibility 4. Social Entrepreneurship 5. Private Sustainable Development 6. Fair Trade 7. Market-Based Social Change Models: Reflections on Strengths, Limitations, and Directions for Social Change Advocates Notes References Index
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